On May 19, 2021, a meeting of the Expert Group on Population and Housing Census began in Geneva (Switzerland).
The meeting is attended by 127 representatives of statistical agencies in Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia, America and Africa, as well as experts from international organizations working on population and housing censuses, including during the pandemic. The Expert Group will consider innovative methods, the use of administrative and other data sources, assess the quality of data to meet user requests, and consider the possibility of integrating social surveys into the results of the population census, develop new approaches and recommendations for conducting population and housing censuses. The meeting will continue on May 20.
The event, which takes place in the format of a video conference, is attended by the head of the Department of Organization and Conduct of Census Processes of the State Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan on Statistics Berdikulov Kobil Gulomovich.
The main objective of the event is to review the results of the 2020 round of the population and housing census, to learn from the experience of countries that conducted the census in the context of the pandemic, and to draw lessons.
On May 20, the Group of Experts heard a report by Kobil Berdikulov, which presented the process of preparing for the population census in the Republic of Uzbekistan in 2023, preparation for the trial census scheduled for November 2021, prospects and plans for the future.
The report of the representative of the State Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan on Statistics was warmly welcomed by the international expert community and was highly appreciated at the stage of preparation of the pilot population census of 2021 and the population census of 2023.
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