The United Nations Statistical Commission, at its twentysixth session held in 1991, after considering a report on the state of the civil registration and vital statistics systems that pointed out their stagnation in the ...

Interest in the efficiency and improvement of civil registration system surfaced, in the African region, during the 1970's. The central focus of this interest was, and continues to be, how to ensure that the system would ...

This paper presents, first, an overview to collect vital statistics and rates through the civil registration method, followed by the various approaches to collect fertility, nuptiality and mortality data through population ...

This paper is focuses on the report of the study tour and of the training centre on population census techniques. And the study tour was attended by twelve participants from the ten countries of West Africa.

The expert consultation on a System of socio economic Indicators for African Planners was held at ECA Headquarters, Addis Ababa, from 23 to 27 January 1984, The meeting was opened by Mr. W. M. Wamalwa, officer Charge of ...

Le cycle d’études sur les problèmes de population en Afrique qui s'est réuni au Caire en octobre-novembre 1962 a explicitement reconnu que les données actuelles sur la population, sa structure et ses modifications étaient ...

The Sixth Meeting of Directors of Centers participating in the Statistical Training Programme for Africa (STPA) was held from 4 to 8 December 1989 at ECA headquarters in Addis Ababa. It was opened by Mr. M. Tchouta Moussa, ...

In the light of the changes that have recently taken place or are emerging in the world and in Africa, there can be no maintaining any illusions about the centralized planning methods and practices used in Africa since the ...

The important role of information in all walks of everyday life has long been recognized. Various types of information compilation form the very basis of any research, analysis, inferences and policy planning consequently, ...