HE President of the Planning and Statistics Authority (PSA) Dr. Saleh bin Mohammed Al Nabit met with HE Director General of National Statistics and Demography of the Republic of Senegal Aboubacar Sedikh Beye and the accompanying delegation, who are visiting the country.

This meeting comes as a part of a three-day visit by a delegation from the Republic of Senegal to the PSA, to see aspects of the authority’s work in the fields of statistics and field surveys.

The meeting addressed several topics of mutual interest.

During the visit, the delegation was briefed on the State of 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.

In the same context, 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.

During the visit, the delegation also gets 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 great developments in economic statistics in the field of national accounts, foreign trade and other economic statistics.

Source: Qatar News Agency