United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Statistical Division Summary and main conclusions of the Training Workshop Training Workshop on the Management of Population and Housing.
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United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Statistical Division Summary and main conclusions of the Training Workshop Training Workshop on the Management of Population and Housing Censuses in SPECA Member countries Baku, Azerbaijan, 30.10 – 3.11.2006 Petteri Baer, Regional Adviser, UNECE The importance of the Training Workshop This was the correct time to have training on the Management processes of the census Many new and useful things learned, which still can be well implemented in the planning process of the 2010 round of censuses Will help Turkmenistan in the organizational work, even though nobody attended from the NSO Will hopefully help Uzbekistan to finally make a positive decision on having a census in the 2010 round 3.11.2006 Petteri Baer - UNECE Statistical Division Slide 2 Themes and subjects to be taken up, inspired by the Workshop (1) Publicity campaign & dissemination issues Mapping issues Monitoring of field operations Methods of quality assurance of field operations The difference between quality control and quality assurance 3.11.2006 Petteri Baer - UNECE Statistical Division Slide 3 Themes and subjects to be taken up, inspired by the Workshop (2) The importance of quality issues and measurement of them The importance of testing in finding out best practices The importance of evaluation, including the Post enumeration survey The importance of the selection and training of staff in the census process 3.11.2006 Petteri Baer - UNECE Statistical Division Slide 4 Organisational issues of the Workshop The size of the workshop (7 countries, less than 30 participants) was good • • Small enough to have all countries to participate actively Big enough to have good interaction The time used on group work was giving and inspiring • Coming closer to practical issues in the countries • Understanding the complexity and role of planning • Promotion of regional interaction and learning to know each other and learning from each other 3.11.2006 Petteri Baer - UNECE Statistical Division Slide 5 Technical issues of the Workshop The meeting facilities were good • …including the weather The level of interpretation was good If slides would have been available in advance IN RUSSIAN it would have made the learning process more efficient • Available through the internet before the workshop • …or at least distributed before the presentations in the workshop 3.11.2006 Petteri Baer - UNECE Statistical Division Slide 6 Materials distributed The CES Recommendations for the 2010 Censuses on Population and Housing The collected experience from the 2000 round should be made available in the Russian language All distributed materials are very useful in the future work All materials of the Workshop will be available on the UNECE web site http://www.unece.org/stats/documents/2006.10.census.htm 3.11.2006 Petteri Baer - UNECE Statistical Division Slide 7 Important UNECE web sites www.unece.org/stats • www.unece.org/stats/census/2000 • All UNECE Statistical Division’s materials, meetings, thematic pages, databases Materials on the previous census round with links to census web sites of NSOs, questionnaire materials etc. www.unece.org/stats/documents/ece/ces/2006 /zip.70.r.pdf • 3.11.2006 CES recommendations for the 2010 Census round Petteri Baer - UNECE Statistical Division Slide 8