News & Updates

Nigeria Health Sector sees ADP and Measure Evaluation team up on microdata management (December 2011) !Mon, 12/26/2011

The Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH) and USAID funded Measure and Evaluation are undertaking a data inventory and documentation project of microdata found in the health sector. The FMoH is among one of the big data producers in the Nigerian Federal Government. This pro ...read more »

Documentation and archiving of surveys and censuses starts in Kyrgyz Republic (Bishkek, 12 – 16 December 2011)Sun, 12/25/2011

The Kyrgyz National Statistical Commission (NSC) started documenting and archiving five (5) surveys and two (2) censuses during the IHSN Microdata Management Training and DDI Production Workshop conducted for sixteen (16) NSC staff on 12-16 December 2011 in Bishkek. Th ...read more »

Version 2.5 of the DDI Codebook approved (21 November 2011)Wed, 11/23/2011

The DDI alliance (www.ddialliance.org) has launched the latest version of the Codebook: version 2.5. The IHSN was instrumental in this upgrade and the relevant IHSN tools will take full benefit of this version. More information on the DDI Alliance website and on: ht ...read more »

Regional training workshop on population and housing census documentation and archiving scheduled in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 12-16 December 2011!Tue, 11/08/2011

The PARIS21 Secretariat and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) are organizing a training workshop on the use of the IHSN Microdata Management Toolkit. This workshop is conducted in the context of the joint OECD/PARIS21 – World Bank Accelerated D ...read more »

Tajikistan embarks on survey documentation (Dushanbe, 24 - 31 October 2011)Tue, 11/01/2011

An IHSN Microdata Management Toolkit Training and DDI Production workshop was held for Tajstat in Dushanbe, Tajikistan from the 24th to the 28th and 31st October 2011. The workshop was held in partnership with the World Bank Office in Dushanbe. Participated in by 25 par ...read more »