SESRTCIC ORGANISES A TRAINING COURSE ON LABOUR STATISTICS AND DATA ANALYSIS IN YEMEN

Within the framework of statistical capacity building for the National Statistical Offices (NSOs) in the OIC member countries, the SESRTCIC has organised a training course on “Labour Statistics and Statistical Data Analysis” on 18-21 February 2007 in Sanaa, Republic of Yemen. Training was supervised by an expert from the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics and the course was attended by 15 participants from the Yemeni Central Statistics Organisation.

The course aimed to give training on international concepts and terms as set by the International Labour Organisation, classification of labour force according to labour statistics indicators, labour market indicators, the mechanism of preparing a labour force survey form to measure labour statistics indicators, methodology of labour force survey, calculation of labour force indicators based on labour force survey form and a simple application using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) package.

At the end of the course, the trainees expressed their satisfaction with its content and their thanks to the trainer for his performance and to the Centre for its efforts in organizing the course.