United Nations Statistics Division Regional Seminar on Promotion and Utilization of Census Results and on the Revision on the United Nations Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses ID: 372518
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Summary of Main Conclusions – The First Two Days
United Nations Statistics Division
Regional Seminar on Promotion and Utilization of Census Results and on the Revision on the United Nations Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses
Pretoria, South Africa, 24 – 26 March 2014Slide2
Session 1 – Opening
In the opening statement, SG SSA focused on the revision of the Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses - Need to emphasize the statistics process, census values - Assess the possibility of re-structuring the text of the P&RAfDB – Strong and continuous support for census programmeECA – African perspectiveUNSD – Critical importance of disseminationUNFPA – Technical supportSSA – Welcome to SA
Regional Seminar on Promotion and Utilization of Census Results and on the Revision on the United Nations Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses
Pretoria, South Africa, 24 – 26 March 2014Slide3
Session 2 – Why conducting a census
Regional Seminar on Promotion and Utilization of Census Results and on the Revision on the United Nations Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses
Pretoria, South Africa, 24 – 26 March 2014
Rationale for census - critical in Africa
Value to the society
Supply side and demand for census statistics
Even more important after the Arab Spring - Tunisia
Or in case of recently established states- South Sudan
Challenges – There must be peace
Challenges – Capacity and continuous commitment
Challenges – Allocating resourcesSlide4
Session 3 – Identifying users
Regional Seminar on Promotion and Utilization of Census Results and on the Revision on the United Nations Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses
Pretoria, South Africa, 24 – 26 March 2014
Government and line ministries
Bringing in other stakeholders
Micro data dilemma - ZambiaSlide5
Session 4 – Strategies for dissemination
Regional Seminar on Promotion and Utilization of Census Results and on the Revision on the United Nations Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses
Pretoria, South Africa, 24 – 26 March 2014
Strategies – a function of national capacity
Mainly centered around traditional approaches – reports, tabulations …
Developed early in the process
Publication programmes
Use of on-line data bases for disseminationSlide6
Session 5 – Encouriging utilization of census data
Regional Seminar on Promotion and Utilization of Census Results and on the Revision on the United Nations Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses
Pretoria, South Africa, 24 – 26 March 2014
Dedicated and concentrated efforts
Parliamentarians, political parties, sports associations
Educational districts
Miners, diggers …
Descriptive analysis + maps
In focus: schools, students
Various products – analog and digitalSlide7
Session 6 – Analysis of census data
Regional Seminar on Promotion and Utilization of Census Results and on the Revision on the United Nations Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses
Pretoria, South Africa, 24 – 26 March 2014
In-depth thematic reports
Down to the low geographical levels
Comprehensive, topic-wise
Hard-print, mostly
Outsourced, mostly
Slow in coming, mostlySlide8
Session 7 – Building partnerships
Regional Seminar on Promotion and Utilization of Census Results and on the Revision on the United Nations Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses
Pretoria, South Africa, 24 – 26 March 2014
Requires persistence
NSO + academia, sometimes
NSO <> academia, sometimes
Agreeing on themes - challengeSlide9
Session 8 – Role of technology
Regional Seminar on Promotion and Utilization of Census Results and on the Revision on the United Nations Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses
Pretoria, South Africa, 24 – 26 March 2014
Contemporary technology – critical in targeting younger audience
Combining statistics and geography
A number of tools
Interactive maps to the community level – Morocco
Access via smartphone – Cape Verde
Overlaying satellite imagery with statistics