The regional workshop aims to review the different ways of census data dissemination and usage in development planning; to highlight the importance of communication of census data between producers and users and the role of population and housing censuses in providing indicators of the 2030 sustainable development agenda; and to discuss how to use individual census data in the process of research and planning.

Meeting Details

• Information note
• Agenda

Background Documents

• Communicating census data: developing a user centric communication strategy (Arabic)

• Dissemination and use of population and housing census data: emerging methods and lessons learned (Arabic)

Presentations:

Day 1:

• Dissemination and use of census data in Arab countries: an overview (Arabic)
• Communicating census Data: concept and good practices
• ​The role of census data in mortality estimation
• Using census results to support decision-making (Arabic)
• Using census data in regional policy development and monitoring – GCC-Stat experiences
• Population projections in the formulation of sectoral plans: general considerations and determinants (Arabic)
• Population projections and their use in identifying needs: Palestine (Arabic)
• Population projections and their use in identifying needs and formulating sectoral plans: Jordan (Arabic)

Day 2:

• The importance of the census beyond published results: policy research using census microdata from IPUMS

• Monitoring the disclosure of 2014 census microdata: Morocco (Arabic)

• Limits of Data Disaggregation in Household Surveys for Population Subgroups and Geographical Areas and the Requirements to Overcome them - application to poverty mapping in Palestine

• Use of census data in formulating migration policies in Morocco (Arabic)

• Use of census data in monitoring refugees figures: Jordan (Arabic)

• Use of census data in monitoring refugees figures: Palestine (Arabic)

• Demographic and socioeconomic aspects of population ageing in Morocco: some highlights of Moroccan censuses

• Censuses and urban planning
• ​Using census data in the report of the Third UN Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Arabic)
• Use of census data in urban planning: case of Morocco

• Use of census data in urban planning: case of Tunisia

Day 3:

• Census data and indicators of the Sustainable Development Goals (Arabic)

• Localizing urban SDGs methodologies: case of Tunisia

• The role of census outputs in the disaggregation of SDG indicators by migratory status

• Developing a global definition of cities and rural areas

• Using census data in the Multidimensional Poverty Index (Arabic)