Second Expert Group Meeting on “Sharing Micro Data in the ERF Region: Investing Into the Research Infrastructure of the Future ”

FromDec 20, 2013 To Dec 20, 2013

Tunis, Tunisia

Capitalizing on its know-how in data collection and harmonization, ERF held an Expert Group Meeting on Sharing  Micro Data in the ERF Region: Investing into the Research Infrastructure of the Future. The meeting, organized in  partnership with the Higher School of Economic and Commercial Sciences (ESSECT), University of Tunis, brought together around 30 representatives of statistical offices from around the region. The expert group meeting has  several objectives: (i) promote cooperation and foster relationships between National Statistical Offices and the  research community in the ERF region, (ii) encourage more statistical offices to participate in ERF’s data initiative, (iii) showcase ERF recent efforts in data harmonization and OAMDI’s impressive progress to date, and (iv) provide a platform to stimulate the exchange of good practices among national statistical offices in data access and sharing especially in the context of preserving user confidentiality and maintaining the integrity of statistical systems and  legal requirements.