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The Eleventh Meeting of the Heads of National Statistical Offices of East Asian Countries
Date/Venue:
6-8 November 2006/Tokyo, JapanOrganizer:
Statistics Bureau of JapanAim
The Meeting of the Heads of National Statistical Offices of East Asian Countries aims at promoting development of official statistics in this region through informal exchanges of experiences and thoughts among the heads of national statistical offices. Since its initiation in 1980, the meeting has been held about every 2 years.Theme
The theme of the Meeting was "Major Current Issues that Each NSO is Facing and the Approaches to Cope with Them" as follows: "2010 Population and Housing Census", "Improvement of data collection for basic economic and social statistics" and "Statistical system / Administration and management of statistical organizations".Programme
Monday 6 November
Meeting of the Heads of National Statistical Offices of East Asian Countries
9:00 - 9:05 Announcement from the Secretariat
9:05 - 9:20 Opening Remarks [Mr. Etoh Hidesato, Director-General, Statistics Bureau of Japan]
9:20 - 11:40 Session 1 Lessons learned from the 2005 round Censusu
14:00 - 16:40 Session 2 Planning for the 2010 round Population Census
Tuesday 7 November
9:00 - 9:05 Announcement from the Secretariat
9:05 - 9:20 Welcoming Remarks [Mr. Kubushiro Yutaka, Director-General for Policy Planning(Statistical Standards)]
9:20 - 11:40 Topic 2 Improvement of data collection for basic economic and social statistics
11:50 - 12:00 Announcement of the 2007 UN Statistical Commission [Dr. Paul Cheung, UN]
14:00 - 17:00 Topic 3 Statistical system / Administration and management of statistical organizations
16:40 - 17:00 Closing Remarks [Mr. Etoh Hidesato, Director-General, Statistics Bureau of Japan]
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