The Population and Housing Census 2010 will take place May 31 to June 25 this year, by INEGI.

On Wednesday 27 January 2010 started the Second International Seminar on Gender and Poverty, organized by the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) in collaboration with the National Women's Institute (INMUJERES), the National Council of Evaluation of Social Development Policy (CONEVAL), the National Institute for Social Development (INDESOL), the National Institute of Geography and Statistics (INEGI) and the Gender Affairs Division of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (CEPAL). The objectives of the seminar are to reflect, from a theoretical and methodological point of view on the limitations of conventional measures of poverty, as well as the effects of these measurements in public policy. At its second session, seminar attendees made a recount on the lessons learned and good practices of some programs to combat poverty and capacity expansion, in order to identify windows of opportunity to incorporate the gender perspective into policies and social programs in Latin America and the Caribbean. According to the president of the Institute for Women INMUJERES, Rocío García Gaytán, to analyze poverty from a gender perspective involves considering the dimension of time use, of work and that of barriers to economic participation of women.

To promote the dissemination of BDSocial portal and the use of surveys contained therein, Inmujeres, along with the support of Alianza Cívica A. C. and the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at the Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, the Graduate School of Public Administration and Public Policy at the Instituto Tecnologico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, organized the BDSocial Diffusion Forum, on October 2 at the premises of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the UANL.

The forum's aim was to disseminate the content and potential use of the databases contained in the portal among students interested in social issues. The meeting brought together academics and scholars with expertise in the exploitation of databases for social research.