United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Statistical Division Report on the Activities of the StatCapCA Project - New activities are highlighted in red colour - Fourth SPECA PWG Meeting Istanbul 23 March 2009 Petteri Baer, Regional Adviser, UNECE ECE-ESCAP-SPECA/PWG-Statistics/2009/2 ECE/CES/GE57/2009/2

Petteri Baer - UNECE Statistical Division Slide 223 March 2009 Main fields of activities  Population and Census activities  Measuring the Health Status of the population  Non-Observed Economy  Additionally to this Study visits on best management practices in Official statistics = CES & SPECA PWG Meetings

Petteri Baer - UNECE Statistical Division Slide 323 March 2009 Population and Census activities  Training Workshops Baku (Autumn 2006): Management of the Census process Dushanbe (March 2007): Census Questionnaire design Astana (June 2007): Census Technology Web Sites can be found in the written report  + Ashgabat: Census Management and Questionnaire Design (National Workshop)  Advisory Missions – Kyrgyzstan in August 2008, Tajikistan in January 2009

Petteri Baer - UNECE Statistical Division Slide 423 March 2009 Measuring the Health Status of the population  Concentration on support for the development of Disability Statistics  Training Workshop Bishkek (December 2006): Disability Statistics for SPECA Member Countries; Web site in the written report Bangkok (April 2008): UNESCAP Regional Workshop on promoting disability data collection through the 2010 Population and Housing Censuses  Participation in Bangkok by Tajikistan and Kazakhstan Web sites can be found in the written report  Kazakhstan now deeply involved in this work

Petteri Baer - UNECE Statistical Division Slide 523 March 2009 Non-Observed Economy (1)  Two Training Workshops Bishkek (April 2007) Geneva (April 2008)  A combination of three seminars in one week: –Special Session for Transition Economies –Joint Meeting on the 2008 Revision of National Accounts –Impact of Globalization on National Accounts  Web Sites Web sites can be found in the written report

Petteri Baer - UNECE Statistical Division Slide 623 March 2009 Non-Observed Economy (2)  Advisory Missions Dushanbe (November 2007) Baku (October 2008)

Petteri Baer - UNECE Statistical Division Slide 723 March 2009 Study visits on best management practices in Official statistics  Funding of participation of Heads of Central Asian National Statistical Agencies to The Conference of European Statisticians  Paris 2006  Geneva 2007  Paris 2008 The Meetings of the SPECA Project Working Group  A continued way of funding of these activities has now been negotiated with the World Bank

Petteri Baer - UNECE Statistical Division Slide 823 March 2009 A small financial “leftover” in the StatCapCA Project  Possibility to implement one or two Advisory Missions in Spring 2009  UNECE proposal: Support to work on Dissemination databases for Population Census results

Petteri Baer - UNECE Statistical Division Slide 923 March 2009 With Technical Cooperation to a brighter future  A more detailed material will be presented in the Evaluation Report of the StatCapCA Project  Thank you for your attention! 