1. United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Statistical Division Report on the Activities of the StatCapCA Project Third SPECA PWG Meeting Paris 13 June 2008 Petteri Baer, Regional Adviser, UNECE

2. Petteri Baer - UNECE Statistical Division Slide 213 June 2008 Main fields of activities  Population and Census activities  Measuring the Health Status of the population  Non-Observed Economy  Additionally to this Study visits on best management practices in Official statistics = CES & SPECA PWG Meetings

3. Petteri Baer - UNECE Statistical Division Slide 313 June 2008 Population and Census activities  3 + 1 Training Workshops Baku (Autumn 2006): Management of the Census process Dushanbe (March 2007): Census Questionnaire design Astana (June 2007): Census Technology  Web Sites can be found in the written report  + Ashgabat: Census Management and Questionnaire Design (National Workshop)  Advisory Missions – still to come in 2008

4. Petteri Baer - UNECE Statistical Division Slide 413 June 2008 Measuring the Health Status of the population  Concentration on support for the development of Disability Statistics  1 + 1 Training Workshop Bishkek (December 2006): Disability Statistics for SPECA Member Countries; Web site in the written report Bangkok (April 2008): UNESCAP Regional Workshop on promoting disability data collection through the 2010 Population and Housing Censuses  http://www.unece.org/stats/documents/2008.04.health.htm  Participation in Bangkok by Tajikistan and Kazakhstan

5. Petteri Baer - UNECE Statistical Division Slide 513 June 2008 Non-Observed Economy (1)  Two Training Workshops Bishkek (April 2007) Geneva (April 2008)  Web Sites Bishkek – in the written report Geneva: A combination of three seminars in one week:  Special Session for Transition Economies  Joint Meeting on National Accounts towards SNA93 Rev. 1  Impact of Globalization on National Accounts  http://www.unece.org/stats/documents/2008.04.sna.htm

6. Petteri Baer - UNECE Statistical Division Slide 613 June 2008 Non-Observed Economy (2)  Advisory Missions Dushanbe (November 2007) Baku (planned for end of June 2008)

7. Petteri Baer - UNECE Statistical Division Slide 713 June 2008 Study visits on best management practices in Official statistics  Funding of participation of Heads of Central Asian National Statistical offices to Conference of European Statisticians  Paris 2006  Geneva 2007  Paris 2008 Meetings of the SPECA Project Working Group

8. Petteri Baer - UNECE Statistical Division Slide 813 June 2008 What remains to do in the StatCapCA Project?  Advisory Missions  Evaluation of the results and impact of the Project in NSOs in the SPECA member countries  Evaluation Meeting Agenda item 10 of this Meeting

9. Petteri Baer - UNECE Statistical Division Slide 913 June 2008 With Technical Cooperation to a brighter future  Questions?  Comments?  Thank you for your attention!  petteri.baer@unece.org