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SDD updates
Welcome to the September updates!
Below you can find information about updates and new releases in the Pacific Community Statistics for Development Division's (SDD) online platforms including:
- Indicator datasets
- Documented censuses / surveys & microdata
- Reports
- SDD - related news
- Events
- and more!
And lastly, at the bottom of this newsletter you can find key links and contact details. Please don't be shy - we appreciate your feedback!
Stat Of The Week
Did you know? In Fiji, gross tourism earnings were only 3% of GDP in 2020, a significant drop from the previous year (17% in 2019). This decrease was mainly due to the COVID-19 pandemic. More info
Did you know? In Fiji, 19.61% of seats are held by women in the national parliament, up from 14% in 2015. These gender inequalities remain in many countries in the world. More info
Nine-tenths of the land area of Solomon Islands is covered by forest. The Pacific Region (excluding Australia and New Zealand) has the highest forest cover of any region in the world. It is crucial to protect these forests because we depend on them for our survival, from supporting our livelihoods and providing habitats for animals, to cleaning the air we breathe and mitigating climate change. More info
Recent Updates
News
Updated datasets
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SDG indicators updated to include the latest data from ILO, UNSD and WHO
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Government Finance Statistics updated to include new revenue data from OECD
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Thematic indicators on education updated to include latest data from UIS
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Indicators on digital development updated with latest data from ITU
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Trade in ICT products and services updated with latest data from UNCTAD
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Indicators from the International Monetary Fund Financial Access Survey (IMF FAS) updated
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Commodity prices updated to include the latest data from World Bank
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Currency exchange rates updated to include the latest data from IMF
Innovation Updates
Reports and Documents
New
- Pacific food systems
- Les systèmes alimentaires du Pacifique
- Tuvalu population & housing mini-census 2017 report
Updated
Events
September
- Producing and Using Gender Statistics to Monitor the SDGs and Implement the Pacific Roadmap, Kiribati
- ESCAP Asia-Pacific Stats Café Series: Up-taking data use and increasing statistical literacy in the Pacific
- Virtual Island Summit: Sharing Knowledge for Resilient, Sustainable And Prosperous Islands Worldwide
- ESCAP Third Ministerial Conference on Regional Economic Cooperation and Integration in Asia and the Pacific
October
- Clean Energy Workshop and Pacific Women in Energy Conference
- Producing and Using Gender Statistics to Monitor the SDGs and Implement the Pacific Roadmap, Tonga
- Producing and Using Gender Statistics to Monitor the SDGs and Implement the Pacific Roadmap, Solomon Is.
- Unlocking Food and Agriculture Microdata to Achieve the SDGs: The FAM Catalogue
- Technical Workshop on Statistical Literacy and Capacity Development for the Pacific
- International Food Acquisition Research and Methods (iFARM) Workshop
- Measuring consumption then and now – 20 years since Deaton and Zaidi
- 10th Statistics Methods Board Meeting (PSMB)
- Global Network and ISWGHS joint webinar: Combining Surveys in Small Area Estimation
- Virtual Island Summit: Sharing Knowledge for Resilient, Sustainable And Prosperous Islands Worldwide
Note: Event pages include links to associated event documents
Statistics for Development Division
Pacific Statistics
• Learn all about
SDGs in the Pacific
• Browse statistics
by topic
or
by country
and download recently published reports
• Find out more about
Statistics Governance
in the Pacific region
Events & Calendars
• Read about
past and upcoming events
• Check
census and survey calendar
for each member country
Technical Assistance & Resources
• Learn all about the
technical assistance
SDD provides in the Pacific region
• Have a look at our statistical
guides and training materials
• Follow latest updates in the
Innovation section
of our website
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