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See below the ISWGHS September updates by Haoyi Chen (smile)

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 20th, 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


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

 

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

 

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