Increasing the visibility of MED statistics
Each two years, the ISI organises its world Conference that is a unique opportunity for statisticians from all over the world to meet and to discuss key critical issues for the development of statistics. This year the Conference will be held in Marrakech, Morocco. The ENP-S countries committed themselves for being very active in the Conference and for contributing to its scientific programme. Most of the Directors of statistics will travel to Marrakech to assist and/or contribute to more than 100 technical sessions during which several hundred papers will be presented and discussed.
More information on ISI: (https://www.isi-web.org/)
and on its Conference 2017: (http://payment.isi2017.org/).
The video of ISI Marrakech (by Expertise France) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8qSL-5o44A
The ENP-S countries will be directly involved in four sessions of the scientific programme addressing transport statistics, international migration statistics, business registers and gender statistics. In total, MEDSTAT IV will finance the participation of fourteen statisticians from the MED countries who will contribute in one or several of these sessions (Five from Morocco, three for Egypt, three from Jordan, two from Palestine and one from Tunisia).
On transport statistics (Special Topic Session – STS 033), the session will more specifically explore what kind of new data sources could be used to produce transport statistics, what type of new technologies official statisticians can implement to exploit these new data sources and what are the experiences of official statistical systems of the Mediterranean region in relation to the adoption of modernized tools and methods for the production of transport statistics. On Migration statistics (STS 037), the session will deal with the determinants of international migration in the Middle East and North Africa, through discussing insights from the MED Household International Migration Survey (HIMS) developed with the support of MEDSTAT, today implemented in Egypt and Jordan and planned in other countries of the region in the years to come.
On Business registers (STS 038), four ENP-S countries will present their latest achievements building on the conclusions and recommendations of several workshops and technical works carried out in 2016 and 2017 in the framework of MEDSTAT IV and of other support projects.
Regarding Gender statistics (STS 055), Morocco will present the results of its Time Use Survey and its modelling work on the gender pay gap in the country. Jordan will discuss the costs of violence against women and girls.
At the end of the Conference, MEDSTAT IV will draw the lessons from the support it gave to the experts from the ENP-S countries, building on the individual evaluation sheets that they will have to complete at the end of the Conference and on other sources of information, focusing more specifically on the impact on the visibility of MED statistics.
