DOHA: With the slogan “Better Data, Better Lives”, Qatar will celebrate the World Statistics Day tomorrow.
The Ministry of Development Planning and Statistics (MDPS) will organise the World Statistics Day Forum in the presence of Prime Minister and Interior Minister
H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani, who will deliver the forum’s inaugural speech.
The forum will be attended by a number of ministers and senior officials in the country, and invitees from regional and international statistical agencies in addition to dignitaries at the ministries, business sector entities, universities, research centres, and NGOs.
Representatives from the United Nations, Arab and Islamic organisations, and national experts and officials from the country’s different ministries and agencies will be guest-speakers at the forum. The forum aims at spotlighting the importance of official statistics in the formulation of policies, and monitoring of development achievements.
It will also be an occasion for exchange of views, ideas, expertise associated with the “Data Revolution for Post-2015 Development”, and its statistical implications on the sustainable development agenda, and use of official statistics in the planning for sustainable development.
The World Statistics Day celebration comes upon request of the United Nations General Assembly, during its 69th ordinary meeting held on June 3, 2014 in New York, when all the member-states were invited to celebrate this occasion once each five years.
During the forum’s sessions, the findings of the Simplified Census of Population, Housing, and Establishments 2015 will be unveiled.
This Census, conducted by the Ministry of Development Planning and Statistics in cooperation with MMUP, intends to provide a proper database to carry out comparisons, projections of demographic data, and the community’s social, economic and urban characteristics.
The forum is also an opportunity to pinpoint the concerned ministries’ needs for statistical data that are necessary to the formulation of sectorial strategies for 2017-2022, and to establish partnership relations and effective cooperation between the Ministry of Development Planning and Statistics and the rest of the country’s ministries and agencies.
On the sideline of the World Statistics Day Forum, the ministry will organise a show of the main images and tools used during the census conducted in Qatar in previous decades.
The World Statistics Day Forum will also highlight Qatar’s interest in the census regarding the overall planning for the future.
The Peninsula
DOHA: With the slogan “Better Data, Better Lives”, Qatar will celebrate the World Statistics Day tomorrow.
The Ministry of Development Planning and Statistics (MDPS) will organise the World Statistics Day Forum in the presence of Prime Minister and Interior Minister
H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani, who will deliver the forum’s inaugural speech.
The forum will be attended by a number of ministers and senior officials in the country, and invitees from regional and international statistical agencies in addition to dignitaries at the ministries, business sector entities, universities, research centres, and NGOs.
Representatives from the United Nations, Arab and Islamic organisations, and national experts and officials from the country’s different ministries and agencies will be guest-speakers at the forum. The forum aims at spotlighting the importance of official statistics in the formulation of policies, and monitoring of development achievements.
It will also be an occasion for exchange of views, ideas, expertise associated with the “Data Revolution for Post-2015 Development”, and its statistical implications on the sustainable development agenda, and use of official statistics in the planning for sustainable development.
The World Statistics Day celebration comes upon request of the United Nations General Assembly, during its 69th ordinary meeting held on June 3, 2014 in New York, when all the member-states were invited to celebrate this occasion once each five years.
During the forum’s sessions, the findings of the Simplified Census of Population, Housing, and Establishments 2015 will be unveiled.
This Census, conducted by the Ministry of Development Planning and Statistics in cooperation with MMUP, intends to provide a proper database to carry out comparisons, projections of demographic data, and the community’s social, economic and urban characteristics.
The forum is also an opportunity to pinpoint the concerned ministries’ needs for statistical data that are necessary to the formulation of sectorial strategies for 2017-2022, and to establish partnership relations and effective cooperation between the Ministry of Development Planning and Statistics and the rest of the country’s ministries and agencies.
On the sideline of the World Statistics Day Forum, the ministry will organise a show of the main images and tools used during the census conducted in Qatar in previous decades.
The World Statistics Day Forum will also highlight Qatar’s interest in the census regarding the overall planning for the future.
The Peninsula
