News
Bangladesh midwives continue saving lives as country responds to pandemic
08 April 2020Statement
Protecting midwives to keep women and babies safe amid the COVID-19 pandemic
07 April 2020News
Staggering numbers of women unable to exercise decision-making over their own bodies, new UNFPA report shows
01 April 2020News
In climate change-affected Lesotho, self-injected contraceptives empower women to choose their own future
12 March 2020Small Area Estimation
Better Data for More Effective Policies and Programmes
Publication date: 31 January 2020
Author: UNFPA
This brochure describes a method of Small Area Estimation that combines census and household survey data. It also presents a case study based on data from Nepal. The case study illustrates the use of census as well as demographic and health survey data to generate estimates of three family planning related indicators for Village Development Committees and Municipalities in rural and urban areas, respectively.
Updates
UNFPA and UNICEF renew multi-country initiative to protect millions of girls from child marriage
10 Mar 2020News
Better suicide prevention and mental health care needed among Myanmar’s most vulnerable
04 March 2020News
“We must resolutely resist any attempts to go back”: Listening to the icons and activists of women’s rights
05 March 2020UNFPA’s Population Data Thematic Fund (Pop Data Fund) addresses long standing shortfalls in population data and related human capacity. The Pop Data Fund expands the scope and quality of modern census and registry data, increases the use of geo-referenced population data to accelerate progress towards the SDGs, and advances the objectives of UNFPA’s mandate.