From November 29 to December 1 this year, an international conference was held in Tokyo, Japan on the topic “Assessing the impact and addressing challenges in the 2020 census round during the COVID-19 pandemic”.
The conference was organized under the auspices of the National Association of Censuses and Statistics for the Americas, Asia and the Pacific (ANCSDAAP) and the Japan Bureau of Statistics.
The international conference was attended by the US Bureau of the Census, experts in the field of national statistics from Indonesia, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka, Mongolia, Korea, Vietnam, Azerbaijan, Singapore, India, Uzbekistan and other countries.
From the State Statistics Committee, the head of the department for the development of information and communication technologies and interactive public services, Odilov Shahrukh Gayratzhanovich, took part.
During the conference, participants exchanged views on the advantages and disadvantages of using modern technologies in population census processes, on the use of the Internet and tablet devices in the population census, as well as on methods for collecting and processing large amounts of data.
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