The regional workshop aims at discussing the draft guidelines on the use of electronic data collection technologies in censuses, including the main requirements for making a sound decision and common approaches in designing census processes, and benefitting from the experiences of Arab countries which have already conducted censuses using such technologies.
Meeting Details
Presentations
Day 1
- Global experience on the use of technology in censuses
- Use of technology in conducting censuses in Arab countries (Arabic)
- Decision-making in the adoption of electronic data collection
- Census 2017: first electronic census in Egypt (Arabic)
- Data collection with handheld electronic devices
- Data collection with handheld electronic devices: Egypt (Arabic)
- Data collection with handheld electronic devices: Jordan (Arabic)
- Using new technologies in data collection: Palestine
- Using internet self-response as a data collection mode in censuses
- Using the internet for self-enumeration in Egypt’s 2017 census (Arabic)
Day 2
- Use of Geospatial information in support of census operations
- Use of GIS/GPS for supporting field enumeration: Palestine
- Use of GIS/GPS for supporting field enumeration: Jordan (Arabic)
- Planning census operations with multi-mode data collection methods (Arabic)
- Planning and management considerations for the adoption of electronic data collection technologies
- Considerations for planning census operations with the use of technology: Palestine
- Planning census operations with the use of technology: Jordan (Arabic)
- Improving data quality during enumeration phase: Call Center
- Improving data quality during enumeration phase: Systems for management and monitoring field operations
- Evaluating census data (Arabic)
- Improving data quality during and after enumeration phase: Jordan (Arabic)
- Monitoring data quality in Egypt’s 2017 census (Arabic)
- Methodology for preparing and implementing the post enumeration survey: Palestine (Arabic)
- Palestinian refugees in Lebanon
Day 3
- Preparations for the 2020 Census in GCC countries: GCC-Stat (Arabic)
- Population and Housing Census 2020: KSA (Arabic)
- Country experience: Sharjah-UAE (Arabic)
- Population and housing censuses and sustainable development indicators (Arabic)
- Population data in conflict areas and humanitarian settings
- IPUMS-International: Harmonizing and Disseminating Census Microdata
Doha Exhibition and Convention Center - Qatar
