Within the framework of its Statistical Capacity Building (StatCaB) Programme, SESRIC organised a Training Course on 'Usage of Administrative Registries in Producing Demographic and Social Statistics' through an online video conferencing platform with the attendance of 85 participants from the National Statistical Offices (NSOs) of 25 OIC countries on 19-20 September 2022.

Experts at the Population and Demographic Statistics, and Social Statistics Departments of Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) conducted the course and covered the following topics:

• Administrative Data Used in Education Statistics
  • Education Employment Database
  • Education Expenditure Statistics
• Administrative Data Used in Social Protection Statistics
  • Social Protection Statistics
• Administrative Data Used in Culture and Justice Statistics
  • Justice Statistics
  • Cultural Expenditure Statistics
• Population Statistics from Administrative Registries: Address Based Population Registration System
• Vital Statistics from Administrative Registries (Birth, Mortality, Marriage, Divorce)

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