SPC launches goods and services data comparison manual
The Pacific Community (SPC) has just published the Pacific Classification of Individual Consumption According to Purpose 2020 (PACCOICOP 2020), a regional classification of goods and services purchased by individuals and households in Pacific Island…
[VIRTUAL] Rapid Assessment Surveys and COVID-19 Socio-Economic Impact Assessments in the Pacific
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Pacific Community’s Statistics for Development Division launches “QGIS for Census and Survey Mapping” manual
The Pacific Community (SPC) has just published a manual to help National Statistics Offices and other government ministries undertaking censuses and surveys make optimal use of QGIS, an open-source and free geographic information system (GIS) software.…
SPC Elected as Chair of the Global Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) Group for 2020-21
The Statistics for Development Division is proud to announce that SPC has been elected unanimously as the Chair of the Global Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Group at a side event of the 2020 UN statistical Commission meeting in New York. SPC was…
28th Session Asia and Pacific Commission on Agricultural Statistics (APCAS)
The Asia and Pacific Commission on Agricultural Statistics (APCAS) is a statutory body of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). APCAS brings together senior statistics officials from FAO member countries of Asia…
Regional Statistics Project Will Help Close Data Gaps on Poverty and Gender in the Pacific
Original release available at: https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2020/02/12/regional-statistics-project-will-help-close-data-gaps-on-poverty-and-gender-in-the-pacific
2020 HIES Regional sampling and planning Workshop
To run a similar workshop to the 2019 HIES Regional Sampling and Planning workshop, with a widening of the scope to include:
SPC Inside: Learn more about governance in the context of official statistics in the Pacific
The Pacific Statistics Methods Board (PSMB) and Pacific Statistics Standing Committee (PSSC) both had meetings recently in Noumea. This short video explains how these statistics governance bodies and the Pacific Community are contributing to…
Pacific Islands GIS & RS Conference 2019
'The Conference runs over 4 days with over 60 presentations
centered on GIS and Remote Sensing while day 5 is reserved for workshops and
discussion. The conference provides a platform where 3 types of participants;
GIS/RS users from governments,…