Session 4 - Overview of 2020 Round of Census Implementation-(1)

  • Miosotis RIVAS PENA General Director , National Statistics Office of the Dominican Republic Miosotis Rivas has held the position of General Director of the National Statistics Office of the Dominican Republic since August 2020. She has a degree in economics with master's degrees in Economic Policy, Gender and Development and Human Development. She has extensive work experience in the Central American and Caribbean region in matters of regional integration, development and public policies, public equality policies, gender mainstreaming and trade negotiations. She has worked closely in strengthening the Central American Integration System, recently as the Executive Director of the Regional Center for the Promotion of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (CENPROMYPE) and previously as the Technical Secretariat for Women of the Council of Ministers of Women of Central America, space from which he promoted the first regional gender equality and equity policy (PRIEG). She was a representative of UN Women in Dominican Republic and has vast experience as a lecturer in different universities. Active member of various feminist and Contemplative Extension spaces.
  • Yusif YUSIFOV Deputy Chairman, State Statistical Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan Deputy Chairman and Board Member of the State Statistical Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
    Mr. Yusif Yusifov has 24 years of experience in the statistical system. He graduated from the Azerbaijan State University of Economics with a specialization in statistics with a bachelor’s degree in 1997, then with a master’s degree in 1999. He is Ph.D. in Economics (since 2011)
    and Lecturer in the Azerbaijan State University of Economics (from 2007 up to present).
    He is supervisor for the Departments of Quality Management and Metadata; Industry and Construction Statistics; Trade Statistics; Energy and Environment Statistics; Information Technologies and Centre of Scientific Research and Statistical Innovations.

Session 5 - Overview of 2020 Round of Census Implementation-(2)

  • Taiaopo FAUMUINA ACEO, Census, Survey & Demography Division, Samoa Bureau of Statistics
  • Lundy SAINT Deputy Director General, National Institute of Statistics, Cambodia
    • - Statistician, Poverty Analyst and Data Processing Specialist for Census and Survey.
    • - Produce the poverty statistics using household data of the Cambodia Socio-Economic Survey (CSES) and Poverty Mapping (Poverty Small Estimate) by prediction between CSES data and Population Census data.
    • - Write the data entry/cleaning program for computer desktop and CAPI Application for electronic data collection in Survey Solution and CSPro in Tablet or PDA.
    • - Produce the statistical tables for the report (Publication) of Population census and survey conducting by NIS.
  • Mercedita TIA Chief Technical Adviser, Population and Development, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)

Session 6 - Data Processing

  • Huimin FENG Statistician, Household Surveys and Expenditure Division, Singapore Department of Statistics Huimin was part of the team overseeing the Data Processing operations for Singapore’s Census of Population 2020, and leading the study and implementation of expanded checks leveraging administrative data for the Census 2020 returns.
  • Minju KIM Deputy Director, Population Census Division, Survey Management Bureau, Statistics Korea (KOSTAT) Minju Kim is Deputy Director of Population Census Division of Statistics Korea. She has been in charge of census work process improvement since 2021.
  • Masashi NOZAKI Deputy Director, Population Statistics Data Processing Division, Statistical Data Processing Department, National Statistics Center, Japan NOZAKI Masashi is Deputy Director of Population Statistics Data Processing Division, Statistical Data Processing Department, National Statistics Center (NSTAC) in Japan. He has been in the Population Statistics Data Processing Division since April 2021.
    Prior to his appointment as Deputy Director of Population Statistics Data Processing Division, he had served as Deputy Director of Statistical Data Utilization Center, Unit Chief of Statistical Information and Micro data Provision Division and so on.

Session 7 - Data Dissemination, Analysis and Utilization

  • Sula SARKAR Senior Research Scientist, IPUMS Center for Data Integration, University of Minnesota, USA As a geographer and Senior Research Scientist at the IPUMS Center for Data Integration, I oversee and work with changing administrative boundaries from one census year to another. A big part of my research at IPUMS deals with harmonizing this changing geography and creating a consistent geographical footprint across time and space. I produce datasets, generate GIS maps, and create indices that study the social and environmental impacts on people and place and their associated health impacts.
  • Hidemine SEKINO Deputy Director of the Population Census Division, Statistical Survey Department, Statistics Bureau of Japan (SBJ) Hidemine Sekino is Deputy Director of Population Census Division, Statistical Survey Department, Statistics Bureau of Japan.
    He has been in the Population Census Division since April 2020.
    Prior to his appointment as Deputy Director of Population Census Division, he had served as Deputy Director of Economic Statistics Division, Deputy Director of Labour Force Statistics Office and so on.

Session 8 - Census Evaluation

  • Victoria VELKOFF Associate Director for Demographic Programs and Chief Demographer, Demographic Directorate, U.S. Census Bureau Dr. Victoria (Tori) Velkoff is the Census Bureau’s Associate Director for Demographic Programs and Chief Demographer. She has worked at the Census Bureau for over 30 years, serving in several key leadership positions. As head of the Demographic Programs Directorate, she is responsible for providing relevant and accurate information on the size, distribution, and characteristics of the nation’s population, income and poverty, and housing.
  • Prasad Anura Kumara PALA MULLALAGE Director General, Department of Census & Statistics, Sri Lanka P.M.P. Anura Kumara is the Director General of the Department of Census and Statistics in Sri Lanka. He started his career as a Statistician in 1989, and possessed various posts in the hierarchy. He has a bachelor's degree from University of Kelaniya in Mathematics (Special), in 1986. And Post Graduate diploma in “Population & Sustainable development”, from University of Gaborone in Botswana in 2000  and Master Degree in Demography in University of Colonbo, Sri Lanka . He has contributed his expertise in various surveys and censuses, and currently he has been working as the Chairperson of the Steering Committee of the next Census of Population and Housing 2023.