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The Planning Council, in cooperation with the Economic and Social
Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), is organizing a third symposium
on “Statistics for Development: A Dialogue between Users and
Producers of Statistics”, in Doha, Qatar, during the period 5-7 June
2006. The symposium is to build on the results of the successful
symposiums held in Doha in May 2004 and 2005 under the same title.
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The symposium aims at increased
interaction and cooperation between the users and producers of
statistics at the national level, enhancing the role of statistics
in and contribution towards national development, and increasing
awareness of the function and significance of statistics. It aims
also at a review of the present status of national statistical
organization and outputs, and the further development of the
strategy for improvement that emanated from the 2004 and 2005
symposiums.
The symposium is a national event that will host representatives of
national users and producers of statistics, as well as
representatives of a number of international statistical
organizations and national statistical offices of member states of
the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).
Tentatively, the first day will be devoted to opening ceremony and
the presentations of outside speakers. The second day will be
allocated to round-table discussions between users and producers of
statistics in Qatar, in which visiting experts will take an active
part, and in which several areas of mutual interest will be covered,
notably among them: demand, availability and needs of statistics;
data analysis and interpretation, human development indices;
millennium development goals; gender, poverty and environment
statistics; and a statistics strategy for the future.
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