At the request of the statistics office in PNG, the ADP undertook an inception visit to the statistics office of Papua New Guinea (PNG). Meetings were held with key officials on December 18 and a one-day orientation on the IHSN and ADP was conducted at the National Statistics Office in Port Moresby on December 19. In attendance were more than 40 participants from the different departments of NSO, the Bank of PNG, the Departments of Health, Agriculture and Education. The ADP provided a review of processes of data documentation, archiving and dissemination process. The IHSN tools were then introduced with a brief hands-on session.

Three back-to-back DDI production workshops were successfully conducted for the Pacific island countries in conjunction with the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC). These workshops were based in Nadi, Fiji (Polynesian Countries), Noumea, New Caledonia (Melanesian Countries), and Guam (Micronesian Countries). A total of 25 studies were documented, comprising mostly of Censuses of Population and Housing and Household Income and Expenditure Surveys.