CIRPS

The principal activities carried out by the Section "Population, Health and Geographic Information Systems" include: o The direct implementation of population-related development and research projects in EU and developing countries supported by the European Union, the Italian Development Cooperation and other National and International Organisations; o The coordination and realization, in collaboration with other academic institutions, of research programmes focused on the use of new technologies, such as Geographic Information System (GIS), Remote Sensing and Global Positioning System (GPS), to experiment new methods and procedures in the fields of census and survey data collection, management, analysis and dissemination; o The provision of lectures, practical laboratory modules and target training courses on the organizational and methodological design of fieldwork population data collection, questionnaire design, data management, data analysis (including spatial analysis) and data dissemination both, for graduate and post-graduate students from Italy and from transition and developing countries; o The participation, as a partner or as international experts provider, to international training and technical assistance projects in the field of statistics to support National Statistical Offices of transition and developing countries to increase their internal analytical capacity building mainly in the data quality integrity during the collection, management, processing and dissemination of statistical data.