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 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 first ever conference of African Ministers responsible for civil registration took place from 13 to 14 August 2010 at the headquarters of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. ...

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 ...

The first ever UN World Data Forum proudly declared Africa as the new cradle for data revolution, and was successfully convened in Cape Town, South Africa, on 15-18 January 2017. The conference, as a major demonstration ...

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 main objective of the First Meeting of the Bureau of StatComAfrica was to take stock of the status of statistical development on the continent and to provide guidance on the proposed activities of a development account ...

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 ...

The African Centre for Statistics (ACS) of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) organized the second meeting of the Statistical Commission for Africa (StatCom-Africa) from 18 to 21 January 2010, at 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 ...