At the request of the Instituto Nacional de Estadisticas of Chile (INE) an introductory session on data documentation was held in Santiago from 10 – 14 November 2014. Thirty-two participants attended the training; including participants from the Ministry of Health. The training was facilitated by Mr. Federico Segui, ADP Consultant in Latin America and the Caribbean. Five surveys were documented during the workshop and INE Chile is following up with the documentation process of the additional surveys started during the workshop. They will publish them on their NADA catalog which will be up and running within the next couple of months.

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. It was also intended to introduce the DDI and MMT to agencies not yet involved in the ADP. The Regional Workshop gathered 22 participants from 12 countries, 6 participants came from 3 anglo-speakers Caribbean Countries: Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and Saint Lucia.