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Association of Southeast Asian Nations


Country specific news in the region

Country / Regional Activity: Viet Nam

The ADP held a regional training in data documentation and dissemination for Laos and Vietnam. The ADP worked with Mekong Economics (MKE) Ltd., an economic consulting company in the Greater Mekong sub-region. Mekong Economics provided support in training agents from the National Statistical Offices in Vietnam and Hanoi. Having a presence in the Mekong sub-region is part needed as part of a way to better serve the needs of the NSO....

Country / Regional Activity: Cambodia , Lao PDR , Philippines , Viet Nam , Mongolia
The ADP has been engaging countries in regional workshops dedicated to developing data dissemination policies. In 2014, several such regional workshops were undertaken. This is the first to focus specifically on developing coherent microdata dissemination policies in Asia. The workshop was held in Manila from 15-17 December 2014 and focused on the development of microdata dissemination policies within the context of their statistics laws....

Country / Regional Activity: Afghanistan , Bhutan , Cambodia , Indonesia , Lao PDR , Mongolia , Myanmar (Burma) , Nepal , Sri Lanka , Thailand , Viet Nam
PARIS21, in collaboration with UN Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific (UNSIAP), conducted a regional training course on the National Strategies for the Development of Statistics (NSDS) on December 9-12, 2014 at UNSIAP in Chiba, Japan. This training course was designed to introduce high level country representatives in the new NSDS Guidelines. In collaboration with the Accelerated Data Program (ADP) a new addition known as the “Data Module” was introduced into the NSDS process....

Country / Regional Activity: Philippines

Staff of the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) who came from the former Bureau of Agricultural Statistics (BAS) conducted a Survey Metadata Production Workshop in Tanza, Cavite on April 7-11, 2014 and documented seven surveys. The workshop was organized by the BAS Technical Working Group on Metadata Documentation and was fully funded from the agency’s budget. The workshop was opened by Ms. Ratelieta Millendez, Officer-in-Charge of the Office of the Assistant Director....


ADP Assessment Countries


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Country / Regional Activity: Nepal

The Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) of Nepal in collaboration with the Accelerated Data Program (ADP/PARIS21) organized a three-day NADA upgrading and administration training workshop in Dhulikhel from 9 to 11 Decemb...

Country / Regional Activity: Nepal

The Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) of Nepal in collaboration with the Accelerated Data Program (ADP) organized a five-day Microdata Management Training and Data Documentation Expansion Workshop in Kathmandu from 24 to 28 August 2...

Country / Regional Activity: United Republic of Tanzania

The ADP is highly successful in building capacity for microdata documentation and dissemination in countries around the globe. Alone in East Africa Region, the National Statistics Offices of 18 countries and two regional research institutions have participated in the ADP and opened up their survey data for researchers to use.   To sustain the good practices of data management in countries in cost effective manner, the ADP trains regional resources with a farther reach....

Country / Regional Activity: Viet Nam

The ADP held a regional training in data documentation and dissemination for Laos and Vietnam. The ADP worked with Mekong Economics (MKE) Ltd., an economic consulting company in the Greater Mekong sub-region. Mekong Economics provided support in training agents from the National Statistical Offices in Vietnam and Hanoi. Having a presence in the Mekong sub-region is part needed as part of a way to better serve the needs of the NSO....


ADP Assessment: Asia


Country specific news in the region

Country / Regional Activity: Viet Nam

The ADP held a regional training in data documentation and dissemination for Laos and Vietnam. The ADP worked with Mekong Economics (MKE) Ltd., an economic consulting company in the Greater Mekong sub-region. Mekong Economics provided support in training agents from the National Statistical Offices in Vietnam and Hanoi. Having a presence in the Mekong sub-region is part needed as part of a way to better serve the needs of the NSO....

Country / Regional Activity: Cambodia , Lao PDR , Philippines , Viet Nam , Mongolia
The ADP has been engaging countries in regional workshops dedicated to developing data dissemination policies. In 2014, several such regional workshops were undertaken. This is the first to focus specifically on developing coherent microdata dissemination policies in Asia. The workshop was held in Manila from 15-17 December 2014 and focused on the development of microdata dissemination policies within the context of their statistics laws....

Country / Regional Activity: Afghanistan , Bhutan , Cambodia , Indonesia , Lao PDR , Mongolia , Myanmar (Burma) , Nepal , Sri Lanka , Thailand , Viet Nam
PARIS21, in collaboration with UN Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific (UNSIAP), conducted a regional training course on the National Strategies for the Development of Statistics (NSDS) on December 9-12, 2014 at UNSIAP in Chiba, Japan. This training course was designed to introduce high level country representatives in the new NSDS Guidelines. In collaboration with the Accelerated Data Program (ADP) a new addition known as the “Data Module” was introduced into the NSDS process....

Country / Regional Activity: Philippines

Staff of the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) who came from the former Bureau of Agricultural Statistics (BAS) conducted a Survey Metadata Production Workshop in Tanza, Cavite on April 7-11, 2014 and documented seven surveys. The workshop was organized by the BAS Technical Working Group on Metadata Documentation and was fully funded from the agency’s budget. The workshop was opened by Ms. Ratelieta Millendez, Officer-in-Charge of the Office of the Assistant Director....


ADP Assessment: East Africa


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Country / Regional Activity: United Republic of Tanzania

The ADP is highly successful in building capacity for microdata documentation and dissemination in countries around the globe. Alone in East Africa Region, the National Statistics Offices of 18 countries and two regional research institutions have participated in the ADP and opened up their survey data for researchers to use.   To sustain the good practices of data management in countries in cost effective manner, the ADP trains regional resources with a farther reach....

Country / Regional Activity: Rwanda
Improving quality and dissemination of statistics is one of the strategic objectives of the Second National Strategy for Development of Statistics (2014-2018) of National Institute of Statistics Rwanda (NISR). In accordance to the principles set out in the NSDS, the NISR is committed to ensuring that survey microdata are made available to the public on an impartial basis through National Data Archive (NADA). The Accelerated Data Program (ADP) has been providing technical support to NISR to establish NADA and to build capacity in documenting and dissemination survey microdata....

Country / Regional Activity: United Republic of Tanzania

The Tanzania National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) with the support of ADP/PARIS21 organized a two-day Microdata Outreach and Advocacy Workshop (MOW) on February 19-20, 2015 at Kebby’s Hotel in Dar es Salaam....

Country / Regional Activity: Kenya
The Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) in collaboration with ADP/PARIS21 conducted a microdata outreach and advocacy workshop for data producers and users in Nairobi on 4th and 5th of December 2014....


ADP Assessment: Francophone Africa


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Country / Regional Activity: Mali
The Accelerated Data Program will be conducting a series of quality assessments at the regional level during the third and fourth quarter of 2015. Regional partners are being selected to form the hubs of the assessment work. The assessment work will include reviewing the quality of the ADP output, such as the NADA and the quality of the documentation or the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI). A series of quality assessment tools has been developed and will be implemented at the regional level. These include minimum quality standards for publication of the ADP output....

Country / Regional Activity: Niger
The ADP supported the INS in Niger to review the draft data dissemination policy in Tillabéri, Niger from the 19-22 April. A draft produced by the INS was reviewed in a consultative setting with 9 agencies interested in data dissemination. Twenty-one persons attended the workshop with inputs coming from international consultants representing various statistics offices. These included: Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire and Senegal....

Country / Regional Activity: Côte d'Ivoire

The Institut National de la Statistique (INS) undertook a consultative workshop to finalize the draft of their data dissemination policy. The workshop was sponsored by the ADP/PARIS21 and organized by the INS. The workshop took place in Agboville from the 23rd -25th of February. The workshop was facilitated by representatives from statistical offices in Cameroon, Mr. Martin Mba and Senegal, Mr. Mamadou Niang. A growing community of practice is being developed in the region....

Country / Regional Activity: Cameroon

The INS in Cameroon held a consultative workshop which reviewed a microdata dissemination policy in Yaoundé, Cameroon. The dates of the workshop were from Oct. 8-10, 2014. A general dissemination policy already exists and at the request of the INS the ADP provided assistance to discuss microdata access between users and producers. The ANSD (National Statistics Office) from Senegal provided the key facilitator to assist in the process and the views of users and producers were taken into account in the consultation of the policy.

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ADP Assessment: Latin America


Country specific news in the region

Country / Regional Activity: Bolivia
A DDI Expansion Workshop was undertaken in La Paz, Bolivia from the 17-21 November. The objective of the workshop was to introduce agencies in the National Statistical System (NSS) on the use of the IHSN tools for data documentation. The workshop was coordinated by the National Institute of Statistics of Bolivia (INE). The workshop was attended by 24 participants from the NSS and 2 members from INE....

Country / Regional Activity: Ecuador
On November 10, the INEC of Ecuador hosted a conference of data producers in the National Statistical System (NSS). The producer conference was attended by 25 representatives from the NSS. This conference was followed with a 4-day hands-on workshop on data documentation using the IHSN data documentation tools. This 4-day session was attended by 20 participants. The workshop falls under the national initiative to establish the National Statistics Office (INEC) as the certifying body of the metadata produced in the NSS....

Country / Regional Activity: Colombia
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

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


ADP Assessment: Middle East


Country specific news in the region

Country / Regional Activity: Yemen
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
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: Sudan

At the request of the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) of Sudan, an introductory session on data documentation and dissemination was held in Khartoum on May 11-15, 2014. Nineteen participants attended. Seven came from other ministries including: Ministry of Health, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Defense, Ministry of Science and Communication, Ministry of the Interior, Ministry of Youth and Sports, Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries.

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Country / Regional Activity: Egypt

The ADP coordinated a NADA upgrade (NADA 4.2) and Survey Metadata Production Workshop at the Central Agency for Public Mobilzation and Statistics (CAPMAS) of Egypt with the help of the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS). This workshop is part of the on-going effort of the ADP to promote a community of practice in data archiving and microdata dissemination. The workshop took place March 23-27. Haitham Jawabreh (PCBS) facilitated the workshop....


ADP Assessment: Southeast Asia


Country specific news in the region

Country / Regional Activity: Nepal

The Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) of Nepal in collaboration with the Accelerated Data Program (ADP/PARIS21) organized a three-day NADA upgrading and administration training workshop in Dhulikhel from 9 to 11 Decemb...

Country / Regional Activity: Nepal

The Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) of Nepal in collaboration with the Accelerated Data Program (ADP) organized a five-day Microdata Management Training and Data Documentation Expansion Workshop in Kathmandu from 24 to 28 August 2...

Country / Regional Activity: Afghanistan , Bhutan , Cambodia , Indonesia , Lao PDR , Mongolia , Myanmar (Burma) , Nepal , Sri Lanka , Thailand , Viet Nam
PARIS21, in collaboration with UN Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific (UNSIAP), conducted a regional training course on the National Strategies for the Development of Statistics (NSDS) on December 9-12, 2014 at UNSIAP in Chiba, Japan. This training course was designed to introduce high level country representatives in the new NSDS Guidelines. In collaboration with the Accelerated Data Program (ADP) a new addition known as the “Data Module” was introduced into the NSDS process....

Country / Regional Activity: Bhutan

The Bhutan online data catalog (http://www.nsb.gov.bt/nada4/index.php/home) contains seven studies, one of which is the Renewable Natural Resources of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forests (MoAF). The MoAF organized a metadata production workshop to document the different studies of the Ministry. In addition, other ministries that contribute to agriculture statistics were invited. The workshop was funded by the Asian Development Bank (ADB).

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ADP Regional Quality Assessment Countries


The ADP conducted 6 regional quality assessments and selected 30 countries to participate in this assessment exercise. 

Country specific news in the region

Country / Regional Activity: Nepal

The Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) of Nepal in collaboration with the Accelerated Data Program (ADP/PARIS21) organized a three-day NADA upgrading and administration training workshop in Dhulikhel from 9 to 11 Decemb...

Country / Regional Activity: Nepal

The Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) of Nepal in collaboration with the Accelerated Data Program (ADP) organized a five-day Microdata Management Training and Data Documentation Expansion Workshop in Kathmandu from 24 to 28 August 2...

Country / Regional Activity: Ghana

The ADP/PARIS21 in collaboration with Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) organized a workshop to discuss a collaborative academic documentation initiative from 11 to 12 June 2015. This was done right after the ADP pilot Quality Assessment....

Country / Regional Activity: United Republic of Tanzania

The ADP is highly successful in building capacity for microdata documentation and dissemination in countries around the globe. Alone in East Africa Region, the National Statistics Offices of 18 countries and two regional research institutions have participated in the ADP and opened up their survey data for researchers to use.   To sustain the good practices of data management in countries in cost effective manner, the ADP trains regional resources with a farther reach....


African Development Bank


Country specific news in the region

Country / Regional Activity: Ghana

The ADP/PARIS21 in collaboration with Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) organized a workshop to discuss a collaborative academic documentation initiative from 11 to 12 June 2015. This was done right after the ADP pilot Quality Assessment....

Country / Regional Activity: United Republic of Tanzania

The ADP is highly successful in building capacity for microdata documentation and dissemination in countries around the globe. Alone in East Africa Region, the National Statistics Offices of 18 countries and two regional research institutions have participated in the ADP and opened up their survey data for researchers to use.   To sustain the good practices of data management in countries in cost effective manner, the ADP trains regional resources with a farther reach....

Country / Regional Activity: Ghana

The ADP/PARIS21 in collaboration with Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) organized a pilot Regional Quality Assessment Workshop for Anglophone West Africa in Accra from 9 to 10 June 2015. The main objectives of the workshop are to review and discuss on the quality and functionality of key ADP outputs in countries and provide feedback for further improvement and sustainability of the program. The Accra workshop is first of its kind where GSS Ghana and NBS Nigeria participated as pilot countries....

Country / Regional Activity: Mali
The Accelerated Data Program will be conducting a series of quality assessments at the regional level during the third and fourth quarter of 2015. Regional partners are being selected to form the hubs of the assessment work. The assessment work will include reviewing the quality of the ADP output, such as the NADA and the quality of the documentation or the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI). A series of quality assessment tools has been developed and will be implemented at the regional level. These include minimum quality standards for publication of the ADP output....


AFRISTAT


Country specific news in the region

Country / Regional Activity: Mali
The Accelerated Data Program will be conducting a series of quality assessments at the regional level during the third and fourth quarter of 2015. Regional partners are being selected to form the hubs of the assessment work. The assessment work will include reviewing the quality of the ADP output, such as the NADA and the quality of the documentation or the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI). A series of quality assessment tools has been developed and will be implemented at the regional level. These include minimum quality standards for publication of the ADP output....

Country / Regional Activity: Niger
The ADP supported the INS in Niger to review the draft data dissemination policy in Tillabéri, Niger from the 19-22 April. A draft produced by the INS was reviewed in a consultative setting with 9 agencies interested in data dissemination. Twenty-one persons attended the workshop with inputs coming from international consultants representing various statistics offices. These included: Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire and Senegal....

Country / Regional Activity: Djibouti , Somalia
The Djibouti Statistical Office (DISED) and PARIS21, through the Accelerated Data Program, undertook a data documentation workshop in Djibouti from March 15-19. This was a unique workshop as it was an initial activity undertaken under a regional strategy for data documentation and preservation under PARIS21 Horn of Africa initiative. This Horn of Africa initiative seeks to identify pertinent issues related to developing the statistical systems of countries that are in crisis and leverage regional competencies and comparative advantages....

Country / Regional Activity: Côte d'Ivoire

The Institut National de la Statistique (INS) undertook a consultative workshop to finalize the draft of their data dissemination policy. The workshop was sponsored by the ADP/PARIS21 and organized by the INS. The workshop took place in Agboville from the 23rd -25th of February. The workshop was facilitated by representatives from statistical offices in Cameroon, Mr. Martin Mba and Senegal, Mr. Mamadou Niang. A growing community of practice is being developed in the region....


BRICS


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Country / Regional Activity: South Africa
The ADP undertook a training support mission with Statistics South Africa (StatsSA). The mission was undertaken by partners at the University of Cape Town (UCT-DataFirst). The aim of the mission was to install National Data Archive (NADA) microdata management software on an intranet at the Stakeholder Relations and Marketing (SRM) Department and train SRM staff to manage StatsSA microdata sets. A special collaborative arrangement exits between Statistics SA and DataFirst at the UCT....

Country / Regional Activity: Brazil
At the request of the Instituto Brasilero de Geografía y Estadística (IBGE) an introductory session on data documentation and dissemination was held in Rio de Janeiro on October 13 - 17, 2014. Twenty-four participants attended. The training was facilitated by Mr. Federico Segui, ADP Consultant in Latin America and the Caribbean....

Country / Regional Activity: Botswana , Burundi , Ethiopia , Ghana , Kenya , Malawi , South Africa , Rwanda

A Regional Workshop on Developing Data Dissemination Policies was held from 27 – 29 August 2014 in Kigali, Rwanda. Representatives from National Statistics Offices of eight countries attended the workshop, including: Botswana, Burundi, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda and South Africa. These countries are in different stages of developing their data dissemination policies. Among them Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda and South Africa have full-fledged policies for disseminating microdata. Botswana, Burundi, Ghana and Malawi are countries without formal policies....

Country / Regional Activity: Bhutan , Cambodia , India , Lao PDR , Mongolia , Nepal , Philippines , Sri Lanka , Vanuatu , Viet Nam

NADA Administrators from fifteen agencies in eleven countries of Asia and the Pacific gathered in Bonifacio Global City, Metro Manila, Philippines on June 25-27, 2013 for a regional training workshop on NADA 4.0. The workshop began with sessions on upgrading the NADAs from version 3 to version 4. The sessions that followed were on site administration, implementing quality control measures, and learning the new features of NADA. The new NADA has several enhancements, both for users and administrators....


Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa


Country specific news in the region

Country / Regional Activity: Rwanda
Improving quality and dissemination of statistics is one of the strategic objectives of the Second National Strategy for Development of Statistics (2014-2018) of National Institute of Statistics Rwanda (NISR). In accordance to the principles set out in the NSDS, the NISR is committed to ensuring that survey microdata are made available to the public on an impartial basis through National Data Archive (NADA). The Accelerated Data Program (ADP) has been providing technical support to NISR to establish NADA and to build capacity in documenting and dissemination survey microdata....

Country / Regional Activity: Djibouti , Somalia
The Djibouti Statistical Office (DISED) and PARIS21, through the Accelerated Data Program, undertook a data documentation workshop in Djibouti from March 15-19. This was a unique workshop as it was an initial activity undertaken under a regional strategy for data documentation and preservation under PARIS21 Horn of Africa initiative. This Horn of Africa initiative seeks to identify pertinent issues related to developing the statistical systems of countries that are in crisis and leverage regional competencies and comparative advantages....

Country / Regional Activity: Kenya
The Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) in collaboration with ADP/PARIS21 conducted a microdata outreach and advocacy workshop for data producers and users in Nairobi on 4th and 5th of December 2014....

Country / Regional Activity: Ethiopia

The Central Statistical Agency (CSA) of Ethiopia in collaboration with ADP/PARIS21 conducted a microdata outreach and advocacy workshop for data producers and users in Addis Ababa on 7th of October 2014....


Eastern Africa Statistical Training Center


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EASTC: East Africa Training Center

EASTC Vision To be a leading training Institution and resource centre in Official Statistics and Information Technology in Africa. EASTC Mission To promote the production and use of high quality statistics through training, research and consultancy in statistics for evidence based decision making in Eastern and Southern African countries. http://www.eastc.ac.tz/ Read more

Country specific news in the region

Country / Regional Activity: United Republic of Tanzania

The ADP is highly successful in building capacity for microdata documentation and dissemination in countries around the globe. Alone in East Africa Region, the National Statistics Offices of 18 countries and two regional research institutions have participated in the ADP and opened up their survey data for researchers to use.   To sustain the good practices of data management in countries in cost effective manner, the ADP trains regional resources with a farther reach....

Country / Regional Activity: Djibouti , Somalia
The Djibouti Statistical Office (DISED) and PARIS21, through the Accelerated Data Program, undertook a data documentation workshop in Djibouti from March 15-19. This was a unique workshop as it was an initial activity undertaken under a regional strategy for data documentation and preservation under PARIS21 Horn of Africa initiative. This Horn of Africa initiative seeks to identify pertinent issues related to developing the statistical systems of countries that are in crisis and leverage regional competencies and comparative advantages....

Country / Regional Activity: South Africa
The ADP undertook a training support mission with Statistics South Africa (StatsSA). The mission was undertaken by partners at the University of Cape Town (UCT-DataFirst). The aim of the mission was to install National Data Archive (NADA) microdata management software on an intranet at the Stakeholder Relations and Marketing (SRM) Department and train SRM staff to manage StatsSA microdata sets. A special collaborative arrangement exits between Statistics SA and DataFirst at the UCT....

Country / Regional Activity: United Republic of Tanzania

The Tanzania National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) with the support of ADP/PARIS21 organized a two-day Microdata Outreach and Advocacy Workshop (MOW) on February 19-20, 2015 at Kebby’s Hotel in Dar es Salaam....


Eurasian Economic Commission


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Country / Regional Activity: Japan , Armenia , Azerbaijan , Cook Islands , Ethiopia , Georgia , Myanmar (Burma) , Rwanda , Thailand , Uzbekistan , Viet Nam
The IHSN tools, guidelines and standards were introduced to the participants of the 3rd Group Training Course in Application of Information Management and Related ICT for Official Statistics conducted by the UN Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific (SIAP) in Chiba, Japan. The course has 20 participants from 11 countries, namely: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cook Islands, Ethiopia, Georgia, Myanmar, Rwanda, Thailand. Timor-Leste, Uzbekistan and Viet Nam....

Country / Regional Activity: Armenia , Azerbaijan , Cook Islands , Ethiopia , India , Kosovo , Rwanda , Solomon Islands , Sri Lanka , Tajikistan , Thailand , Uzbekistan , Viet Nam
The IHSN Toolkit was one of the software included in the 1st Group Training Course in Application of Information Management and Related ICT for Official Statistics conducted by the UN Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific (SIAP) in Chiba, Japan. This is the second SIAP course to include the Toolkit. The course has 23 participants coming from 14 countries, namely: Armenia, Azerbaijan (2), Cook Islands, Ethiopia (2), India (3), Kosovo, Rwanda (2), Samoa (2), Solomon Islands (2), Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Thailand (2), Uzbekistan (2) and Vietnam....

Country / Regional Activity: Russian Federation
Three representatives from the Central Russian Statistics Offices (ROSSTAT) visited the OECD offices to receive an introduction to the Toolkit and best practices in data archiving. The representatives met for two days to discuss the tools provided in the IHSN Microdata Management Toolkit. The representatives were from the Household Budget Survey Division and the tools were well received. ROSSTAT representatives will return to Moscow and discuss the next steps to implement the tools. Special thanks to the ROSSTAT representatives for the chocolate they brought from Moscow. ...


Intergovernmental Authority on Development


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Country / Regional Activity: Djibouti , Somalia
The Djibouti Statistical Office (DISED) and PARIS21, through the Accelerated Data Program, undertook a data documentation workshop in Djibouti from March 15-19. This was a unique workshop as it was an initial activity undertaken under a regional strategy for data documentation and preservation under PARIS21 Horn of Africa initiative. This Horn of Africa initiative seeks to identify pertinent issues related to developing the statistical systems of countries that are in crisis and leverage regional competencies and comparative advantages....

Country / Regional Activity: Kenya
The Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) in collaboration with ADP/PARIS21 conducted a microdata outreach and advocacy workshop for data producers and users in Nairobi on 4th and 5th of December 2014....

Country / Regional Activity: Ethiopia

The Central Statistical Agency (CSA) of Ethiopia in collaboration with ADP/PARIS21 conducted a microdata outreach and advocacy workshop for data producers and users in Addis Ababa on 7th of October 2014....

Country / Regional Activity: Botswana , Burundi , Ethiopia , Ghana , Kenya , Malawi , South Africa , Rwanda

A Regional Workshop on Developing Data Dissemination Policies was held from 27 – 29 August 2014 in Kigali, Rwanda. Representatives from National Statistics Offices of eight countries attended the workshop, including: Botswana, Burundi, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda and South Africa. These countries are in different stages of developing their data dissemination policies. Among them Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda and South Africa have full-fledged policies for disseminating microdata. Botswana, Burundi, Ghana and Malawi are countries without formal policies....


LAC Country status NSDS


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Country / Regional Activity: Honduras
A Data Documentation Initiative Expansion Workshop was held in Tegucigalpa, Honduras from March 16 to March 20th, 2015. Six institutions of the National Statistical System (NSS) were invited by the National Statistics Office in Honduras (INE). The workshop was held in the Maya Hotel with 14 participants from various ministries.
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Country / Regional Activity: Nicaragua
A Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) Expansion Workshop was held in Managua, Nicaragua from March 9 to March 13, 2015. This workshop introduced the principles of microdata documentation using the DDI and the International Household Survey Network tools to agencies in the National Statistical System (NSS). The workshop was organised in co-operation with with the Central Bank of Nicaragua (BCN) and the National Statistics Office of Nicaragua (INIDE). A total of 12 participants from the CBN and the INIDE.
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Country / Regional Activity: Bolivia
A DDI Expansion Workshop was undertaken in La Paz, Bolivia from the 17-21 November. The objective of the workshop was to introduce agencies in the National Statistical System (NSS) on the use of the IHSN tools for data documentation. The workshop was coordinated by the National Institute of Statistics of Bolivia (INE). The workshop was attended by 24 participants from the NSS and 2 members from INE....

Country / Regional Activity: Belize
The ADP facilitated a Microdata Manangment Training on June 17 - 21, 2013 at the request of the Statistical Institute of Belize (SIB). Seventeen staff members of the SIB, the Social Security Board, the National Committee for Families & Children and the Ministry of Natural Resources & Agriculture participated in the training. Ten surveys were documented during the workshop and a NADA catalogue was installed to show the results in a user-friendly interface. Documentation will be continued and quality controlled by SIB....


Priority 1 countries


Country specific news in the region

Country / Regional Activity: Niger
The ADP supported the INS in Niger to review the draft data dissemination policy in Tillabéri, Niger from the 19-22 April. A draft produced by the INS was reviewed in a consultative setting with 9 agencies interested in data dissemination. Twenty-one persons attended the workshop with inputs coming from international consultants representing various statistics offices. These included: Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire and Senegal....

Country / Regional Activity: Rwanda
Improving quality and dissemination of statistics is one of the strategic objectives of the Second National Strategy for Development of Statistics (2014-2018) of National Institute of Statistics Rwanda (NISR). In accordance to the principles set out in the NSDS, the NISR is committed to ensuring that survey microdata are made available to the public on an impartial basis through National Data Archive (NADA). The Accelerated Data Program (ADP) has been providing technical support to NISR to establish NADA and to build capacity in documenting and dissemination survey microdata....

Country / Regional Activity: Côte d'Ivoire

The Institut National de la Statistique (INS) undertook a consultative workshop to finalize the draft of their data dissemination policy. The workshop was sponsored by the ADP/PARIS21 and organized by the INS. The workshop took place in Agboville from the 23rd -25th of February. The workshop was facilitated by representatives from statistical offices in Cameroon, Mr. Martin Mba and Senegal, Mr. Mamadou Niang. A growing community of practice is being developed in the region....

Country / Regional Activity: Papua New Guinea
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....


Secretariat of the Pacific Community


Country specific news in the region

Country / Regional Activity: Papua New Guinea
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....

Country / Regional Activity: Fiji

The public health research community in Fiji was recently introduced to the basic features of the Nesstar Metadata Publisher and the National Data Archive (NADA).  The NADA will serve as the platform for setting up a proposed national public health microdata repository.  The presentation was made during the half-day national workshop on establishing an online data repository....

Country / Regional Activity: Samoa

At the request of the Samoa Bureau of Statistics (SBS) the ADP undertook a Survey Metadata Production Workshop. Part of the 2011 Population and Housing Census activities included documenting the census to international standards. This proposed activity was implemented as a national workshop held at the TATTE Convention Center, Apia on April 28 - May 2 2014. This workshop is the first national workshop in the Pacific. Previous workshops were undertaken at the regional level and organized by the Secretariat of the Pacific Communities in 2010 and 2012.

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Country / Regional Activity: Bhutan , Cambodia , India , Lao PDR , Mongolia , Nepal , Philippines , Sri Lanka , Vanuatu , Viet Nam

NADA Administrators from fifteen agencies in eleven countries of Asia and the Pacific gathered in Bonifacio Global City, Metro Manila, Philippines on June 25-27, 2013 for a regional training workshop on NADA 4.0. The workshop began with sessions on upgrading the NADAs from version 3 to version 4. The sessions that followed were on site administration, implementing quality control measures, and learning the new features of NADA. The new NADA has several enhancements, both for users and administrators....


South African Development Community


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Country / Regional Activity: United Republic of Tanzania

The ADP is highly successful in building capacity for microdata documentation and dissemination in countries around the globe. Alone in East Africa Region, the National Statistics Offices of 18 countries and two regional research institutions have participated in the ADP and opened up their survey data for researchers to use.   To sustain the good practices of data management in countries in cost effective manner, the ADP trains regional resources with a farther reach....

Country / Regional Activity: United Republic of Tanzania

The Tanzania National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) with the support of ADP/PARIS21 organized a two-day Microdata Outreach and Advocacy Workshop (MOW) on February 19-20, 2015 at Kebby’s Hotel in Dar es Salaam....

Country / Regional Activity: United Republic of Tanzania
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) of Tanzania in collaboration with the Accelerated Data Program (ADP) organized a five-day Microdata Management Toolkit Training and Metadata Production Workshop from 17 to 21 November 2014 in Dar es Salaam. The purpose of the training was to build capacity of NBS staff and other official data producers (line-ministries) in microdata documentation. This included survey and administrative data. The information was then posted on the National Data Archive of NBS Tanzania (TNADA)....

Country / Regional Activity: Botswana , Burundi , Ethiopia , Ghana , Kenya , Malawi , South Africa , Rwanda

A Regional Workshop on Developing Data Dissemination Policies was held from 27 – 29 August 2014 in Kigali, Rwanda. Representatives from National Statistics Offices of eight countries attended the workshop, including: Botswana, Burundi, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda and South Africa. These countries are in different stages of developing their data dissemination policies. Among them Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda and South Africa have full-fledged policies for disseminating microdata. Botswana, Burundi, Ghana and Malawi are countries without formal policies....


South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation


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Country / Regional Activity: Nepal

The Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) of Nepal in collaboration with the Accelerated Data Program (ADP/PARIS21) organized a three-day NADA upgrading and administration training workshop in Dhulikhel from 9 to 11 Decemb...

Country / Regional Activity: Nepal

The Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) of Nepal in collaboration with the Accelerated Data Program (ADP) organized a five-day Microdata Management Training and Data Documentation Expansion Workshop in Kathmandu from 24 to 28 August 2...

Country / Regional Activity: Afghanistan , Bhutan , Cambodia , Indonesia , Lao PDR , Mongolia , Myanmar (Burma) , Nepal , Sri Lanka , Thailand , Viet Nam
PARIS21, in collaboration with UN Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific (UNSIAP), conducted a regional training course on the National Strategies for the Development of Statistics (NSDS) on December 9-12, 2014 at UNSIAP in Chiba, Japan. This training course was designed to introduce high level country representatives in the new NSDS Guidelines. In collaboration with the Accelerated Data Program (ADP) a new addition known as the “Data Module” was introduced into the NSDS process....

Country / Regional Activity: Bhutan

The Bhutan online data catalog (http://www.nsb.gov.bt/nada4/index.php/home) contains seven studies, one of which is the Renewable Natural Resources of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forests (MoAF). The MoAF organized a metadata production workshop to document the different studies of the Ministry. In addition, other ministries that contribute to agriculture statistics were invited. The workshop was funded by the Asian Development Bank (ADB).

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