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Addressee: UN Statistics Commission, UN system/UN agencies
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The Permanent Forum recommends that the Statistics Commission advocate for the promotion of indigenous peoples’ issues in the 2010 round of population and housing censuses and the Demographic and Health Survey, and other surveys and censuses, taking into account the global synthesis report on indicators of well-being, poverty and sustainability submitted at the seventh session of the Forum. The Forum calls on all relevant United Nations agencies to support this initiative.
Responses
Desa reports: 80. In the report of the seventh session of the Permanent Forum, it was recommended that the Statistical Commission advocate for the promotion of indigenous peoples’ issues in the 2010 round of population and housing censuses (E/2008/43/, para. 111). Following up on this recommendation, the Statistics Division included this dimension in all of the workshops it conducted related to the 2010 round of population and housing censuses. It has to be emphasized, however, that in a number of national practices the questions on ethnicity are not included in the population and housing census as a consequence of legislative limitations.
Final Report of UNPFII Session 7 (2008)
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