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The International Workshop on Integrating Geospatial and Statistical Information was convened in Beijing, China, from 9-12 June 2014. The Workshop was organized by the United Nations Statistics Division, as the Secretariat of the UN Statistical Commission and the UN Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM), and the National Administration of Surveying, Mapping and Geoinformation (NASG) of China, and substantively supported by the Regional Committee of United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management for Asia and the Pacific (UN-GGIM-AP). Attended by 147 participants from 41 countries, the meeting made a significant contribution to the global consultation and communication with relevant experts about the development of a global statistical-geospatial framework, initiated by the UN Statistical Commission and UN-GGIM, and the work of the recently established Expert Group on the Integration of Statistical and Geospatial Information. The Workshop discussed and demonstrated the importance of geography and geospatial information to census activities, and for collecting, processing, storing, integrating, aggregating, and disseminating the data on appropriate platforms. The Workshop also provided the opportunity for participants to share country experiences of the benefits that national geospatial information authorities have derived from meeting the specific needs of census geography/cartography and statistical analysis, and their overall cooperation with national statistical offices.