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Country / Regional Activity: Colombia
Date of Event: 2014-10-22
A Microdata Outreach Workshop for both users and producers was co-hosted by the National Statistics Office of Colombia (DANE) and the ADP on 20 – 22 October 2014. The objectives of this 3 day workshop was to promote data available at DANE, along with their newly extended data archive. This workshop facilitated the dialogue between users and producers on data availability, access, use and ways to collaborate in the future, with DANE as the official coordinator of the National Statistical System....


Country / Regional Activity: Colombia
Date of Event: 2014-06-16

An ADP mission was carried out in Colombia from June 16-22 to install a central National Data Archive (NADA)....


Country / Regional Activity: Colombia
Date of Event: 2013-05-07

The National Department of Planning (DNP by its Spanish Acronym) is the Colombian Agency that leads the activities of Monitoring and Evaluation of Public Policies in Colombia. Private consulting firms are hired through competitive process to collect and analyze data on public policies for these evaluations. DNP authorities currently include microdata documentation as a requirement in the Terms of Reference (TOR) of this bidding processes - recommending the use of the DDI standard and the IHSN Microdata Management Toolkit.

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Country / Regional Activity: Colombia
Date of Event: 2013-04-01

As a part of the National Administrative Department of Statistics (DANE) strategy to promote improved microdata management in the Colombia Statistical System, DDI awareness events and basic training are being supported by the ADP. About 100 public officers from forty-three statistical agencies have been trained. Eighteen agencies are currently documenting their own microdatasets....


Country / Regional Activity: Colombia
Date of Event: 2012-07-28
A total of 31 participants attended the workshop held in the City of Bogotá, Colombia from July 22 to 28, 2012. Most participants were National Department of Planning staff (17) and the others came from private consulting firms. This was the first Microdata Management Toolkit workshop to include private firms involved through contracting processes of data collection data and analysis of DNP’s main public policies. The majority of the statistical operations documented were related to data for public programs impact evaluation. ...


Country / Regional Activity: Colombia
Date of Event: 2012-07-01
The NSO of Colombia (DANE) published in June 2012 more than 80 statistical projects using the ddi standard on its NADA catalog: http://190.25.231.249/metadatos/index.php/catalog. In addition, the National Department of Planning of Colombia (DNP) joined the ADP Initiative as a key element of their recently adopted open data policy. An introductory workshop will be held in July 2012. ...


Country / Regional Activity: Colombia
Date of Event: 2011-09-16
The National Statistical Office of Colombia (DANE) decided for the first time to release microdata as public files on its Website. The microdata is related to household surveys used for poverty estimations. Also, the microdata on poverty estimation methodology will be published to allow users to replicate the poverty indicators estimation. This release will be launched in the DANE Webpage using the Cd Rom Builder component of the IHSN Microdata Management Toolkit....


Country / Regional Activity: Cuba
Date of Event: 2011-04-05
The 30th meeting of the Andean Statistics Committee was held on April 5, 2011, at the “Palacio de las Convenciones” in Havana, Cuba. Directors from the National Statistical Offices of Bolivia, Peru, Colombia and Ecuador attended the meeting, with development partners. One of the five key issues of discussion in the agenda was the implementation of the Accelerated Data Program (ADP) in Andean Countries. ADP is currently implemented by Bolivia, Peru, Colombia and Ecuador....