1/10 If you want to know how your country is doing on #COVID19, size matters: 300 deaths in a country of 1 million people is a very different thing from 300 deaths in a country of 100 million. So how do we know how many people live in a country? Step up, THE CENSUS... 2/10 Ideally every 10 years, a government has a census and counts everyone, and then uses that as the basis for estimating populations in between. Governments have always done this. (This brilliant book has a census story on every page) basicbooks.com/titles/andrew-… @EconAndrew

Suddenly everyone is at home and having to learn quickly how to handle remote working. Here @data4sdgs we’ve been doing it for years. This is what we’ve learned, and our top tips:
#COVID2019 #covid19 #StaySafeStayHome (1/12) @Data4SDGs Say good morning every day. We’ve set up a slack channel called ‘good morning’. As we start work, we put down a few sentences on what we’ll be mostly doing that day. It’s been great to build a sense of working together even if we are 1000s of miles apart. (2/12)