On November 5 this year, the State Committee on Statistics organized a meeting with the UN Population Fund on preparations for the census in the Republic of Uzbekistan and on gender equality.
The event was attended by Chairman of the State Committee on Statistics Bakhodir Abdusalomovich Begalov, UNFPA Regional Director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia Florence Bauer, Head of the UN Population Fund in the Republic of Uzbekistan Mr. Yu Yu and other specialists.
During the meeting, Chairman of the State Committee on Statistics Bakhodir Begalov and Regional Director of the United Nations Population Fund for Eastern Europe and Central Asia Florence Bauer exchanged views on what should be paid attention to in the population census process, foreign experience, as well as the effective use of ICT in this sphere.
Information was also provided on the ongoing work on maintaining gender statistics.
In particular, a separate division for the collection, processing and analysis of gender statistics has been created at the State Statistics Committee, and the official website of the State Statistics Committee gender.stat.uz has been developed and launched. To date, more than 140 indicators of gender statistics have been posted in all sections of the site in 3 languages, in 5 different formats.
The participants of the meeting also agreed on further strengthening of cooperation in preparation for the population census, on measures to be taken in the future.
Press service