ESCWA, in collaboration with the United Nations Population Fund, is organizing a study tour to Oman to enable other countries to benefit from the Omani experience in the linkage of census data and civil registry.
Oman is hosting a team from Jordan, the State of Palestine and Egypt consisting of statisticians, demographers and specialists in technology, programming and the electronic linking of records from government departments. The team are discussing challenges and solutions regarding the use of administrative records for statistical purposes, including administrative and legal frameworks, coordination procedures, electronic linkages, national identity numbers, the availability of previous census data, methodologies and ways to adapt administrative data to statistical data according to international statistical classifications, with the aim of creating high quality integrated statistical data files.
UN-House, Beirut, Lebanon
