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Purpose and objectives
At its six session held in October 2004, the Statistical
Commission called on ESCWA to form a regional taskforce to
coordinate efforts in relation to the planning of next round of
population and housing censuses. Later, the United Nations
Statistics Division adopted in March 2005 a resolution on the
2010 World Population and Housing Census Programme, to be
implemented from 2005 to 2014. The goal of the Word Programme is
three fold:
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Agree on a set of accepted international principles and
recommendations governing the conduct of population and housing
censuses;
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Conduct a population and housing censuses at least once during
the period 2005-2014;
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Disseminate census results in a timely and comprehensive manner.
In
order to succeed, the regional commissions are requested to play
an active role in partnership with member countries and the
United Nations Statistics Division to ensure the implementation
of the World Programme. In lieu of this, the Economic and Social
Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) in collaboration with the
Ministry of National Economy in Oman and the Arab Gulf Programme
for United Nations Development Organizations (AGFUND) is holding
a Regional Taskforce Meeting on 2010 Round of Population and
Housing Censuses, in Cairo from 12 to 13 November 2005.
The taskforce will discuss emerging issues and core topics used in
the collection of data related to population and housing
censuses, with respect to the 2000 round censuses, and will
review the standards, concepts and definitions adopted with a
regional perspective. The work of the taskforce will provide an
opportunity to start the planning of the next 2010 round of
population and housing censuses, in particular to set the process
to be used in the revision and update of the United Nations
Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing
Censuses.
Participation
The meeting will bring together directors of population and
housing censuses from the national statistical offices in ESCWA
member countries. Experts from the UN Statistics Division, the
Economic Commission for Europe (ECE), and other international
agencies will be invited to attend and provide expertise in the
planning of population and housing censuses. Participants are
requested to complete the enclosed
registration form
(Annex 1) and return it to
Ms. Nadine Shaar
by email shaar@un.org or fax
+961-1-981 510.
Date and venue
The meeting will be held at ESCWA premises in Cairo from 12-13 November 2005. Information and related
documentation on the meeting will be available at ESCWA
Statistics Coordination Unit website at the following address:
http://www.escwa.org.lb/divisions/scu/main.html
Accommodation and travel arrangements
The meeting will be held in:
Ramses-Hilton hotel, 115 Corniche El Nil,
Cairo, Egypt
Tel: +20 2 577 7444
Fax: +20 2 394 6938
Specific requests of information concerning the travel and
accommodation should be addressed to:
Ms.
Nadine Shaar,
email at shaar@un.org
or fax +961-1-98151
Documentation and language
The meeting will consider the following issues for discussion:
a. Lessons learned from the 2000 round of population and housing
censuses (collection, processing and dissemination);
b. Preparations at the regional level in support of the 2010
World programme of population and housing censuses;
c. Planning at the national level for the next 2010 round.
Countries are asked to prepare a paper addressing the different
concepts and definitions that has used in 2000 round of
population and housing censuses. The papers should be submitted
to
Ms.
Nadine Shaar
by
1
November 2005
in electronic format (preferable as word document.) These papers
will provide the main basis for discussion.
The working language is Arabic. Translation and interpretation
services will be available in English and Arabic languages only.
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