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Welcome to the June 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

 
 

82.3% of the population in Kiribati have access to an improved water service they can use to prepare food. However, only 17% access water free from contamination. More data here. 

 

Remittances to Fiji grew by 34.6% between Q4 2019 & Q4 2020. Remittances underwrite many basic household needs & prove transformational for households & local communities. More data here.

 

There were only 890 visitors to American Samoa in 2020. This represents a 98% decrease compared to 2019 (58,668) which was actually the peak number of visitors over the last 10 years. More data here.

 
 

Recent Updates

 
 

News

 
 
 

News Articles

  • Regional comparison, that is where the data gap is
  • COVID-19 Pandemic, Geospatial Information and Community Resilience
  • Civil Registration and Vital Statistics, Asia and the Pacific Decade midterm report
 
 
 

Data / Indicators (via PDH.stat)

 
 

New datasets

  • Persons held in prison (data from UNODC)

  • Crops (data from FAO)

  • Municipal solid waste (data from SPREP)

Updated datasets

  • International merchandise trade statistics for Cook Islands, Fiji, New Caledonia, Niue and Wallis and Futuna

  • Currency exchange rates (data from IMF)

  • Commodity prices (data from World Bank and FAO)

  • COVID-19 cases and deaths

  • COVID-19 vaccination

  • COVID-19 economic impact indicators

  • Pocket summary

 
 

Documented Datasets (via Microdata Library)

 
 

New

  • Papua New Guinea High Frequency Phone Survey on COVID-19 2020, Round 2

 
 

Reports and Documents

 
 

New documents

  • Getting every one in the Pacific in the picture - Findings on progress halfway through the CRVS decade
  • Cook Island Labour Force Survey 2019 Report
  • Covid-19 Pandemic, Geospatial Information, and Community Resilience: global Applications and Lessons
  • Food consumption in Solomon Islands: based on the analysis of the 2012/13 household income and expenditure survey
  • Pacific Statistical/Economic Briefing: COVID-19 Economic Impacts - Quarter 4, 2020
  • 7th Pacific Statistics Methods Board Meeting (PSMB) - Summary report and outcomes
  • Republic of the Marshall Islands Integrated Child Nutrition and Health Survey 2017: final report
  • Tonga Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) 2019: survey Findings Report
  • Kingdom of Tonga Voluntary Natinal Review 2019
  • Changes in consumer prices in PICTs in 2020
 
 
 

Events

 
 

June

  • Launch of Getting Every One in the Picture - a snapshot of progress midway through the Asian and Pacific Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Decade
  • Official Launch Webinar – SDMX PowerBI Connector

July

  • Poverty mapping using small area estimation techniques
  • 2021 Forum Economic Officials Meeting
  • 2021 Forum Trade & Economic Officials Meeting
  • ISI World Statistics Congress
  • Online course on data analysis and report writing for civil registration based vital statistics
  • 2021 Forum Economic Ministers Meeting
  • 2021 Forum Trade & Economic Ministers Meeting

Note: Event pages include links to associated event documents

 
 
 
 
FULL UPDATE HISTORY
 
 

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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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