Statistical Centre of Iran is to hold the Fourth RAP Regional Workshop on

Building Training Resources for Improving Agricultural and Rural Statistics:

Survey Methods for Agricultural Statistics –

Current Practices and International Recommendations

14 - 18 December 2014, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran

 The Fourth RAP Regional Workshop on Building Training Resources for Improving Agricultural and Rural Statistics will be held from 14 to 18 December 2014 in Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran. The workshop, organized by the Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific (SIAP) of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), is part of the training programme of the Asia-Pacific Regional Action Plan to Implement the Global Strategy to Improve Agricultural and Rural Statistics (RAP). The workshop will be conducted in collaboration with RAP implementing partners—the Asia-Pacific Regional Office of the Food and Agriculture Organization and the Asian Development Bank-- will be hosted by Statistical Centre of Iran, in the Statistical Research and Training Centre (SRTC). In this workshop 9 countries including Islamic Republic of Iran from Asia and the Pacific region are to participate.  The workshop is to be opened by the message from Dr. Adel Azar, the Head of the Statistical Centre of Iran, at 9 a.m. on Sunday, 14 December 2014 in SRTC.

This training workshop focuses on capacity building on the second pillar of the Global Strategy -- integration of agricultural statistics into national statistical systems through implementation of a methodology set, that includes a Master Sampling Frame (MSF) for agriculture and an integrated survey framework. It will provide an overview of the ongoing methodological work on data integration in the context of integrated survey strategies and present issues and recommendations addressed in this work including: concepts, types, benefits and limitations of data integration; methods and applications for interlinking different statistical units; and quality issues in data integration. The workshop will also facilitate discussions on how countries may initiate a data. It is worth mentioning that the Statistical Centre of  Iran  is an active partner for  SIAP in conducting  training programme in regional and sub-regional workshops/courses in the UNESCAP region .