[SDI-AsiaPacific] [GIS-PacNet] Workshop on the 2010 World Programme on Population and Housing Censuses, Noumea, New Caledonia, 4-8 February 2008

[Kate Lance]

Workshop on the 2010 World Programme on Population and Housing Censuses: International standards, contemporary technologies and regional cooperation
Noumea, New Caledonia, 4-8 February 2008
The purpose of the Workshop is to present international standards for conducting population and housing censuses. It will provide an opportunity for exploring ways of strengthening regional cooperation in establishing joint ventures during various stages of population and housing censuses in the Pacific region. The workshop will also cover the use of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for census and survey data capture, and Geographical Information System (GIS) and other geospatial technologies in census mapping activities. More specifically, the Workshop will: (1) Present revised international standards for conducting population and housing censuses, focusing on recommended core topics as identified in the United Nations Principles and Recommendations Revision 2; (2) Discuss ways of improving the capacity of national statistical offices to implement the revised Principles and Recommendations by reviewing a proposed Pacific Islands model census
 questionnaire and possibilities for its coordinated implementation ; (3) Present and discuss new approaches in census geography, including the use of Geographical Information Systems and Global Positioning Systems in census mapping, data collection and dissemination, and disaster management and explore the use of optical character recognition solutions (OCR) for census and survey data capture in the SPC region.
Contact: Jean Michel Durr, +1 917 367 9165, e-mail: durr at un.org


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