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ESCAP Stats Brief (May 2023 | Issue no. 33): Exploring new horizons: Nepal’s pilot in implementing data integration approaches

Data integration approaches are becoming increasingly popular among official statisticians and data producers; however, more institutional and technical capacity is required to fully realise their potential. To strengthen the capacity of statistical systems in Asia and the Pacific, ESCAP has released the Asia-Pacific Guidelines to Data Integration for Official Statistics and launched the Data Integration Community of Practice, a forum for sharing relevant knowledge and experience and learning. Furthermore, in 2022, ESCAP, in collaboration with the National Statistics Office (NSO) of Nepal, initiated a project to implement a tailored approach in Nepal to improve the capacity of the National Statistical System (NSS) to integrate data and produce better data for measuring Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicators. This Stats Brief provides an overview of the project and the technical advisory and capacity-building support provided to the NSO of Nepal and its data partners.

Website: https://www.unescap.org/our-work/statistics

Previous issues of Stats Brief: https://www.unescap.org/resource-series/stats-brief

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Asia-Pacific Stats café series, "Reinvigorating the SDGs through gender and inclusive data: Harnessing the power of networks"

Asia-Pacific Stats café series, "Reinvigorating the SDGs through gender and inclusive data: Harnessing the power of networks", on Tuesday 30 May 2023, from 11:30am to 12:45pm, Bangkok time (UTC+7).

The Stats Cafe aims to provide an overview of the current state of gender statistics within the Asia-Pacific region. The session will also showcase innovative strategies, opportunities, and relationships current members have built through participation in the Gender Data Network (GDN) activities, particularly in the Africa region, and will discuss the value proposition of the expansion of such a network to the Asia-Pacific region. By participating in this session attendees will learn more about and appreciate the:

State of gender statistics in the Asia-Pacific region, including opportunities for improvement and collaboration;
Importance of cross-country exchange in scaling innovative gender data collection, analysis, and dissemination strategies;
Value of cohort experiences that facilitate continued professional and personal development; and
Impact of the GDN and possibilities for potential expansion to the Asia-Pacific region.

Click this link to register.

The event will be held via Zoom. When it’s time, join us ONLINE here at: bit.ly/GDNStatsCafe or scan the QR code in the flyer.

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Web Intelligence Network upcoming training

Building on the successful 2022-2023 WIN Webinar Series, the project will continue to deliver a series of free webinars in 2023-2024. This will keep the community updated on the work being carried out across the several work strands, will raise awareness of the project, build capability in the community, and gather feedback to inform future events.

REGISTER AT: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/web-data-in-official-statistics-process-challenges-solutions-tickets-603883159787.

The webinar will cover the main steps of web (internet) data acquisition and processing illustrated with the use-case of online real estate sales/rental offers. It will lead participants step by step, from assessing the webpage's content to creating a data acquisition tool and presenting possible use of the collected data. Methodological and quality-related challenges with using web data in official statistics and possible solutions developed by the Web Intelligence Network will be discussed.

Upcoming webinars will cover the following topics:

Measuring construction activities using data from the web, October 2023
Workshop on online-based enterprise characteristics, October 2023
Web scraping of prices and combining it with scanner data, November 2023
The Web Intelligence Hub: an overview, January 2024
Measuring the quality of large-scale automated classification systems applied to online job advertisement data, February 2024

Asia-Pacific Stats café series, Exploring new horizons: Nepal’s practice in implementing data integration approaches

Asia-Pacific Stats café series, Exploring new horizons: Nepal’s practice in implementing data integration approaches, will be held on Monday, 24 April 2023, from 1330 to 1430h, Bangkok time (UTC+7).

Click this link to register and when it’s time, Click here to join the meeting.

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Global Network Webinar on the SDMX User Forum and on the SDMX Capacity Development Initiatives

On 21 March 2023, the Global Network hosted a webinar on the SDMX User Forum and on the SDMX Capacity Development Initiatives.

The speakers introduced the new SDMX User Forum. On the Forum, users of SDMX are invited to ask or answer questions, find solutions, and connect with experts and peers. It is designed as a space to generate ideas, receive feedback as well as access information on case studies and implementation scenarios. The Forum is open to all users, irrespective of their level of experience and SDMX knowledge, starting at beginner level up to experienced SDMX users, such as data modelers and system developers.

In addition, the speakers presented ongoing SDMX capacity development initiatives (including the SDMX Foundation Course on ADB eLearning, the .Stat Academy, and others) and engaged with the audience to identify their capacity development needs to better serve the SDMX Users in the future. Finally, some first information about the next SDMX Conference was given, which will take place during the second half of 2023.

Here is the link to the recording:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-x6vxBjOzk&list=PLBc4lThqX-WOf9UZlfSeT762n8iRrYKwA

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Asia-Pacific Stats Cafe Series: Data Values-Building inclusive and open data systems for greater agency

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E-learning course "Increasing engagement around data and statistics" is ready

UN Statistics Division has jointly developed the course with UN SIAP and funded by FCDO.

This course is free of charge, intended to support those involved in the production and dissemination of official statistics in identifying and engaging with their users, to help increase the use and impact of their data in decision making.

https://www.unsdglearn.org/courses/increasing-user-engagement-around-data-and-statistics/

UN internal Training Resources at Global Network of Data Officers and Statisticians

A global network forum for Data officers and statisticians around the world, to connect and explore "the world of data".

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Inside the Global Network of Data Officers and Statisticians, all UN staff members are eligible to join the private group of "UN internal Training Resources" and explore many interesting courses. Community dedicated to statistical and geospatial trainings, including events designed for UN staff only.

UNECE Webinar on Administrative Microdata for Climate Change, Energy and Environment Statistics

A Webinar on Administrative Microdata for Climate Change, Energy and Environment Statistics will be organized on 30 March 2023. Please save this date in your calendars.

All updates, a link to the registration form and all documents related to the webinar will be posted soon on the following web page: https://unece.org/statistics/events/MicrodataWebinar2023.

There is a new Stats Brief out!

Are you curious about the regional estimate of completeness for death registration? Read more at Reaching a regional estimate of death registration completeness.

Find more Stats Briefs at ESCAP Stats Brief Repository.

Petra Nahmias Tanja Sejersen Shorena Tsiklauri Mohammd Bagher Abbasi Sayed Mohammd Hosseini

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The ESSnet Web Intelligence Network (WIN) - Upcoming Webinars

Webinar: Enhancing the Quality of Statistical Business Registers with Scraped Data, 24 January 2023 at 10:00 CET

This webinar will aim to inspire and equip participants keen to use web-scraped information to enhance the quality of the Statistical Business Registers. The webinar will discuss some of the different approaches to web scraping business information and the automatic prediction of NACE codes via text mining. To book your place visit this Eventbrite page.

Webinar: Methods of Processing and Analysing of Web Scraped Tourism Data, 23 February 2023 at 14:00 CET

This webinar will discuss the issues of data sources available in tourism statistics. We will present how to search for new data sources and how to analyse them. We will review and apply methods for merging and combining the web scraped data with other sources, using various programming environments. We will also look at different methods for removing any duplicates found in the merged dataset. To book your place visit this Eventbrite page.

Welcome to the year 2023!

Thank you for being beside us in the DI-CoP wonderful experience!

In 2022, we hosted 12 virtual team meetings to learn from expert speakers and share experiences on data integration. The pages of our online platform were viewed over 6,000 times.

We are now excited for another year of working with you, another year full of opportunities to learn from one another.

The DI-CoP secretariat is now calling for your feedback in order to further customize DI-CoP to your needs; CLICK HERE TO SHARE YOUR VALUABLE OPINION.