ESCWA is organizing the eighth meeting of the Advisory Technical Group on Demographic and Social Statistics in Arab Countries
The meeting aims to:
- Review and discuss the ESCWA work Programme “Supporting the Promotion and Modernization of Demographic and Social Statistics in Arab Countries”
- Assess the availability of data on the core list of demographic and social indicators, and propose methods to address data gaps and improve data quality
- Provide an overview of forced displacement statistics through a presentation of the report on Enhancing and Integrating Refugee and Displacement Statistics in the Arab Countries
- Discuss emerging methodological issues, global developments, and statistical capacity-development programmes related to population and housing censuses, civil registration and vital statistics, statistical surveys, and broader social statistics.
Damascus, Syrian Arab Republic
