On September 24, 2024, at the Statistical Agency under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan, on September 16-20 of this year, in Bangkok, Thailand, to web-scraping on consumer price statistics organized by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCATO). a presentation was held on the results of the regional seminar.
Shohrukh Odilov, Head of the Agency's Digital Technologies and Interactive Services Development Department, and Mukhtor Umarov, Head of the Price Statistics Department, who took part in the seminar, presented the knowledge and skills they had gained from the regional seminar to the agency's employees.
In particular, positive institutional mechanisms for introducing new approaches to decision-making based on consumer price statistics, data management needs, technical measures and methodological possibilities were studied, and issues of introduction into the national statistical system were considered.
At the same time, the recommendations of international experts and best practices of participating countries in collecting and maintaining data by introducing web-scraping technologies to price statistics were introduced.
Also, during the event, opinions were exchanged on the topic, and the questions of the participants were answered in detail.
