The Planning and Statistics Authority (PSA) president Dr Saleh bin Mohamed al-Nabit yesterday met with Senegal's Director General of National Statistics and Demography Aboubacar Sedikh Beye and the accompanying delegation, which is currently visiting the country.
This meeting comes as a part of a three-day visit by a delegation from Senegal to the PSA, to see aspects of the authority's work in the fields of statistics and field surveys.
During the visit, the delegation was briefed on Qatar's experience in implementing the general census of population, housing and establishment 2020 project, which is based on administrative records, and is considered an approach that developed countries seek to implement to move from traditional censuses based on field surveys to a census based on administrative records.
The authority reviewed the latest methods and techniques used in the implementation of the last census, and the electronic transformation in the implementation of some household surveys instead of field surveys.
The visiting delegation also got acquainted with the geographic information system (GIS) and its significant role at the present time in the implementation of field surveys, in addition to learning about the developments in economic statistics in the field of national accounts, foreign trade and other economic statistics.
