(MENAFN- The Peninsula) The Peninsula
DOHA: The Ministry of Development Planning and Statistics organised a technical workshop on the working mechanism with partners in the 2020 Census, with the participation of specialists, statisticians and system analysts in some of the government entities producing data, as part of the preparatory stages for the implementation of the general population, housing and establishment census for 2020.
The workshop aims at introducing the basic requirements of this census through the necessary statistical methods, and methodologies, and the participant's view on the main activities of the census, which will contribute to the development and enhancement of practical knowledge related to the implementation phase.
Participants can gain a clear understanding of how project management and planning is conducted, including preconditions that must be met for conducting a census based on administrative records and key factors to be worked on to ensure complementarity between source agencies providing the required data and to ensure the data quality through the construction and evaluation process.
Sultan Al Kuwari, assistant undersecretary for statistics at the Ministry, said the census will ensure rapid data collection and dissemination of results and provide them to users simultaneously, and will ensure comprehensive, sustainable and higher quality, comparing to previous censuses, calling on source agencies of statistical data to provide information and work on developing their databases and linking them automatically with the Ministry in order to proceed of the census.
Al Kuwari added the new methodology proposed in the implementation of the Census 2020 will meet three basic needs; meeting the national requirements for development and the regional requirements of GCC countries, and fulfilling the international needs of the UN and other international bodies.
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