Capacity Development Tools

The manuals aim at establishing a reliable monitoring and analysis system to alert policy makers about vulnerabilities that could hurt countries under changing global economic conditions. IMAS tries to address three challenges: To bring existing information together into an effective monitoring framework that allows for real-time assessments of the economic and social impacts of changing conditions in the world economy; To analyze risks related to different types of shocks, their transmissions, and likely effects on developing countries and various population groups To inform policy makers…

The Census Knowledge Base is a fundamental part of the resource centre for the 2010 World Population and Housing Census Programme. It is a repository of documents relevant for the field of population and housing census taking. This includes international census methodological guidelines as well as documents on best practices in census taking.

This portal provides data and detailed metadata for indicators on violence against women. The portal also provides a one stop access to related methodological guidelines and capacity building events.

The website presents practical information and guidelines on census methodology and on best practices to help countries plan and carry out a census, as well as an up-to-date account of national census taking activities and of provision of support to countries in the implementation of the census round.

The knowledge base serves as a single web-based access point for a dynamic and centralized repository of information on all aspects of methodology and best country practices for the collection, analysis and dissemination of economic statistics and macroeconomic standards. As such, it facilitates the international sharing and exchange of knowledge on economic statistics programmes as well as the provision of guidance to countries.

This website serves as the knowledge centre on official statistics and reflects the strong commitment of UNSD to facilitate the sharing of experiences and best practices in the management and development of national statistical systems. This work started with the collation of good practices in the application of the Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics. This website is a searchable repository, providing information on current practices in National Statistical Systems around the world, and international guidelines on statistical organizations

This portal provides data and detailed metadata for time-use statistics provided by countries. Detailed information on the collection instruments and type of surveys used by countries to collect time use data is available and serves as a repository of national practices in time use statistics. The portal also provides a one stop access to related methodological guidelines and capacity building events.

The Country Practices Database, established in 2000, provides reference material from countries on the 10 Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics, in particular examples of policies and practices in various national statistical systems for implementing the Principle

The publication will provide national statistical agencies with guidance on collecting, processing, disseminating and analysing data on entrepreneurship from a gender perspective. These Guidelines introduce the concepts, definitions and data requirements for measuring entrepreneurship from a gender perspective and provide guidance on planning, organizing and implementing a survey to collect the data (a stand-alone, dedicated (or specialized) survey, or on how to introduce a module into another survey) as well as on planning for data analysis and dissemination.

The main objective of the Principles and Recommendations is to provide international principles and recommendations for use by national statistical offices and census officials in countries throughout the world in planning and organizing their censuses