NOUMEA, New Caledonia\u2014Pacific Census commissioners and government statisticians are meeting at the headquarters of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community this week for an important Pacific Community planning meeting concerning the 2020 World Round of Population and Housing Censuses.<\/p>\n
Countries around the world are urged by the United Nations to conduct at least one population and housing census in the decade spanning from 2015-2024, called the \u201c2020 World Round\u201d, and to use internationally-adopted quality standards.<\/p>\n
The meeting\u2019s main purpose is to review a proposed common set of core census and consider increased use of technology to improve efficiency in data capture and dissemination.<\/p>\n
This will address a request by Pacific leaders and many regional and international data users for a greater harmonization of statistical classifications and systems, to support improved comparability of statistics between countries and the development of a core set of data across sectors.<\/p>\n
Work on a core data set for the Pacific began several years ago with the establishment of the National Minimum Development Indicators database www.spc.int\/nmdi, maintained by SPC, which contains over 200 development indicators, including all of the population-based demographic, economic and social indicators for the Millennium Development Goals.<\/p>\n
In his opening address, SPC Deputy Director-General Cameron Diver underlined the important link between improvements in the quality of census statistics and efficiency gains for Pacific Island nations.<\/p>\n
\u201cTrue comparability of core statistics between Pacific Island countries and a speedier release of this information for data users could translate into common data processing systems and tabulations plans,\u201d Diver said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis process, combined with using technology to improve data collection and dissemination, could help achieve efficiency gains in the provision of technical assistance and capacity building support for Pacific Island statistical systems,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
A senior statistician, Orlando Santo Monteiro, from the National Statistical Institute of Cape Verde in Africa\u2014the only Small Island Developing State to conduct an electronic census during the last census round\u2014is attending the meeting to share his country\u2019s experience with Pacific region peers.<\/p>\n
Hosted by SPC\u2019s Statistics for Development Division, the meeting from July 27 to 31 is also attended by technical specialists from the Australian Bureau of Statistics and Statistics New Zealand, the University of the South Pacific, international partners like UNESCO, UNICEF and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization.<\/p>\n
Palau and Kiribati are the two Pacific Island nations conducting their national censuses this year. (SPC)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NOUMEA, New Caledonia\u2014Pacific Census commissioners and government statisticians are meeting at the headquarters of the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[4690,389,166,70],"class_list":["post-206625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pacific","tag-pacific-community","tag-pacific-islands","tag-spc","tag-technology-2-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}