Blog from September, 2023

September Updates from Inter-Secretariat Working Group on Household Surveys (ISWGHS)

See below the ISWGHS September updates by Haoyi Chen

Featured event and registration:

Technical meeting on innovative approaches to improve sampling efficiency and coverage in collaboration with ECLAC Statistics Division

Date/Time: 9 am-12 pm EST, 10-11 October 2023
Register: https://forms.office.com/e/sbTTaN8wLj
Agenda:

Overview of innovations in sample frames and sampling
Sample frames
Sampling rare and hard-to-reach populations
Nonprobabilistic sampling

Huge thanks to the steering committee members for the meeting:

Sharon Lohr, Arizona State University
Cillanne Boulet, Statistics Canada
James Muwonge, Uganda Bureau of Statistics
Juan Pablo Ferreira, Uruguay National Institute of Statistics

Other events:

An Overview of Some Methods for Statistical Analysis with Missing Data

Organised by: the American Statistical Association’s Committee on International Relations in Statistics (CIRS) and by Statistics Without Borders (SWB)
Date/Time: September 20^th, 2023, 12 PM-1:30 PM ET
Speaker: Professor Rod Little, University of Michigan
Registration: Link

An open online session on "Digital Twin", on social survey collection processes to improve design decisions and workforce planning

Organised by: Statistics New Zealand and Statistics Netherlands
Date/Time: 1-2 pm CET, 19th September 2023
For a meeting invite: Contact Anna Mitriaeva (a.mitriaieva@cbs.nl) and Gareth Minshall (gareth.minshall@stats.govt.nz)

Qualitative data: Qualitative research with statistically under-represented groups within the Office for National Statistics

Date/Time: 8:30-9:30 am EST, 3 October 2023
Register: https://forms.gle/JXnTnraczyMbcdLH9

Identifying Refugees and IDPs in Household Surveys: An EGRISS Methodological Paper

Date/Time: 8:30 – 9:30 am, 17 October 2023
Register: https://forms.gle/7qj3rk3hhcLGdpRPA

Training and capacity building

Small area estimation:

The guided eLearning course will start for countries in Africa, Asia and the Pacific and Latin America and the Caribbean for close to 100 students, to start end September 2023
Update on the SAE wiki platform, and we added Povmap – an extension to the ‘emdi’ package, check out for more information. Thanks to our World Bank colleague for providing the information

StatsTalk-Africa Webinar on Machine Learning for Economic Research

On the 14^th of September 2023, the African Centre for Statistics (ACS) of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) successfully conducted a StatsTalk-Africa Webinar series, which focused on Machine Learning for Economic Research. The sixth of the monthly webinar series had 148 attendees, with participants noting the timeliness and comprehensiveness of the presentation and expressing the need to tackle similar topics that expound on the uses and application of Machine Learning for economics and other socio-demographic indicators related to Sustainable Development Goals in future webinars. The recording of the webinar can be accessed at https://youtu.be/nK-j5QB955c.

In its continuing commitment to provide a space for dialogues about data, statistics, and innovative tools with data experts and users, the ACS wishes to invite everyone to the next StatsTalk-Africa. Concept notes and relevant materials for the upcoming webinar will be shared in due course.