1. Afghanistan’s Central Statistics Office Mapping Practice

2. CSO Mapping Trends Pre-1979 – Updating rural settlement locations on 1:50k maps – Updating urban settlement locations from aerial photographs – Free-hand drawing of enumerators area sketch maps

3. CSO Mapping Trends Post-1979Post-1979 – Updating existing rural settlement locations on 1:50k and 1:100k maps – Updating existing urban settlement locations on 1:5k and 1:10k maps – Delineating nomads settlement locations on 1:250k maps

4. CSO Recent Mapping Activities Post-2002 – Updating location of over 38,000 villages nation-wide and free-hand delineation of enumerators area sketch maps –Pre-listing of households in every residential building nation-wide – Estimating the number of persons per village – Gathering of demographic and socio- economic profile of 1 out of every 200 households

5. CSO Recent Mapping Activities From mid-2005From mid-2005 – Training local capacity for digital mapping – Digitization of 2173 topographical map sheets – Digital Geo-rectification of base maps – Establishment of a Geo-database for local administrative boundaries – Digitization of province and district boundaries, and village locations –Demarcating E.As and C.As

6. CSO Mapping Products Finished productsFinished products – Digitally geo-rectified mosaic of 1:50K topographical map sheets covering Afghanistan – Interoperable Geo-database for local administrative boundaries – Digital spatial datasets (i.e. map frames for 34 provinces and 398 districts) – Hierarchical geo-codes for national and local administrative areas up to sub-village level

8. CSO Mapping Products… Digital Map-frames – 34 Province Boundaries

10. CSO Mapping Products… Digital Map-frames…Digital Map-frames… – 398 District and Town/City Boundaries

11. KANDARHAR

12. CSO Mapping Products… Digital Map-frames… – Province/District National Sampling Framework

14. CSO Future Activities Publication of HHL survey results and Afghanistan demographic profilePublication of HHL survey results and Afghanistan demographic profile Digital Census Enumeration Area Mapping Digital Census Enumeration Area Mapping Conduct of a Population and Housing Census Conduct of a Population and Housing Census Routine conduct of socio-economic and demographic surveys Routine conduct of socio-economic and demographic surveys Publication of Statistical year book and statistical gazetteers Publication of Statistical year book and statistical gazetteers