The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Pacific Sub-regional Office will be conducting a “training for trainers” international workshop on the use of the Retrieval of Data for Small Areas by Microcomputer (REDATAM) software at the University of the South Pacific from the 11th to the 22nd July, 2011. The REDATAM software was developed by the United Nations Latin American and Caribbean Demographic Centre (CELADE) and is globally supported by the UNFPA. REDATAM is basically a user-friendly software package that gives organizations a simple means of storing, accessing and analysing large amounts of census, or other data, on a microcomputer. The UNFPA had received several requests from the Pacific Island Countries for assistance on deploying it with their new census data and therefore are committed to supporting these countries in the use of this software. REDATAM is considered a solution to granting data users flexible, internet –based, access to census data while maintaining standards of data confidentiality that national statistical offices must adhere to. The UNFPA will be inviting two experts from CELADE (based in Santiago, Chile) to run this workshop. This workshop will be attended by participants from Fiji, the Federated States of Micronesia, Indonesia, Kiribati, the Solomon Islands, Timor Leste and Vanuatu.

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