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Country / Regional Activity: Yemen
Date of Event: 2015-04-16
The ADP continues to support Yemen in difficult times. The CSO has received support in data documentation from the ADP in recent years. The ADP work program had planned to provide an archive which could be managed internally through a local ISP. Recent events in Yemen have threatened the establishment of a central data archive. Preservation of the survey metadata is of paramount importance even as institutions struggles to cope with a breakdown in the government function. Yemen is a key country in the PARIS21 Fragile State strategy....
Country / Regional Activity: Yemen
Date of Event: 2014-08-25
A Microdata Management Toolkit training was held for 3 representatives of the Yemen Central Statistics Office. The workshop was held in Amman, Jordan from August 24-28 at the Arab Institute for Training and Research in Statistics (AITRS). Although instability in Yemen obliged the workshop to be held in Jordan, the CSO and the ADP are both committed to maintaining the survey record for the Government of Yemen. The investment in data acquisition is important and requires careful preservation....
Country / Regional Activity: Global
Date of Event: 2011-02-07
The first "Regional training on the documentation and archiving of Agricultural Censuses and Surveys” was held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 7-11 February 2011. The objective of the workshop was to train participants from 15 countries on the use the Microdata Management Toolkit for the documentation of Agricultural Census and Surveys, and to initiate the documentation of their latest agricultural census....