Title: Report of the Regional Training Workshop on Demographic Estimates and Projections in Africa: Accra, Ghana, 15-29 July 1985. Volume one: organization, proceedings and lectures, general demography section, population division.

POPLINE Document Number: 040723

Corporate Author(s):

United Nations. Economic Commission for Africa

Source citation:

[Addis Ababa, Ethiopia], UNECA, 1986 Mar. xvii, 337 p. (RAF/84/P28)

Abstract:

To establish strategies and quantifiable targets, decision makers require a better understanding of the interaction between demographic changes and development initiatives. There must be a concerted effort by demographers to identify, compile, and standardize data and to develop techniques for translating conventional population projections into projections that can be used by planners. Toward, this end, a Regional Training Workshop on Demographic Estimates and Projections in Africa was held in Accra, Ghana, in July 1985. Workshop participants came from Algeria, Botswana, the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, the Ivory Coast, Kenya, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo, and Zambia. It was reported at the workshop that, by the end of the 1980 round of population censuses, 49 of the 50 Economic Commission for Africa Member States had held at least 1 census and several had a history of data collection. The 4 principal objectives of this workshop were: 1) to train personnel to produce basic demographic estimates and projections for the purposes of social, economic, and regional planning; 2) to facilitate the sharing of problems and solutions; 3) to provide training opportunities with the latest analytic techniques and with the use of software programs; and 4) to formulate recommendations for future activities in the field of demographic estimates and projections. This document contains a detailed account of the lectures presented at the workshop. A second document (Volume 2) focuses on the quality and use of the data made available at the workshop.

Keywords:

Africa
Africa, Sub Saharan
Estimation Technics
Population Projection
Data Analysis
Demographic Analysis
Research Methodology
Data Collection
Demography
Population Forecast
Population Dynamics
Measurement
Conferences and Congresses
Demographers
Social Sciences
Development Planning
Planning
Population
Training Programs
Educational Activities
Education
Fertility Measurements
Mortality
Migration
Developing Countries
Demographic Factors
Economic Factors
Organization and Administration
Fertility