United Nations Population Fund / Iraq office organizes a training course to strengthen Iraqi national capacity in demographic analysis in Amman 15-24/12/2009

A specialized training course in demographic analysis begins tomorrow in Amman within the framework of UNFPA’s project for strengthening Iraq’s national capacity in censuses and large scale surveys. Fifteen participants from the Central Organization for Statistics and Information Technology (COSIT), representatives from some ministries as well as researchers from Iraqi universities will attend the course.

This course is the first part of a two integrated training courses, each is composed of 10 training days. The course will be conducted by a group  of UNFPA advisors, who represent the most well known demographers in the Arab region from Sudan, Jordan, Lebanon and Palestine.

The overall objective of the course is to strengthen the national capacities in demographic analysis and population issues, which is part of the activities by the UNFPA to strengthen the capacity of Iraq's national policy on population and demographic analysis. In particular, the course aims to strengthen national capacity to understand the Iraqi measures of demographic analysis, and linking demographic analysis with causes through casual analysis and trends through the trend analysis techniques.

By the end of the second part of this course which is planned late January 2010, it is expected to provide Iraqi nationals with important experience in demographic measures, estimation from micro data, and analyze the results of measurements using causal and trend analysis techniques and linking them with the demand of labor market, housing, education, and other sector’s services.