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Country / Regional Activity: Brazil
Date of Event: 2014-10-13
At the request of the Instituto Brasilero de Geografía y Estadística (IBGE) an introductory session on data documentation and dissemination was held in Rio de Janeiro on October 13 - 17, 2014. Twenty-four participants attended. The training was facilitated by Mr. Federico Segui, ADP Consultant in Latin America and the Caribbean....
Country / Regional Activity: Brazil
Date of Event: 2012-11-05
A short course on “Preservation and Dissemination of Survey and Census Data: Introduction to the DDI Standard and the IHSN Tools” was provided by ADP in the context of the 1st Methodology Symposium of IBGE and the 11th IASI Meeting on Public Statistics. These events took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 5-9, 2012. The main themes discussed were data preservation, dissemination and confidentiality. The purpose of the short course was to provide technical support to the national staff and introduce the DDI standard and the IHSN Tools....
Country / Regional Activity: Global
Date of Event: 2012-11-03
A Regional training workshop on population and housing census documentation and archiving was held on San Jose, Costa Rica from September 3 to 7, 2012. This workshop was organized jointly with the NSO of Costa Rica (INEC). The workshop aimed to provide training on DDI and the IHSN Microdata Management Toolkit (MMT) to participants involved directly in Housing and Population Censuses....
Country / Regional Activity: Brazil
Date of Event: 2010-04-24
A team of two statisticians from the Fundaçao Joao Pinheiro (Brazil) visited the Development Data Group at the World Bank in Washington DC, where they were trained on the use of the IHSN Microdata Management Toolkit....