News 2019

Seminar on Utilization of ICT for Official Statistics is designed to contribute towards modernization and capacity building of official statistics in Asia and the Pacific through enhancing utilization of ICT.

The Management Seminar aims to strengthen the leadership and management capabilities of the heads of national statistical offices (NSOs) by providing a forum to discuss, exchange views and share experiences. The theme of this year’s seminar is "Future of Economic Statistics". The seminar will draw on the experience of participants in identifying present level of production and use of official economic statistics in countries in the region and further expectation in terms of production of new economic and related indicators.

The Network meeting facilitates information sharing and promotes coordination among national statistical training institutions, regional and international statistical training providers, and donor agencies that provide funding for statistical trainings in the region.

The course will provide the opportunity for participants to learn concepts and frameworks on statistics and indicators related to SDG 5, with the overall aim to strengthen capacity to produce a set of statistics, including indicators, to inform gender policy decisions at the national and international levels.

The training course is geared towards a) familiarising participants to the NSDS framework, anchored on the results based management principle; b) providing overview and understanding of new topics that are crucial to consider in strategic planning; and c) linking the ADAPT in the NSDS and national development planning processes.

This training course is to foster learning of NSO statisticians to have better understanding of data visualization principles and practices and what tools are available, how to use these tools, and create their own data visualization. Further, the training will facilitate appreciation of the organizational dimensions associated with data visualization and will explore how participants could implement this new learning in their own work.

This course introduces fundamental knowledge on poverty statistics. This course will help participants understand how to compile and monitor Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) indicators related to poverty.

This course introduce fundamental knowledge on poverty statistics. This course will help you understand how to compile and monitor Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) indicators related to poverty.

This regional workshops is to provide capacity development on methodology, data collection and calculation of selected SDG indicators related to sustainable and productive agriculture to government officials responsible for monitoring SDGs. These include SDG indicators 2.3.1, 2.3.2, 2.4.1, 5.a.1 and 12.3.1.

This country course aims to provide the latest developments in alternative methodologies, use of technology in census operations, review of revised international census recommendations and estimation of key demographic indicators in order to illustrate the effective use of census data in producing key official statistics.

The main objective of this course is to develop the knowledge and skills of participants on the compilation of labour accounts. Australian labour accounts and issues that are encountered during compilation will be used as a case study. Malaysia’s data will be used as an exercise on the compilation of labour accounts for one of the quadrants.

This regional course aims to better equip national and international stakeholders in the new SDGs statistical monitoring system. It is designed to enhance institutional capacity to identify, collect, analyse and disseminate labour market information and other indicators related to decent work. It emphasises the importance of processing Labour Force Surveys (LFS) microdata to produce and disseminate SDGs indicators. 

The Statistical Leadership Training program intends to unlock the participants’ potential to be effective in leadership roles and processes. At the end of the training, participants are expected to explain and model their learning to others in their organizations. Participants will be able to disseminate what they’ve learned by taking active roles in leadership and also develop creativity through the activities and tools provided in the training.

The training programme provides the opportunity for participants to learn basic concepts and frameworks, with hands-on sessions, of the Framework for the Development of Environment Statistics (FDES) and the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA), with the overall aim to strengthen capacity to produce a set of statistics and indicators to inform environment-related policy decisions at the national and international levels.

This course was jointly organised by the Institute and the Japan International Cooperation Agency of the Government of Japan. It is designed to strengthen capability of entities comprising the national statistical system in developing countries to produce, interpret and disseminate key official statistics, with a particular focus on data and indicators for the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs.

The workshop provided an opportunity to participants to learn basic concepts and frameworks for the quality of statistics through hands-on sessions, with the overall aim of enhancing the capacity to produce a set of statistics including indicators, to track and monitor Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

This course introduces fundamental knowledge on official statistics. This course will help you understand how to compile and monitor Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicators from official statistics.

This training course is aimed at strengthening the technical capacity of statistical producers to incorporate new data sources, including Big Data, into their statistical production processes. This will enhance the capacity to provide of high-quality, timely and reliable data to produce the relevant SDG indicators and other statistics. This training aims at sharing experience and building the skills required for the production and dissemination of official statistics with new data sources.

This course was jointly organised by the Institute and the Japan International Cooperation Agency of the Government of Japan. It is designed to strengthen the innovative capabilities of national statistical systems to explore new data sources such as geo-spatial information, big data, and alternative administrative data, and apply alternative/non-traditional methods for SDG statistics. The program will also develop ability to use the non-traditional supplementary data for disaggregation of SDG statistics.