E-training Webinar on Alternative Techniques for CPI Data Collection

By ECA

Date: 19 January 2021

The African Centre for Statistics (ACS) of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), in collaboration with the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (Insee-France), Office for National Statistics of the United Kingdom (ONS-UK) and other development partners will organize the follow-up e-training webinar on the use of alternative price data collection methods, focusing in particular on the use of telephone surveys, scanner data and web scrapping methods from 25 January to 4 February 2021.

The e-training webinar on the use of alternative price data collection methods is a follow-up to the reginal seminar on data collection for compilation of CPI in combatting with COVID-19 which was virtually organized during the weeks of 18 to 28 May 2020. The main objectives of the e-training webinar are to develop the capacity of member States on the use of telephone surveys, scanner data and web scrapping in the collection of price statistics and to identify countries for providing further technical assistance on each of the methods.

Please use the below link to register online in order to participate in the webinar until 22 January 2021.

https://events.uneca.org/registration/register?eventId=255c1f05-7655-eb11-80e6-0050569360fe