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    Nordic webinar on development cooperation

    On February 9, 2022 at 9.30 am a webinar on Data for Development is held. The webinar will provide a Nordic perspective on integrating statistics into development policy making., 25 January 2022 13:00 ,  ,  , The National Statistical Institutions (NSIs) in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland have all been engaged in development cooperation in statistics for several decades. In order to contribute to continuous learning and increased coordination, the development cooperation units in the NSIs have been exchanging experiences and sharing good practice from their work, formally on an annual basis but even more regularly on an informal basis., To increase this coordination and learning, in 2020, a first meeting was held for an external audience, including financing institutions and external partners, with the aim of fostering joint understanding, providing inspiration, and proposing opportunities for concrete cooperation in future work. Since this was experienced as a useful and informative meeting, it was proposed to carry out a similar joint event virtually in 2022., This meeting will focus on the use of data and statistics in policymaking. It’s essential for our partner to ensure that statistics is relevant, in demand and used in order to realise the full potential that statistics can bring to development policymaking. However, it is often considered challenging to work with the user perspective of statistics and to support our partners adequately. This meeting aims to exchange practical experiences and ideas for how to ensure that the final step in the statistics value chain can be reached, and to get input from donors and external partners to help us develop our projects further in this area.,  , Register here,  , Program:, Using data for development, – a Nordic perspective on integrating statistics into development policymaking , 9 February 2022, 9.30-11.30 ,  , Time                            , Agenda point, Comments/speakers, 9.30-9.35, Check-in, Denmark to host the meeting, 9.35-9.45, The Nordic model for statistical capacity development – how has it changed over the years to focus more on the user perspective, Mr Stefan Andersson, Head of International Cooperation, Statistics Sweden , 9.45-10.30, Panel discussion:, Moderated by Mr Timo Koskimäki, Director of International Affairs at Statistics Finland, Including Q&A, Mr James L Donovan, Senior Policy Specialist, Swedish International Development Agency Sida , Mr Henrik Hansen, Professor, , Institute of Economics, University of Copenhagen, member of the Development Economics Research Group, Mr Geir Øvensen, Senior Advisor, Norad, Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, Mr Miikka Paajavuori, Senior Officer, Ministry for Foreign Affairs Finland , 10.30-10.50, About wage negotiations, data needs and trust in data. What is the role of official statistics? , Perspectives from LO and NHO, Ms Liv Tørres, International Secretary, Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions (LO) , Ms Victoria Sparrman, Economist, Confederation of Norwegian Enterprises (NHO) , 10.50-11.10, More and better financing for more and better statistical capacity, Ms Jurei Yada, Partnerships Coordinator, PARIS21 , 11.10-11.20, Conclusions and way forward: developing the Nordic model, Ms Janne Utkilen, Head of Development Cooperation, Statistics Norway, Register here,  

    https://www.dst.dk/en/consulting/news-from-international-consulting/2022/25-01-2022-nordic-webinar-on-development-cooperation

    R-training in Georgia

    In Georgia there is definitely something to celebrate! Despite difficulties coming from the new COVID19-normal, 22 participants have just completed their first training in the IT software ‘R’ at the Georgian National Statistical Office (GeoStat) as part of the EU Twinning project. A success assigned to coordination and cooperation across different sectors and domains with multiple partners and interest groups., 18 May 2021 8:00 ,  , An IT review and a discussion with Expertise France... , EU Twinning projects run with a specific set of objectives and clearly defined activities. But in GeoStat something more is bustling as an IT review combined with an ongoing coordination across projects has led to supplementary and essential goals to be pursued., Georgia - table with gear ready for Covid19 and online meeting. , Photo: Steen B. Pedersen,  , IT-resources are scarce in GeoStat why an IT-sector review led by the , UN Economic Commission on Europe (, UNECE), which the Twinning project was invited to take part in, encouraged them to develop an IT-training strategy for both IT and statistical staff. Training of IT staff will raise the skills and competence level of staff and in the long run hopefully attract new IT staff to GeoStat. Training of statistical staff will on the other hand, loosen the pressure on IT-resources. , The IT-sector review also suggested that GeoStat considers alternatives to Excel and MS-Access for statistical production processes. And meanwhile, Twinning experts on different subject areas were working with colleagues from GeoStat on implementing new statistical products and procedures – and choosing IT software was an essential part of that work. Selecting a well-known solution would of course be the easiest on the short run, but this did not happen!  , The Resident Twinning Advisor and the Project leader from Expertise France implementing the EU funded project “Statistics for the Eastern Partnership” (STEP) had long been discussing opportunities for possible areas of cooperation and synergies between the two projects with ‘R’ being a top priority for cooperation. Now to build from the bricks of the IT-sector review and the parallel discussions around cooperation efforts, ‘R’ was instead added to both work plans and course materials with efforts to take the first steps towards implementing an open source software more systematically as an integrated part of the statistical production process.  , Conducting training in times of COVID19, Like so much else, COVID19 also challenges statistical capacity building across borders why the first R-mission in the frame of the Twinning project was conducted online. On a positive note, this allowed for more employees to participate compared to the original plan. 6 sessions, of three hours each, in a combination of plenary introductions and practical training in “breakout rooms” - covered subjects such as data manipulation, data visualisation and more advanced loops and function procedures. , The next training mission will be conducted during the summer 2021. Meanwhile GeoStat employees have the opportunity to test/put their newly adapted skills into practice.,  , # Facts , about the EU Twinning project:, Name: , Strengthening the capacity of the Georgian Statistical system, Partner: ,  , National Statistics Office of Georgia  & Statistics Denmark, Duration: , April 2019 – July 2021,  

    https://www.dst.dk/en/consulting/news-from-international-consulting/2021/18-05-2021-R-training-in-Georgia

    Overweight and BMI

    How many Danes are overweight? And what is the average height for men and women?, Note: Below, we provide links to data from Statistics Denmark and to others who make statistics on the subject. In some instances, the sources referred to below have content in Danish only or limited content in English.  , The National Institute of Public Health (NIPH) has prepared a national health profile “Den Nationale Sundhedsprofil 2023” (in Danish), which includes information on weight. It is available as a , database, as well as in publications: , Danish Health Authority,   /  , National Institute of Public Health, (all in Danish)., The National Institute of Public Health (NIPH) has published several articles and analyzes on the development in height and weight, including (in Danish):, Vi bliver højere og tungere,  - men's and women's average height and weight tracked from 1987 onwards (2022), Andelen af danskere med overvægt, fremskrevet til 2040, - a projection analysis of severe and moderate obesity (2024), Focus on children and young persons, With the contribution of DTU Food, Statistics Denmark has prepared an analysis on social inequality in the prevalence of overweight in Danish children:, ”, Ulighed i børneovervægt i Danmark, ” (2021) (in Danish), The analysis supplements a report from the National Institute of Public Health (NIPH) on overweight among children and young people. The NIPH is also behind the survey of health behaviour in school-aged children “Skolebørnsundersøgelsen” (in Danish), which contains data on the well-being and health of children and young people - including overweight and obesity:, ”, Overvægt og svær overvægt blandt danske børn og unge, ” (2020) (in Danish), The survey on health behaviour in school-aged children, (in Danish) is carried out every four years, last in 2022, The Danish Health Data Authority is behind a national database on children “Den Nationale Børnedatabase” (in Danish), which contains data on e.g. the height and weight of Danish children:, About the , The National Child Health Register,  (in Danish), Height and weight of school children, at esundhed.dk (in Danish), Internationally, Eurostat’s portal Statistics Explained can be used as a point of entry and guide for data on overweight in Europe:, See the article ", Overweight and obesity - BMI statistics, ", The World Health Organization also has data on the subject:, Subject page on , Obesity and overweight, What is the average height for men and women?, Statistical Yearbook 2017 has a table (in Danish) of the results of the tests for determining the eligibility of young men for military service, including their BMI and height: ", Sessionsresultat samt værnepligtiges BMI og højde, “., At the website of the Personnel Agency of the Danish Ministry of Defence, you will find a link to , the average height, BMI etc. of conscripts through the years, (in the box "Flere tal" - Statistik fra Forsvarets Dag)., The National Institute of Public Health (SIF) regularly collects data on the height and weight of the Danes:, The most recent key results are available in the series ", Ugens tal for folkesundhed, “ showing average height and weight of men and women from 1987 until 2021, Results from the KRAM survey (2007-2008) (in Danish) shows e.g. , height and weight by percentiles,  , [This page was last reviewed in October 2025]

    https://www.dst.dk/en/informationsservice/oss/vaegt