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International trade is important to the Pacific region. In many Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICTs) the value of international trade exceeds the value of national gross domestic product. Imports provide Pacific people with access to food and other products which they cannot produce for themselves, this is especially true for the low-lying coral atolls.
December 5, 2022December 10, 2022Event
The UN Committee of Experts on International Statistical Classifications is the central coordination body for the work on international statistical classifications that are the responsibility of the Statistics Division, and for the coordination and review of other international statistical classifications that are the responsibility of other international organizations and that have been propos
October 25, 2022October 28, 2022Event
- November 7, 2022November 9, 2022Event
- The Virtual Island Summit collectively covers all aspects of sustainable development using the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a framework.September 26, 2022October 2, 2022Event
- Conference on Regional Economic Cooperation and Integration in Asia and the Pacific will focus on how regional economic cooperation and integration through market integration in terms of trade and investment value chains and seamless connectivity in terms of transport, energy, and ICT, can enable resilience to future crises, in an inclusive and sustainable manneSeptember 28, 2022September 30, 2022Event
The Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development (APFSD) is an annual and inclusive intergovernmental forum and a regional platform for supporting countries, in particular those with special needs, in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development while serving as a regional preparatory meeting to the high-level political forum.
March 28, 2022March 31, 2022Event
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- Admin Data Census for England and Wales – Progress, challenges and lessons learned.
- Combined censuses - Spain (2011), Italy, Germany.
- Key lessons on the use of registers/ administrative data in addressing gaps in the 2018 New Zealand Census.
September 16, 2020September 16, 2020Event
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- 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.
September 9, 2020September 9, 2020Event
​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.
August 26, 2020August 26, 2020Event
​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.
July 29, 2020July 29, 2020Event
- Introduction to the scope, aims and format of the project.