First Working Meeting of the Technical Advisory Group on Population and Social Statistics
Bangkok, 29-30 September 2011
Last update: 13 March 2013
The main objective of the First working meeting of the TAG on Population and Social Statistics was to produce a work plan for the first year of the TAG, as specified in the initial Terms of Reference of the TAG-PSS. The meeting expected to produce:
Basic elements of a programme on improving social statistics in Asia and the Pacific till 2020 and major milestones;
The work plan of the TAG-PSS for 2011-12, including specific goals, outputs, activities, schedule and resource requirements.
Report
Agenda
List of Participants
Document
Presentation
Session 1 Welcome and setting the tone: Agreeing on expected results
Welcome and calibrating expectations
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Session 2 Reality of social statistics: National experiences
Bangladesh
Indonesia
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Secretary of the Pacific Community
Australia
Mongolia
Philippines
Singapore
Azerbaijan
Bhutan
India
Experience of social statistics at the Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Plenary discussion
Session 3 Towards a work plan of TAG-SS for 2011-2012
A comparison of existing frameworks regarding social statistics
Lessons learned from other regional
programmes for statistics development
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Next steps
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Background documents
Measuring wellbeing – the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ framework for social statistics
