Users looking for more exhaustive information
relating to one particular topic are encouraged
to use the site search functionality at
the top left corner of the page and review
the list of meetings,
where reports and documents are available
from as early as 1994.
Poverty
Statistics
The subject of poverty measurement
has been a major area of work for the
Statistics Division over the years. The
list below represents only a selection
of recent document links relating to poverty
statistics:
Fourth session of the Committee on Poverty Reduction (Bankgkok, 12-14 December 2007). Link to Committee documents
Committee on Poverty Reduction, 3rd Session (Bangkok, 29 November - 1 December 2006).
Link to Committee documents
Committee on Statistics, 13th Session (Bangkok, 27-29 November 2002). Committee
documents
WBI/ESCAP/ADB/NSO
Thailand Regional Seminar for Asian
Managers on Monitoring and Evaluation
of Poverty Reduction Programmes (Bangkok, 9-11 October
2002).
Seminar on Poverty
Statistics (Bangkok, 21-23 June 1999). Seminar
Documents
SIAP and the Statistics Division of
UNESCAP have been conducting a series
of management seminars designed to strengthen
statistical capability in the area of
leadership and management in support of
economic and social development. The seminars
bring the heads of national statistical
offices in the ESCAP region to a forum
to discuss recent statistical challenges
arising from national and global goals
as they carry out their mandates in an
environment of economic, social, political,
and technological change.
Links to the most recent SIAP/UNESCAP
Management Seminar for the Heads of National
Statistical Offices in Asia and the Pacific:
Sixth Management Seminar for the Heads of the National Statistical Offices in Asia and the Pacific (Hong Kong, China, 28-30 May 2007). Link to Seminar Documents
Fifth SIAP/UNESCAP Management Seminar (Daejon, Republic of Korea, 18-20 September 2005). Link to Seminar Documents
Third SIAP/UNESCAP
Management Seminar (Bangkok, 31 January - 2
February 2005).
Seminar
Documents
Second SIAP/UNESCAP
Management Seminar (Luang Prabang, 14-16 January 2004). Seminar
Documents
SIAP/UNESCAP Management
Seminar (Bangkok, 12-14 February 2003). Seminar
Documents
Gender
statistics
ESCAP has been building capacity
in gender statistics since 1990s in partnership
with various agencies, including UNIFEM,
UNDP, and ADB. Nowadays gender is mainstreamed
in all statistical capacity building activities.
Links to the most recent meetings dedicated
to gender statistics:
ADB/UNESCAP Workshops
on Enhancing Social and Gender Statistics.
UNIFEM/ESCAP Training
Workshop on an Integrated Approach to
Gender Statistics (Bangkok, 8-10 January
2003). Workshop
documents
International
Comparison Programme (ICP)
As the 2004 preparations for the forthcoming
round of the International Comparison
Programme got underway, the 13th session
of the Committee on Statistics underlined
the capacity building potential of the
programme. In that context, the Statistics
Division is actively involved in the run-up
to the data collection round (with base
year 2004) in collaboration with the ICP
Regional Coordinating Unit at the
Asian Development Bank. It participated
in the following two meetings:
ADB/UNESCAP Inception
workshop on ICP (AIT, Thailand, 28 July 1 August 2003). Report
National Accounts Workshop (AIT, Thailand, 28 July 1 August 2003). Report
Workshop for Price Statisticians (AIT, Thailand, 28 July 1 August 2003). Report
The project entitled "Development
of Environment Statistics in the ESCAP
region" had as its broad aim
to improve national capabilities of developing
countries in the region for identifying,
collecting, processing, analysing and
utilizing the data needed for formulating
policies and programmes for environment
and sustainable development, as well as
for monitoring and evaluating the progress
made.
The basic objectives of the project were
to adopt a set of training materials on
environment statistics and to provide
the concerned officials with the available
basic standard international methodological
issues of environment statistics through
subregional training workshops for East
and South-East Asia, South Asia, the Pacific
islands and Central Asia during the years
2000-2001.
Application
of new information technology in population
data
These pages are based
on the outputs of a multi-year project
(1997-2001) executed by the Statistics
Division of the United Nations Economic
and Social Commission for Asia and the
Pacific (UNESCAP). The project, Application
of New Technology in Population Data Collection,
Processing, Dissemination and Presentation
(RAS/96/P12), was generously funded by
the UNFPA. A number of census and statistical
organizations in the region provided extensive
substantive support and expert resources
to the project. The main thrust of the
project was to promote the adoption and
effective utilization of new technology
in population data collection, processing,
dissemination and presentation in the
countries of the ESCAP region.
Information
Communication Technology (ICT) statistics
Public sector computerization
was a small-scale activity under the ESCAP
Committee on Statistics promoting, the
use of modern information technology in
member and associate member governments.
