Regional training workshop on population and housing census documentation and archiving organized in Costa Rica (September 2012)

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. The other 16 participants came from 9 different countries: El Salvador; Venezuela; Panama; Nicaragua; Bolivia; Mexico; Chile; Brazil and Costa Rica. All participants managed to document their latest Census. Requests for additional technical assistance from new countries interested in join ADP were received and are being analyzed. Alejandro Medina; Mercedes Rivaldi, Carmen Ugarteche and Marco Gutiérrez from the NSO of México (INEGI) facilitated de workshop.