Within the framework of its Statistical Capacity Building (StatCaB) Programme, SESRIC organised a Training Course on ‘Conducting a Census Based on Administrative Records’ through an online video conferencing platform with the attendance of 105 participants from the National Statistical Offices (NSOs) of 14 OIC countries on 4-5 July 2022.

Mr. Mehmet Doğu KARAKAYA, Mr. Alper ACAR, and Mr. Mehmet Şaban UCARI, Experts at Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) Demographic Statistics Department, Population and Migration Characteristics Group conducted the course and covered the following topics:

• Population Statistics and Censuses of Türkiye
• History of Population Censuses in Türkiye
• Data Sources for Population Statistics
• Address Based Population Registration System
• Population Characteristics Database and its Integration with other National Databases

The presentations of the training course are available at this link.

The SESRIC StatCaB Programme was initiated in early 2007. It is the flagship capacity development programme of SESRIC. Within the framework of StatCaB Programme, the Centre collects information from the NSOs of OIC member countries through the biennial StatCaB Questionnaire, assesses their statistical training needs and capacities, matches these needs and capacities, and organizes statistical capacity development activities between the beneficiary and provider countries.

For more information on SESRIC Statistical Capacity Building (StatCaB) Programme, please visit: http://www.oicstatcom.org/statcab.php