With only two months to go for the First Regional Conference of African Ministers in Charge of Civil Registration, the main pan African institutions dealing with statistics and statistical development namely the United ...

The African Centre for Statistics had the opportunity to attend the meeting of the first cohort of the Statistics Canada and Canadian International Development Agency’s International Statistical Fellowship Programme. This ...

This Second Conference of African ministers in charge of civil registration was preceded by an Experts’ Group Meeting from 3 to 5 September 2012 at the Durban International Convention Centre in Durban, Republic of South ...

The ASSD has increased the ability of statistical practitioners to work together and embrace an Afrocentric approach to statistical development characterized by such frameworks as the Reference Regional Strategic Framework ...

This issue of the Newsletter also has a lot of interesting information about statistical developments in Africa. It reports on: two octogenarian mathematics teachers in South Africa - against the backdrop that during the ...

When statisticians from all over Africa converged to Cape Town, South Africa, in 2006 to discuss the challenges they faced in supporting their countries’ development efforts through the provision of sound statistical ...

The African Statistical newsletter aims to supplement the efforts of the African Statistical Journal to provide a platform for sharing knowledge and information about statistical methodologies and their application to solve ...

The report will cover all activities deemed to be of interest to the African statistical community, ranging from statistical advocacy to institutional development including capacity building and technical assistance, to ...

This issue of the Newsletter captures through a number of interesting articles on events that took place during the current quarter. These include: The Meeting of the extended Working Group on Informal Sector in Africa; ...

The celebrations of this year put the focus on the quality of statistical data. The norm ISO 8402 of the International Standardization Organization defines quality as “the totality of features and characteristics of a ...