 The Centre organised a training course on “Transport and Communication Statistics” at Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) of Egypt on 9-11 October 2011. The course was provided by Mr. Bouazza BOUCHKHAR, an expert at the Direction de la Statistique- Morocco. The training course on “Transport and Communication Statistics” mainly covered the following subjects:
Part I: Transports statistics
A-Introduction
B-Institutional issues
- Institutional frameworks for transports statistics
- Cooperation and coordination
- Examples
C. Methodological issues
- Conceptual frameworks for transport statistics
- Basic concepts and definitions for transport statistics
- Road transport
- Railway transport
- Inland waterway transport
- Pipeline transport
- Maritime transport
- Air transport
- Other concepts and definitions
- Intermodal freight transport
- Multimodal freight transport
- Statistical standards and measurement topics for transport statistics
- Common questionnaire and glossary for transport statistics (4th edition)
- Measurement topics for transport statistics
- Infrastructure
- Transport equipment
- Enterprises, economic performance and employment
- Traffic
- Transport measurement
- Energy consumption
- Safety and security
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Data sources
- Administrative sources
- Surveys used to collect transport statistics
- Censuses
- Data collection methods
- Data processing
- Basic transport statistics
- Calculating of transport indicators
- Data quality and evaluation
- Errors and obstacles in transport statistical data compilation
- Dissemination and metadata
- Examples
- National example: Morocco
- International example: Common questionnaire developed by the UNECE, ITF and Eurostat
Part II: Communication statistics
A-Introduction
B-Institutional issues
- Institutional frameworks for communication statistics
- Cooperation and coordination
- Examples
- Discussion
C- Methodological issues
- Conceptual frameworks for communication statistics
- Basic concepts and definitions for communication statistics
- Other concepts and definitions
- Statistical standards and measurement topics for communication statistics
- Data sources
- Administrative sources
- Surveys used to collect communication statistics
- Censuses
- Data collection methods
- Data processing
- Basic communication statistics
- Calculating of communication indicators
- Data quality and evaluation
- Errors and obstacles in communication statistical data compilation
- Dissemination and metadata
- Examples
- National example: Morocco
- International example: ITU and UNCTAD
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