To improve quality assurance techniques,especially with regard to general censuses of population,housing and facilities in Arab countries,the ESCWA Statistics Division held an expert group meeting on the evaluation of population census data in Arab countries,at the United Nations Office in Beirut,on 12 and 13 June 213. The aim of the meeting,attended by experts from the Arab region and international experts on data quality assurance and population censuses,was to present and discuss a study on the evaluation of age and sex census data in some Arab countries and reports on national experiences in the area of census data evaluation,national data quality assurance frameworks and quality assurance in statistical surveys on the labour force and family health. This report includes a series of recommendations regarding national quality assurance frameworks and evaluation of census data in Arab countries.