
Calender_2025
Tantative SIAP calender for meeting and training Programmes
(1 January to 31 December 2025)
Title | start date | end date | description | organizer(s) | event | venue |
ENHANCING STATISTICAL LEADERSHIP FOR HEADS OF NATIONAL STATISTICAL OFFICES (NSOs) IN ASIA and the PACIFIC | 28 May 2025 | 30 May 2025 | With the increased and evolving demand for data from national development plans, Agenda 2030 for sustainable development goals, the current and post crisis affecting the World, including climate change; as well as the opportunity available with the new technology including the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for the modernisation and digital transformation of national data ecosystems; National statistical offices (NSOs) continue to be at the forefront of developing, transforming and coordinating national statistical systems (NSS) as well as engaging with the larger data ecosystem to fit for purpose. | PARIS21, SIAP | REGIONAL TRAINING WORKSHOP | Chiba, Japan |
Regional Training Workshop on Measuring Energy for Sustainable Development | 13 May 2025 | 16 May 2025 | Climate change is one of the most pressing issues in the Asia-Pacific region. Yet emissions from fuel combustion in the region (and globally) continue to trend upwards due to increased demand for energy. In addition, households and businesses are faced with frequent price shocks in many energy commodities. High quality, consistent data on energy is critically needed to inform effective pathways for addressing issues around energy use and availability, climate change mitigation and just energy transitions. National statistical offices (NSOs) and ministries of energy of countries in the region have responded to these needs by compiling basic energy statistics, energy balances and energy accounts. However, there continues to be a need to strengthen the capacities of NSOs and ministries of energy to produce and disseminate energy information to better meet the needs of users for high quality integrated data on energy and its relationship to the broader economy and climate change. | UNSD, SIAP | REGIONAL TRAINING WORKSHOP | Chiba, Japan |
Principles of Reproducible Analytical Pipelines for Official Statistics | 17 February 2025 | 14 March 2025 | This e-learning course aims to build capacity in national statistical systems for the development and implementation of Reproducible Analytical Pipelines (RAPs) for Official Statistics. What is a Reproducible Analytical Pipeline? Simply put, reproducible analytical pipelines (RAPs) are automated statistical processes (data processing and analysis) that codify to the greatest extent possible the production of official statistics. Common tools that are used to develop RAP include software such as R or Python, and version control management tools such as Git. Reproducibility is at the heart of the approach. It implies that the outputs can be generated again with any new or revised input datasets using the RAP developed. This also implies drafting documents explaining the RAP that make it possible to build institutional knowledge and use the RAP in the future by new staff. | SIAP | E-learning | online |
Disaster related statistics framework | 3 March 2025 | 7 April 2025 | Disasters continue to have an ever-increasing impact on life, well-being and sustainable development. Given these impacts, there is a high demand at the local, national and international levels for high quality, integrated statistics to inform all phases of the disaster risk management cycle. Furthermore, disaster related statistics are not only relevant to those working to prepare and respond to disasters but also to the public at large, research institutions and policy analysts at the local and national levels. In response to the increased demands for disaster related statistics, the disaster management and official statistics communities in Asia-Pacific have developed the Disaster-related Statistics Framework (DRSF). The DRSF aims to improve countries capacities to produce high quality, integrated statistics on disasters; and it is the basis for this course. During the course participants will learn about the importance of harmonized data and its relevance to policy making at the national and global level. Other topics covered include statistics on disaster risk, disaster occurrence and impacts, and economic losses. Further details on course content follow below. Please note that a course on disaster related statistics was last held in 2023; this is an updated course and those who participated in the 2023 course are welcomed to join. | SIAP | E-learning | online |
Using administrative data to produce official statistics | 20 January 2025 | 21 February 2025 | National statistical systems are increasingly using administrative data to compile official statistics. Such data can be utilized to better meet the increasing demands for new statistics and indicators that are highly disaggregated. Administrative data is not collected for the primary purpose of compiling official statistics, and statisticians need to ensure that the data meets certain criteria before using it to produce official statistics. This course provides an overview of administrative data, a discussion of data quality issues and institutional mechanisms to ensure that administrative data can be used in the production of official statistics. The course builds upon content developed for in-person training courses conducted by UNSD and to which members of the Collaborative on Administrative Data have provided valuable input. | UNSD, SIAP | E-learning | online |
Regional Course on Consumer Price Index Compilation Methods | 20 January 2025 | 24 January 2025 | CPIs measure changes over time in the general level of prices of goods and services that households acquire (use or pay for) for the purpose of consumption. In many countries, they were originally introduced to provide a measure of the changes in the living costs faced by workers, so that wage increases could be related to changing levels of prices. However, over the years, CPIs have widened their scope and now are widely used as a macroeconomic indicator of inflation, as a tool by governments and central banks for monetary policy and for monitoring price stability, and as deflators in the national accounts. With the globalization of trade and production and the liberalization of the markets, national governments, central banks, and international organizations place great importance on the quality and accuracy of national CPIs, and their international comparability. | IMF STA, SIAP | Reginal Training | Chiba, Japan |