Introduction

●   Rachel Snow, Chief, Population and Development Branch, UNFPA

●   Tom LeGrand, President, IUSSP

●   Irina Dincu, International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada

1. Panel discussion on data and methods needs:Regional perspectives

Moderator: Alex Ezeh (Drexel University; former Director of APHRC)

●   Regional Perspective from Africa
Pali Lehohla (22 ON SLOANE, former Statistician General of South Africa: 2000-2017)

●   Regional perspective from Latin America & the Caribbean
Victor Garcia-Guerrero (CEDUA, El Colegio de México)

●   An Asian Perspective
Lisa Bersales (University of the Philippines; former National Statistician of the Philippines: 2014-2019)

●   The Nordic Perspective
Helge Brunborg(Statistics Norway)
    *Bibliography

2. 2020 census round: New technologies and methodologies

Moderator: Sabrina Juran (United Nations Population Fund)

Discussant: Srdjan Mrkic (United Nations Statistics Division)

●   Overview of Innovations in the 2020 Census Round. Use of handheld technologies, geospatial referencing of households and digital census data collection
Tapiwa Jhamba (Population and Housing Census, UNFPA)

●   Improving Cartographic Mapping and Household-level geo-referencing in the Egyptian Census: Perspectives from the Field and Implications for Census Enumeration and Census Data Usage
Hussein Sayed (CAPMAS, Egypt)

●   Qualitative Contributions of the Electronic Devices in Various Stages of the 2013 Census
Papa Ibrahima Sylmang Sene (National Statistics Office, Senegal)

●   Cartographic assessment and quality assurance for the 2019 population and housing census in Haiti
Daniel Milbin (National Statistics Office, Haiti)
& Mohamed Laghdaf Cheikh Malainine (United Nations Population Fund)

3. Hybrid census innovations in insecure settings and fragile contexts

Moderator: Sabrina Juran (United Nations Population Fund)

Discussant: Robert Chen (CIESIN, Columbia University)

●    Lessons learned from Afghanistan and other settings: Potential for hybrid censuses
Andy Tatem (University of Southampton; WorldPop/Flowminder)

●   Opportunities and Challenges for Adapting Hybrid Census Approaches in the Democratic Republic of Congo: An Examination of Preliminary Results
Homere Ngoma Ngoma (National Statistics Office, DRC)

●   Combining Census and Satellite Data: The High-Resolution Settlement Layer
Gregory Yetman (CIESIN, Columbia University)

4. Advances in mobile technologies for data collection

Moderator: Dennis Feehan (University of California, Berkeley)

Discussant: Emmanuel Letouzé (Data-Pop Alliance)

●   Using Internet and mobile data sources to complement public health surveillance efforts [slides not available]
Rumi Chunara (New York University)

●   Innovations in Population and Individual Data Collection Using Mobile Technology
Madhuram Nagarajan (Johns Hopkins University)

●   Computer vision methods to improve population data
Stephane Helleringer (Johns Hopkins University)

5. Advances in the collection of validation data to measure the completeness and quality of civil registration data

Moderator: Romesh Silva (United Nations Population Fund)

Discussant:Patrick Gerland (United Nations Population Division)

●   An Overview of Current Approaches in validating the completeness of civil registration data using population censuses and household surveys
Chalapati Rao (Australian National University)

●   Integrating disparate mortality systems with official death registration systems: Insights from Peru and Ghana
Daniel Cobos (Swiss Tropical Health Institute)

●   Current Approaches and Future Directions in assessing the completeness and quality of marriage registration data using the decennial census round
Sandile Simelane and Mengjia Liang (United Nations Population Fund)

6. Innovative approaches to assess the quality and completeness of civil registration data

Moderator: Patrick Gerland (United Nations Population Division)

Discussant: Romesh Silva (United Nations Population Fund) - Discussant Comments

●   Estimation of Fertility in Colombia through an adjustment for coverage of births with immunization records.
Carlos Ramirez (UNFPA Colombia)
& Mariana Francisca Ospina Bohorquez (DANE, Colombia)

●   Recent Advances, Challenges, and Lessons Learned from CRVS Scale-Up Initiatives in 19 countries
Philip Setel (Vital Strategies, New York)

7. Responsive & adaptive survey designs, and data quality

Moderator: Dennis Feehan (University of California, Berkeley)

Discussant: Pedro do Nascimento Silva (ENCE, Brazil) - Discussant Comments

●   Dynamic survey designs for measuring wealth and poverty
Olivier Dupriez & Aivin Solatorio (World Bank)

●   Using responsive and adaptive survey design to control data quality and costs
James Wagner (University of Michigan)

●   CAPI, Web-based Survey Management, and Interviewing Quality Control: Illustrations from Nepal
Bill Axinn & Stephanie Chardoul(University of Michigan)

8. Hard to reach populations: Indirect techniques and using networks to assess hidden populations

Moderator: Tom LeGrand (International Union of the Scientific Study of Population)

Discussant: Ayaga Bawah (RIPS, University of Ghana) - Discussant Comments

●   Innovations in collecting siblings’ survival histories
Stephane Helleringer (Johns Hopkins University)

●   Using social networks to estimate adult mortality
Dennis Feehan (University of California, Berkeley)
    *Feehan, Mahy, Salganik 2017 - The Network Survival Method with SOM

9. Measuring sensitive topics, ideals and attitudes

Moderator: Dennis Feehan (University of California, Berkeley)

Discussant: Barbara Mensch (Population Council USA) - Discussant Comments

●   Challenges in measuring Individual and social norms changes around harmful practices: the case of female genital mutilation
Nafissatou Diop (UNFPA-UNICEF joint programme on Female genital mutilation)
& Kathrin Weny (United Nations Population Fund)

●   Social desirability bias by mode
Frauke Kreuter (University of Maryland)

●   Using card sorts to measure relationship scripts
Maggie Frye (University of Michigan)

●   Studying sensitive issues with surveys: Addressing incentives to conceal
Yang-Yang Zhou (University of British Columbia)

10. Indirectly measuring sensitive topics

Moderator: Tom LeGrand (International Union of the Scientific Study of Population)

Discussant: Gabriel Borges (IBGE, Brazil)

●   Using the network scale-up method to estimate the prevalence of hidden populations in 27 Brazilian cities
Francisco I. Bastos (FIOCRUZ, Brazil)

●   Using confidants to learn about abortion
Clementine Rossier (University of Geneva)

●   Innovations in direct and indirect estimation of abortion incidence
Beth Sully (Guttmacher Institute)

●   Youth respondent-driven sampling to uncover hidden contraceptive behavior
Michele Decker (Johns Hopkins University)
    *Key references and resources for Respondent Driven Sampling.

End of meeting.

Posters

●   Quantifying cities for sustainable development; developing a new approach to generating representative population data in rapidly growing cities
Felix S. K. Agyemang (University of Bristol)

●   Spatial approach to probability sampling: Lessons from PMA Kaduna State GPS mapping exercise
Temitope Erinfolami (Obafemi Awolowo University-Ile-Ife)

●   Mortality estimates from sample registration and household surveys: Evidence from India
Aashish Gupta (University of Pennsylvania & IUSSP CRVS Fellow)

●   The Household Document Inventory Method: A Qualitative Approach to Assessing Registration Status Among Vulnerable Populations
Amanda R Cheong (University of British Columbia & IUSSP CRVS Fellow)

●   Improving birth, marriage and death registration in Burkina Faso: The case of Nouna Health and Demographic Surveillance System (NHDSS)
Louis Niamba (Centre of Excellence for CRVS Systems, IDRC, Canada)