Join us at March 18th, for our webinar “Introducing the New United Nations Handbook of Surveys on Households and Individuals: Foundations and Emerging Approaches” with Haoyi Chen (USA) and Charles Lau (USA).
Developed by the UN Statistics Division under the guidance of the Inter-Secretariat Working Group on Household Surveys, the new handbook is a comprehensive revision after the 1984 edition. The final draft of the handbook is available as a background document to the 57th session of the UN Statistical Commission. The handbook reflects two years of intensive collaborative work involving around 100 experts from national statistical offices, subregional, regional and international organisations, academia and private sector, and was shaped through multiple rounds of surveys, consultations, and in-person meetings.
The webinar will feature an overview of the handbook and its development, country perspectives on its relevance and next steps, and discussions with national statistical offices and international experts on the uptake of the handbook.
Our speakers for this webinar are:
Haoyi Chen works at the UN Statistics Division, is the Coordinator of the Inter-Secretariat Working Group on Household Surveys. She leads the work programme on household surveys and citizen data at the UN Statistics Division. She is currently vice president of the International Association of Survey Statistician; and the programme committee member of the Small Area Estimation Conference in Turin, Italy in 2025; and in Bucharest, Romania. Before she joined the current position in September 2019, she led the programme on international migration statistics at the UN Statistics Division. She has also worked on various statistical areas including gender statistics, population censuses, civil registration, and vital statistics. She holds a Ph.D. degree in Statistics from the University of Florida.
Charles Lau, PhD, MS is the Deputy Global Research Director at Gallup. He is a survey methodologist with 15 years of experience designing, implementing, and analyzing data from global surveys. Dr. Lau is a member of the leadership team and Questionnaire Lead for the Gallup World Poll, an annual survey of 140 countries conducted since 2005. He has led numerous large-scale, multi-country, complex surveys for government, NGO, academic, and commercial clients. Dr. Lau serves on the Steering Committee and is the Lead Technical Editor for the United Nations Handbook of Surveys on Households and Individuals. He has published over 25 peer-reviewed journal articles on survey methodology.