Training Program

1. Background

The Institute of Energy Economics, Japan (IEEJ) as coordinating agency of the Expert Group on Energy Data & Analysis (EGEDA) started collecting annual energy data from APEC member economies in 1991 using the old questionnaire until the 2003 data collection and the new questionnaires from 2004. In addition, IEEJ had been conducting capacity building workshops for APEC developing economies every year since 2000 and this has contributed to the increase of the capacity of these member economies in energy statistics. On the other hand, it has been observed that staff turnover and transfer of energy statisticians to more challenging jobs results in less sustainable and lower quality data submissions. In this regard, in order to ensure that new energy statisticians are sufficiently trained to improve APEC energy data quality through closer cooperation of the member economies, IEEJ decided to start this energy statistics training program as coordinating agency of EGEDA in 2014. The Asia Pacific Energy Research Centre (APERC) established the Energy Statistics and Training Office (ESTO) and succeeded the IEEJ as coordinating agency of EGEDA in April 2015. APERC ESTO will continue this training program as originally planned.

2. Purpose

As mentioned in the background section, the purposes of this program are as follows:

  1. Increase capacity of energy statistician in APEC economies
  2. Enhance human resource network between APEC economies and APERC
  3. Increase the level of understanding of APEC energy database by APEC economies
  4. Introduce world trends in energy statistics to APEC economies
  5. Improve reliability of the APEC energy database

3. Period

This program will be implemented for 10 years from 2014. In 2023, APERC will assess the effectiveness of this program and decide whether this program should continue or not.

4. Contents

4.1 Short-term Course

  1. Duration: 2 weeks (for 2017, from 12 to 23 June)
  2. Venue of the training: APERC (Tokyo, Japan)
  3. The training method is lecture on basic energy statistics.
  4. Program

    - Lectures on energy data and energy balances and APEC annual energy questionnaires including hands-on exercises

    - Lectures on other APEC Data Collection such as JODI, data validation techniques and calculating CO2 emissions from energy consumption.

  5. One person each from 5 to 8 economies will be accepted to the training course.
  6. Prospective trainees: beginners in energy statistics and are responsible for energy data collection and processing in their economies. Trainees are also expected to continue to work on energy statistics in their economies after the training.

4.2 Middle-term Course

  1. Duration: 8 weeks (for 2017, from 4 September to 27 October).
  2. Venue of the training: APERC (Tokyo, Japan)
  3. The training method is lecture and On-the-Job-Training (OJT).
  4. Program
    • Preparation of APEC energy statistics publications
    • Validation check on energy data
      • Historical and demand & supply balance checks
      • Transformation balance check (input/output)
      • Check on indicators such as TPES/GDP
  5. One person each from two economies will be invited.
  6. Prospective trainees: energy statisticians with at least 1 year of experience and are responsible for energy data collection and processing in their economies. Trainees are also expected to continue to work on energy statistics in their economies after the training.