The 5-day workshop was inaugurated under the Auspices of the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Labour, It aimed to support statistical agencies in the GCC countries in building and improving labour market statistics، ILO and GCC experts shared experiences and highlighted key issues in labour statistics

The Statistical Centre for the Cooperation Council for the Arab Countries of the Gulf (GCC-Stat) recently announced a number of vacancies and have commenced a hiring round for qualified Omani and GCC nationals as well as international experts in the statistics sector.

 The Statistical Centre for the Cooperation Council for the Arab Countries of the Gulf (GCC-Stat) recently received a delegation from the Statistical Office of the European Union (Eurostat), in line with the Centre’s ongoing efforts to develop the statistical system in the GCC region through cooperation and consultation with the global statistics community.

Central to its commitment towards enhancing the development of timely and reliable statistics in GCC countries, the Statistical Centre for the Cooperation Council for the Arab Gulf Countries (GCC-Stat) is conducting a workshop in collaboration with the UAE National Bureau of Statistics in Abu Dhabi on the 3rd of June 2014. The primary goal of the workshop is to improve and standardize short-term economic and social indicators, and to provide all participants with a knowledge sharing forum where the best practice of statistical analysis and reporting can be discussed in a collaborative manner.