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International Cooperation in Statistics

The Statistics Bureau of Japan (SBJ) promotes the exchange of international information on statistics by hosting and participating in international statistical conferences, international symposiums and expert meetings.
The SBJ conducts various international cooperation activities, such as sending statistical experts to other countries and inviting trainees in the response to requests from foreign countries and international organizations. The SBJ also has been regularly exchanging statistical missions with China and Korea. The SBJ contributes to promote technical cooperation through these activities.

Participation in International Statistical Activities

1 Hosting international statistical conferences

The SBJ occasionally hosts international statistical conferences. Since 1980, the SBJ has hosted the East Asian Statistical Conference (EASC), mostly in Japan, at intervals of two or three years.
Also the SBJ promotes exchanging of information and views from an international perspective by hosting international symposiums and expert meetings.

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The 13th EASC
5-7 November 2012, Tokyo

2 Participation in international statistical conferences

The SBJ dispatches experts to the Japanese delegation to participate in the United Nations Statistical Commission (UNSC), which is held every year.
The SBJ also dispatches experts to international conferences and seminars, etc. which are organized by the United Nations (UN), the International Labour Organization (ILO).

The 45th UNSC
4-7 March 2014, USA, New York

3 Participation in other International Statistical Activities

The SBJ is participating in various international statistical projects such as International Comparison Program (ICP) and the IMF's Special Data Dissemination Standards (SDDS), which are operated in accordance with respective international standards and guidelines.

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International Cooperation, International Exchange

1 Technical cooperation programs

The SBJ sends statistical experts to other countries for extended periods on a request basis for technical cooperation, for example, for a country's Population Census. The SBJ also invites trainees in response to requests from foreign countries and gives lectures for them.
The SBJ dispatches lecturers to the United Nations Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific (SIAP), and they give lectures on the methodologies of surveys and analyzing survey results and so on.

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A lecture by a staff member of SBJ in Cambodia

2 Bilateral cooperation

The SBJ has been promoting exchanges of statistical missions with China and Korea almost every year. It has been regularly exchanging missions with China since 1980 and with Korea since 1982.
The SBJ strengthened cooperative relationship by signing the Memorandum of Cooperation with the General Statistics Office (GSO) of Vietnam in January 2014, and with the National Statistics Office (NSO) of Mongolia in February 2017.