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​Webinars on COVID-19 impact on civil registration and vital statistics are organized in order to address (a) international standards for civil registration and vital statistics and their implementation in countries/areas; (b) impact on the operations and maintenance of civil registration and production of vital statistics in the time of COVID-19 pandemic; (c) short- and long-term consequences

Asia-Pacific Statistics Week from 15-18 June 2020 as a virtual event. All members of the statistical community are welcome.

Background

We are pleased to invite you to the launch of the 2020 edition of Revenue Statistics in Asian and Pacific Economies on 23 July 2020, at 8.00-9.00am Paris time / 2.00-3.00 pm Manila time / 6.00-7.00pm Fiji time. The launch will discuss:

​Areas to be covered

• Introduction to the scope, aims and format of the project.
  Outline of the programme.
• Background to census approaches (UN), developments in traditional censuses in recent years, summary of countries using different methods.

​Areas to be covered:

• The Netherlands register-based census: Rationale, approaches, pros and cons and key experiences and lessons learnt.
• National Strategies for the development of Statistics (NSDSs); a critical requirement in strengthening use of administrative data/registers for official statistics.
• A synthesis of key insights and lessons learnt from the a

​Areas to be covered

• Establishing, running and using population registers: The Norwegian experience.
• Civil registration systems in the Pacific; A Critical foundation for functional population registers.
• The journey towards application of combined methods for 2020 Population Census: Experience from Indonesia.

​Areas to be covered

• The Swedish register-based census: Rationale, approaches, pros and cons and key experiences and lessons learnt.
• Register-based censuses in the Nordic countries (i.e.