FOR PARTICIPANTS ONLY ORIGINAL: ENGLISH ECLAC Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean Fourth meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean Dallas, United States, 30 November and 1 December, 2004 TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND TRAINING IN ECLAC REGION 2003 - 2005 U. S. CENSUS BUREAU NAME OF SEMINAR, PLACE ORGANIZERS DATE COURSE, OR WORKSHOP Technical Assistance: Tegucigalpa, Location: Instituto Nacional de August 30 - September 20, 2003 Conduct the stratification of the three large Honduras Estadística (INE) urban areas (Tegucigalpa, San Pedro Sula, La Sponsor: USAID Ceiba) and select the master sample for the Traveler: Armando Levinson country’s intercensal survey program. Technical Assistance: Guatemala City, Location: Bank of Guatemala September 7 - 28, 2003 Data Processing for the Economic Survey - Guatemala Sponsor: Bank of Guatemala Banco de Guatemala Traveler: Geoffrey Greenwell Technical Assistance: Guatemala City, Location: Bank of Guatemala September 15 - 19, 2003 Imputation for Economic Surveys Guatemala Sponsor: Bank of Guatemala Traveler: Irma Harahush Workshop: Lima, Peru Location: Instituto Nacional de October 7 - 31, 2003 Census and Survey Processing (CSPro) Estadística (INE) Sponsor: USAID Instructor: Geoffrey Greenwell Technical Assistance: Lima, Peru Location: Instituto Nacional de December 8 - 21, 2003 Discussion of census implementation issues Estadística (INE) Sponsor: USAID Traveler: Armando Levinson Technical Assistance: Tegucigalpa, Location: Instituto Nacional de January 17 - 31, 2004 Write the Estimation procedures for the Honduras Estadística (INE) master sample Sponsor: USAID Traveler: Armando Levinson Technical Assistance: Managua, Location: Instituto Nacional de February 1 - 4, 2004 Discuss training and technical assistance Nicaragua Estadística y Censos (INEC) program in support of the April 2005 Sponsor: InterAmerican Nicaraguan Census of Population and Development Bank (IDB) Housing (CPH). Traveler: Armando Levinson Workshop: Lima, Peru Location: Instituto Nacional de February 20 - March 24, 2004 Sampling and Statistical Methods Estadística (INE) Sponsor: USAID Instructor: Armando Levinson Workshop: Tegucigalpa, Location: Instituto Nacional de April 17 - May 15, 2004 Sampling and Statistical Methods Honduras Estadística (INE) Sponsor: USAID Instructor: Armando Levinson Technical Assistance: Managua, Location: Instituto Nacional de May 16 - 19, 2004 Further discussion with IDB to start a census Nicaragua Estadística y Censos (INEC) project in Nicaragua Sponsor: InterAmerican Development Bank (IDB) Traveler: Armando Levinson Workshop: Lima, Peru Location: Instituto Nacional de June 4 - 27, 2004 2 Data Analysis with SPSS Estadística (INE) Sponsor: USAID Instructor: Armando Levinson Technical Assistance: Bogota, Colombia Location: Departamento June 20 - 26, 2004 Review their plans for conducting the Administrativo Nacional de 2005 Colombia Census of Population and Estadística (DANE) Housing (CPH) Sponsors: Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the World Bank (WB) Travelers: David Megill Victoria Simmons Technical Assistance: Managua, Location: Instituto Nacional de August 1 - 7, 2004 Evaluation of results from pilot census Nicaragua Estadística y Censos (INEC) Sponsor: InterAmerican Development Bank (IDB) Traveler: Armando Levinson Workshop: Managua, Location: Instituto Nacional de November 28 - December 13, Data Dissemination Nicaragua Estadística y Censos (INEC) 2004 Sponsor: InterAmerican Development Bank (IDB) Instructors: John Kavaliunas Simone Holladay Technical Assistance: Lima, Peru Location: Instituto Nacional de November 26 - December 17, Conduct Assessment of the results of the Estadística (INE) 2004 Pilot Census and discuss PES preparation. Sponsor: USAID Traveler: Armando Levinson Workshop: Managua, Location: Instituto Nacional de January 8 - 22, 2005 Data Editing and Imputation Techniques Nicaragua Estadística y Censos (INEC) Sponsor: InterAmerican Development Bank (IDB) Instructor: Selma Sawaya 3 .