CURRICULUM VITAE: CARLOS DIAS
Name: Carlos Sebastião Alfonso Dias
Position: Senior Statistician at INE, the National Statistics Office of Portugal
Organisation: INE/ CLODE Consultants
Date of birth: 5 August 1959
Nationality: Portuguese
Education
2012-date NOVA IMS - Information Management School
Lisbon. Doctoral Studies on Information Management
Provisional thesis title: Definition of an alternative Census model for Portugal, based on administrative data. Supervisor: Prof. Pedro Coelho (NOVA IMS– Portugal); Co-supervisors: Prof. Anders and Britt Wallgren (Örebro University – Sweden)
2010-2012 ISEGI - Information Management and Statistics Higher Institute, Nova University of Lisbon. Diploma of Advanced Studies in Information Management
1993-1995 ISEGI - Information Management and Statistics Higher Institute, Nova University of Lisbon. Master on Information Management and Statistics Master thesis title: The use of Internet as a mean to disseminate official statistical information
1980-1985 IST – Technical Higher Institute of Lisbon. Bachelor in Electrical Engineering
Languages 
Portuguese: Native
French: Fluent
English: Fluent
Skills
Advanced user: Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access); Professional experience in several IT areas such as: Internet and Intranet, PCs, midrange servers, peripherals, security, communications and software; OS: Windows 8, 7, Vista, XP, NT, 2000, 98, MS-DOS, UNIX/AIX, OS 1100 and VAX/VMS; Languages: Visual Studio, XML, HTML, VISUAL BASIC, PASCAL, COBOL and FORTRAN; SGBD: ORACLE, ACCESS, SQL and DBASE; Statistical packages: R, SPSS, SAS and STATISTICA; Consolidated knowledge in the use of tools for Data Mining and Big Data
Present position(s)
INE Portugal: Census unit national coordinator
Freelance: Statistical expert
Experience in present position(s)
29 years: Senior statistical expert at INE Portugal
29 years: Freelance consultant
FCSC DIPLOMA
Key qualifications
•  Data quality consultant for the Census 2014 of Angola at National Statistical Institute of Angola (2014-2015)
•  Member of the Editorial team of ISI News – 56th Session of the ISI - International Statistical Institute (2007)
•  Member of the Dissemination Working Group and Data Shop Meetings under EUROSTAT (1998-2007)
•  Project Manager of the BDEO-CV project – construction of database dissemination of official statistical information of Cape Verde Islands (2002-2007), co-financed by the World Bank
•  MIS expert for the EU MED-IS project within MEDSTAT (CESD-Communautaire and EUROSTAT) special envoy to Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria and Lebanon (2000-2001)
•  MIS expert on Information Management/Dissemination areas at the Statistics Institute of Cape Verde Islands (1998, 2000, 2001)
•  Member of DATAMED project (Data capturing and interchange in Mediterranean Countries), under ISTAT – Italian Statistics Institute (1996-1997)
•  International official statistics experience in Luxembourg; Angola; UAE, Tunisia; Morocco; Algeria; Lebanon; Cape Verde; Cameroon
Professional experience
2007-date Portugal INE Census Unit: Integrated in the Census Unit (National Coordination) participates in all activities of the 2011 Census: planning, training, supervising, implementation and evaluation reports for the real and experimental operations (first and second tests and pilot survey); Participation in specifications and testing of all computer applications to be used in Census 2011: e-Census (Web response), SCTC (management of field work), Back office (management support Level 1 ) and Helpline; Responsible for the report: "System for collecting and processing the 2011 Census data"; Participation in the preparation of tender documents and jury of the competition for the "Processing of data from 2011 Census"; In the context of quality, was responsible for: Reporting namely: "Preliminary Study of Quality Control and Evaluation of the 2011 Census" and "Activity Program for the Post Evaluation Census"; The preparation of tender documents and jury of the competition for the for “The 2011 Census Process Control”; the collaboration with ISCTE – Lisbon University Institute. In the context of dissemination, was responsible for the preparation, management and organisation of contents of the 2011 Census web site; design and edition of the “2011 Census Newsletter” (every four months); Participation in all activities for the preparation of the 2021 Census. The guidelines of the work plan are primarily intended to prepare the basis for the use, in whole or in part, of administrative data on the 2021 Census Round. Responsible for several reports evaluating the contribution of administrative registers of external entities. Studying available administrative data sources (processing, normalisation, quality) on census related topics; comparing census microdata with administrative data; study and implementation of record linkage techniques for data matching; study and implementation of signs of life methods for the creation of an administrative population dataset
2016-2019 Portugal NOVA IMS Curricular Unit “Data Treatment” of Bachelor’s degree in Information Management; Courses: Metadata; Statistical Classifications; Vital statistics; Users' Satisfactions Survey; Curricular unit “Data collection, administrative sources and Big data” of Post-graduation in Statistical Systems 
2014-2015 Angola Data quality consultant for the Census 2014 of Angola for the National Statistical Institute
1994-2010 Portugal ISEGI Lecturer of several IT Courses at BSc and MSc levels; Participation in Seminars; Collaboration on Information Management projects
1997-2007 Portugal INE Head of Unit Information Management and Dissemination Department: Acting Deputy Director in the period of 2003-2004
FCSC DIPLOMA
Other relevant information (publications)
• “Census model transition: Contributions to its implementation in Portugal” – JOS - Journal of Official Statistics, Vol. 32, No. 1, 2016
• “Implementing a register-Based Census – The Portuguese Experience” - Strategic Workshop on Administrative Data, Eurostat, Luxembourg (2012)
• “Obtaining census data on population through administrative sources” - XIX Journeys – Classification and Data Analysis, Portugal (2012)
• “Census quality control with BSC: the Portuguese experience” - European Conference on Quality in Official Statistics, Helsinki, Finland (2010)
• “2011 Census data collect in Portugal” - IV Symposium – Development of the statistics in Africa, Luanda, Angola (2009)
• “Quality Assurance and Control Programme in the 2011 Population and Housing Censuses in Portugal” - European Conference on Quality in Official Statistics, Roma, Italy (2008)
• “Quality Assurance and Control Programme in the 2011 Census in Portugal” - XV Journeys – Classification and Data Analysis, Setúbal, Portugal (2008)
• “Virtual Library of official statistics” – 5th Congress of Public Administration, INA, Lisboa, Portugal (2007)
• “Virtual Library of official statistics” - Dissemination Working Group – Eurostat, Luxembourg (2007)
• “Gender statistics database” – Seminar men and women in Portugal, Lisbon, Portugal (2005)
• “The impact of geo-information of CENSUS 2001” - AutoDesk Forum, Lisbon, Portugal (2002)
• “The geographical component in official statistics” – ESIG, Lisbon, Portugal (2002)
• “Statistical dissemination in the Information Society” – INESLA, Grândola, Portugal (1999)
• “INFOLINE” – IT Seminar – ISEGI, Lisbon, Portugal (1998)
• “INFOLINE – A contribution to the building of Information Society” – JOCLAD 96, Lisbon, Portugal (1996)
• “The use of Internet as a means to disseminate official statistical information” – Revista de Estatística – INE, Vol. 2/97
• “Dissemination Strategies: Which means for which public?” – Revista de Estatística – INE, Vol. 3/97
• SME Observatory – Annual Reports 1994 and 1995, in collaboration with the Warwick Business School, UK
FCSC DIPLOMA
CURRICULUM VITAE: CARLOS DIAS
Name: Carlos Sebastião Alfonso Dias
Position: Senior Statistician at INE, the National Statistics Office of Portugal
Organisation: INE/ CLODE Consultants
Date of birth: 5 August 1959
Nationality: Portuguese
Education
2012-date NOVA IMS - Information Management School
Lisbon. Doctoral Studies on Information Management
Provisional thesis title: Definition of an alternative Census model for Portugal, based on administrative data. Supervisor: Prof. Pedro Coelho (NOVA IMS– Portugal); Co-supervisors: Prof. Anders and Britt Wallgren (Örebro University – Sweden)
2010-2012 ISEGI - Information Management and Statistics Higher Institute, Nova University of Lisbon. Diploma of Advanced Studies in Information Management
1993-1995 ISEGI - Information Management and Statistics Higher Institute, Nova University of Lisbon. Master on Information Management and Statistics Master thesis title: The use of Internet as a mean to disseminate official statistical information
1980-1985 IST – Technical Higher Institute of Lisbon. Bachelor in Electrical Engineering
Languages
Portuguese: Native
French: Fluent
English: Fluent
Skills
Advanced user: Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access); Professional experience in several IT areas such as: Internet and Intranet, PCs, midrange servers, peripherals, security, communications and software; OS: Windows 8, 7, Vista, XP, NT, 2000, 98, MS-DOS, UNIX/AIX, OS 1100 and VAX/VMS; Languages: Visual Studio, XML, HTML, VISUAL BASIC, PASCAL, COBOL and FORTRAN; SGBD: ORACLE, ACCESS, SQL and DBASE; Statistical packages: R, SPSS, SAS and STATISTICA; Consolidated knowledge in the use of tools for Data Mining and Big Data
Present position(s)
INE Portugal: Census unit national coordinator
Freelance: Statistical expert
Experience in present position(s)
29 years: Senior statistical expert at INE Portugal
29 years: Freelance consultant
FCSC DIPLOMA
Key qualifications
•  Data quality consultant for the Census 2014 of Angola at National Statistical Institute of Angola (2014-2015)
•  Member of the Editorial team of ISI News – 56th Session of the ISI - International Statistical Institute (2007)
•  Member of the Dissemination Working Group and Data Shop Meetings under EUROSTAT (1998-2007)
•  Project Manager of the BDEO-CV project – construction of database dissemination of official statistical information of Cape Verde Islands (2002-2007), co-financed by the World Bank
•  MIS expert for the EU MED-IS project within MEDSTAT (CESD-Communautaire and EUROSTAT) special envoy to Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria and Lebanon (2000-2001)
•  MIS expert on Information Management/Dissemination areas at the Statistics Institute of Cape Verde Islands (1998, 2000, 2001)
•  Member of DATAMED project (Data capturing and interchange in Mediterranean Countries), under ISTAT – Italian Statistics Institute (1996-1997)
•  International official statistics experience in Luxembourg; Angola; UAE, Tunisia; Morocco; Algeria; Lebanon; Cape Verde; Cameroon
Professional experience
2007-date Portugal INE Census Unit: Integrated in the Census Unit (National Coordination) participates in all activities of the 2011 Census: planning, training, supervising, implementation and evaluation reports for the real and experimental operations (first and second tests and pilot survey); Participation in specifications and testing of all computer applications to be used in Census 2011: e-Census (Web response), SCTC (management of field work), Back office (management support Level 1 ) and Helpline; Responsible for the report: "System for collecting and processing the 2011 Census data"; Participation in the preparation of tender documents and jury of the competition for the "Processing of data from 2011 Census"; In the context of quality, was responsible for: Reporting namely: "Preliminary Study of Quality Control and Evaluation of the 2011 Census" and "Activity Program for the Post Evaluation Census"; The preparation of tender documents and jury of the competition for the for “The 2011 Census Process Control”; the collaboration with ISCTE – Lisbon University Institute. In the context of dissemination, was responsible for the preparation, management and organisation of contents of the 2011 Census web site; design and edition of the “2011 Census Newsletter” (every four months); Participation in all activities for the preparation of the 2021 Census. The guidelines of the work plan are primarily intended to prepare the basis for the use, in whole or in part, of administrative data on the 2021 Census Round. Responsible for several reports evaluating the contribution of administrative registers of external entities. Studying available administrative data sources (processing, normalisation, quality) on census related topics; comparing census microdata with administrative data; study and implementation of record linkage techniques for data matching; study and implementation of signs of life methods for the creation of an administrative population dataset
2016-2019 Portugal NOVA IMS Curricular Unit “Data Treatment” of Bachelor’s degree in Information Management; Courses: Metadata; Statistical Classifications; Vital statistics; Users' Satisfactions Survey; Curricular unit “Data collection, administrative sources and Big data” of Post-graduation in Statistical Systems 
2014-2015 Angola Data quality consultant for the Census 2014 of Angola for the National Statistical Institute
1994-2010 Portugal ISEGI Lecturer of several IT Courses at BSc and MSc levels; Participation in Seminars; Collaboration on Information Management projects
1997-2007 Portugal INE Head of Unit Information Management and Dissemination Department: Acting Deputy Director in the period of 2003-2004
FCSC DIPLOMA
Other relevant information (publications)
• “Census model transition: Contributions to its implementation in Portugal” – JOS - Journal of Official Statistics, Vol. 32, No. 1, 2016
• “Implementing a register-Based Census – The Portuguese Experience” - Strategic Workshop on Administrative Data, Eurostat, Luxembourg (2012)
• “Obtaining census data on population through administrative sources” - XIX Journeys – Classification and Data Analysis, Portugal (2012)
• “Census quality control with BSC: the Portuguese experience” - European Conference on Quality in Official Statistics, Helsinki, Finland (2010)
• “2011 Census data collect in Portugal” - IV Symposium – Development of the statistics in Africa, Luanda, Angola (2009)
• “Quality Assurance and Control Programme in the 2011 Population and Housing Censuses in Portugal” - European Conference on Quality in Official Statistics, Roma, Italy (2008)
• “Quality Assurance and Control Programme in the 2011 Census in Portugal” - XV Journeys – Classification and Data Analysis, Setúbal, Portugal (2008)
• “Virtual Library of official statistics” – 5th Congress of Public Administration, INA, Lisboa, Portugal (2007)
• “Virtual Library of official statistics” - Dissemination Working Group – Eurostat, Luxembourg (2007)
• “Gender statistics database” – Seminar men and women in Portugal, Lisbon, Portugal (2005)
• “The impact of geo-information of CENSUS 2001” - AutoDesk Forum, Lisbon, Portugal (2002)
• “The geographical component in official statistics” – ESIG, Lisbon, Portugal (2002)
• “Statistical dissemination in the Information Society” – INESLA, Grândola, Portugal (1999)
• “INFOLINE” – IT Seminar – ISEGI, Lisbon, Portugal (1998)
• “INFOLINE – A contribution to the building of Information Society” – JOCLAD 96, Lisbon, Portugal (1996)
• “The use of Internet as a means to disseminate official statistical information” – Revista de Estatística – INE, Vol. 2/97
• “Dissemination Strategies: Which means for which public?” – Revista de Estatística – INE, Vol. 3/97
• SME Observatory – Annual Reports 1994 and 1995, in collaboration with the Warwick Business School, UK
FCSC DIPLOMA