KOICA conducts a training program "Statistical Practice" for 20 participants from 11 countries as part of the Korean government's grant aid and technical cooperation program for 2010 as follows:

o Course Title : Statistical Practice

o Duration : March 2 - March 20, 2010 (19 days)

o Venue : Daejeon, Korea

o Number of Participants : 16 Participants from 9 countries

 - Kazakhstan2, Indonesia2, Cambodia2, Senegal1, Sudan1, Tanzania2, Palestine2, Egypt2,

   Jamaica2

o Training Institution : Statistical Training Institute

o Training Participants

- Government officials or engineers with over 3 years of experience in statistics-related fields

o Course Objectives

- To introduce skills and methods of compiling national statistics to working-level officials of

   national statistical offices

- To help make and evaluate government policies of participating countries

o The program consists of 3 parts ;

A. LECTURES

1. Statistical Information System

2. Survey planning and sampling

3. Industrial Statistics

4. National Accounts

5. Price Statistics

6. Statistical Education at University in Korea

7. Workshop on Regional Statistics

8. Population Census

B. COUNTRY REPORT PRESENTATION on

a) Structure and organization of the statistical system in home countries

b) Current issues of statistics and major socioeconomic trends in home countries

c) Statistical training system

C. STUDY VISITS & CULTURAL EXCURSION

- Government Complex III, Daejeon and Chungnam branch office of the Bank of Korea,

  Chungnam National University, Dongbuk(Northeast) Regional Statistics Korea, Korea

  Development Institute etc.

- POSCO, Hyundai Heavy Industries, Hyundai Motors Co., Gyeongju historical sites,

  Donghwa Temple.

- Korean Folk Museum, NANTA, N-Seoul Tower, Gyeongbok Palace, etc.