Description: The main objective of the course is to provide participants with an introduction of the processes and tools for data acquisition in labour statistics. The course will show examples of CAPI tools for LFS data collection based on CSPro and Survey Solutions, including applications for survey management. Besides, the participants will learn how to design a CSEntry application to upload administrative register's data, run consistency checks and calculate indicators to be seamlessly integrated to a Labour Market Information System.
Target Audience: National Statistical Offices (NSOs); Ministries of Labour and related Institutions (such as labour observatories); Governmental agencies in charge of labour market data analysis and SDG national reporting; ILO Social Partners (Employers' and workers' organizations), Research and academic institutions; International organizations; Development agencies; in addition to Non-governmental organizations.
Description: Massive digitization drive across public and private sectors has led organizations and their people to possess vast amounts of data, both qualitative and quantitative, often complex, unstructured, and varied. This huge data proliferation has also been accompanied with advances and rapid developments in data analytics by a corresponding surge in the creation of powerful tools. The exponential growth in both data and analytical capabilities, including artificial intelligence, is creating opportunities and challenges for managing knowledge. By integrating data analytics and knowledge management individuals and organizations can gain and share powerful insights, test strategies, improve transparency, increase value and improve the impact. If you have witnessed a knowledge gap in your organization and want to learn about developing strategies on leveraging data to bridge this gap this is the course for you. Alternatively, if you seek to build a culture in your organization that capitalizes on data-driven knowledge to develop impactful policies, programmes and projects and streamline work processes, this certification programme will guide you in doing so. Or, if you are interested in learning how data analytics can improve your own performance and, if you are curious about the latest trends and the future foresights towards data analytics and knowledge management, this course is the right place to be! Welcome to the certification course on "Data Analytics and Knowledge Management for Development".
Target Audience: Programme and project managers, knowledge management officers, monitoring and evaluation officers, technical specialists, project professionals, professionals from private enterprises, academicians and researchers involved in the identification, design, implementation and evaluation of development policies, programmes and projects.
Description: In today's rapidly evolving educational environment, the strategic utilization of data has become paramount for training institutions striving to elevate the quality of learning experiences and broaden their impact. "Analytics for Learning: Leveraging Data for Effective Training" is a dynamic online course meticulously crafted to equip educators, learning designers, training managers, and administrators with the indispensable knowledge and skills required to harness the potential of data analytics. Throughout this course, participants will gain invaluable insights into leveraging data-driven approaches to refine learning design, monitor learner progression, and make informed decisions at the institutional level.
Target Audience: This course is tailored for a diverse audience that includes: - Educators, trainers, and instructional designers seeking to leverage data analytics for informed decision-making and improved learning outcomes. - Training managers, administrators, and curriculum developers interested in enhancing the efficiency, effectiveness, and alignment of training programs with organizational objectives.
Description: Celebrate the world of Statistics and Data Science throughout the four days of WSC 2025. Over 1500 statisticians and data scientists from academia, official statistics, private sector businesses, central banks, statistical societies, junior, and senior professionals will benefit from more than 200 premium sessions and talks featuring some of the industry's most influential names.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, focuses on the conceptual framework of public sector debt statistics as presented in the Government Finance Statistics Manual 2014 (GFSM 2014) and the Public Sector Debt Statistics: Guide for Compilers and Users 2011 (PSDSG 2011). The course requires that participants be familiar with the basic government finance statistics (GFS) and PSDS framework and classification system. Emphasizing the integration of stock positions and flows in the framework, the course addresses more complex issues regarding the: - definition of gross and net debt in terms of debt instruments; - coverage and sectorization of the public sector, with special attention to borderline and complex cases; - valuation of public sector debt statistics; and - consolidation of public sector debt statistics. In addition, the course addresses complex cross-cutting PSDS issues, such as government employee pension liabilities, standardized guarantee schemes, contracts, leases, licenses, public-private partnerships, and the balance sheet approach (BSA) to identify risks and vulnerabilities. The format is lectures and discussions.
Description: This one-week course, presented by the Statistics Department, prepares participants to compile QNA by providing them with a thorough understanding of the concepts, source data, and compilation techniques used for producing these datasets. The course covers both theoretical and practical compilation issues. It introduces participants to benchmarking, seasonal adjustment techniques, as well as volume estimates; and explains the application of these techniques to time series data.While the course is broadly based on the IMF Quarterly National Accounts Manual (2017 Edition), it expands on techniques required to dealing with alternative data sources, and mixed frequencies. The course covers both theoretical and practical compilation issues.Participants will learn how to identify and assess available data sources for compiling QNA; use related real-time series databases to assess the quality of QNA; and implement a suitable revisions policy.
Target Audience: Officials worldwide responsible for compiling quarterly national accounts (QNA).
Description: This course, conducted by the Statistics Department, focuses on the conceptual framework of public sector debt statistics as presented in the Public Sector Debt Statistics: Guide for Compilers and Users 2011 (PSDSG 2011), as well as on the practical aspects of public sector debt data compilation. Basic concepts, accounting principles, and detailed classifications are dealt with in the context of the methodology that is harmonized with the Government Finance Statistics Manual 2014 (GFSM 2014) and the System of National Accounts (SNA 2008). The course examines coverage and accounting rules of the public sector debt statistics framework, valuation, classification, selected methodological issues, and the sources and methods used for compiling the statistics. It also deals with debt data reporting to the IMF and World Bank. The course is organized around a series of case studies.
Target Audience: Public sector officials whose main responsibility is compiling and disseminating public sector debt statistics.
Title in French: Mesurer l'Inadéquation des compétences
Organizer(s): ILO ILO ITC OECD European Training Foundation CEDEFOP
Description: La demande de données sur les différentes formes d'inadéquation des compétences a augmenté ces dernières années, conformément à la priorité accordée par les pays à la formulation de mesures et d'outils politiques efficaces pour améliorer la qualité et la pertinence de la formation des compétences. Nombreux sont ceux qui ont souligné l'importance d'une meilleure utilisation des qualifications et des compétences professionnelles comme condition préalable à de meilleurs résultats en matière d'emploi et d'employabilité, ainsi qu'à une amélioration de la productivité du travail. Le concept d'inadéquation des compétences est toutefois large et ambigu. Il peut se rapporter à de nombreuses formes de frictions sur le marché du travail, notamment l'inadéquation verticale, les lacunes en matière de compétences, les pénuries de compétences, l'inadéquation des qualifications, l'inadéquation du domaine d'études (horizontal) et l'obsolescence des compétences. Cela peut conduire à une mauvaise interprétation des résultats. L'existence d'estimations basées sur des approches de mesure différentes est également source de confusion. L'inadéquation des compétences est une préoccupation pour les décideurs politiques, les employeurs et les travailleurs. Il s'agit d'un thème récurrent dans la formation professionnelle et le développement des compétences, et de nombreuses initiatives politiques ont été lancées pour remédier à diverses formes d'inadéquation des compétences. L'élaboration d'une politique des compétences fondée sur des données probantes nécessite des statistiques sur les différentes formes d'inadéquation des compétences. Fort de sa longue expérience en matière de formation sur les compétences et l'analyse du marché du travail, le Centre international de formation de l'OIT, en pleine collaboration avec le Département des statistiques de l'OIT, et en coordination avec la branche Compétences de l'OIT, la Fondation européenne pour la formation, l'Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques, ainsi que le Centre européen pour le développement de la formation professionnelle, est fier de proposer pour la première fois en français cette formation en ligne de quatre semaines sur la mesure et l'analyse de l'inadéquation des compétences.
Target Audience: Le cours s'adresse à: - Les statisticiens du travail/fonctionnaires des bureaux nationaux de statistiques ; les ministères du travail et les institutions connexes (telles que les observatoires du travail) ; d'autres ministères ou institutions gouvernementales engagés dans l'emploi, le développement des compétences, l'adéquation et l'analyse des compétences ou impliqués dans la collecte et l'analyse d'informations sur le marché du travail ; - Les analystes des politiques d'emploi et de développement, les instituts de recherche et les instituts universitaires, ainsi que les organisations internationales et les bailleurs de fonds engagés dans l'adéquation des compétences ; - Les membres des conseils de compétences, des autorités nationales de l'EFTP ou d'institutions similaires ; - Les représentants d'organisations de travailleurs et d'employeurs participant à des plans de développement des compétences sectoriels, régionaux ou nationaux.
Description: This course, presented by the Institute for Capacity Development, gives government officials a rigorous foundation in the estimation of macro-econometric models and their application for nowcasting, forecasting, and policy analysis in central banks, ministries, and public research institutions. The course examines univariate and multivariate econometric time series models, state-space models, and nowcasting techniques as Factor, BRIDGE, and MIDAS models. Each topic includes a lecture that discusses the underlying theory and a workshop with applications using EViews. Participants work in groups on hands-on estimation and forecasting exercises.
Description: The in-person Conference of donors supporting CRVS improvements in Asia and the Pacific to be held on 27 June 2025 is scheduled in the programme of The Third Ministerial Conference on CRVS. The Donor conference aims to increase awareness about CRVS amongst potential donors and supporters. Participants will also be provided with the opportunity to network with other donors that are active in similar fields or are working on similar projects.
Organizer(s): ESCAP Bloomberg Philanthropies CSC United States Child Rights Coalition Asia Global Health Advocacy Incubator IOM SPC Plan International Statistics Norway UNDP UNFPA UNHCR UNICEF Vital Strategies WHO World Bank World Vision
Description: The Third Ministerial Conference on Civil Registration and Vital Statistics in Asia and the Pacific will be held from 24 to 26 June 2025, at the United Nations Conference Centre (UNCC), Bangkok, Thailand.
Description: The demand for analysing labour market data has risen, in line with the prioritization of countries to better understand the functioning of the labour market and the impact of policies and programmes on outcomes, including unemployment, employment, and decent work indicators. The adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development requires governments and other stakeholders to monitor progress towards the defined goals and targets, including SDG 8 on Decent Work and Economic Growth. In line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, governments have committed to policy action concerning decent employment creation and inclusive economic growth, with references to the demand-side, supply-side, and labour market policies. Hence, the need for good labour market governance and institutions able to collect, store, analyse, disseminate, and monitor labour market information has become paramount for evidence-based policy-making. A Labour Market Information System (LMIS) is "a network of institutions, persons and information that have mutually recognized roles, agreements, and functions with respect to the production, storage, dissemination, and use of labour market-related information and results in order to maximise the potential for relevant and applicable policy and programme formulation and implementation." The LMIS serves as a tool to aid decision-making in the area of labour market policy, and helps policy makers make informed policy decisions. Overall, an efficient LMIS will enhance the scope of evidence-based policy-making and facilitate the measurement of progress towards the achievement of the policy objectives set out in national employment strategies in line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Recognizing the rising demand of countries to better understand the functioning of Labour Market Information Systems (LMIS) doubled by the rising demand for measuring the impact of policies and programmes on labour market outcomes, the International Training Centre of the ILO in Turin (ITCILO) in close collaboration with the ILO Department of Statistics are proud to offer for the face-to-face training the course "Labour Market Information Systems (LMIS)".
Target Audience: National Statistical Offices (NSOs); Ministries of Labour and related Institutions (such as labour observatories); Governmental agencies in charge of labour market data analysis and SDG national reporting; ILO Social Partners (Employers' and workers' organizations), Research and academic institutions; International organizations; Development agencies; in addition to Non-governmental organizations.
Description: The 4th International Forum on Migration Statistics (IFMS 2025) is organized by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) Statistics and Population Divisions, and the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
International migration is a policy priority for many countries, yet despite recent progress in data collection, analysis, and dissemination, the supply of migration statistics has not kept pace with demand. Basic data on migrant stocks and flows, the social and economic characteristics of migrants, and the drivers and impacts of migration remain scarce in many nations. Additionally, differing methodologies across countries significantly hinder international comparability and the generation of regional and global insights.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, targets compilers with a certain degree of experience in the compilation and/or analysis of balance of payments and/or IIP. It aims to provide a deep understanding of the concepts, data sources and compilation techniques for balance of payments and IIP statistics and their application in addressing complex methodological issues. The course does not cover the basic balance of payments and IIP concepts. The intermediate level of the course presupposes participants' familiarity with the basic concepts. The course will also elaborate on the topics being addressed during the current update of BPM6. The course consists of a series of lectures and workshops analyzing country cases with a strong data component and is designed to allow peer learning and sharing of experiences. Recognizing the challenges in compiling data in emerging areas of user interest, the course emphasizes specific topics, such as estimating informal cross-border activities and the treatment of special purpose entities. The course examines themes and challenges emerging from developments in the global economy, and participants have the opportunity to discuss how these impact compilation work. Specific exercises are geared to integrate data compilation with Fund surveillance and policy advice; and to demonstrate the analytical uses of ESS.
Target Audience: Officials responsible for the compilation of external sector statistics (ESS) (balance of payments and/or international investment position (IIP) statistics), and who are familiar with the methodology of the
Description: The demand for analyzing labour market data has risen, in line with the prioritization of countries to better understand the functioning of the labour market and the impact of policies and programmes on outcomes, including unemployment and employment. The adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development requires governments and other stakeholders to monitor progress towards the defined goals and targets, including SDG 8 on Decent Work and Economic Growth. At the same time, new measures of the labour market are evolving through the adoption of statistical standards by the International Conference of Labour Statisticians (ICLS). The 19th, 20th, and 21st ICLS resolutions on labour statistics are crucial for decent work related SDG indicators, particularly SDG 8 on promoting inclusive and sustainable growth, employment and decent work for all. The analysis of labour market data relies on the availability of data, which has expanded in recent years, and the use of appropriate methodologies to identify key factors and trends relevant to evidence-based policymaking. In this regard, analysts and statisticians depend on statistical software that provides a user-friendly approach to data management, description, graphics and analysis. STATA is such a tool, which is powerful but easy-to-use, and is utilized across the world for analysing labour market data. Building on its long experience in delivering training on labour market statistics, the International Training Centre of the ILO in full collaboration with the ILO Department of Statistics is proud to offer the blended training STATA for labour market analysis. The course will include two phases, an online phase between 9 June and 4 July to provide a basic understanding of STATA for LM analysis, and then a face-to-face phase which will take place in Turin between 7-11 July, 2025. This course qualifies for the Labour Statistics & Analysis Diploma.
Target Audience: The course targets: - Labour Statisticians from national statistical offices; Ministries of labour and related institutions (such as labour observatories); Other Ministries or Government institutions in charge of SDG statistical monitoring; - Employment and development policy analysts from National Statistical Offices, Research and Academic institutions, International organizations and Donor organizations; and - Officials responsible for managing the production and dissemination of labour market statistics, particularly for the SDG national reporting.
Description: Massive digitization drive across public and private sectors has led organizations and their people to possess vast amounts of data, both qualitative and quantitative, often complex, unstructured, and varied. This huge data proliferation has also been accompanied with advances and rapid developments in data analytics by a corresponding surge in the creation of powerful tools. The exponential growth in both data and analytical capabilities, including artificial intelligence, is creating opportunities and challenges for managing knowledge. By integrating data analytics and knowledge management individuals and organizations can gain and share powerful insights, test strategies, improve transparency, increase value and improve the impact. If you have witnessed a knowledge gap in your organization and want to learn about developing strategies on leveraging data to bridge this gap this is the course for you. Alternatively, if you seek to build a culture in your organization that capitalizes on data-driven knowledge to develop impactful policies, programmes and projects and streamline work processes, this certification programme will guide you in doing so. Or, if you are interested in learning how data analytics can improve your own performance and, if you are curious about the latest trends and the future foresights towards data analytics and knowledge management, this course is the right place to be! Welcome to the certification course on "Data Analytics and Knowledge Management for Development".
Target Audience: Programme and project managers, knowledge management officers, monitoring and evaluation officers, technical specialists, project professionals, professionals from private enterprises, academicians and researchers involved in the identification, design, implementation and evaluation of development policies, programmes and projects.
Description: This is a comprehensive training course that covers application of statistics in Record Management. The course aims at equipping participants with skills and knowledge in data collection, data entry, management, analysis, interpretation and reporting.
Target Audience: This short course is so important for administrative officers, assistant record management officers, record management officers and implementers at all levels of record management.
Source: ESCAP SIAP (Data extracted on: 21 Feb 2025 )
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Organizer(s): PARIS21 ESCAP SIAP
Description: With the increased and evolving demand for data from national development plansAgenda 2030 for sustainable development goalsthe current and post crisis affecting the Worldincluding climate change; as well as the opportunity available with the new technology including the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for the modernisation and digital transformation of national data ecosystems; National statistical offices (NSOs) continue to be at the forefront of developingtransforming and coordinating national statistical systems (NSS) as well as engaging with the larger data ecosystem to fit for purpose.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, targets compilers with a certain degree of experience in the compilation and/or analysis of balance of payments and/or IIP. It aims to provide a deep understanding of the concepts, data sources and compilation techniques for balance of payments and IIP statistics and their application in addressing complex methodological issues. The course does not cover the basic balance of payments and IIP concepts. The intermediate level of the course presupposes participants’ familiarity with the basic concepts. The course will also elaborate on the topics being addressed during the current update of BPM6.The course consists of a series of lectures and workshops analyzing country cases with a strong data component and is designed to allow peer learning and sharing of experiences. Recognizing the challenges in compiling data in emerging areas of user interest, the course emphasizes specific topics, such as estimating informal cross-border activities and the treatment of special purpose entities. The course examines themes and challenges emerging from developments in the global economy, and participants have the opportunity to discuss how these impact compilation work. Specific exercises are geared to integrate data compilation with Fund surveillance and policy advice; and to demonstrate the analytical uses of ESS.
Target Audience: Officials responsible for the compilation of external sector statistics (ESS) (balance of payments and/or international investment position (IIP) statistics), and who are familiar with the methodology of the Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Statistics Manual, sixth edition (BPM6).
Description: Data collection is the primary and most important step for research or any survey. The most critical objective of data collection is ensuring that information-rich and quality data is collected for statistical analysis so that data-driven decisions can be made for research or survey. Data Collection can be done in three (3) ways, Paper Assisted Personal Interview, Computer Assisted Personal interview (CAPI) and Mixed model with integration of Geographical Information System (GIS) to collect survey data. Quality data allows individual researchers, institutions to establish baselines, benchmarks, and goals to keep moving forward. Data allows setting performance goals, therefore the quality of data in surveys is critical. The absence of quality data makes it difficult to make evidence-based policy and planning decisions, monitor trends and evaluate interventions. This training course on Data Collection provides solution in the production of quality data through integration of technologies in Data Collection.
Target Audience: People working in Ministries, Local Government Authorities and Agencies as Planners, Statisticians, Economist, and Monitoring and Evaluation Officers and the Academia.
Description: This is a comprehensive training course that covers application of statistics in Record Management. The course aims at equipping participants with skills and knowledge in data collection, data entry, management, analysis, interpretation and reporting.
Target Audience: This short course is so important for administrative officers, assistant record management officers, record management officers and implementers at all levels of record management.
Description: Massive digitization drive across public and private sectors has led organizations and their people to possess vast amounts of data, both qualitative and quantitative, often complex, unstructured, and varied. This huge data proliferation has also been accompanied with advances and rapid developments in data analytics by a corresponding surge in the creation of powerful tools. The exponential growth in both data and analytical capabilities, including artificial intelligence, is creating opportunities and challenges for managing knowledge. By integrating data analytics and knowledge management individuals and organizations can gain and share powerful insights, test strategies, improve transparency, increase value and improve the impact. If you have witnessed a knowledge gap in your organization and want to learn about developing strategies on leveraging data to bridge this gap this is the course for you. Alternatively, if you seek to build a culture in your organization that capitalizes on data-driven knowledge to develop impactful policies, programmes and projects and streamline work processes, this certification programme will guide you in doing so. Or, if you are interested in learning how data analytics can improve your own performance and, if you are curious about the latest trends and the future foresights towards data analytics and knowledge management, this course is the right place to be! Welcome to the certification course on "Data Analytics and Knowledge Management for Development".
Target Audience: Programme and project managers, knowledge management officers, monitoring and evaluation officers, technical specialists, project professionals, professionals from private enterprises, academicians and researchers involved in the identification, design, implementation and evaluation of development policies, programmes and projects.
Description: Data collection is the primary and most important step for research or any survey. The most critical objective of data collection is ensuring that information-rich and quality data is collected for statistical analysis so that data-driven decisions can be made for research or survey. Data Collection can be done in three (3) ways, Paper Assisted Personal Interview, Computer Assisted Personal interview (CAPI) and Mixed model with integration of Geographical Information System (GIS) to collect survey data. Quality data allows individual researchers, institutions to establish baselines, benchmarks, and goals to keep moving forward. Data allows setting performance goals, therefore the quality of data in surveys is critical. The absence of quality data makes it difficult to make evidence-based policy and planning decisions, monitor trends and evaluate interventions. This training course on Data Collection provides solution in the production of quality data through integration of technologies in Data Collection.
Target Audience: People working in Ministries, Local Government Authorities and Agencies as Planners, Statisticians, Economist, and Monitoring and Evaluation Officers and the Academia.
Description: The World of Work is continuously evolving, perhaps never more quickly than in recent years. This means that statistical standards need to evolve as well to capture the complex realities of the world of work. Informality remains a key concern of the Decent Work Agenda and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (the share of informal employment is part of the indicators selected to measure progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals, as SDG indicator 8.3.1). Addressing informality is also critical for women's economic empowerment and gender equality. The 21st International Conference for Labour Statisticians (ICLS) adopted in October 2023 A New Standard on the Informal Economy. The new standard improves the coverage, usefulness, and comparability of informality statistics and sheds light on who are those in the informal economy, working conditions and contextual vulnerabilities in the informal economy, which employs two billion people, or about 60 percent of the world's employed population1. In many countries, informal employment and the informal sector represent a significant part of the economy and labour market and plays a major role in production, employment creation and income generation. The debate concerning strategies towards formalization of the informal economy gained new momentum worldwide, after ILO's constituents adopted, at the International Labour Conference in June 2015, the Recommendation 204 (R204), the first international standard focusing exclusively on the informal economy and the strategies to adopt for the transition from the informal to the formal economy. Measuring and analysing informality remains a challenge for many countries that hinders policy-making to address the consequences of informality and facilitate transitions to formality. The lack of data and statistics on the informal economy also means that its economic contribution is not taken into account.. Bearing in mind the growing demand from countries to better understand the functioning of the informal economy and the measurement of informality, the International Training Centre of the ILO in Turin (ITCILO) in close collaboration with the ILO Department of Statistics are proud to offer the online training "Measuring informality: Introducing the new statistical standards on the Informal economy."
Target Audience: National Statistical Offices (NSOs); Ministries of Labour and related Institutions (such as labour observatories); Governmental agencies in charge of labour market data analysis and SDG national reporting; ILO Social Partners (Employers' and workers' organizations) including those representing the informal economy, Research and academic institutions; International organizations; Development agencies; in addition to Non-governmental organizations.
Description: This is a comprehensive training course that covers application of R in Data Management and Analysis in socio-economic fields. The course aims at equipping participants with skills and knowledge in design data capture, data entry, management, analysis and interpretation.
Target Audience: Targeted participants for this course include but not limited to: Statisticians, Officials working in policy making, Project planning, monitoring and evaluation in various capacities in the Government and Private sector.
Description: In the digital age, big data is revolutionising the way international trade is conducted, regulated, and understood. The intersection of big data and trade law is reshaping global commerce, creating new challenges and opportunities for policymakers, businesses, and legal professionals. The training course Big Data and Trade Law is designed to provide participants with a nuanced understanding of how digital transformation is impacting trade regulations and practices worldwide. This immersive, four-day programme delivers an engaging learning experience that combines expert-led lectures, real-world case studies, and hands-on workshops. Participants will explore pressing topics such as the platform economy, including the Digital Services Act, the Platform-to-Business Regulation, and product liability for online marketplaces. The course also examines the transformative effects of emerging technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI), Blockchain, and Robotics on international trade, fostering a forward-looking perspective on legal and regulatory developments. Hosted in the collaborative environment of the ITCILO Campus in Turin, this course offers a unique opportunity to connect with leading professionals and peers from various industries and regions. By investigating the legal frameworks governing big data and technological innovations, participants will gain practical insights into their implications for international trade. By the end of the course, attendees will have acquired advanced knowledge and actionable strategies, joining a global network of professionals dedicated to shaping the future of trade law in the digital era.
Target Audience: This course is tailored for: Legal professionals, advisors, practitioners, and managers with a background in international trade law. Senior representatives from public administrations, private companies, international organisations, United Nations agencies, and NGOs. Specialists from corporate legal departments, government bodies, intergovernmental organisations, and academic or research institutions seeking to deepen their understanding of big data and trade law.
Description: This is a comprehensive training course that covers application of R in Data Management and Analysis in socio-economic fields. The course aims at equipping participants with skills and knowledge in design data capture, data entry, management, analysis and interpretation.
Target Audience: Targeted participants for this course include but not limited to: Statisticians, Officials working in policy making, Project planning, monitoring and evaluation in various capacities in the Government and Private sector.
Description: Assessing the status of implementation of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and its contribution to the follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development during the decade of action and delivery for sustainable development.
Target Audience: The Commission is composed of 47 Member States elected by the Economic and Social Council for a period of four years on the basis of geographic distribution. Representatives should have a relevant background in population and development.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, is intended to broaden participants’ understanding of the concepts, methods, and challenges of compiling CPIs. Concepts and methods introduced in the online CPIx are explored in greater detail to address actual compilation issues faced by participants. It provides an overview of the index number theory and the practical implications of choosing the index number formula at lower and higher levels of aggregation. The course covers the sources and methods for developing/validating weights; and practical applications of the methods used for sampling areas, items, outlets, and varieties. New and emerging data sources as well as new collection technologies are discussed. Frontier issues including how to better measure the digital economy are included. Linkages to the 2008 SNA are highlighted, including the related principles of scope, coverage, and valuation. The course covers the following topics: calculating elementary and upper-level indexes; methods for handling temporarily and permanently missing prices; introducing new outlets, items, and varieties; adjusting prices for quality changes; chaining and linking indexes with updated weighting structures; and meeting data users’ needs to ensure relevancy. The course follows the principles and recommendations of the CPI Manual (2020).
Target Audience: Compilers of consumer price indexes (CPIs).
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 01 Dec 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: The main objectives of the course are: * Illustrate “standardisation” activities within the European Statistical System and, more in general, within the statistical community. * Explain how to define a standardization strategy to improve the statistical business processes. * Focus on the main conceptual, logical and technical statistical standards detailed in the ESS Enterprise Architecture Reference Framework (GSBPM, GSIM, SDMX, DDI). * Introduce open data (DCAT) and spatial (INSPIRE) standards. * Highlight the relationships between conceptual and implementation standards. * Experiment with tools in implementing a standards-based metadata-driven architecture for more efficient processes related to metadata management, data dissemination and data reporting.
Target Audience: Subject-matter experts (domains, dissemination and metadata management staff) without specialist IT knowledge.
Description: This is a comprehensive training course that covers application of STATA in Data Management and Analysis in socio-economic fields. The course aims at equipping participants with skills and knowledge in design data capture, data entry, management, analysis and interpretation.
Target Audience: Targeted participants for this course include but not limited to: Statisticians, Officials working in policy making, Project planning, monitoring and evaluation in various capacities in the Government and Private sector.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, covers theoretical and practical aspects in the compilation of national accounts statistics based on the conceptual framework of the System of National Accounts 2008 (2008 SNA). The course consists of lectures covering advanced methodological and compilation issues of the 2008 SNA and workshops consisting of practical exercises in compiling the accounts. The main aim of the course is to train participants in developing and using more advanced compilation techniques in areas including supply and use tables (SUTs), input-output tables, price and volume measures, and thematic satellite accounts. The course starts with SNA framework and will discuss how these accounts can be extended to address specific user needs. The main lectures and workshops include: Conceptual framework of the SNA; Output of specific industries; SUTs and input-outputs tables; Price and volume measurement; Estimating consumption of fixed capital; and Thematic satellite accounts, with a focus on topics covered in the update of the 2008 SNA (e.g., informal economy, labor accounts).Emphasis is also placed on sharing country experiences among the participants.
Target Audience: Compilers of national accounts statistics employed by agencies responsible for official national accounts statistics.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 01 Dec 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: Objectives: * Validation and reporting results of machine learning methods. * Mathematical concepts of supervised and unsupervised machine and deep learning models, like PCA, SVM, trees, ensembles and neural networks. * Use of scikit-learn, matplotlib, pandas, tensorflow, keras to design models and perform machine learning experiments. * Understanding of symbolic computation for backpropagation and gradient descent. * Model selection, Hyper-parameter tuning and practical considerations. * Understanding the lego bricks of neural networks (deep learning) and the numerical issues, in particular vanishing gradients. * Use pretrained models for text and vision applications with libraries like deeppavlov and detectron2.
Target Audience: Python programmers with ambitions to apply machine and deep learning in software engineering and research questions.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 08 Mar 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat
Description: New Techniques and Technologies for Statistics (NTTS) is an international biennial scientific conference series, organized by Eurostat, on new techniques and methods for official statistics, and the impact of new technologies on statistical collection, production and dissemination systems. The purpose of the conference is both to allow the presentation of results from currently ongoing research and innovation projects in official statistics, and to stimulate and facilitate the preparation of new innovative projects with the aim of enhancing the quality and usefulness of official statistics. The NTTS conference series was initially triennial, and with the conference taking place in 1992 (Bonn), 1995 (Bonn), 1998 (Sorrento) and 2001 (Hersonissos, Crete). After a break of 8 years, the conference was re-launched on a biannual basis, and took place in Brussels in 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015 2017 and 2019. NTTS 2021 was fully virtual, whereas NTTS 2023 took place in Brussels. NTTS 2025 will be hosted again in Brussels in the Charlemagne Building
Description: Background Better data and statistics are a key enabler for building a better world and addressing the development divide, as well as holding governments to account and improving decision and policy making. In particular, data on key development priorities that are produced with greater frequency, timeliness and granularity are in high demand. In response, National Statistical Offices (NSOs) are increasingly exploring innovative data sources, tools and methods to help address these user needs. The ESCAP Committee on Statistics therefore decided at its 7th session to “feature big data for official statistics in its future work, with an emphasis on sharing country research, experiences and good practices and facilitating capacity development” and to “strengthening legislative provisions and institutional mechanisms to enable national statistical systems to take full advantage of new and innovative technologies while respecting the Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics.” The ESCAP secretariat implements several initiatives to implement these decisions, including the capacity development project entitled the ‘2030 Data Decade - Strengthening the institutional capacity of national statistical offices in Asia and the Pacific to use innovative, new and big data sources for official statistics in support of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development’ (the Big Data Project). The project is funded through the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Sub-Fund of the UN Peace and Development Trust Fund. Through this project, ESCAP is providing technical assistance and related support to countries, as well as developing new knowledge products and facilitating the provision of opportunities for the sharing of achievements among countries in the region. Aims and Objectives The virtual workshop aim to bring together learnings and share experiences in the implementation and application of big data, tools and methods for official statistics from across the Asia-Pacific region. Specific areas of focus will include: Knowledge exchange: Sharing information on implementing and applying big data within official statistics, the challenges encountered and how these were overcome. Discussions will be held with audience participation encouraged. Inspiring others: Demonstrating the art of the possible; showcasing and discussing how alternative data sources can be used within official statistics. Signposting resources: Sharing the new products and tools, as well as the new learning materials and resources as outcomes of the Big Data Project. Establishing further needs: Providing ESCAP with a forum to elicit further learning needs from the Asia & Pacific region. By the end of the virtual regional workshop, participants will have a better understanding of how to overcome the technological, methodological, and human challenges that present when considering the application and implementation of big data in official statistics. Virtual Regional Workshop As the ESCAP Big Data Project draws to a close, the outcomes, challenges and lessons learned from the project workstreams will be showcased and shared across the Asia-Pacific region. A key focus will be on how NSOs have overcome the infrastructural and technological challenges to integrate and apply big data for statistical production. Participants The target audience for the virtual regional workshop is statisticians, methodologists, data analysts and managers within NSOs (or wider National Statistical System agencies) from the Asia-Pacific region. Those who participate in the 11 March session, will be interested in the application of geospatial data and small area estimation within the fields of Environment and Agriculture Statistics, Poverty Statistics, and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); those who participate in the 12 March session will be interested in the use of alternative data sources for calculating Price Statistics. Participants will be invited from across the region’s Official Statistics community and will include those who attended the various Big Data Project workshop, trainings, and High-Level Seminars so that they may learn from others and continue their learning journey. There are no pre-requisites for attending the workshop and there are no limits on the numbers who may attend.
Description: The demand for data on various forms of skills mismatches has risen in recent years, in line with the prioritization of countries to ensure that effective policy measures and tools are formulated to improve the quality and relevance of skills formation. Many have stressed the importance of making better use of qualification and occupational skills as a prerequisite for better employment outcomes and employability, as well as improved labour productivity. The concept of skills mismatch, however, is broad and ambiguous. t can relate to many forms of labour market friction, including vertical mismatch, skill gaps, skill shortages, qualification mismatch, field of study (horizontal) mismatch and skill obsolescence. This may lead to misinterpretation of results. The existence of estimates based on different measurement approaches also leads to confusion. Skills mismatch is a concern for policy-makers, employers, and workers alike. It is a recurring theme in vocational education and skills development, with many policy initiatives launched to address various forms of skills mismatches. For evidence-based skills policymaking statistics on various forms of skill mismatches are needed. Building on its long experience in delivering training on skills and labour market analysis, the International Training Centre of the ILO in full collaboration with the ILO Department of Statistics, and in close coordination with the ILO Skills branch, the European Training Foundation, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, in addition to the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training is proud to offer this four-week online training on Measuring and Analyzing Skills Mismatches.
Target Audience: The course targets: - Labour Statisticians/officials from national statistical offices; Ministries of labour and related institutions (such as labour observatories); Other Ministries or Government institutions engaged in employment, skills development, skills matching and analysis or involved in the collection and analysis of labour market information; - Employment and development policy analysts, research and academic institutes, in addition to International organizations and Donors engaged in skills matching; - Members of skills councils, national TVET authorities or similar institutions; - Representatives of workers' and employers' organisations involved in sectoral, regional or national skills development plans.
Description: The United Nations Statistical Commission, established in 1947, is the highest body of the global statistical system. It brings together the Chief Statisticians from member states from around the world. It is the highest decision making body for international statistical activities especially the setting of statistical standards, the development of concepts and methods and their implementation at the national and international level. The Statistical Commission oversees the work of the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), and is a Functional Commission of the UN Economic and Social Council.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 01 Dec 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: The course will enhance participants' methodological and technical knowledge of Quality reporting in the European Statistical System (ESS). Participants will understand and have practical experience on how to prepare detailed quality reports for the different types of statistical processes according to the Single Integrated Metadata Structure (SIMS) V.2.0 and its derived structures ESMS (Euro-SDMX Metadata Structure) and ESQRS (ESS Standard for Quality Report Structure), including how to calculate ESS Quality and Performance indicators. The ESS Metadata Handler, the web application used by Eurostat to collect metadata and quality report from National Statistical Institutes and Other National Authorities producing European statistics, will be presented.
Target Audience: Staff of National Statistical Institutes (NSIs) and Other National Authorities (ONAs) producing Official Statistics directly involved in the compilation of quality reports or working in quality management and/or quality reporting coordination units.
Organizer(s): ESCAP Global health Advocacy Incubator Vital Strategies
Description: Civil Society Forum for the Ministerial Conference on CRVS in Asia and the Pacific will be held from 4 to 6 March 2025, at the United Nations Conference Centre (UNCC), Bangkok, Thailand. Target participants: Participants to the Civil Society Forum will comprise: (a) Civil society or non-governmental organizations leadership from relevant organizations from Asian and Pacific countries who have registered their interest in the event here. (b) Representatives of civil society and non-governmental organizations that have active programmes on birth registration/CRVS in the following GHAI-covered countries: Bangladesh, India, Indonesia and Philippines. (c) Representatives of the organizing partners of the Ministerial Conference and other development & partners. Objectives Review the current engagement of CSOs in the CRVS system strengthening and policy process; Support CSOs in using CRVS data to develop evidence-based messages for policy and budget advocacy campaigns to strengthen CRVS systems; Share tools and best practices for CSO engagement in strengthening CRVS systems; Co-create a civil society statement for the Ministerial Conference. Expected Outcomes: The following outputs are expected at the end of the Forum: CSOs from Asia identified and engaged to improve the CRVS systems and working on gender issues, LGBTQ+ rights, statelessness, minorities, disabilities, and children's rights; A civil society statement for the Ministerial Conference on CRVS in Asia and the Pacific in June 2025; Evidence-based messages developed for CSO led policy and budget advocacy campaigns to strengthen CRVS systems
Description: This TrainForTrade e-learning course on IMTS was developed and produced jointly by UNSD, UN Trade and Development, and WTO in close collaboration with the Inter-Agency Task Force on International Trade Statistics. The main goals of the course are to enhance statisticians' ability to apply the most recent internationally agreed recommendations on IMTS, define best possible data sources, set up adequate (or enforce existing) collection systems, and enhance statistics compilation and production processes.
Source: ESCAP SIAP (Data extracted on: 21 Feb 2025 )
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Organizer(s): ESCAP SIAP
Description: Disasters continue to have an ever-increasing impact on lifewell-being and sustainable development. Given these impactsthere is a high demand at the localnational and international levels for high qualityintegrated statistics to inform all phases of the disaster risk management cycle. Furthermoredisaster related statistics are not only relevant to those working to prepare and respond to disasters but also to the public at largeresearch institutions and policy analysts at the local and national levels. In response to the increased demands for disaster related statisticsthe disaster management and official statistics communities in Asia-Pacific have developed the Disaster-related Statistics Framework (DRSF).The DRSF aims to improve countries capacities to produce high qualityintegrated statistics on disasters; and it is the basis for this course. During the course participants will learn about the importance of harmonized data and its relevance to policy making at the national and global level. Other topics covered include statistics on disaster riskdisaster occurrence and impactsand economic losses. Further details on course content follow below. Please note that a course on disaster related statistics was last held in 2023; this is an updated course and those who participated in the 2023 course are welcomed to join.
Description: This is a comprehensive training course that covers application of STATA in Data Management and Analysis in socio-economic fields. The course aims at equipping participants with skills and knowledge in design data capture, data entry, management, analysis and interpretation.
Target Audience: Targeted participants for this course include but not limited to: Statisticians, Officials working in policy making, Project planning, monitoring and evaluation in various capacities in the Government and Private sector.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 01 Dec 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat
Description: Objectives: * To improve the capacity of national statistical services to produce high quality on GFS and EDP-statistics; * To examine the theoretical basis and structure of the European System of Accounts (ESA 2010) based GFS and EDP-data.
Target Audience: Participants from National Statistical Institutes, National Central Banks, and Ministries of Finance in EU Member States and candidate countries, particularly those working on Government Finance Statistics (GFS) and preparing for or supporting the implementation of the Excessive Deficit Procedure (EDP).
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 01 Dec 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: Providing knowledge and basic practice on use of earth observation data to produce statistics, EO data sets, processing analyses and presenting.
The evolving data landscape demands innovative approaches to data production and use, bringing National Statistical Offices (NSOs) into closer collaboration with communities and citizens. In this context, the newly revised Copenhagen Framework on Citizen Data provides NSOs with a guiding tool to support communities and citizens and integrate citizen data into their work effectively. This side event, titled "Partnership for Impact: NSOs and the Copenhagen Framework on Citizen Data," offers an opportunity to delve into the updated framework and explore the transformative role of NSOs in the national data ecosystem. Through this event, participants will engage in discussions on how NSOs can harness citizen data to foster inclusivity, transparency, and impact, while navigating challenges in governance and stewardship.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 30 Jul 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat
Description: Objectives: * To improve the capacity of national statistical services to produce high quality on GFS and EDP-statistics; * To examine the theoretical basis and structure of the European System of Accounts (ESA 2010) based GFS and EDP-data.
Target Audience: Participants from National Statistical Institutes, National Central Banks and Ministries of Finance working on Government Finance Statistics (GFS) and Excessive Deficit Procedure (EDP).
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 01 Dec 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: This course will enable you to pick your next top data-science programming language: * Know the characteristics of R, Python, Julia; * Understand the advantages of each language for different use-cases; * Ability read and modify a small program in each language.
Target Audience: Statistical production units and methodologists of NSIs, having an interest in data science tools and a basic understanding of development.
Description: The purpose of the 2025 Meeting of the RSG is to ensure the Regional Steering Group, as the custodian of the CRVS Decade, provides direction and guidance for the ongoing work on CRVS. The meeting further aims to strengthen regional collaboration and readiness for the Third Ministerial Conference, ensure the successful launch and completion of the 2024 Review.On 20 February 2025, the meeting will focus on planning for the Ministerial Conference, providing an overview of the agenda, reviewing the Ministerial Declaration, and finalizing communication inputs. On Wednesday 12 March 2025, participants will focus on the document review process and finalize preparatory details. The meeting on Tuesday 29 April 2025 will involve delegations, side events, and exhibitions to ensure a comprehensive engagement strategy. The final session on Thursday 22 May 2025 will focus on credentials, speaking arrangements, and coordination of associated events to conclude preparations for the conference.
Description: The BIS Irving Fisher Committee on Central Bank Statistics (IFC) is delighted to announce its upcoming 4th workshop on "Data Science in Central Banking," co-hosted with the Bank of Italy (BoI). For this workshop particular emphasis is placed on the exploration of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its potential applications in central banking. This event aims to gather a diverse audience of practitioners, specialists, and interested stakeholders from central banks, international organisations, national statistical offices, and beyond. The workshop, taking place in Rome on 18-20 February 2025, will be held in person with the option of virtual participation for non-presenters. Our primary objective is to highlight ongoing projects and exchange experiences that can help foster in-house expertise and lessen reliance on external service providers. Projects with replicable code that is open source or sharable between authorities will be particularly appreciated.
Description: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development underscores the importance of robust monitoring frameworks to track progress toward the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 targets. Underpinning the 2030 Agenda, the global SDG indicator framework plays a critical role in providing the data necessary for evidence-based policymaking, promotes transparency, and fosters accountability across local, national, and global levels. As part of its mandate under General Assembly resolution A/RES/71/313, the Inter-agency and Expert Group on SDG Indicators (IAEG-SDGs) recently completed the 2025 Comprehensive Review to ensure the framework remains relevant, adaptive, and aligned with evolving global priorities.
Machine Learning for Official Statistics: Overview of machine learning techniques and their applications in official statistics, including classification, clustering, and predictive modelling
18 Feb 2025 – 18 Feb 2025
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 01 Dec 2024 )
Description: Accurate, coherent, and timely data is essential for informed decision-making at the national level. Since the adoption of the United Nations National Quality Assurance Frameworks Manual for Official Statistics in 2019, more countries have successfully implemented their own national quality assurance framework (NQAF).
This side event will introduce two new tools for quality assurance developed by the Expert Group on National Quality Assurance Frameworks to further support quality assurance in official statistics, including the use of administrative data and other data sources when producing official statistics and the promotion of quality culture within the national statistical agencies. This side event is organized by the Expert Group on National Quality Assurance Frameworks (EG-NQAF) and aligns with the Commission’s agenda item 3(r) National Quality Assurance Frameworks. This side event will offer participants a valuable opportunity to engage in informal discussions on advancing quality assurance practices in official statistics.
Source: ESCAP SIAP (Data extracted on: 21 Feb 2025 )
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Organizer(s): ESCAP SIAP
Description: This e-learning course aims to build capacity in national statistical systems for the development and implementation of Reproducible Analytical Pipelines (RAPs) for Official Statistics. What is a Reproducible Analytical Pipeline? Simply putreproducible analytical pipelines (RAPs) are automated statistical processes (data processing and analysis) that codify to the greatest extent possible the production of official statistics. Common tools that are used to develop RAP include software such as R or Pythonand version control management tools such as Git. Reproducibility is at the heart of the approach. It implies that the outputs can be generated again with any new or revised input datasets using the RAP developed. This also implies drafting documents explaining the RAP that make it possible to build institutional knowledge and use the RAP in the future by new staff.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, covers theoretical and practical aspects in the compilation of national accounts statistics based on the conceptual framework of the System of National Accounts 2008 (2008 SNA). The course consists of lectures covering advanced methodological and compilation issues of the 2008 SNA and workshops consisting of practical exercises in compiling the accounts. The main aim of the course is to train participants in developing and using more advanced compilation techniques in areas including supply and use tables (SUTs), input-output tables, price and volume measures, and thematic satellite accounts. The course starts with SNA framework and will discuss how these accounts can be extended to address specific user needs. The main lectures and workshops include: Conceptual framework of the SNA; Output of specific industries; SUTs and input-outputs tables; Price and volume measurement; Estimating consumption of fixed capital; and Thematic satellite accounts, with a focus on topics covered in the update of the 2008 SNA (e.g., informal economy, labor accounts).Emphasis is also placed on sharing country experiences among the participants.
Target Audience: Compilers of national accounts statistics employed by agencies responsible for official national accounts statistics.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 01 Dec 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: To provide participants with a basic knowledge of the seasonal adjustment methods and tools included in JDEMETRA+ To understand the basic principles of the ESS seasonal adjustment guidelines and to be able to apply them using JDEMETRA+, including for mass production. To motivate the participants to acquire and advanced knowledge in the various seasonal adjustment methods and in other time series algorithms.
Target Audience: Junior users of seasonal adjustment methods involved in regular/massive data production wishing to enhance their knowledge of the methods and to use the JDEMETRA+ tool in an efficient way. People currently using TRAMO/SEATS and/or X13 family product and/or old version of DEMETRA/JDEMETRA+ family products aiming at implementing the latest JDEMETRA+ version.
Description: In 2022, the UN Statistical Commission adopted a new SDG indicator 17.3.1, and welcomed the development of an initial Conceptual Framework for the Measurement of South-South Cooperation.It is the first ever Framework developed and agreed upon by the countries of the global South for this specific purpose and enables the reporting of South-South data for SDGs, alongside long-established data on North-South development support flows.The Commission asked the UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) to test the Framework, provide capacity building support and enable the reporting of data globally. Now a Manual has been developed with pioneering countries, and first data are reported.South-South cooperation is increasingly important in advancing progress towards the 2030 Agenda, alongside other development support. But lack of data has kept its contribution largely invisible, making it difficult to manage the flows as a strategic resource.Now over 60 countries have requested UNCTAD's support to start reporting South-South data.Questions to be addressed: * How can national statistical offices help support the pooling of data from many agencies involved in South-South cooperation projects. * How to organize country-led global work to refine common methods and develop tools. * How to support one another in data reporting to amplify the voices of the South in global debates.Speakers: * Anu Peltola, Director, UNCTAD Statistics Service * Wafa Aboul Hosn, Chief, ESCWA Statistics * Dima Al-Khatib, Director of UN Office for South-South Cooperation * Marcio Correa, Development Cooperation Agency ABC, Brazil * André de Mello e Souza, Institute of Inclusive Development Policies IPEA, Brazil * Anne Ibrahim, National Bureau of Statistics, Nigeria
Citizen contributions to data, which encompasses citizens engagement in different processes throughout the data value chain, from design, collection to dissemination and use, is increasingly recognized as critical to the wellbeing of all members of society, especially marginalized groups, and to ensure that data remain relevant and impactful. The impacts include empowering communities in their dialogue with public institutions, respecting marginalized voices, expanding data production power to citizens, addressing intersectional marginalisation, and holding institutions accountable, and ensuring that data remain relevant and impactful, all in support of the "leave no one behind" principle of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, focuses on the conceptual framework of government finance statistics (GFS) as presented in the Government Finance Statistics Manual 2014 (GFSM 2014), with an emphasis on new concepts introduced in GFSM 2014. The course requires that participants are familiar with the basic GFS framework and classification system. Emphasizing the integrated GFS framework, the course addresses complex cross-cutting GFS issues, such as social protection, government employee pension liabilities, standardized guarantee schemes, contracts, leases, licenses, public-private partnerships, and public sector balance sheets. It also examines coverage of the public sector, giving special attention to borderline and complex cases. The course discusses internal and intersectoral data consistency, coordination between data-producing agencies, as well as data presentation and communication with users. The format is lectures and discussions.
Description: This course, conducted by the Statistics Department, presents a user-friendly tool developed by the department to automatically combine monetary, government, and international investment position data reported to the Statistics Department to create a distribution of claims and liabilities on a from-whom-to-whom basis—an extremely useful tool for macro-financial analysis. Once the matrix is generated, country officials should be able to use the Balance Sheet Approach (BSA) analysis to focus on overall balance sheet linkages and identify specific exposures and vulnerabilities, such as excessive reliance on external funding, leverage buildup in the corporate sector, and overreliance on the banking sector for sovereign debt placement.
Target Audience: Officials at central banks, ministries of finance and other agencies in charge of compiling monetary and financial statistics, government finance/debt statistics, and external sector statistics; and/or overseeing macro-financial analysis.
Description: The "High-level Webinar on Population and Housing Censuses" is the second event in the "Road to the Commission" webinar series leading to its 56th session of the Statistical Commission. The objectives of the High-level Webinar include: i) Promote the adoption and implementation of the revised Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses (Revision 4); ii) Facilitate the launch and implementation of the 2030 World Population and Housing Census Programme; iii) Share lessons learned from the 2020 census round and prepare for census-taking in the 2030 round.
Date: Wednesday, 5 February 2025 Time: 8:00am – 9:30am (EST/New York time) Event webpage: Link
Description: This is a comprehensive training course that covers application of SPSS in Data Management and Analysis in socio-economic fields. The course aims at equipping participants with skills and knowledge in design data capture, data entry, management, analysis and interpretation.
Target Audience: Targeted participants for this course include but not limited to: Statisticians, Officials working in policy making, Project planning, monitoring and evaluation in various capacities in the Government and Private sector.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 01 Dec 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: The goal of this activity is to provide participants with basic knowledge about the syntax and basis of the R programming language and to provide an overview of the main packages which are important for the statistical production process. The activity will pay special attention to these packages devoted to management of large databases and the analysis of complex surveys.
Target Audience: Statistical production units and methodologist of NSIs.
Description: UNCTAD's Division for Africa, Least Developed Countries and Special Programmes (ALDC) in partnership with UNCTAD Statistics Service, works jointly with African countries to develop and implement effective policies to tackle illicit financial flows (IFFs) based on robust measurements and evidence of the most harmful IFFs in each country, and enable the focus of countries to increase their fiscal space for sustainable development. UNCTAD strives for consensus-building, cutting edge thinking to support African countries to build their institutional capacity to understand IFFs better, and address more effectively their sustainable development financing needs.In this regard, UNCTAD is coordinating a joint measurement workshop and policy expert group meeting with the main objective of looking at policy options that can be implemented to curb IFFs and strengthen domestic resource mobilization for African countries based on nationally compiled IFF statistics.The meeting is organized in two parts: the measurement workshop will be held on Monday, 3 February and Tuesday, 4 February (morning) and is open to countries’ representatives of the project, while the afternoon will include other invited participants to discuss general measurement concepts. The policy workshop will be held from Wednesday, 5 February to Friday, 7 February and is open to all participants.The main aim of the joint measurement workshop and the expert group meeting will be threefold: * Discuss applied methodologies to measure tax and commercial IFFs, share results and lessons learnt. * Develop a suitable framework for identifying policies in a standard format for African countries but reflecting national priorities. * Ascertain the framework through an expert-led review.
Description: This session showcases how citizens and marginalized communities can be actively involved at various stages of the data value chain. We explore how data can be used as a tool to raise awareness and drive change on issues relevant to these communities. The session features collective learnings from our cross-country work, complemented by in-depth insights and practical advice presented by our national partners.
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Privacy Enhancing Technologies for Official Statistics
28 Jan 2025 – 28 Jan 2025
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 01 Dec 2024 )
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 01 Dec 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: The main objectives of the course are: * Introducing the participants to the Python language and ecosystem; * Make the participants able to read and write basic Python programs for common data processing tasks (data analysis, exploration and visualization).
Target Audience: Official statisticians (including managers) involved in Big Data and Data Science activities having no specific knowledge on this subject; Official statisticians (including managers) who, without being directly involved in Big Data and Data Science activities, need basic knowledge on the use of the Python language.
Description: Over the past decade, the Asia-Pacific region has significantly advanced its civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) systems, notably reducing unregistered births. Despite this progress, challenges persist, such as enhancing the completeness of CRVS data and addressing disparities in access to these services. This Stats Café will explore countries' experiences in estimating the completeness of vital events and explore qualitative research on CRVS inclusivity, with inclusivity a central theme for the upcoming Ministerial Conference on CRVS.Attached below are presentation files and here is pre-Recording videoDate: Monday 27 January 2025Time: 13-14.30 (UTC+7)Venue: MS TeamsVisit the Stats Cafe page here.
Description: This knowledge exchange brought together stakeholders from Nepal and Ghana. During the exchange, Ghana shared insights into their design of a gender-based violence survey conducted using a phone app in their country. Nepalese stakeholders had the opportunity to ask questions relevant to their own developing survey design, including topics such as survey accessibility, cost, duration, data usage, potential issues with false reporting, and more.
Description: In this session four presenters will share their experiences working with citizen data and persons with disabilities and lessons learned. Presentations will provide national examples from Ecuador, Kenya, and the Philippines and a regional example from the Pacific.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 01 Dec 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: The main objective of the courses is to enhance the theoretical and practical knowledge related to the treatment of unit non-response and item non-response. In particular, participants will gain knowledge on weighting techniques in order to deal with unit non-response and imputation techniques in order to deal with item non-response. For unit-nonresponse, participants will also learn about up to date monitoring of data collection and application of adaptive survey designs.
Target Audience: All NSIs staff dealing with data collection facing non-response, either unit non-response where entire units intended to be collected are missing or item non-response where some items of otherwise responding units are missing.
Description: This information session provided a background on what those who join the Collaborative on Citizen Data’s Community of Practice (CoP) can benefit from the CoP and what they can offer as a contributor. If you are interested in joining please email citizen.data@un.org with your :
Source: ESCAP SIAP (Data extracted on: 29 Jan 2025 )
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Organizer(s): UNSD ESCAP SIAP
Description: National statistical systems are increasingly using administrative data to compile official statistics. Such data can be utilized to better meet the increasing demands for new statistics and indicators that are highly disaggregated. Administrative data is not collected for the primary purpose of compiling official statisticsand statisticians need to ensure that the data meets certain criteria before using it to produce official statistics. This course provides an overview of administrative dataa discussion of data quality issues and institutional mechanisms to ensure that administrative data can be used in the production of official statistics. The course builds upon content developed for in-person training courses conducted by UNSD and to which members of the Collaborative on Administrative Data have provided valuable input.
Description: This is a comprehensive training course that covers application of Excel in Data Management and Analysis in socio-economic fields. The course aims at equipping participants with skills and knowledge in design data capture, data entry, management, analysis and interpretation.
Target Audience: Targeted participants for this course include but not limited to: Statisticians, Officials working in policy making, Project planning, monitoring and evaluation in various capacities in the Government and Private sector.
Source: ESCAP SIAP (Data extracted on: 21 Feb 2025 )
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Organizer(s): IMF ESCAP SIAP
Description: CPIs measure changes over time in the general level of prices of goods and services that households acquire (use or pay for) for the purpose of consumption. In many countriesthey were originally introduced to provide a measure of the changes in the living costs faced by workersso that wage increases could be related to changing levels of prices. Howeverover the yearsCPIs have widened their scope and now are widely used as a macroeconomic indicator of inflationas a tool by governments and central banks for monetary policy and for monitoring price stabilityand as deflators in the national accounts. With the globalization of trade and production and the liberalization of the marketsnational governmentscentral banksand international organizations place great importance on the quality and accuracy of national CPIsand their international comparability.
Description: Webinar 1 - 7 Nov 2024 Webinar 2 - 12 Dec 2024 Symposium - 20-22 Jan 2025 - Dubai, UAE The Data Science Leaders Network (DSLN) and the United Nations Network of Economic Statisticians are organizing a Sprint focused on enhancing NSOs' capabilities in leveraging AI and data science for economic statistics. Through a series of preparatory webinars and an international symposium in Dubai, this event will showcase impactful use cases, explore generative AI applications, and address strategic issues around data privacy, ethical AI, and cross-domain integration. Driven by the goals of the SNA 2025, this Sprint promises to be a pivotal step in empowering the statistical community to harness cutting-edge technologies and shape the future of economic data production and dissemination.
This series of inspiration workshops, organized by the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) under the Data for Now initiative, seeks to inspire countries on the various ways to leverage innovative approaches for improved data-driven decision-making. The series, which consists of three sessions, will showcase examples of how both participating and non-participating countries have been working on the core ideas of the initiative to achieve their national objectives. These include prioritization based on countries' needs in consultations with national partners and users, the use of innovative data sources, methods, tools, and partnerships, and the improvement of IT infrastructure to facilitate the integration of innovative approaches to fill data gaps.
Organizer(s): ESCAP UNICEF UNFPA Vital Strategies Global Health Advocacy Incubator
Description: The Second meeting of the South-East Asia Civil Registration Professionals Network will be held in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on 14-16 January 2025. The meeting is organized to support and encourage progress towards meeting commitments by governments in Asia and the Pacific to the shared vision as contained in the Ministerial Declaration to “Get Every One in the Picture”. The meeting will facilitate discussions on key CRVS achievements in South-East Asia which will be highlighted at the Third Ministerial Conference on CRVS in Asia and the Pacific (24-26 June 2025) and at the South-East Asia sub-regional forum to be held on 23 June 2025. The discussions will also include a focus on digitalization of registration systems, inclusivity and resilience in civil registration and vital statistics systems as well as the 2025 review of progress in implementing the Regional Action Framework for CRVS in Asia and the Pacific. The Government of Cambodia will host visits to relevant registration facilities and health centres. (The first meeting of the SEA Civil Registrars Network was held in Manila, Philippines on 7-9 February 2023.)
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, targets compilers with a certain degree of experience in the compilation and/or analysis of balance of payments and/or IIP. It aims at providing a deep understanding of the concepts, data sources and compilation techniques for balance of payments and IIP statistics and their application for addressing complex methodological issues. The course does not cover the basic balance of payments and IIP concepts. The intermediate level of the course presupposes participants’ familiarity with the basic concepts.The course consists of a series of lectures and workshops analyzing country cases with a strong data component and to allow peer learning and sharing of experiences. Recognizing the challenges in compiling data in emerging areas of user interest, the course emphasizes specific topics, such as estimating informal cross border activities and the treatment of special purpose entities. The course examines themes and challenges emerging from developments in global economy, and participants have the opportunity to discuss how these impact compilation work. Specific exercises are geared to integrating data compilation with Fund surveillance and policy advice; and to demonstrate the analytical uses of ESS.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, covers both the conceptual and practical aspects of compiling monetary statistics focusing on other financial corporations (OFCs) as set out in the 2016 Monetary and Financial Statistics Manual and Compilation Guide (MFSMCG). The main aim of this course is to foster a deeper understanding of the OFCs (insurance corporations, pension funds, non-MMF investment funds, etc.), their typical balance sheet structures and how their financial data can be leveraged for compiling the broadest set of monetary statistics to understand liquidity and financing extended to the nonfinancial sectors and nonresidents by the financial corporations. The course also covers some aspects of financial statistics, of which the role of MFS in the balance sheet approach (BSA) for analyzing macro-financial vulnerabilities and how MFS fits into the IMF’s financial programming. The course integrates discussions on cutting-edge issues like Fintech, digital money and climate finance all related to MFS. Through a combination of lectures, countries’ presentations and case studies, the course familiarizes participants with practical aspects of compiling other financial corporations sector and the financial corporations survey. Emphasis is also placed on peer learning through sharing of country experiences among the participants.
Target Audience: Central bank officials and officials from regulatory agencies responsible for compiling monetary statistics.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 01 Dec 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat
Description: Objectives: * To improve the capacity of national statistical services to produce high quality on GFS and EDP-statistics; * To examine the theoretical basis and structure of the European System of Accounts (ESA 2010) based GFS and EDP-data.
Target Audience: Participants from National Statistical Institutes, National Central Banks, and Ministries of Finance in EU Member States and candidate countries, particularly those working on Government Finance Statistics (GFS) and preparing for or supporting the implementation of the Excessive Deficit Procedure (EDP).
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, acquaints participants with the fundamentals of compiling and using FSIs in support of macroprudential analysis. The course covers methodological and technical issues in the construction of FSIs, as discussed in the 2019 Financial Soundness Indicators Compilation Guide (2019 FSI Guide) . The course takes an interactive approach using hands-on exercises in discussing the main topics as follows: Preparation of the sectoral financial statements and compilation of FSIs for deposit takers, other financial corporations (OFCs), and nonfinancial corporations (NFCs). Regulatory framework for deposit takers. Accounting principles and data consolidation for the compilation of FSIs for deposit takers. Metadata reporting. Overview of FSIs for Household sector and Real Estate markets.
Target Audience: Officials at central banks and supervisory agencies of the financial sector involved in the collection, compilation, and analysis of financial soundness indicators (FSIs).
Description: This is a comprehensive training course that covers application of Excel in Data Management and Analysis in socio-economic fields. The course aims at equipping participants with skills and knowledge in design data capture, data entry, management, analysis and interpretation.
Target Audience: Targeted participants for this course include but not limited to: Statisticians, Officials working in policy making, Project planning, monitoring and evaluation in various capacities in the Government and Private sector.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, acquaints participants with the fundamentals of compiling and using FSIs in support of macroprudential analysis. The course covers methodological and technical issues in the construction of FSIs, as discussed in the 2019 Financial Soundness Indicators Compilation Guide (2019 FSI Guide). The course takes an interactive approach using hands-on exercises in discussing the main topics as follows: * Preparation of the sectoral financial statements and compilation of FSIs for deposit takers, other financial corporations (OFCs), and nonfinancial corporations (NFCs). * Regulatory framework for deposit takers. * Accounting principles and data consolidation for the compilation of FSIs for deposit takers. * Metadata reporting. * Overview of FSIs for Household sector and Real Estate markets.
Target Audience: Officials at central banks and supervisory agencies of the financial sector involved in the collection, compilation, and analysis of financial soundness indicators (FSIs).
Description: This course, conducted by the Statistics Department, presents a user-friendly tool developed by the department to automatically combine monetary, government, and international investment position data reported to the Statistics Department to create a distribution of claims and liabilities on a from-whom-to-whom basis—an extremely useful tool for macro-financial analysis. Once the matrix is generated, country officials should be able to use the Balance Sheet Approach (BSA) analysis to focus on overall balance sheet linkages and identify specific exposures and vulnerabilities, such as excessive reliance on external funding, leverage buildup in the corporate sector, and overreliance on the banking sector for sovereign debt placement.
Target Audience: Officials at central banks, ministries of finance and other agencies in charge of compiling monetary and financial statistics, government finance/debt statistics, and external sector statistics; and/or overseeing macro-financial analysis.
Description: This workshop is intended for government officials engaged in coordinating and preparing voluntary national reviews (VNRs) in countries conducting review at the July 2025 High-Level Political Forum on sustainable development (HLPF). The workshop will facilitate practical exchange of experiences and knowledge among countries, as well as explore specific issues and challenges related to the VNR preparations.
Organizer(s): UN-GGIM: Americas ECLAC AI Generated
Description: Promoting female leadership in the geospatial sector is crucial to achieving gender equality and maximizing the human and technological potential of the field. UN-GGIM: Americas reaffirms its commitment to initiatives that recognize and empower the role of women in geospatial information management.
Description: 7th Border Management and Identity Conference 11 - 13 December 2024 Bangkok, Thailand Asia's Largest Government Meeting Focused on Border Control & Identity Management BMIC7 brochure is now available. Click on the brochure to learn about the upcoming conference. The theme of this 7th edition is “The Future of Borders and Borders of the Future: Accelerating Seamless and Secure Cross-Border Travel and Trade with Technological Solutions and Re-engineered Identity Management Processes”.
Description: The session will comprise two segments: the high-level segment, on 11 December, and the senior officials segment, on 12 and 13 December. During the high-level segment, representatives of member States will discuss the progress made in implementing the Declaration on Navigating Policy with Data to Leave No One Behind, which was endorsed by the Commission in its resolution 75/9. They will also reflect on priority actions that require resources, initiative, engagement or other investment by Governments, as well as participation by the whole of society, to put the region fully on track to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The senior officials segment will include dialogues on building agile statistical systems that are fit for the future as an emerging priority issue for the region and discuss the progress made in implementing the decisions taken by the Committee at its eighth session. The ninth session of the Committee on Statistics will be held in conjunction with the twentieth session of the Governing Council of the Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific. Both events will be part of the Asia-Pacific Statistics Week 2024, which will be held, under the theme “The power of data”, in Bangkok from 9 to 13 December. Various expert group meetings and side events, including the Institute’s nineteenth management seminar for heads of national statistical offices, will be held to complement and enrich the discussions at the Committee and Governing Council sessions. Webcast links: Committee on Statistics, 9th session 11 December 2024 09:00-12:00 (WebTV | Youtube: Floor | CHN | ENG | FRA | RUS) 14:15-17:15 (WebTV | Youtube: Floor | CHN | ENG | FRA | RUS) 12 December 2024 09:00-12:00 (WebTV | Youtube: Floor | CHN | ENG | FRA | RUS) 14:15-17:15 (WebTV | Youtube: Floor | CHN | ENG | FRA | RUS) 13 December 2024 14:15-17:15 (WebTV | Youtube: Floor | CHN | ENG | FRA | RUS) For live captions, please visit: https://caption.escap.un.org/CST9.html Draft programme (as of 25 November 2024) , DRAFT PROGRAMME of the Asia-Pacific Statistics Week (as of 25 November 2024) Print MORNING LUNCH AFTERNOON DAY ONEMonday9 December 2024 9:00-12:00PLENARY CONFERENCE ROOM 4 20th session of the Governing Council of the Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific Agenda item 1Opening of the session(a) Opening addresses;(b) Election of officers;(c) Adoption of the agendaAgenda item 2:Matters arising from the nineteenth session of the Governing Council.Agenda item 3: Activities and financial status of the Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific. 12:00-13:00LUNCH 13:00-14:00MEETING ROOM A EXPERT GROUP: Unleashing the power of big data in official statistics 14:15-17:15PLENARY CONFERENCE ROOM 4 Agenda item 4: Work programme and financial plan for 2025.Agenda item 5: Strategic plan of the Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific for the period 2025–2029.Agenda item 6: Evaluation of the Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific.Agenda item 7: Dates and venue of the twenty-first session of the Governing Council.Agenda item 8: Other matters. DAY TWOTuesday10 December 2024 9:00-10:00PLENARY CONFERENCE ROOM 4 20th session of the Governing Council of the Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific Agenda item 9: Adoption of the report 10:00-17:15 (with break for lunch)MEETING ROOM A 19th Management Seminar for the Heads of National Statistical Offices in Asia and the Pacific Agile statistical systems that are fit for the future(Concept note) DAY THREEWednesday11 December 2024 09:00-12:00PLENARY CONFERENCE ROOM 2 9th session of the Committee on StatisticsHigh-level segment (WebTV | Youtube: Floor | CHN | ENG | FRA | RUS | Live captions) Agenda item 1: Opening of the session: Opening addresses; Election of officers; Adoption of the agenda. [ESCAP/CST(9)/1: 中文 | English | Français | Русский][ESCAP/CST(9)/1/Add.1: 中文 | English | Français | Русский] Agenda item 2: Harnessing the power of data to leave no one behind Present findings High Level panel on whole-of-government approach to building agile statistical systems (Concept note) Round table on Whole-of-Society approach to building agile statistical systems (Concept note) [ESCAP/CST(9)/2: 中文 | English | Français | Русский] 12:00-13:00LUNCH 13:00-14:00MEETING ROOM A SIDE EVENT: Unlocking the Power of Civil Registration Data for Effective Governance(Concept note) 14:15-17:15PLENARY CONFERENCE ROOM 2 High-level segment (WebTV | Youtube: Floor | CHN | ENG | FRA | RUS | Live captions) Agenda item 2: Harnessing the power of data to leave no one behind (continued) [ESCAP/CST(9)/2: 中文 | English | Français | Русский] Country statements DAY FOURThursday12 December 2024 09:00-12:00PLENARY CONFERENCE ROOM 2 9th session of the Committee on StatisticsSenior officials segment (WebTV | Youtube: Floor | CHN | ENG | FRA | RUS | Live captions) Agenda item 3: Emerging issue: agile statistical systems that are fit for the future. [ESCAP/CST(9)/3: 中文 | English | Français | Русский] Country statements 12:00-13:00LUNCH 13:00-14:00MEETING ROOM A SIDE EVENT:Can a Country-First Approach Drive Smarter Data Monitoring?(Concept note) 14:15-17:15PLENARY CONFERENCE ROOM 2 Senior officials segment (WebTV | Youtube: Floor | CHN | ENG | FRA | RUS | Live captions) Agenda item 4: Progress made since the eighth session of the Committee on Statistics: (a) Progress made in implementing the decisions taken by the Committee at its eighth session; [ESCAP/CST(9)/4: 中文 | English | Français | Русский] (b) Report of the Bureau; [ESCAP/CST(9)/5: 中文 | English | Français | Русский] (c) Reports of the Governing Council of the Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific [ESCAP/79/19: 中文 | English | Français | Русский][ESCAP/80/19: 中文 | English | Français | Русский] Country statements Agenda item 5: Other matters. DAY FIVEFriday13 December 2024 09:00-12:00MEETING ROOM A EXPERT GROUPData and AI for sustainable development(Concept note) 12:00-13:00LUNCH 13:00-14:00MEETING ROOM G and H SHOWCASING THE POWER OF DATA:Lightning talks to spark data innovation 14:15-16:15PLENARY CONFERENCE ROOM 2 (WebTV | Youtube: Floor | CHN | ENG | FRA | RUS | Live captions) Agenda item 6: Adoption of the report of the Committee on Statistics at its ninth session.
Description: Side Event of the 9th Session of the Committee on StatisticsDate and time: 11 December 2024, 13:00-14:00 hrsRegistration: All in-person participants must complete the registration form to attend the 9th session of the Committee on Statistics via IndicoObjective:The side event will facilitate discussion on the importance of digitalization to achieve universal registration of vital events. It will further, discuss ongoing efforts of countries to advance the digitalization of simplified and proactive CRVS business processes as part of government wide digital transformation efforts. Participants will also learn about ongoing use of civil registration data for evidence based policies. Further, the side event will provide participants with an overview of plans for the Third Ministerial Conference on CRVS to be held 24-26 June 2025. Distinguished Speakers Petra Nahmias, Chief, Population and Social Statistics Section, Statistics Division, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP).Petra Nahmias leads work at ESCAP Statistics Division on a range of topics including CRVS, gender statistics, migration and displacement statistics, population and housing census, and data integration. She has worked in both international and national statistical systems for over 20 years and holds a PhD in Sociology and Demography. H.E. Mr. Ali Haidar Ahmed, Minister of Housing, Land and Urban Development, the Maldives.Dr Ali Haidar Ahmed obtained his Bachelor in Town and Country Planning from the University of Manchester and his PhD in Planning Studies from the University College London. He has worked in various roles in the Government of the Maldives and was appointed as the Minister of Housing, Land and Urban Development in 2023. Hon. Siromi Turaga, Minister for Justice, Fiji.H.E. Mr. Siromi Turaga, appointed in June 2024, and previously served as Attorney General and Minister for Justice since December 2022, is a lawyer and politician who brings over 30 years of legal and public service experience. He has served as a Resident Magistrate, Principal Legal Officer, and legal consultant, specializing in criminal, civil, family, and land matters. A practicing Barrister and Solicitor since 1999, Hon. Turaga holds a Bachelor of Law and Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice from USP, along with specialized diplomas in Litigation and Refugee Law. He is also a Methodist Lay Preacher, actively engaged in community programs, and is married with four children.Haishan Fu, Chief Statistician, World Bank and Director of the World Bank’s Development Data Group.She leads the development and implementation of the World Bank’s data agenda, overseeing initiatives like the World Development Indicators, Statistical Performance Indicators, and the Development Data Hub. Haishan co-chairs the Data for Countries and Global Priorities working group and oversees the Global Data Facility. She has played key roles in global statistical efforts, including the UN Data Revolution group and the International Statistical Institute. Before joining the World Bank, she held leadership positions at UNESCAP and UNDP. She holds a Ph.D. in Demography from Princeton University and a B.A. in Economics from Peking University. Tanja Brøndsted Sejersen, Statistician, Statistics Division, ESCAP.She leads the Asia- Pacific Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) initiative to ‘Get Every One in the Picture’. Her work involves capacity building activities and collaboration with partners to support country action to improve national statistical systems. She has academic qualifications in demography, statistics and political science. She has conducted research on citizenship legislation and various aspects of civil registration and vital statistics.
Description: The meeting is the first in-country assessment planned under the DA16 project and builds on existing initiatives of partners such as the Leave No One Behind Partnership. It will discuss key focus areas, present international guidance and best practices to key stakeholders and agree on a way forward.
Description: The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) carried out a capacity development mission to the Maldives to accelerate progress towards the production of core international migration statistics in the country as part of ongoing support under the DA 13 project 'Administrative data for disaggregated Sustainable Development Goals indicators in Africa, Asia and the Pacific and Latin America'. The mission consisted of a three-day workshop, 10-12 December 2024, co-organized with the Maldives Bureau of Statistics (MBS) and hosted by Maldives Immigration. The objectives of the workshop were to: familiarize MBS and relevant administrative data producers in the national statistical system (NSS) with the revised conceptual framework on international migration and temporary mobility statistics, discuss steps necessary for integrating administrative data sources across the NSS for the production of migration statistics, and examine available data and metadata across data producers, highlighting discrepancies and methods to harmonize variables. Following the workshop, a high-level meeting on 16 December with the leadership of MBS and Maldives Immigration endorsed the way forward, including the finalization of an MoU governing data sharing. The training underscored the importance of inter-agency cooperation to enhance the quality, timeliness and accuracy of migration data for improved policymaking.
Source: World Bank (Data extracted on: 30 Jul 2024 )
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Organizer(s): World Bank
Description: The Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS), the World Bank’s flagship household survey program, is organizing The Pulse of Progress: Harnessing High-Frequency Survey Data for Development Research in the Polycrisis Era conference, which will take place on December 10, 2024, at the World Bank Headquarters in Washington, D.C. This one-day conference will celebrate four years of the LSMS conducting longitudinal High-Frequency Phone Surveys (HFPS) in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda. Initially launched to address data and knowledge gaps related to the COVID-19 pandemic, these surveys facilitate routine monitoring of large-scale events, such as health emergencies or extreme weather, and their socioeconomic impacts on communities. They have had a transformative impact on national statistical and data systems, complementing existing in-person survey infrastructure with high-frequency data collection on policy-relevant topics. To date, more than 100 survey rounds and 200,000 interviews have been completed across the six countries. The Pulse of Progress: Harnessing High-Frequency Survey Data for Development Research in the Polycrisis Era aims to showcase applied research that leverages high-frequency phone survey data, including but not limited to the LSMS-HFPS, as the primary data source for addressing substantive questions in development economics and related fields.
Source: ESCAP SIAP (Data extracted on: 27 Nov 2024 )
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Organizer(s): ESCAP SIAP
Description: In today’s rapidly evolving worlddriven by technological advancementsclimate changeandpandemicsthe demand for timelygranularand high-quality data is surging. National statisticalsystems must adaptbecoming more agile and responsive to emerging demands. This seminar will delveinto how statistical systems can become more agile.The main topics covered in the ninth session of the Committee on Statistics are shown below. Threethematic areas have been identified that would benefit from further discussion at the level of chiefstatisticianshown in the circles.The purpose of this seminar is to share lessons among chief statisticians on agile statistical systems,inspire deliberations by the Committee on Statistics on agenda item 3 on emerging issuesAgile statistical systems that are fit for the future (ESCAP/CST(9)/3) and identify priorities going forwardincluding future work by the secretariat on the topic.There are two key objectives for the management seminar:• To identify examples of good practice on user focusbusiness process improvementand cross-functional teams in statistical organizations; and• To identify areas that would benefit from a regional approach.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, is intended to provide participants with a thorough understanding of the international standards for the compilation of EDS presented in the 2013 EDS: Guide for Compilers and Users (2013 EDS Guide). It also offers practical compilation guidance on data sources and techniques for compiling EDS, as well as on analysis of these data, taking into account the relevant developments in the global financial market. It comprises a series of lectures, practical exercises, and case studies that cover: Recent developments in the global financial market (e.g., process of disintermediation, moving away from traditional cross-border investment vehicles, etc.) and their effect on EDS compilation; Implementation of the 2013 EDS Guide and ensuring consistency and comparability among external debt statistics and other macroeconomic statistics, namely balance of payments, IIP, government finance statistics, and national accounts; Data dissemination and requirements of the World Bank's Quarterly External Debt Statistics (QEDS) database.
Target Audience: Officials whose main responsibility is the compilation of external debt and/or international investment position (IIP) statistics.
Description: This This course, presented by the Statistics Department, is intended to provide participants with a thorough understanding of the international standards for the compilation of EDS presented in the 2013 EDS: Guide for Compilers and Users (2013 EDS Guide). It also offers practical compilation guidance on data sources and techniques for compiling EDS, as well as on analysis of these data, taking into account the relevant developments in the global financial market. It comprises a series of lectures, practical exercises, and case studies that cover: * recent developments in the global financial market (e.g., process of disintermediation, moving away from traditional cross-border investment vehicles, etc.) and their effect on EDS compilation; * implementation of the 2013 EDS Guide and ensuring consistency and comparability among external debt statistics and other macroeconomic statistics, namely balance of payments, IIP, government finance statistics, and national accounts; * data dissemination and requirements of the World Bank's Quarterly External Debt Statistics (QEDS) database.
Target Audience: Officials whose main responsibility is the compilation of external debt and/or international investment position (IIP) statistics.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 30 Jul 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat
Description: Objectives: * To improve the capacity of national statistical services to produce high quality on GFS and EDP-statistics; * To examine the theoretical basis and structure of the European System of Accounts (ESA 2010) based GFS and EDP-data.
Target Audience: Participants from National Statistical Institutes, National Central Banks and Ministries of Finance working on Government Finance Statistics (GFS) and Excessive Deficit Procedure (EDP).
Description: This course shall present theoretical and practical issues related to the compilation of the sequence of accounts of the SNA (current and capital accounts, financial accounts, other changes in volume of assets accounts, and revaluation accounts) and balance sheets according to institutional sectors. The course is based on the conceptual framework of the System of National Accounts, 2008 (2008 SNA). The aim of the course is to provide participants with the necessary skills to compile the sectoral accounts and the balance sheets. The course consists of lectures covering conceptual and methodological issues as well as exercises that require the application of these concepts and that highlight practical compilation issues.
Target Audience: The workshop is intended for officials employed in national statistical agencies and central banks, who are integrally involved in the compilation of national accounts and financial accounts statistics.
Description: Planning and budgeting are among the most critical components of any institution, as they strategically address the pathways for achieving the institution’s vision as well as objectives for its establishment. As such, on-the-job training for planners and budget officers in areas of statistics is crucial for them to correctly plan with figures. This is, therefore, a comprehensive training course that covers the application of statistics, notably, forecasting techniques in Planning and Budgeting. This course focuses on the most popular business forecasting methods including regression forecasting, exponential smoothing, and ARIMA models.
Target Audience: People working in Public Institutions as Planners, Budget Officers, Statisticians, Economist, and Monitoring and Evaluation Officers and the Academia.
Description: The theme for the World Soil Day 2024 - Caring for soils: measure, monitor, manage - underscores the importance of accurate soil data and information in understanding soils characteristics and supporting informed decision-making on sustainable soil management for food security.
Description: The 18th IAEG-GS Meeting will be held virtually from 3 to 5 December 2024. The meeting, which is closed and by invitation only, will be attended by gender statistics experts representing international, regional, and national institutions that are part of the IAEG-GS. The Meeting will: (a) review progress in the implementation of the mandate on integrating a gender perspective into the work of the Statistical Commission.; (b) showcase innovative initiatives in gender statistics for improved assessment of the status of women and girls in select countries, regional commissions and international agencies; be appraised of progress made on methodological work on violence against women; (c) advance understanding of the gender dimension, and its measurement challenges, in the fields of care and wellbeing, building on the Pact of the Future, including in the context of Beyond GDP and the Global Digital Compact; learn about the Friends of the Chair (FoC) Group on Social and Demographic Statistics, the work towards a conceptual framework, and its key building blocks; and report on agreed 2024 activities, draw conclusions of this meeting and agree activities for 2025, including the 10GFGS.
Regional Training Course on the National Strategy for the Development of Statistics (NSDS) and Advanced Data Planning Tool (ADAPT) for Asia-Pacific
03 Dec 2024 – 05 Dec 2024
Source: ESCAP SIAP (Data extracted on: 27 Nov 2024 )
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Organizer(s): PARIS21 ESCAP SIAP
Description: Better nationalregionaland global development policies underscored the need for resilient and trusted public data systems in evidence-based policymaking. Building back better from the pandemic and other crisesmany public statistical systems need to develop adequate capacities to cope with these new and rising data demands and coordinate strategically across the new data ecosystemFirstlydata producers need to coordinate efficiently to close data gaps at national level. Smart planningmonitoring and evaluationand service delivery measures require highly disaggregated data. Yetfor low and middle-income countrieslimited statistical capacity threaten response and future resilience. For instanceadministrative data systems including sectoral and local data are often inefficiently coordinated. Secondlyentering a decade of actiongovernments need to align globalregional and national policy objectives. This in turnrequires an in-depth mapping of data availability vis-à-vis data requirements. The heightened demand for data to monitor progress and inform policy and development choices necessitate a comprehensive data assessment and mapping at national levelwhich support better alignment of the national strategy for the development of statistics (NSDS) to data demand.Thirdlystatistical offices need to improve coordination with national and international partners to attract funding efficiently. Prioritisation and increased coordination of statistical activitiesfor instance through a national strategy for the development of statisticscan be conducive to attract more domestic funding as well as external resources. At the same timethere is ample scope to strengthen coordination between and among development cooperation partners and partner countries and promote south-south cooperation to make the status quo of funding for statistics more cost-efficient. The Partnership in Statistics for Development in the 21st Century (PARIS21) in collaboration with the Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific (SIAP) developed a unique training course for NSSNSO leaders and national planning senior managers to improve strategic planning for data and statistics developmentusing innovative tools and methods. The course will give a thorough introduction to the NSDS design process. In additionthis course will feature special topics on gender statisticsclimate change datachildren data as well as communications around the NSDS.
Description: The Third Ministerial Conference on CRVS in Asia and the Pacific will take place from 24-26 June 2025 in Bangkok. This high-level event will be organised by ESCAP in coordination with other partners. Considering the importance that civil society organisations (CSO) play in raising awareness among populations and advocating for more efficient CRVS systems, a Civil Society Forum is being organised in March 2025. This will be complemented by country-level pre-consultations with CSOs. ESCAP and GHAI, supported by Vital Strategies, will host the pre-consultation event for Cambodia in conjunction with our roundtable. The event is scheduled for 3 December afternoon from 2-5pm.CSOs can register their interest in this event here.The engagement with young people and CSOs's detail can be found here.
Description: The adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development requires governments and stakeholders to monitor progress towards the defined goals and targets relating to decent work and economic growth. The 19th, 20th, and 21st ICLS Resolutions on work statistics are crucial for the analysis of decent-work-related SDG indicators, particularly SDG 8 on promoting inclusive and sustainable growth, employment and decent work for all. A strong statistical system for producing, collecting and disseminating reliable, comprehensive and timely labour-market information is critical for evidence-based policy-making which promotes "full and productive employment and decent work for all". The ILO Department of Statistics, in close collaboration with the International Training Centre of the ILO, is proud to be organizing the 2024 Labour Market Statistics and Analysis Academy, with a particular focus on the outcomes of the 20th and 21st ICLS recommendations concerning emerging trends in the world of work and the SDG monitoring framework for measuring decent work and supporting evidence-based policy-making. The main objective of the Academy is to better equip and situate national and international stakeholders in the new SDG statistical monitoring system in the context of the main outcomes of the 20th and 21st ICLS recommendations. The Academy is designed to enhance institutional capacity for identifying, collecting, analysing and disseminating labour-market information and other indicators related to decent work. Moreover, the Academy emphasizes the 20th ICLS and 21st ICLS resolutions on the statistics of work relationships and measuring informality as important pillars for measuring progress towards the 2030 agenda, particularly Goal 8 on promoting inclusive and sustainable growth, employment and decent work for all.
Target Audience: Officials from National Statistical Offices (NSOs); Ministries of labour and related Institutions (such as labour observatories); Governmental agencies responsible for labour-market data analysis and national SDG reporting; ILO Social Partners (employers' and workers' organizations); Research and academic institutions; International organizations; Development agencies; Non-governmental organizations, etc.
Description: Planning and budgeting are among the most critical components of any institution, as they strategically address the pathways for achieving the institution’s vision as well as objectives for its establishment. As such, on-the-job training for planners and budget officers in areas of statistics is crucial for them to correctly plan with figures. This is, therefore, a comprehensive training course that covers the application of statistics, notably, forecasting techniques in Planning and Budgeting. This course focuses on the most popular business forecasting methods including regression forecasting, exponential smoothing, and ARIMA models.
Target Audience: People working in Public Institutions as Planners, Budget Officers, Statisticians, Economist, and Monitoring and Evaluation Officers and the Academia.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 01 Dec 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: This course is an eye-opener, democratizing the ethical development and use of AI to empower every human to achieve more: * Understand the working principles of Artificial Intelligences (AI); * Get to know the processes and tools involved in creating an AI; * Get to know impactful use cases of AI; * Understand the risks and challenges related to AI; * Unlock entirely new data sources for science by Leveraging existing AIs (without coding); * Training new custom AIs (with some coding).
Target Audience: Statistical production units and methodologist of NSIs.
Description: Please click here to join on Monday 2 December 2024 at 11:00 - 12:30hrs Bangkok time The United Nations Network of Economic Statisticians recently conducted a sprint to explore the development of a housing statistics framework to assist in monitoring, understanding, and addressing the multifaceted issues associated with housing across various regions and socio-economic contexts. This session will summarise the housing sprint and take a deep dive into Statistics Canada’s framework for housing data. The session will address some examples of challenges encountered by NSOs in producing data on housing and showcase innovative approaches to overcome some of these challenges by using administrative data, web scraping, satellite imaging, AI and other techniques. , Stats Café Home: Upcoming events Concluded events
Description: Please click here to join on Monday 2 December 2024 at 11:00 - 12:30hrs Bangkok time The United Nations Network of Economic Statisticians recently conducted a sprint to explore the development of a housing statistics framework to assist in monitoring, understanding, and addressing the multifaceted issues associated with housing across various regions and socio-economic contexts. This session will summarise the housing sprint and take a deep dive into Statistics Canada’s framework for housing data. The session will address some examples of challenges encountered by NSOs in producing data on housing and showcase innovative approaches to overcome some of these challenges by using administrative data, web scraping, satellite imaging, AI and other techniques. , Stats Café Home: Upcoming events Concluded events
Organizer(s): Hellenic Statistical Authority Greece National Institute of Statistics Romania Ecological University of Bucharest Romania
Description: The conference aims to offer a platform for academics and statisticians to share and discuss advancements in R statistical software, used in applied economics and Official Statistics.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 07 Mar 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: * This course shall democratize the accessibility of privately held data and valorisation thereof; * Get to know the techniques and tools to access privately held data; * Understand the stages of data valorisation pipelines, including data storage and accessibility; * Familiarize with the European Data Strategy and Digital Strategy; * Experiment with web-crawling, web-scraping, web-automation and API interfacing techniques; * Gain hands-on experience with diverse data mining techniques from privately held data sources.
Target Audience: Official Statisticians wishing to develop a toolbox for data acquisition with respect to privately held data at national level.
Description: Background National Statistics Offices and National SDG focal points often struggle with outdated or limited SDG data due to challenges in collecting, validating, and harmonizing data from various national entities. This limits the countries’ ability to disseminate timely statistics, coordinate the production of SDG data, and report on its progress towards the 2030 targets. ESCAP has received requests to develop a user-friendly platform to centralize SDG data management at the national level. The platform would connect to a dissemination tool, such as the Open SDG, thus facilitating the end-to-end dataflow to dissemination. ESCAP is organizing this expert dialogue with selected users of open-source SDG data dissemination tools to better understand their needs and identify the key features of a possible solution. Concept note and tentative programme Objectives The event aims to: Understand national requirements and challenges related to the process of centralizing, validating, and disseminating SDG data; In consultation among countries, establish a general dataflow that covers the usual scenarios for data collection; and Identify use cases of a potential platform based on participants’ inputs
Description: The XXXII meeting of directors of international cooperation agencies of countries in Latin America and the Caribbean is organised by the Latin American and Caribbean Economic System (SELA) jointly with the Government of the Republic of Peru, through the Peruvian Agency for International Cooperation (APCI), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Peru and the support of the Perez-Guerrero Trust Fund (PGTF) of the Group of 77. It is held in Lima, Peru, from 27 to 28 November 2024.The event aims at deepening the actions undertaken by SELA to support South-South and Triangular Cooperation by strengthening regional institutions with competence in this area, systematize the experiences of Latin American and Caribbean countries in the process of sharing and standardizing methodologies to measure cooperation at the regional level, and increase knowledge about the approaches formulated to learn about the progress made and the methods applied by the countries.The objective is to contribute to the development of systems that are as homogeneous as possible to ascertain the real scope of South-South and Triangular Cooperation (SSTC), as a contribution to the promotion of mechanisms to systematise information on SSTC by fostering the use and application of technological platforms for the exchange of information.UNCTAD will share information on measuring South-South cooperation within the UN system and its reporting on SDG indicator 17.3.1, and presents the “Manual for the Framework to measure South-South Cooperation”, a country led-process lead by pioneering countries and supported by UNCTAD. The Manual is a step by step guidance for countries part of the UN DA15 ongoing project on quantifying SSC to mobilize funds for the Sustainable Development Goals, and any other interested countries who wish to measure SSC.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 02 Dec 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat
Description: Did you know that the harmonised index of consumer prices (HICP) currently covers the price changes of more than 400 products like pizza, rice, cars, and hotels? Did you know that the prices for olive oil showed the highest increase in the EU in September 2024, while the prices for liquid fuels showed the largest decrease? Consumer price indices measure changes over time in the prices of goods and services that households buy for consumption. These indices are used for various purposes, for example for conducting monetary policy, indexing commercial contracts, wages, social protection benefits and financial instruments. In the EU, the HICP provides a comparable measure of consumer price inflation. This webinar will give you general insights into the HICP, inform you on recent developments, and the work carried out at Eurostat. Our experts will show you how to find relevant data and information and guide you through Eurostat’s food price monitoring tool.
Organizer(s): UN-GGIM: Americas ECLAC AI Generated
Description: The Integrated Geospatial Information Framework (UN-IGIF) was developed in collaboration between the United Nations and the World Bank, with the purpose of providing guidance to countries in developing and strengthening their national and subnational arrangements on geospatial information management and related infrastructure.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 07 Mar 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: The training course will introduce the theoretical and practical know-how of TSA compilation and will position TSA vis-à-vis primary tourism statistics. The main compilation challenges for each TSA table (with a focus on core tables 1 to 7) will be discussed, with the aim of improving the international comparability through maximising the use of existing harmonised European statistics. The final goal of the course is to prepare participants to embark on the production of TSA at national level or to improve the existing TSA and to better align national TSA to the international recommendations.
Target Audience: Staff of national statistical authorities involved in the production process of tourism statistics, national accounts or (tourism) satellite accounts, who want to acquire a good understanding of the macro-economic measurement of the tourism sector, in particular the tourism satellite accounting framework (TSA), with the objective to develop or improve TSA in their country. The training is targeted at experienced as well as novice or future TSA compilers with the aim of spreading/exchanging the know-how and best practices within and between the different levels of expertise.
Description: On behalf of the Bureau of the Statistical Commission, a webinar is being held on 26 November at 9AM Eastern to accompany the open consultation on the Background note prepared by the Bureau, with support from the Substantive Secretariat, the Statistics Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the Secretariat entitled 'United Nations Statistical Commission: Implementing the 2022 Terms of Reference and remaining relevant in the United Nations system'.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 07 Mar 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat EFTA FSO Switzerland
Description: The objective of the course is to introduce participants to some advanced techniques of non-response treatment, variance estimation, calibration and sample coordination. Theoretical concepts and findings will be illustrated by examples and practical exercises. The course starts with an introduction to the R software, which will allow participants to better understand practical applications of presented survey techniques and their successful implementation in practice.
Target Audience: Junior or senior staff of methodology divisions using sample survey techniques in the production of statistics or staff with comparable knowledge.
Description: 2024 Q4 Meeting of the Civil Registration Professionals of South Asia (CR8) The objectives of this virtual quarterly CR8 meeting are to (1) share country experience on developing a M&E plan and system, and (2) highlight the 2025 review of progress in implementing the RAF including the process and timeline associated with the completion of the 2025 review questionnaire. The meeting also provides an opportunity for CR8 members to ask questions and seek clarification on the questionnaire as well. The meeting will be held virtually via MS Teams on 25 November 2024 at 15:00-16:30, Bangkok time. The modality of the meeting will mainly be presentations followed by Q&As.RegistrationTo join MS-Teams meeting: click HEREPlease find the recording of the meeting here.The previous Q3 meeting of CR8 and the documents can be found here.
Description: The Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) will host the 6th Asia-Pacific Directors General Forum for South-South and Triangular Cooperation in November 2024. The platform facilitates South-South and triangular cooperation among its 62 member States and associate members to address development challenges and harness opportunities.Considering the need to effectively quantify South-South and triangular cooperation, the forum provides a platform to discuss how national agencies led by their technical cooperation agencies can formalize measurement of SDG indicator 17.3.1 relating to South-South cooperation leveraging the Manual for the Framework to Measure South-South Cooperation, developed by pioneering countries, with the support of UNCTAD. ESCAP’s Statistics Division and UNCTAD, as well as other UN Regional Commissions, are jointly working together to implement a UN DA15 project supporting Southern countries in piloting the UN Framework.The meeting objectives are: * Discuss conceptual issues regarding the measurement of South-South cooperation * Showcase examples of how other countries have addressed challenges to measure South-South cooperation * Raise awareness amongst ESCAP members and how they can take practical steps to formalize measurement of South-South cooperation within their respective countries.
Description: You are invited to join the UNLIA webinar featuring Mikiko Otani, a member of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child. She will share insights from the CRC Committee’s recent observations to various countries, highlighting common challenges and gaps in achieving universal birth registration. Please refer to the attached note for more details. Date and Time: 22 November 2024 at 8:00-9:00 am ESTRegistration Link: https://unicef.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_3roQ5yCSTfC_LB-ak32quwAgenda: TimeTopic8:00-8:05Opening remarks by Kirsten Di Martino, Senior Adviser, Child Protection, UNICEF HQ8:05-8:35The Convention on the Rights of the Child and Universal Birth Registration: Mikiko Otani, Member, UN Committee on the Rights of the Child8:35-9:00Discussion: moderated by Bhaskar Mishra, CRVS and Legal Identity Specialist, UNICEF HQ
Description: FAO is organizing an expert consultation meeting on the new World Programme for the Census of Agriculture 2030 (WCA 2030). The two-day meeting will include presentations on the main changes from the previous programme and discussions.
Description: The 12th Statistical Forum of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will take place in hybrid format (in person and virtually) in Washington, D.C. from November 20 to 21, 2024. The Forum is a platform for policymakers, researchers, the private sector, regulators, and compilers of economic and financial data to come together to discuss cutting edge issues in macroeconomic and financial statistics and to build support for statistical improvements. The theme of this year’s Statistical Forum is Measuring the Implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on the Economy. The increased use of AI presents both opportunities and challenges, with significant economic and societal implications. However, the impact of AI on the economy and society remains an evolving field of study. To understand these implications, governments, businesses, individuals require robust and comparable statistics. The 12th Statistical Forum will explore (i) the transformative potential of AI and where its impact will most likely be felt over the short to medium term, (ii) the impact of AI on jobs and productivity, (iii) the distributional implications of AI, (iv) how AI is being used by firms (including statistical agencies) and regulated by governments, and (v) some early attempts to produce official measures of the “AI industry”, “AI investment”, and the “use of AI”. The Forum will provide participants with an opportunity to share experiences and build on topics of mutual interest through presentations and panel discussions.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 07 Mar 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: Learn how to extract relevant information for statistical purposes from huge amounts of data.
Target Audience: IT professionals whose role is to support statisticians with big data infrastructure, either via local big data clusters or via cloud solutions, and the engineering of big data processing. Methodologists and statisticians with a strong IT background who are expected to handle big data infrastructures and unstructured data.
Description: As an integral part of the national data ecosystem, integrating household surveys with other data sources has become paramount to produce data that are more comprehensive, inclusive and timely. Such integration also helps improve quality and efficiency of household surveys. Improving sampling efficiency and coverage is one of the eight technical priorities of the "Positioning Household Surveys for the Next Decade", a paper prepared by the Inter-Secretariat Working Group on Household Surveys to guide the Group its support to national statistical offices. In this context, the UN Statistics Division and the National Bureau of Statistics of China are co-organising an international seminar on Integrating Household Surveys with diverse data sources. The seminar aims to foster knowledge exchange, explore innovative approaches, and address challenges related to survey data integration and interoperability. You are invited to submit abstracts (max. 250 words) for the technical meeting, focusing on one or more of the following aspects: - Practical experiences in negotiating data access with other data owners and in maintaining ethical standard and data confidentiality. - Experiences and work undertaken to improve interoperability of household surveys by design. - Methods used to build a multi-source frame for sampling. - Innovative approaches to integrate household survey with other data sources such as censuses, other surveys, administrative data and nontraditional data such as remote sensing, mobile phone positioning data, social media data and citizen-generated data. This may include record linkage or modelling. - Quality considerations for data integration and integrated data. We have limited funding for experts from low-income and lower-middle income countries. Deadline for submitting your abstract: 15 September 2024 (if you are interested in applying for funding) and 30 September otherwise. https://forms.office.com/e/LJY6Zxzsic.
Title in Spanish: Seminario regional sobre innovaciones y desafíos en encuestas de hogares
Organizer(s): ECLAC AI Generated
Description: El Seminario busca fomentar el intercambio de experiencias y buenas prácticas, promoviendo el uso de nuevas metodologías y tecnologías, con el fin de mejorar la precisión, comparabilidad y accesibilidad de la información estadística, garantizando su utilidad para la toma de decisiones basadas en evidencia.
Title in Spanish: XXV Asamblea General del Instituto Panamericano de Geografía e Historia
Organizer(s): IPGH OEA ECLAC PUCV AI Generated
Description: La XXV Asamblea General del IPGH se celebrará en Santiago, en la sede de la CEPAL, así como en la sede de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (PUCV) en la misma ciudad.
Organizer(s): John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Health
Description: CRVS team will organise the side event on 19 November 2024 at The Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference on the Beijing+30. The side event is on Inclusion of Gender Diversity in Gender Equality Efforts: Focus on CRVS and legal identity organised by our partners at John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Health. This side event will establish the critical need for gender inclusivity in gender equality efforts, starting with legal identity through access to civil registration systems. The concept note is attached below.Recording of the meeting can be watched here.
Description: In this Global Network Webinar, we welcomed Anders Humlum of the Booth School of Business, University of Chicago. He presented on the topic of "The Adoption of ChatGPT." Anders and his co-author Emilie Vestergaard (University of Copenhagen) investigate the adoption of ChatGPT, the icon of Generative AI, using a large-scale survey experiment linked to comprehensive register data in Denmark. Surveying 18,000 workers from 11 exposed occupations, they document that ChatGPT is widespread, but substantial inequalities have emerged. Women are 16 percentage points less likely to have used the tool for work. Furthermore, despite its potential to lift workers with less expertise, users of ChatGPT earned slightly more already before its arrival. Workers see a substantial productivity potential in ChatGPT but are often hindered by employer restrictions and the need for training. Anders covered these and other key findings from the study at this webinar.
Source: ESCAP SIAP (Data extracted on: 27 Nov 2024 )
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Organizer(s): ESCAP SIAP
Description: Decreasing and properly managing solid wastes are priorities for many countries. These priorities are also reflected in the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which call for substantially reducing waste generation through preventionreductionrecycling and reuseas well as for proper management of all kinds of waste. Solid wastes can have a negative impact on well-being. Data on solid waste generation and management by different actors in the economy are necessary to inform policies not only for the management of wastebut also policies related to circular economyresource use and ecosystems. This short course focuses on solid waste statistics and accounts. The solid waste accounts are based on the System for Environmental-Economic Accounting-Central Framework (SEEA-CF).
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 07 Mar 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: The main objectives of the course are: * Introducing the participants to the Python language and ecosystem; * Make the participants able to read and write basic Python programs for common data processing tasks (data analysis, exploration and visualization).
Target Audience: Official statisticians (including managers) involved in Big Data and Data Science activities having no specific knowledge on this subject; Official statisticians (including managers) who, without being directly involved in Big Data and Data Science activities, need basic knowledge on the use of the Python language.
Description: The overall objective of this regional workshop is to train staff from the statistical offices of Jamaica and Belize in the use of REDATAM for the development of web applications for online dissemination of census and survey microdata. With follow-up support from ECLAC to be provided as necessary, the two statistical offices will then use REDATAM for online dissemination of their 2022 census data.
Source: ESCAP SIAP (Data extracted on: 27 Nov 2024 )
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Organizer(s): ESCAP SIAP SPC
Description: The transition from paper and pencil interviewing (PAPI) to computer assisted personal interviewing (CAPI) has been one of the key hallmarks of national statistical offices’ (NSO) efforts to adopt efficient and cost-effective new technologies and modernize the collection and production of official statistics. CAPI combines the advantages of face-toface interviewing with the efficiency and accuracy of computer technology and brings several efficiencies including(i) improving data qualityreducing the time lag between data collection and data analysis; (ii) increasing the speed of data turnaround and release; and (iii) enabling significant savings in fieldwork and data processing costs.Like other subregionsthe Pacific Islands countries and territories havesince 2010embraced the transition to CAPI using Survey Solutions. While there has been significant investment in the new technology as well as national level support and training from the Pacific Community (SPC) for the conduct of surveys and censuseshigh staff turnover and capability gaps in the Pacific subregion necessitate continuous training to further strengthen existing capacity. Furthermorethe report of the 2023 capacity needs assessment conducted by SPC reveals a skills gap of 65% in data collection and places demand for training in collection applications (Survey Solutions) as one of the highest priorities for NSOs. This finding corroborated with the results of the 2023 Training Needs Assessment undertaken by the Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific (SIAP).
Description: This event is held within the framework of the Fifth United Nations World Data Forum, which will take place in Medellín, Colombia, from November 12 to 15, 2024.
Description: The overall objective of this technical assistance is to improve the technical capacity of staff and management of the Department of Gender Affairs, the Department of Statistics, and other Ministries, Departments and Agencies of the Government of Turks and Caicos Islands to collect, analyze, utilize and disseminate sex-disaggregated data in accordance with international standards and best practices.
Description: The session connects the broader data community at the World Data Forum with actors who are taking data into their own hands to discuss and be inspired by: (1) their pathways toward becoming data producers, (2) the enabling environment for these initiatives to flourish, (3) the added value of their traditional and non-traditional data collection methods in improving the realization of their rights, and (4) the support they need for sustainable production and use of citizen data. The event also invites the World Data Forum Community to co-create a roadmap for implementing the Copenhagen Framework on Citizen Data, developed by the Collaborative on Citizen Data in 2024.
Organizer(s): FAO DANE Colombia UNSD HLG-PCCB UNWDF PC AI Generated
Description: The United Nations World Data Forum 2024 opened from 12 to 15 November in Medellín, Colombia, to spur data innovation, nurture partnerships, mobilize high-level political and financial support for data, and build a pathway to better data for sustainable development.
Description: The Asia-Pacific Stats Café on "Countdown to Asia-Pacific Statistics Week" was held on Monday, 12 November 2024, from 13:00 to14:30 hrs (Bangkok time; UTC +7) About this Session With Asia-Pacific Statistics Week approaching, preparation is vital to ensure we get the most impact from the week of events. The ninth session of the Committee on Statistics of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) will take place from 11 to 13 December as part of Asia-Pacific Statistics Week, which will be held under the theme "Power of Data" from 9 to 13 December 2024 in Bangkok. This Stats Café session will introduce the different events and segments of the week and is designed to help participants prepare for their effective participation. The week will start on Monday, 9 December, with the twentieth session of the Governing Council of the Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific (SIAP), which will consider the Director's report on SIAP’s achievements in 2024, as well as the evaluation and the strategic plan for the period 2025–2029. On Tuesday, 10 December, the nineteenth management seminar for heads of national statistical offices will be held, which will complement discussions at the Committee and Governing Council sessions. The ninth session of the Committee on Statistics of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) will take place from 11 to 13 December 2024. The Committee session will feature a high-level segment for member States to assess progress on the Declaration on Navigating Policy with Data to Leave No One Behind and identify priority actions that require resources, initiative, engagement or other investment by Governments, as well as participation by the whole of society, to put the region fully on track to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The senior officials' segment will focus on developing agile statistical systems and review progress on decisions from the eighth session. Additionally, UN entities and other international organizations and interested stakeholders can showcase their work related to the "Power of Data" theme through lightning talks or exhibitions. Related links: Committee on Statistics, Ninth Session UNSIAP , Stats Café Home: Upcoming events Concluded events
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Source: ESCAP SIAP (Data extracted on: 27 Nov 2024 )
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Organizer(s): ESCAP SIAP
Description: This course offers participants the opportunity to explore and interpret key techniques in data visualizationboth for data exploration and effective data presentation. Learners will analyzeevaluateand apply essential principles of data visualization through dedicated case studiesaddressing the challenges of visualizing complex datasets. The course emphasizes strategies for visualizing multi-dimensional data and introduces practical methods for representing statistical indicators on maps and within dashboards.While the course introduces popular softwareit is not focused on any particular tool. Participants are encouraged to use the software of their choicetailoring the techniques to their specific needs.Designed as an interactive e-learning experiencethe course comprises six moduleseach following a structured progression with mandatory pedagogical activities. These include videosinteractive contentchatslive lectureswebinarsdocument readingsexerciseshomework assignmentspollsand quizzesall aimed at engaging participants in active learning and application of the material.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, focuses on the conceptual framework of government finance statistics (GFS) as presented in the Government Finance Statistics Manual 2014 (GFSM 2014), with an emphasis on new concepts introduced in GFSM 2014. The course requires that participants are familiar with the basic GFS framework and classification system. Emphasizing the integrated GFS framework, the course addresses complex cross-cutting GFS issues, such as social protection, government employee pension liabilities, standardized guarantee schemes, contracts, leases, licenses, public-private partnerships, and public sector balance sheets. It also examines coverage of the public sector, giving special attention to borderline and complex cases. The course discusses internal and intersectoral data consistency, coordination between data-producing agencies, as well as data presentation and communication with users. The format is lectures and discussions.
Target Audience: Officials whose main responsibility, for at least three years, has been compiling and disseminating GFS and who are regularly faced with complex GFS methodological and compilation issues, such as those described below.
Description: This two-week course, conducted by the Statistics Department, familiarizes participants with the sources and methods to develop macroeconomic relevant climate change-related indicators that can inform economic and financial policies. The participants gain an understanding of a) environmental accounting concepts; b) how to assess global/open-source datasets that can be used for the compilation; and c) the different approaches and methodologies used to estimate the indicators. The course consists of a series of lectures, workshops, and plenary discussions on country practices describing the methods for compiling environmental and climate change statistics, including data sources. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss compilation challenges they have encountered and gain insights into the analytical uses of the environmental and climate change statistics. The statistics covered include Environmental revenues and expenditures, Natural Resource Accounts, Physical and Transition risk indicators, Air Emission Accounts and Sustainable Finance indicators.
Target Audience: Officials from National Statistics Agencies, Ministries of Finance, Planning and Environment, Central Banks and other agencies, who are responsible for compiling environment and/or climate change related indicators.
Description: Labour productivity has been on a declining trend in the Caribbean. An examination of this trend revealed a growing concern of skills mismatch in the labour market. At the same time, youth unemployment is high in many countries, with young women and girls twice as likely not to be in education, employment or training. These are troubling signs for human capital formation at a time when Caribbean economies are experiencing low growth, and the global economy is becoming increasingly knowledge based.
Organizer(s): UNSD DANE Colombia Ruta N Colombia City of Medellin Colombia AWS Esri GPSDD UN MGCY ECLAC Openmined GeoVille DataProvider.com
Description: Hosted in Medellín, Colombia by Ruta N and DANE and organized by the United Nations and partners in conjunction with the World Data Forum, UN Datathon 2024 will challenge participants to localize the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the city level, with a focus on Medellín, Colombia. The event centers on urban sustainable development, addressing three critical themes: Sustainable Tourism, Urban Waste Management, and Circular Economy. Teams will develop innovative, data-driven solutions that strike a balance between economic growth, environmental preservation, and community well-being. The Datathon aims to showcase how localizing SDGs can foster resilient, inclusive cities and demonstrate how Medellín’s strategies can serve as blueprints for sustainable urban development globally.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 11 Dec 2023 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: * Provide an overview of the key concepts of SEEA ecosystem accounting; * Provide an overview of how national ecosystem accounts are constructed, and how they relate to ‘mainstream’ environmental and national accounting, * Provide understanding the data and tools used to construct the component parts of the accounts (e.g. spatial and environmental data in GIS for ecosystem extent; ecosystem services evidence; monetary valuation techniques).
Target Audience: NSIs and Other National Authorities (with lower priority), working in the field of ecosystem accounting.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 07 Mar 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: The course aims at enhancing participants' theoretical and practical knowledge of National Accounts. They should become familiar with the system framework, the integration and balancing of source data and the presentation of national accounts data.
Target Audience: Junior statisticians of National Accounts (NA) departments or statisticians of other statistical departments dealing with NA statistics.
Description: Transforming Agrifood Systems for our Blue Pacific Continent through Better Production, Better Nutrition, a Better Environment and a Better Life
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 07 Mar 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: To provide participants engaged in statistical, technical and other analytical training, presentations, consulting and facilitating group discussions with enhanced levels of competence and the expertise required to be effective in understanding and managing groups and individuals. It provides excellent insights into ‘statistical consulting’ which is frequently part of the statistical trainers’ role.
Target Audience: Designed for all those who are engaged in providing statistical, technical and analytical training, giving statistical, technical and analytical presentations, providing statistical, technical and analytical consulting and facilitating group sessions with statistical and non-statistical audiences.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, is intended to broaden participants’ understanding of the concepts, methods, and challenges of compiling CPIs. Concepts and methods introduced in the online CPIx are explored in greater detail to address actual compilation issues faced by participants. It provides an overview of the index number theory and the practical implications of choosing the index number formula at lower and higher levels of aggregation. The course covers the sources and methods for developing/validating weights; and practical applications of the methods used for sampling areas, items, outlets, and varieties. New and emerging data sources as well as new collection technologies are discussed. Frontier issues including how to better measure the digital economy are included. Linkages to the 2008 SNA are highlighted, including the related principles of scope, coverage, and valuation. The course covers the following topics: calculating elementary and upper-level indexes; methods for handling temporarily and permanently missing prices; introducing new outlets, items, and varieties; adjusting prices for quality changes; chaining and linking indexes with updated weighting structures; and meeting data users’ needs to ensure relevancy. The course follows the principles and recommendations of the CPI Manual (2020).
Target Audience: Compilers of consumer price indexes (CPIs).
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, is intended to broaden participants’ understanding of the concepts, methods, and challenges of compiling CPIs. Concepts and methods introduced in the online CPIx are explored in greater detail to address actual compilation issues faced by participants. It provides an overview of the index number theory and the practical implications of choosing the index number formula at lower and higher levels of aggregation. The course covers the sources and methods for developing/validating weights; and practical applications of the methods used for sampling areas, items, outlets, and varieties. New and emerging data sources as well as new collection technologies are discussed. Frontier issues including how to better measure the digital economy are included. Linkages to the 2008 SNA are highlighted, including the related principles of scope, coverage, and valuation.
Target Audience: Compilers of consumer price indexes (CPIs).
Description: This course, conducted by the Statistics Department, presents a user-friendly tool developed by the department to automatically combine monetary, government, and international investment position data reported to the Statistics Department to create a distribution of claims and liabilities on a from-whom-to-whom basis—an extremely useful tool for macro-financial analysis. Once the matrix is generated, country officials should be able to use the Balance Sheet Approach (BSA) analysis to focus on overall balance sheet linkages and identify specific exposures and vulnerabilities, such as excessive reliance on external funding, leverage buildup in the corporate sector, and overreliance on the banking sector for sovereign debt placement.
Target Audience: Officials at central banks, ministries of finance and other agencies in charge of compiling monetary and financial statistics, government finance/debt statistics, and external sector statistics; and/or overseeing macro-financial analysis.
Description: This side event, in connection with the main 4th Global Expert Forum event, is jointly organized by ESCAP, UNEP and ECE, to explore the nexus between disaster related statistics and civil registration and vital statistics systems, including the use of civil registration to support the production of disaster-related statistics. Date: 1 November 2024Venue: United Nations Conference Center, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Format: Mainly in-person, with the possibility of online presentations.Duration of the event: 3 hoursParticipants: All participants attending the expert forum and interested participants from the African StatCOM and UN-GGIM: Africa
The 2024 meeting of the UN Committee of Experts on International Statistical Classifications will take place virtually in two sessions in May and October respectively. The second session of the meeting is scheduled virtually for 29, 31 October and 5 November 2024 from 6.00am to 9.00am New York time. The Committee is expected to review the progress of the Committee’s work programme and provide advice for the activities for the rest of the year.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 01 Dec 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: Objectives: * Introduction to geographic information systems, geospatial standards, and the spatial data infrastructure in Europe. * Presenting the role of geospatial information in the statistical production process and statistical data dissemination. * Hands-on experience with GIS tools and thematic mapping.
Target Audience: Statisticians involved in the production and analysis of statistical data. Focus on geocoding of data, data integration based on location, spatial analysis, and presentation of statistics on maps.
Description: The Statistical Commission for Africa is the regional equivalent of the Statistical Commission of the Economic and Social Council, which is the highest body in the global statistical system. The Statistical Commission for Africa is the highest decision-making body in Africa responsible for setting statistical standards, developing concepts and methods and implementing them at the national, subregional and continental levels. The meeting provides an opportunity for participants to discuss the link between African and global statistical systems to ensure that Africa is not left behind in global statistical initiatives. Participants will also be able to discuss progress and statistical development in African statistical systems. Furthermore, the meeting will serve as a platform for international partners to meet representatives of member States of the Economic Commission for Africa to discuss the needs of those member States.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 07 Mar 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: The main objective of this course is to offer an overview on the various necessary steps to compile a supply-and-use system and for the transformation of the resulting data in matrices, focusing on practical examples on how that compilation is made. The second objective is to provide an introduction into input-output analysis and to show how this technique may be used for structural analyses. In particular the course aims at illustrating in which fields input-output analysis can be used to address questions of high political relevance.
Target Audience: The course is targeted at ESS staff interested in the principles of compiling supply and use tables according to ESA2010 and in understanding the main concepts and the potentials of input-output analysis for empirical investigations of high political relevance; Sound command of English.
Description: United Nations Statistics Division, under the guidance of the Inter-Secretariat Working Group on Household Surveys (ISWGHS), is embarking on a project to revise and update the series of United Nations methodological publications on household surveys. The meeting will bring the experts together to:
Review and gather input on the first draft of the revised UN Handbook on Household Surveys;
Conduct a mid-term assessment of the revision and consultation process;
Discuss plans for the disseminating, promoting and supporting the use of the revised handbook, along with a long-term strategies for keeping the handbook up to date.
The draft handbook will be further revised based on input from the technical meeting and will be presented to the 56th UN Statistical Commission in 2025.
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Description: The second webinar will address some examples of the most common housing indicators that are needed and produced, as well as some of the more familiar challenges encountered by NSOs in producing data on housing. Furthermore, the webinar will showcase innovative approaches to overcome some of these challenges by using administrative data, web scraping, satellite imaging, AI and other techniques.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 07 Mar 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: This Course aims at: * defining the reference framework of data generated by smart devices, technologies, networks and their relations with official statistics, also comparing NSIs’ different situations (different level of integration, etc.); * introducing the main concepts, frameworks and artefacts to carry out Enterprise Architecture for official statistics; * focussing on the Business Architecture Model/Activity model within NSIs, orientating it to ongoing modernisation changes and related mainly to innovative data sources, Big Data, new data; * explaining how to apply and map GAMSO to new business models for official statistics, innovative sources and Big Data; * explaining how to map GSBPM to the statistical processes related to innovative data sources; * providing an overview of the main statistical and technical guidelines, best practices, and standards as pre-requisites for the implementation of EA and BREAL; * focussing on the context of Big data REference Architecture and Layers – BREAL; * providing theoretical training to develop BREAL; * promoting group discussions on topics such as setting up a capability assessment and roadmaps for acquiring and benefiting from ESS shared investments.
Target Audience: Business architects; IT managers responsible for the design of new processes and innovative IT systems; Statistical survey managers; Statisticians and Technicians involved in statistical production processes.
Title in Spanish: Taller para la generación de indicadores de cambio climático en República Dominicana
Organizer(s): ECLAC ONE Dominican Republic AI Generated
Description: La ONE impulsa el fortalecimiento de estadísticas ambientales y de cambio climático a nivel nacional, colaborando con el SEN para superar los desafíos de la información multidisciplinaria necesaria para monitorear el impacto del cambio climático.
Description: Organized on the sidelines of the 52nd Plenary Session of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS 52), held from 21 to 25 October 2024 in Rome, Italy.
Description: For this Global Network Webinar on “Beyond GDP – Stakes, Challenges, and Statistical Contributions”, we welcomed Stefan Schweinfest and Amr Nour from the UN Statistics Division (UNSD) to discuss the developments around measuring progress beyond Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The webinar gave valuable insights into the policy and political momentum behind this agenda, including the latest relevant action from the Summit of the Future. Amr Nour highlighted the key stakes and challenges, emphasizing the need to move beyond GDP's blind spots in capturing human well-being, environmental sustainability, and inequality. The speakers elaborated on the potential contributions from statistical frameworks, accounts, and work streams across the economic, environmental, and social/demographic domains. Examples included the updated System of National Accounts, the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting, and initiatives like the Statistical Framework for Measuring Sustainable Tourism and Bhutan's Gross National Happiness Index. The Q&A session reflected the statistical community's interest in finding the right balance between conceptual breadth and practical simplicity in developing a new dashboard of progress indicators. Participants emphasized the need for broad stakeholder engagement, user-driven priorities, and building on existing initiatives to ensure country ownership and global comparability.
Description: Massive digitization drive across public and private sectors has led organizations and their people to possess vast amounts of data, both qualitative and quantitative, often complex, unstructured, and varied. This huge data proliferation has also been accompanied with advances and rapid developments in data analytics by a corresponding surge in the creation of powerful tools. The exponential growth in both data and analytical capabilities, including artificial intelligence, is creating opportunities and challenges for managing knowledge. By integrating data analytics and knowledge management individuals and organizations can gain and share powerful insights, test strategies, improve transparency, increase value and improve the impact. If you have witnessed a knowledge gap in your organization and want to learn about developing strategies on leveraging data to bridge this gap this is the course for you. Alternatively, if you seek to build a culture in your organization that capitalizes on data-driven knowledge to develop impactful policies, programmes and projects and streamline work processes, this certification programme will guide you in doing so. Or, if you are interested in learning how data analytics can improve your own performance and, if you are curious about the latest trends and the future foresights towards data analytics and knowledge management, this course is the right place to be! Welcome to the certification course on "Data Analytics and Knowledge Management for Development".
Target Audience: Programme and project managers, knowledge management officers, monitoring and evaluation officers, technical specialists, project professionals, professionals from private enterprises, academicians and researchers involved in the identification, design, implementation and evaluation of development policies, programmes and projects.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, targets compilers with a certain degree of experience in the compilation and/or analysis of balance of payments and/or IIP. It aims at providing a deep understanding of the concepts, data sources and compilation techniques for balance of payments and IIP statistics and their application for addressing complex methodological issues. The course does not cover the basic balance of payments and IIP concepts. The intermediate level of the course presupposes participants’ familiarity with the basic concepts.The course consists of a series of lectures and workshops analyzing country cases with a strong data component and to allow peer learning and sharing of experiences. Recognizing the challenges in compiling data in emerging areas of user interest, the course emphasizes specific topics, such as estimating informal cross border activities and the treatment of special purpose entities. The course examines themes and challenges emerging from developments in global economy, and participants have the opportunity to discuss how these impact compilation work. Specific exercises are geared to integrating data compilation with Fund surveillance and policy advice; and to demonstrate the analytical uses of ESS.
Target Audience: Officials responsible for the compilation of external sector statistics (ESS) (balance of payments and/or international investment position (IIP) statistics), and who are familiar with the methodology of the Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Statistics Manual, sixth edition (BPM6).
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 07 Mar 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: The goal of this activity is to provide participants with basic knowledge about the syntax and basis of the R programming language and to provide an overview of the main packages which are important for the statistical production process. The activity will pay special attention to these packages devoted to management of large databases and the analysis of complex surveys.
Target Audience: Statistical production units and methodologist of NSIs.
Source: ESCAP SIAP (Data extracted on: 27 Nov 2024 )
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Organizer(s): ESCAP SIAP UN-WOMEN
Description: The achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires the availability of high-qualitytimely and reliable data to produce the relevant SDG indicators and other statisticsdisaggregated as relevant. To meet this needofficial statistics must modernize and incorporate new data sourcesincluding Big Data. At its 53rd session in 2022the Statistical Commission underscored the importance of mainstreaming the use of big data and data science into the work programmes of national statistical offices and the necessity to include training in big data and data science into the training curricula of national statistical offices. This course is a first response to this injunction by sharing experienceand providing the pedagogical activities required for understanding the process leading to the production and dissemination of official statistics and SDGs with new data sources.The course Big DataInnovative Methods and Applications for Achieving organized by the United Nations Statistical Institute for Asia and Pacific (UNSIAP)with the contribution of the UN Women Centre of Excellence for Gender Equality (SeoulKorea) will be conducted from 21 to 25 October 2024in ChibaJapan.
Description: Save the date to attend the fifteenth meeting of the Inter-agency and Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goal Indicators (IAEG-SDGs). The meeting will be held in person from 21 to 23 October 2024 in Oslo, Norway.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 07 Mar 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Statistics Norway
Description: To create an awareness of the possibilities and challenges of mixed mode questionnaire design generally, and for IESS surveys specifically.
Target Audience: Pretesting, data collection and subject matter specialists conducting or planning mixed mode data collection for social surveys covered by the IESS framework regulation.
Organizer(s): Bank Indonesia UNSD UNCTAD AI Generated
Description:
The international high-level seminar aims to help policymakers, statisticians, academics, and others understand the increasing trend of cross-border digital trade. The discussion will focus on policy issues, opportunities, and challenges related to digital trade. It will also address the participation of SMEs and individuals/households in utilizing digitalization to boost economic growth and explore innovative methodologies for collecting cross-border digital trade statistics. It targets a diverse audience of approximately 100 in-person participants, including central bank representatives, government officials, statistics compilers, academics, and private sector members.
Description: The webinar, organized by the Friends of the Chair Group on Social and Demographic Statistics, in collaboration with the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), will explore the concept of time as a crucial integrating element in social and demographic statistics. The event will address best practices for data collection and dissemination frequencies, the importance of longitudinal data and life course approaches in understanding social outcomes, and propose mechanisms to ensure the adaptability and relevance of demographic and social statistics over time. Key themes include managing trade-offs between timeliness and resource constraints, understanding social outcomes through life course transitions, and incorporating generational measures to reflect societal changes. The webinar aims to foster comprehensive discussions and generate recommendations that enhance the collection, analysis, and dissemination of demographic and social statistics.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 02 Dec 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat
Description: This year, the EU celebrated the 20th anniversary of its historic enlargement. 20 years have passed since 1 May 2004, when 10 countries – Cyprus, Czechia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia – and over 74 million new citizens joined the European Union, marking a major milestone in European integration. Did you know that Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Türkiye, and Ukraine are currently candidate countries to become EU members? This webinar will introduce you to Eurostat’s role in the EU enlargement process, its cooperation with the European neighbourhood policy group as well as the EU candidate countries and the potential candidate in the field of statistics. It was part of the European Statistics Day 2024 initiative: ‘Official statistics, a window for understanding society’.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, provides participants with an introduction to the compilation of monetary statistics covering the central bank (CB), other depository corporations (ODCs) and other financial corporations (OFCs) in accordance with international statistical standards. Course materials are based on the 2016 Monetary and Financial Statistics Manual and Compilation Guide (MFSMCG). The course discusses the principles of residency and sectoring of institutional units, the characteristics and types of financial instruments, valuation principles, and other accounting issues that are relevant to the compilation of monetary statistics. Participants will also become familiar with the defining characteristics of depository corporations (DCs), notably their role as money issuers, and with the main principles on which analysis of monetary and credit aggregates is based. They will also gain a deeper understanding of the OFCs sector and their relevance for compiling a broader and often more reliable measure of the liquidity available in an economy and financing extended to the nonfinancial sectors and nonresidents by the financial corporations.
Target Audience: Central bank officials, officials from financial regulatory agencies responsible for compiling monetary statistics as well as users interested in understanding key conceptual framework and compilation process.
Description: To support NSS in Data for Now committed countries to effectively communicate data insights for increased data uptake by various users, the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is conducting a series of training sessions on data visualization and communication. Effective data visualization is a key component in the interpretation and communication of complex statistical information, which can help transform raw data into visual insights that are easier to utilise for decision-making. For participants, understanding the building blocks of the key data visualization practices, combined with a practical understanding of effective and user-friendly visualization tools will be important in supporting them to disseminate their findings and making the data more accessible downstream. Additionally, the sessions will touch base on the geospatial domain with key concepts related to geospatial data visualization and provide practical tools and skills to achieve this objective.
Source: ESCAP SIAP (Data extracted on: 27 Nov 2024 )
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Organizer(s): ESCAP SIAP ILO
Description: The causes and consequences of informal employment and employment in informal sector and their impact on achieving sustainable development continues to gain attention in national development agendas. The evidence in developing and emerging economies shows that on average the proportions of people in informal employment ranges from close to two thirds in emerging economies to nearly 90% in low-income countries. Thereforeevery national policy targeting povertysocial protectionor decent work needs to recognise the role of the informal economy in national development. Yetthe lack of data and statistics on the informal economy hinders the capacity of countries to better inform decisions and development policies. This regional training course brings together statisticians and labour analysts from Asia-Pacific national statistical systems to discuss technical aspects and share experiences in the production and use of statistics on informality.
Description: FAO proposes to advance methodological development for analysing public domestic resource flows through the review of public expenditure on forests based on officially accepted norms and definitions provided by international standards and FAO instruments.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 07 Mar 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: Objectives: * To provide participants with a specific knowledge of the features recently included within JDEMETRA+ and run the tool within the R environment; * To train the participants to use JDEMETRA+ for purposes different from seasonal adjustment, such as estimation of missing values temporal disaggregation, benchmarking, forecasting and analysis of revisions; * To prepare and to motivate the participants to become integral part of the extended network in charge of testing (software releases), maintaining (fixing bugs) and extending the tool.
Target Audience: Advanced users of seasonal adjustment methods involved in regular/massive data production and/or developers involved in the integration of SA methods in their IT environment wishing to enhance their knowledge of the JDEMETRA+ tool and/or using or potentially developing relative plug-ins. Ideal participants are either young statisticians with some interest in IT or young IT specialist with some interest in statistics. People currently using TRAMO/SEATS and/or X12 family product and/or old version of DEMETRA/JDEMETRA+ family products aiming at implementing the latest JDEMETRA+ version.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 07 Mar 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: Participants will understand different quality concepts, European Statistical System (ESS) quality criteria, the European Statistics Code of Practice and its Common Quality Framework and know how to apply methods to measure quality concepts.
Target Audience: Employees of national statistical agencies involved in quality management, measurement and reporting.
Organizer(s): UNSD UNCTAD Bank Indonesia AI Generated
Description:
The international workshop will cover topics described in the recently released Handbook on Measuring Digital Trade, which establishes a framework for compiling cross-border digital trade statistics and addresses the pressing need for accurate measurement in this rapidly evolving domain. Participants will learn about the conceptual framework for statistics on cross-border digital trade and discover sources and methods for compiling digital trade statistics. This event is essential for statistical compilers, policymakers, and data users seeking to ensure that the adoption of digitalization in international trade is well captured and understood.
Description: Final Programme Concept Note Background The ESCAP Committee on Statistics, at its 2nd and 5th sessions, endorsed a Regional Programme for the Improvement of Economic Statistics in Asia and the Pacific and an Implementation Plan of the Regional Strategy to Improve Population and Social Statistics in Asia and the Pacific, respectively (E/ESCAP/CST(5)/3 and E/ESCAP/CST(5)/3/Corr.1). Two Steering Groups, namely, the Steering Group of the Regional Programme for the Improvement of Economic Statistics in Asia and the Pacific (SGRPES) and the Regional Steering Group on Population and Social Statistics (RSG-PSS), were created to oversee the implementation of the Programme and Plan. The two groups, since their establishment, have worked to strengthen statistical capacity in the region, according to their respective programmes. Following the Committee’s endorsement in 2016 of the collective vision and framework for action by the Asia-Pacific statistical community, as a regional approach to meeting the urgent and evolving statistical demands arising from the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the groups aligned their efforts with this vision. Meeting objectives The main objectives of the meeting are to: Exchange national experiences, practices and innovations in economic, social and population statistics as well as priority topics recommended by the Committee on Statistics, including data governance, big data, gender statistics, and well-being and sustainability measures. Learn of relevant initiatives by regional and international development partners Identify priority areas/topics for potential capacity building or sharing of knowledge and experience in future.
Title in Spanish: Taller de intercambio de las buenas prácticas del IPC y su sincronización respecto al Programa de Comparación Internacional (PCI)
Organizer(s): INE Chile ECLAC AI Generated
Description: El Taller de intercambio de las buenas prácticas del IPC y su sincronización respecto al PCI, se realizará del 14 al 18 de octubre de 2024 en la sede del INE de Chile (Moránde 801, piso 2, Santiago).
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 01 Dec 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: The objective of the course is to improve knowledge of the fundamentals of energy statistics and the concepts involved in producing coherent and comprehensive energy balances that represent the energy situation in a country.
Target Audience: Statisticians dealing with compilation of energy statistics who wish to understand more about the overall energy statistics system, the specifics of forms of energy and tools or techniques for energy statistics.
Description: Join this insightful webinar organized by the Friends of the Chair Group on Social and Demographic Statistics (FOC), in collaboration with the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), exploring the critical role of location, geography, and places in social and demographic statistics. The places where people grow up, live and work significantly influence their lives, revealing disparities and informing policy through place-based breakdowns and geo-spatial analysis. This session will also discuss how geography acts as a crosscutting element, integrating various data sources and linking different statistical domains. Key topics include the use of georeferenced data, the potential of satellite imagery, and techniques like small area estimation to address data gaps. The discussion will highlight national perspectives and user demands, showcasing examples of how 'place' can predict social outcomes and enhance data dissemination through geoportals.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 07 Mar 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: The objective of this course is to introduce participants to the practice of output checking for confidentiality risks. The course focuses on output that is generated by researchers from official microdata. In most cases researchers will have had access to microdata through the Research Data Centre of the data producer to produce the output. The participants will be invited to bring their own case studies for discussion in the training.
Target Audience: The course is intended for staff checking output that was created by external researchers or output from varying statistical analyses created by colleagues in statistical offices.
Description: The United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM), in collaboration with the Government of México through Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (INEGI) will convene the Seventh High-level Forum on United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management with the theme "Accelerating Implementation: Achieving Resilience" in México City from 8 - 10 October 2024. This seventh edition of UN-GGIM's High-level Forums will continue UN-GGIM's regular high-level, multi-stakeholder discussions on global geospatial information management, through the convening of global forums, aimed at promoting comprehensive dialogue among Member States, and between Member States and relevant international organizations, UN system entities, and stakeholders At its thirteenth session in August 2023, the Committee of Experts, with decision 13/101, welcomed the offer of the Government of México, through its National Institute of Statistics and Geography, to host the Seventh High-level Forum in México City in October 2024 and confirmed the support of the Committee of Experts in the development and implementation of the programme of the Forum. The Seventh High-level Forum has the substantive support from each of the five Regional Committees of United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM: Africa, UN-GGIM: Americas, UN-GGIM: Arab States, UN-GGIM: Asia and the Pacific, and UN-GGIM: Europe), as well as the functional groups and thematic networks of the Committee of Experts.. An advisory committee has been established to develop and promote a compelling substantive agenda for the High-level Forum with high-level keynote and plenary presentations for the three days. Additional information including an outline of the substantive programme, local arrangement and logistical information will be provided on this website when available.
Description: Background The Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), together with other United Nations Development System partners, are working to strengthen the capability of countries to collect, process and disseminate data and statistics to respond to emerging economic, social and environmental data needs in times of crises and disasters through the use of innovative data sources, advanced data acquisition methods and modern technologies, while ensuring a path towards the achievement of the 2030 Agenda. In Bhutan, during 2024-25, through support from the United Nations Development Account, activities are underway to support the following outcomes: The production of land and forest accounts, in line with Bhutan’s published System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA) implementation plan. The creation of a strategic plan for producing and developing disaster-related statistics. To initiate this support a capacity building workshop on SEEA land and forest accounting, and a multi-stakeholder consultative workshop on disaster-related statistics were held in Thimphu between 8-10 October 2024, with the involvement of the National Statistics Bureau (NSB) of Bhutan and relevant stakeholders. Aim and Objectives The workshops had the following primary objectives: Provide practical support on the identification and application of available data sources for the development of land and forest accounts, in line with the Bhutan’s published SEEA implementation plan. Follow up on actions identified in the 2023 High-Level Seminar on Statistical-Geospatial Integration, with a focus on the use of geospatial data for SEEA compilation. Enhance awareness and understanding of relevant international statistical frameworks, guidelines and tools on disaster-related statistics. Identify and prioritise national data needs for disaster-related statistics through a multi-stakeholder workshop. Support the identification of priority data and capacity gaps to facilitate the development of a national plan for disaster-related statistics. A key outcome was the development of an agreed approach for taking forward the production of land and forest accounts and developing a strategic plan for disaster-related statistics for Bhutan.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 23 Apr 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Target Audience: Official statisticians working on big data methodology, data science and in employment and education statistics, as well as other statistical domains which can profit from this data source.
Description: The webinar will take discuss the idea of developing a primer, a jointly created/resourced document that would provide users with a 'how to' develop or improve their own data strategy.
Description: The Global Network Webinar on "Unlocking the Power of Large Language Models for Official Statistics: Opportunities, Challenges, and Practical Uses", hosted by the Global Network of Data Officers and Statisticians on 8 October and presented by Amilina Kipkeeva from the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), provided a comprehensive overview of the growing impact of Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and Claude within the official statistics community. The webinar highlighted the significant opportunities LLMs offer to boost productivity and improve user experience, as well as the challenges related to privacy, accuracy, and ethical considerations that require careful attention. The event covered key topics such as the fundamentals of LLMs, their potential applications in various stages of statistical production (from survey design to data dissemination), and the risks and mitigation strategies identified in a recent white paper by the High-Level Group for the Modernisation of Official Statistics (HLG-MOS). Amilina also shared insights from a survey conducted by UNECE on the adoption of generative AI in official statistics, which revealed a broad agreement on the technology's potential impact, as well as the need for formal policies and staff training to address concerns around data security, privacy, and ethical use. The webinar highlighted several compelling use cases, including the Bank of International Settlements' AI-powered metadata editing tools, the Australian Bureau of Statistics' successful application of LLMs for occupation code updates, and the efforts of Statistics Canada and Deutsche Bundesbank in leveraging LLMs for report generation and content creation. The presentation emphasized the importance of international collaboration and knowledge sharing as the official statistics community navigates this rapidly evolving landscape. During the Q&A session, participants raised questions about the development of policies and governance frameworks to guide the responsible use of LLMs, as well as the potential for these technologies to address challenges around human resource gaps in statistical organizations, particularly in developing countries. The discussion also touched on the distinction between internal and external use of LLMs, and the importance of ensuring the accuracy and reliability of LLM-generated outputs when engaging with the public.
Description: Background: Statistical data exchanges often take place in an ad-hoc manner, using all kinds of formats and non-standard concepts, hence the need for common standards, guidelines and tools to enable more efficient processes for exchanging and sharing statistical data and metadata. SDMX (Statistical Data and Metadata eXchange) is an international initiative that aims to standardize and modernize ("industrialize") the mechanisms and processes for the exchange of statistical data and metadata among international organizations and their member countries. The standard has evolved in recent times, going beyond straightforward data exchange and now enabling more efficient and reliable data storage and dissemination. SDMX is a business choice (as opposed to a technical choice), improving the quality of statistical data-processing and exchange through standardization, automation, validation and data-sharing. SDMX is a standard (indeed an ISO standard, 17369:2013) designed to describe statistical data and metadata, normalize their exchange and enable them to be shared more efficiently among organizations. To meet these three requirements, SDMX has three key components: 1. Technical standards (including the Information Model); 2. Statistical guidelines; 3. An IT architecture and tools. SDMX is therefore much more than a mere data-transmission format. All labour market information (LMI) systems implemented with the assistance of the ILO are based on and make intensive use of SDMX. The objective of the course is to enable participants to understand the scope, architecture and features of SDMX, in particular those features that support more efficient processes for reporting, exchanging and disseminating statistical data and metadata. This will enable the to: - Assess how to take advantage of SDMX in their day-to-day work; - Understand DSDs and MSDs, and how they reflect requirements for data and metadata exchange; - Work together (statisticians and IT specialists within an organization) in planning for SDMX in their domain; - Learn how to model data in using SDMX for data-exchange, storage and/or dissemination; - Understand the relationship between SDMX and the production of statistics; - Understand the different roles of organizations in the collection and production of statistics and their relationship with SDMX; - Understand (in broad terms) the different tools available in the marke, and the architecture that can be developed; - Understand how SDMX enables data harmonization across a system.
Target Audience: National statistical offices (NSOs); IT specialists; Ministries of labour and related Institutions (such as labour observatories); Governmental agencies responsible for labour-market data analysis and national SDG reporting; ILO social partners (employers' and workers' organizations); Research and academic institutions; International organizations; Development agencies; Non-governmental organizations; etc.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 07 Mar 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: Objectives: * Understand how to collect Web Data regarding Online Job Vacancies and store them; * Understand of data processing techniques; * Understand the challenges and the issues of web data; * Base understand of data classification techniques on standard taxonomies and base understand of advanced techniques on taxonomies improvement.
Target Audience: Official statisticians working on big data methodology, data science and in employment and education statistics, as well as other statistical domains which can profit from this data source.
Description: The 12th SDMX Experts workshop will be organised from Monday 7 to Friday 11 October 2024 in Amsterdam at the Park Centraal hotel. The biennial event will comprise four days of workshops followed by a day which will focus on side meetings to explore specialised topics. Given the technical nature of the meeting, the target audience for physical participation are experienced SDMX practitioners and participation requests will be subject to approval by the SDMX Sponsors. However, we would be welcoming everyone who is interested in the SDMX standard to join us virtually via livestream.
Description: This sprint, the second in a series of online events organized by the Friends of the Chair Group on Social and Demographic Statistics, in collaboration with the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), is an opportunity to take stock of and review essential elements for developing and maintaining population data systems fit for current and future data demands. Indeed, countries are expected to significantly transform their data collection and processing systems, by adopting digital-first, multi-mode methods, increasing utilization of geospatial information and administrative data sources, and developing strategies to address and adapt to potential shocks and disruptions. Against this background, this sprint will discuss both current and emerging practices to enhance the quality of population statistics and will address ongoing challenges and the growing need for integrated data sources, innovative methods, and techniques to meet diverse data demands effectively.
Organizer(s): UNSD DANE Colombia PCBS State of Palestine Open Data Watch AI Generated
Description: The 2024 United Nations World Data Forum (UNWDF) serves as a vital platform for sharing experiences, innovations, and challenges in the data field, enhancing evidence-based decision-making. This webinar will delve into various aspects of the extended registration deadline and highlight key considerations for the 5th UN World Data Forum. By extending the registration period until Friday, 11 October 2024, we ensure that both local and international participants can contribute their expertise and collaborate, fostering global solutions driven by data. The main topics covered in this webinar include: An introduction from the organizers to the World Data Forum happening in Medellín between 12 and 15 November 2024, information on how to register, prepare your travel and answering your questions through the chat and during the Q&A. An overview of the programme in terms of thematic areas, topics and event formats, and covering the Forum’s purpose and planned outcomes to advance data and statistics agenda for sustainable development and foster global collaboration. How other local events will showcase the role data and statistics have played in the urban innovation and sustainable development of the city of Medellín, along with practical tips for getting around, finding hotels, and accessing taxis and weather information through data. Speakers:
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 07 Mar 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat EFTA FSO Switzerland
Description: The objective sof this course are: * To provide participants with a theoretical and methodological background on the development of indicator systems, especially in the context of monitoring SDGs; * To build up a common understanding of terms, definitions, as well as the role and limits of official statistics in the construction and maintenance of indicator systems; * To provide knowledge about the links between policy makers and other users of indicators and the statistical community providing data and indicators; * The course will not address the following topics: ** Construction of individual indicators; ** Construction of data platforms and reporting procedures for SDGs monitoring; ** Use of indicators in statistical models.
Target Audience: Staff members working in the field of monitoring the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) or of economic, social or environmental statistics or who need to extend their knowledge on how to use indicators and indicator systems
Description: The African Development Bank’s Statistics Department, in collaboration with the National Institute of Statistics Rwanda (NISR), will host the Second Edition of the Innovate Africa Symposium on 2-4 October 2024 in Kigali, Rwanda. Centered on "Strengthening Data Governance in the African Data Ecosystem," the symposium will address recent significant advancements in data governance that will ultimately benefit the entire continent, highlighting the pivotal role of robust data governance frameworks in harnessing data for socio-economic growth in the digital era. Participants will include an eclectic mix of leaders from government, civil society, the private sector, academia, and international organizations who will deliberate on enhancing transparency, efficiency, and innovation through effective data governance. Symposium sessions will be both plenary and panel discussions. Parallel sessions exploring different dimensions of data governance will take place on Innovation & Strategy, Platforms & Process, and Case Studies & Technology Demos.
Description: The Committee for the Coordination of Statistical Activities (CCSA) promotes interagency coordination and cooperation on statistical programmes and consistency in statistical practices and development. As a forum of committed members it fosters good practices in statistical activities of international organisations, in accordance with the Principles Governing International Statistical Activities, and within the constraints of their own governance arrangements and resource envelopes. The members of the CCSA are committed to contribute actively to the development of a coordinated global statistical system producing and disseminating high-quality statistics, e.g. by facilitating the development and well functioning of regional and national statistical systems.
Description: The Committee of the Chief Statisticians of the United Nations System promotes coherent and integrated system-wide United Nations actions to support statistics at the national, regional and international levels, following the principles governing international statistical activities, adopted by the Committee for the Coordination of Statistical Activities in 2005, and the Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics, adopted by the General Assembly in 2015. Taking into account the comparative advantages of each member, the Committee encourages coordinated efforts by United Nations agencies and programmes in strengthening national statistical capacity through the definition of common approaches and joint interventions. The Committee supports in particular the modernization of national statistical systems and the reinforcement of their capacity to respond to new data demands for underpinning evidence-based policymaking, including the monitoring of global, regional and national development goals. Recognizing that national needs and priorities should guide the United Nations system’s efforts to support national statistical systems, the Committee supports the development and full implementation of international statistical standards in member States for the production of high-quality and internationally comparable data. The Committee promotes the coordination of the statistical programmes of the United Nations system entities with the aim of “delivering as one”, by fostering synergies, avoiding duplication and overlap, and facilitating data exchange. It promotes the adoption of common quality criteria to drive the statistical production of all agencies of the United Nations system and supports the sharing of knowledge and good practices. It also defines common United Nations positions on statistical matters, to be reported at the Statistical Commission or at other coordination bodies, such as the Committee for the Coordination of Statistical Activities.
Organizer(s): Zoom Video Communications, Inc. AI Generated
Description: The WHO/UNICEF JMP, in collaboration with Emory University, presents priority gender-specific indicators for enhanced monitoring of SDG WASH targets identified through a multi-stakeholder expert review. This webinar will briefly introduce the priority indicators, present emerging data on gender inequalities in WASH, and discuss opportunities for integrating gender-specific indicators into national and global monitoring of WASH.
Source: ESCAP SIAP (Data extracted on: 27 Nov 2024 )
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Organizer(s): ESCAP SIAP ESCAP
Description: According to the World Health Organization in 2021 more than 700 million people in Asia and the Pacific lived with some form of disabilitywhich accounted for 16 per cent of the population. Persons with disabilities encounter social and economic barriers and bias in all aspects of life. Disability statistics enable tracking socioeconomic indicators related to persons with disabilitiestherefore understanding better their needs to participate in society on an equal basis and identifying policy gaps to ensure disability-inclusive development.Within the framework of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Developmentdisability inclusion in the development process has been increasingly crucialnecessitating the need to improve disability disaggregated data to monitor disability-related Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicators. At a regional levelthe Incheon Strategy to ‘Make the Right Real’ for Persons with Disabilities in Asia and the Pacificthe regional development goal to promote disability inclusionreinforces the importance of disability-disaggregated data to measure progress against its targets and indicators. Disability data as a critical instrument to advance disability-inclusive development was reaffirmed by the adoption of the Jakarta Declaration on the Asian and Pacific Decade of Persons with Disabilities2023–2032. Underscoring the continued implementation of the Incheon Strategythe Jakarta Declaration urges regional stakeholders to take measures to close disability data gaps and strengthen statistical capacities.
Source: ESCAP SIAP (Data extracted on: 27 Nov 2024 )
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Organizer(s): ESCAP SIAP
Description: Climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our time. Its impacts on well-being are far reachingincluding impacts on health and the economy. Humans have contributed to climate change largely through economic activities which are intrinsically linked to climate change. Our supply and use of energy for example has led to increased emissions of greenhouse gases which have resulted in global warming. A better understanding of the relationship between the economy and climate change through the compilation of relevant indicators is key to mitigating and adapting to climate change.This course will focus on climate change indicators that can be compiled from environmental economic accounts. After a brief overview of climate change andrelevant polices and multilateral agreementsparticipants will learn how to compile various indicators that inform climate change. The focus of the course is on better understanding the relationship between climate change and economic activity. And the statistical framework that provides the conceptsdefinitionsand methodology for measuring this relationship is the System of Environmental Economic Accounting. Participants will learn about physical supply and use tables for energy and air emissionsand indicators that can be compiled from these accounts. Other topics to be discussed include transaction accounts which can be used to derived expenditure type indicators such those on taxes on energy and pollution. Further details on course content follow below.
Description: This course, offered by the ILO, gives economists and analysts a solid foundation for assessing the state and trends of labour markets based on robust analysis of labour statistics. It examines empirical questions regarding the labour market leveraging cross-sectional, time series, and panel data models, as well as quantitative economic models. Several sessions are devoted to how to interpret findings and draft powerful data stories to identify critical decent work and social justice gaps and potential policies to address them. The course also discusses the limitations of the tools used and introduces causal inference models, which can overcome some of them. Participants will attend interactive lectures and applied workshops, where they use Stata for hands-on exercises and work with real world datasets to craft analysis.
Target Audience: Economists & Analysts From Ministries Of Labour, National Statistical Offices, Ministries Of Finance, Central Banks, Research And Academic Institutions, International Organizations, Development Agencies And Non-Government Organizations.
Description: This one-week course will be presented by experts from the International Monetary Fund's Statistics Department. The course will be based on the conceptual framework of the System of National Accounts 2008 (2008 SNA). This course consists of lectures covering national accounts concepts, methods, and framework; estimating Gross Domestic Product using the production, expenditure and income approach; Supply and Use tables: and price and volume measures The course will feature interactive lectures and hands-on exercises that enable participants to operationalize what they learn. The main lectures and workshops include: (i) Overview of the System of National Accounts, (ii) Gross Domestic Product by Production, Expenditure and Income approach (iii) Supply and use tables (iv) Price and Volume measures (v) Measuring economic activities at the regional level- Conceptual principles and compilation issues
Target Audience: The workshop is intended for government officials who are integrally involved in the compilation of national accounts statistics.
Source: ESCAP SIAP (Data extracted on: 27 Nov 2024 )
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Organizer(s): IMF ESCAP SIAP SPC
Description: Consumer price indexes (CPI) measure changes over time in the general level of prices of goods and services that households acquire (use or pay for) for the purpose of consumption. In many countriesthey were originally introduced to provide a measure of the changes in the living costs faced by workersso that wage increases could be related to changing levels of prices. Howeverover the yearsCPIs have widened their scope and now are widely used as a macroeconomic indicator of inflationas a tool by governments and central banks for monetary policy and for monitoring price stabilityand as deflators in the national accounts. With the globalization of trade and production and the liberalization of the marketsnational governmentscentral banksand international organizations place great importance on the quality and accuracy of national CPIsand their international comparability.CPIs are official statistics that are usually produced by NSOsMinistries of Finance and Labouror central banks. They are published as quickly as possiblegenerally within four weeks after the reference period. This face-to-face coursedeveloped jointly by SIAPIMFand SPCaims to build capacity to improve the compilation of consumer price indexes (CPI) that reflect international standards and best practice as described in the 2020 CPI Manual. Course topics will include overview of index calculation methodsdeveloping weightsselecting samplesprice collectiondata dissemination. The program will include interactive discussions to share country experiencespractical exercises to apply concepts and methods discussedand limited lecture.
Description: The London Group on Environmental Accounting is a city group created in 1993 to allow practitioners to share their experience of developing and implementing environmental accounts. Members of this informal group of experts come primarily from national statistical agencies but also international organizations. The London Group generally meets annually, and the meetings provide a forum for review, comparison and discussion of work underway by participants towards development of environmental accounts. The 30th meeting of the London Group on Environmental Accounting (LG) will be hosted by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) from 30 September to 3 October 2024 in Washington D.C., United States of America. The main focus of the 2024 LG meeting will be the support of the SEEA Central Framework (SEEA CF) update. During the 29th meeting in Pretoria in September 2023, the LG already identified and discussed important issues and challenges for the update of the SEEA CF. Concrete suggestions for the issues touched by the update should be presented, discussed and subsequently proposed by the group.
Description: The Asia-Pacific Stats Café on "Statistical Training needs Assessment Tool (STAT): a tool to make informed decisions about capacity needs" was held on Monday, 30 September 2024, from 15:00 to 16:00 hr (UTC+7). About this Session The quality of statistics produced by the National Statistical System (NSS) depends on the capabilities of their staff, as well as the ability/opportunities of staff to maintain and increase their capabilities. To ensure that staff of NSS continue to increase their capacities to meet the new demands for data, there is a need for the NSO to understand the training needs of the NSS staff. The Global Network of Institutions for Statistical Training (GIST) has developed the Statistical Training needs Assessment Tool, also known as STAT, which is a tool for National Statistical Offices (NSOs) to assess and analyze skills gaps of staff and decide on how to prioritize and meet their training needs by using different types of informal and formal learning approaches. STAT focuses on all types of job functions including staff working in statistics production, IT, communication, management, finance, HR, and other administrative functions. Staff working with statistics production within the National Statistical System (NSS) can also be included in the assessment. During this Stats Café, participants learned more about the tool and how it could be implemented by NSOs in the Asia Pacific region. Flyer Presentations Statistical Training needs Assessment Tool (STAT) in brief (GIST) Staff Skills and Institutional Transformation of National Statistical Offices: Experience of the Ghana Statistical Service Roles and Speakers Role Suggestions for speakers Welcome Remarks Shailja Sharma Moderator Sokol Vako Presenters Charlotte Juul Hansen —UNSD Peter Takyi Peprah —Ghana Discussants J. S. Tomar —India Aishath Hassan —Maldives , Stats Café Home: Upcoming events Concluded events
Description: The fifth observance of the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste will highlight the critical need for financing to bolster efforts to reduce food loss and waste, contribute to achieving climate goals and advancing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Develop...
Description: Relationships are a crucial, but underexplored, building block of social and demographic statistics. This webinar, the first in a series of online events organized by the Friends of the Chair Group on Social and Demographic Statistics (FOC), in collaboration with the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), will examine relationships at multiple levels—among and between individuals, groups large and small, and institutions. The event will provide an opportunity to review what is currently known about "relationships" and how they are measured across different national statistical systems. It will also explore gaps in understanding and highlight the most important concepts that need further investigation. The webinar aims to define why relationships are essential and to gain a deeper understanding of their characteristics, functions, and impacts. This will guide the FOC's efforts to establish recommendations on how relationships should be treated from a measurement perspective in social statistics.
Description: The Global Symposium on Soil Information & Data (GSID24), co-organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization, its Global Soil Partnership and the Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ISSCAS) will be held in Nanjing, China, September 25-28, 2024.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 11 Dec 2023 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: To learn state of the art techniques in survey sampling.
Target Audience: NSI statisticians dealing with surveys faced with the challenge to change data collection methods such as mixed mode strategies and adaptive survey designs. Additionally they face the use of administrative data and big data in the survey design and weighting stage.
Description: The African Development Bank’s Statistics Department, in collaboration with the National Institute of Statistics Rwanda (NISR), will host the Second Edition of the Innovate Africa Symposium on 25-27 September 2024 in Kigali, Rwanda. Centered on "Strengthening Data Governance in the African Data Ecosystem," the symposium will address recent significant advancements in data governance that will ultimately benefit the entire continent, highlighting the pivotal role of robust data governance frameworks in harnessing data for socio-economic growth in the digital era. Participants will include an eclectic mix of leaders from government, civil society, the private sector, academia, and international organizations who will deliberate on enhancing transparency, efficiency, and innovation through effective data governance. Symposium sessions will be both plenary and panel discussions. Parallel sessions exploring different dimensions of data governance will take place on Innovation & Strategy, Platforms & Process, and Case Studies & Technology Demos.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 07 Mar 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: Make the participants aware of what is involved in the acquisition of PHD for use in official statistics, including the European legal and policy background and what is needed for developing partnerships. The course should enable the participants to apply the acquired knowledge in roles such as developing policies concerning the acquisition and use of PHD and developing partnerships.
Target Audience: Staff from NSIs who are involved or wish to become involved in the acquisition of privately held data (PHD) as a source for official statistics. This engagement may come in different shapes, such as involvement at a legal or policy level, in negotiations with holders of PHD or stakeholders engagement.
Organizer(s): OECD UN Praia Group INEGI ONS Statistics Iceland AI Generated
Description: The webinar will present the key findings of the OECD Trust Survey and discuss opportunities and challenges for extending its use and providing technical support to National Statistical Offices in non-OECD countries. This webinar is co-organised by the OECD, UN Praia Group, INEGI, ONS and Statistics Finland . The OECD Survey on Drivers of Trust in Public Institutions (OECD Trust Survey) examines how people’s expectations and experiences with everyday government interactions and complex policy decision-making influence their trust in public institutions. The report OECD Trust Survey – 2024 Results shows levels of trust in various public institutions across 30 OECD countries and their evolution since 2021. It also analyses how perceptions of government’s reliability, responsiveness, integrity, fairness and openness drive public trust. PARTICIPANTS: The main target group for this webinar consists of representatives of National Statistical Offices, Central and Local Public Administrations and researchers interested in producing or using data related to trust in public institutions.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 07 Mar 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: Objectives: * Present the essentials concepts of open data and linked open data; * Improve data management skills in exploring feasible data sources, finding publications, data portals and how to publish them.
Target Audience: Official statisticians (including process managers) with data management skills, who are interested in exposing data and metadata assets using linked data principles. The course is not meant to be targeted exclusively at IT specialists but can also be useful for staff involved in dissemination.
Description: Jointly organized by the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) and the World Trade Organization (WTO), the 7th meeting of the UN Committee of Experts on Business and Trade Statistics will take place from 24-26 September 2024 in Geneva, Switzerland. The meeting will review new developments and initiatives in business and trade statistics and provide strategic direction on the organization and work programme of the Committee. On 27 September 2024, the Task Team on International Trade Statistics (TT-ITS) under the Committee will hold an extended meeting to focus on drafting the Manual on Statistics of International Trade in Services (MSITS).
Description: UNSD hosted a Global Network Webinar on the topic "Measuring the Sustainability of Tourism” with Clara van der Pol of UN Tourism and with Peter Laimer from Statistik Austria and Julio López Astor from the National Tourist Office of Spain, who are co-chairs of the UN Tourism Committee on Statistics. The speakers provided an overview of the newly endorsed Statistical Framework for Measuring the Sustainability of Tourism (MST), developed under the leadership of the UN Tourism Committee on Statistics. Clara van der Pol introduced the framework, highlighting its purpose to provide a harmonized methodology to effectively assess the sustainability of tourism across economic, environmental, and social dimensions. Peter Laimer shared experiences from Austria, where measuring tourism from a holistic point of view has become a key priority, including the development of a set of 26 indicators. Julio López Astor presented on Spain's initiative to measure residents' attitudes towards tourism, aiming to track perceptions and capture potential changes between high and low tourism seasons. The Q&A session touched on the impact of the upcoming System of National Accounts (SNA) update on the tourism sustainability framework, the importance of integrating emissions data and other environmental indicators, and the MST framework being a great example on how to measure progress beyond GDP. The speakers emphasized that the MST framework is a first step, with room for continuous improvement and implementation support for countries.
Description: Unpaid care work refers to work - performed without expectation of pay or profit - that is oriented to meeting people's physical, psychological, cognitive, and emotional needs. It sustains individual health and wellbeing and is essential to the functioning of societies everywhere . Most unpaid care work occurs as own use provision of services (also termed unpaid domestic and care work). It is intra-household and/or intra-familial, undertaken by and for members of the same household or by and for relatives living elsewhere. Not all unpaid care work takes place within household or kin networks. It is also routinely provided within wider communities or networks, via direct- or organisation-based volunteering. In recent years, the measurement of unpaid care work has been accorded new priority in official statistics . This has occurred as part of a wider revitalisation of interest in the topic in national and international policy circles. There is growing acknowledgement of the economic contribution of unpaid care work, which, based on conservative estimates, would amount to nine per cent of global GDP were it accorded monetary value . Similarly, there is growing recognition of the untenability of a status quo whereby, globally, women and girls contribute over three quarters (76.2 per cent) of the total hours spent daily on unpaid care work, to the detriment of labour force participation, access to formal employment and decent work, and involvement in the wider public sphere. Since 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have mandated countries to produce statistics on the "proportion of time spent on unpaid domestic and care work, by sex, age and location" (SDG indicator 5.4.1), while also recognising a central role for volunteer work in the realisation of the wider 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda . Nationally, data on unpaid care work has relevance for a wide range of public policy areas, especially when collected alongside data on labour force participation and employment. Such data provide for a much fuller treatment of gender-based differences and inequities. They permit a fuller analysis of the contribution of unpaid work to national economies, alongside improved monitoring of transitions in the social organization of care work, from unpaid- to market-based provision (or vice versa). Current international standards for labour statistics provide a strong conceptual framework for the measurement of unpaid care work, and volunteer work more broadly , in labour force surveys. This course will explain and operationalise the current guidelines for the measurement of unpaid care work and volunteer work, and will demonstrate available methods, tools, and practical resources. The ILO Department of Statistics, in collaboration with the ITCILO, is proud to offer the first edition of the online course "Measuring Unpaid Care Work & Volunteering in Labour Force Surveys".
Target Audience: Statisticians from national statistical offices; Ministries of labour and other institutions involved in production of work, social, and gender statistics; - Governmental agencies responsible for developing and implementing policies addressing unpaid care work/volunteer work, labour-market data analysis and national SDG reporting; ILO Social Partners (employers' and workers' organizations); research and academic institutions; international organizations; development agencies; non-governmental organizations. - Employment and development policy analysts from National Statistical Offices, Research and Academic institutions, International organizations and Donor organizations.
Description: The ITCILO and ILO's Employment Department, Skills and Employability Branch join forces to bring learners a course on "Tracer Studies" to measure impact of vocational training. Tracer studies or graduate surveys are standardised surveys of graduates from education institutions, which take place some time after graduation or at the end of a training. Tracer studies commonly s topics include questions on study progress, the transition to work, work entrance, job career, use of learned competencies, current occupation and bonds to the education institution (school, centre, university). Tracer studies are common in higher education, but are becoming more and more popular in technical and vocational education and training (TVET). Reforms and programmes seeking improvement of TVET systems (you can check our website for the upcoming course on Skills anticipation and matching) try to respond to labour market needs and contribute to overcoming skills mismatch, and support the transition from school to work; to achieve these objectives, TVET institutions need data from tracer studies to measure their effectiveness and the impact they have generated.
Target Audience: Statisticians from national statistical offices; Ministries of labour and other institutions involved in production of work, social, and gender statistics; - Governmental agencies responsible for developing and implementing policies addressing unpaid care work/volunteer work, labour-market data analysis and national SDG reporting; ILO Social Partners (employers' and workers' organizations); research and academic institutions; international organizations; development agencies; non-governmental organizations. - Employment and development policy analysts from National Statistical Offices, Research and Academic institutions, International organizations and Donor organizations.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department and delivered in collaboration with the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and the European Central Bank (ECB), familiarizes participants with the methodology recommended by the Handbook on Securities Statistics, a joint undertaking of the IMF, the BIS, and the ECB, published in May 2015. The course covers definition and features of securities, securitization, and related operation; valuation and recording of securities; classification schemes and presentation tables for securities; and security-by-security databases. A practical exercise on valuation and recording of different types of debt securities complements the lectures.
Target Audience: Officials in central banks and other agencies responsible for collecting and compiling securities statistics.
Description: Provisional Programme Concept note (English | 中文) Self-Assessment Tool on the Readiness to Use Administrative Data for Census (SATRAC) (Excel file) Objectives and Outcomes The workshop aims to strengthen participants’ capacity on how to better use administrative data to support the census. The objectives of the workshop are to: Provide an overview of the different potential uses of administrative data sources for the census. Discuss the concepts, features, preconditions, considerations, challenges, opportunities, and processes involved in the use of administrative data sources for census purposes. Discuss the self-assessment tool on the readiness to use administrative data for census purposes. Introduce the “Generic model for the transition from a traditional census to register-based approaches”. Draft potential approaches to increase the use of administrative data for censuses in participating countries. Exchange experience and learn from participating countries. Resources This workshop builds upon the Regional Training Workshop on Transition to Register-based Approaches for Population and Housing Censuses. Some of the key resources for this workshop include: UNFPA Register-Based Census eLearning Course United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. Guidelines on the use of registers and administrative data for population and housing censuses. United Nations, New York and Geneva, 2018. United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. Guidelines for assessing the quality of administrative sources for use in censuses. United Nations, Geneva, 2021. United Nations Statistics Division. Handbook on Registers-Based Population and Housing Censuses, 2022. Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific. Emerging Trends in Census Approaches in Asia and the Pacific – with country examples. United Nations, Bangkok, 2022. ESCAP Stats Briefs: Tapping into administrative data in census-taking: an emerging trend in Asia and the Pacific (2022) Are population censuses in Asia and the Pacific evolving? (2021) Population registers: a key resource for producing vital statistics (2020)
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 07 Mar 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: * Aims at enhancing the theoretical and practical knowledge related to the HICP, based on the HICP Methodological Manual and other HICP guidance material. * Describes the purpose, use and construction of HICP. * Participants become familiar with the standard methods, the specific HICP requirements, as well as with recent developments such as the use of scanner data.
Target Audience: Statisticians of CPI/HICP departments in National Statistical Institutes involved in the production of CPI/HICP with one to two years of experience on CPIs.
Source: ESCAP SIAP (Data extracted on: 27 Nov 2024 )
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Organizer(s): ESCAP SIAP ESCAP Government of Mongolia
Description: Quality data are vital for enabling governmentsinternational organizationscivil societyprivate sector and the general public to make informed decisions and to ensure the accountability of representative bodies. Effective planningfollow-up and review of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development requires the collectionprocessinganalysis and dissemination of an unprecedented amount of data and statistics at localnationalregional and global levels and by multiple stakeholders.
This event is jointly organized by the Collaborative / ImPACT Coalition on Citizen Data and its me ber organisations, and supported by the statistics offices of Nepal and Italy. In this event, we will explore the transformative potential of youth-led citizen data in driving sustainable development and enhancing participatory governance.
Launch of the Assessment, Analysis & Redesign of Civil Registration & Vital Statistics (CRVS) and the Use of CRVS-Related Evidence to Inform Gender–Sensitive Policies
Description: The event served as a platform for policy advocacy based on findings from key initiatives aimed at improving Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) and leveraging CRVS-related evidence to inform gender-sensitive policies in Fiji. The report of the Assessment, Analysis & Redesign of Civil Registration & Vital Statistics (CRVS) Processes in Fiji as well as two policy briefs (i) An Intersectional Profile of Adolescent Pregnancy and Motherhood in Fiji were disseminated to key stakeholders and (ii) Target Groups for Addressing Disparities in On-Time Birth Registration were disseminated to national stakeholders, including the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Health & Medical Services, the Fiji Bureau of Statistics, the Ministry of iTaukei Affairs, the Ministry of Women, Children & Social Protection as well as other national agencies and development partners. The event was attended by the Minister of Justice, Hon. Siromi Turaga. Preparations towards the Third Ministerial Conference on Civil Registration and Vital Statistics in Asia and the Pacific, to be held from 24 to 26 June 2025 in Bangkok, Thailand, were also launched in the presence of the honorable Minister of Justice. The event highlighted significant advancements and set the stage for continued progress in CRVS and gender-sensitive policy-making in Fiji. Report: Assessment, Analysis and Redesign of Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Processes in Fiji Policy Brief: Adolescent Pregnancy and Motherhood in Fiji Policy Brief: Addressing Disparities in On-Time Birth Registration , HOME - Project: CRVS E2A for Gender Policy Project countries: Bangladesh Fiji Events
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 23 Apr 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat
Description: The course will introduce the theoretical and practical knowledge of energy statistics in relation to the European Union legal framework (Regulation (EC) No 1099/2008 and its implementation. The main focus will be on concepts, definitions, methodology and data validation on annual questionnaires (including discussions on issues observed in practise). The course will focus on aiming at improving the quality aspects of annual energy statistics and facilitate the learning processes on the Annual Hydrogen questionnaire.
Target Audience: Data providers in national administrations involved in the production of ESSPROS (European System of integrated Social Protection Statistics) data, with an interest in understanding the links between ESSPROS and national accounts and their potential use in the compilation of the ESSPROS data.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 07 Mar 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat
Description: The course will provide participants with a solid understanding of the links between ESSPROS and national accounts, related concepts and how to implement/exploit these links to identify and understand differences/similarities between the data produced by the two statistical systems.
Target Audience: Data providers in national administrations involved in the production of ESSPROS (European System of integrated Social Protection Statistics) data, with an interest in understanding the links between ESSPROS and national accounts and their potential use in the compilation of the ESSPROS data.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 07 Mar 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: Providing participants with a better understanding of the principles of creating, developing and disseminating data visualisations to a wide audience: * Various means of content visualisation (infographic, video, animation, etc.); * Different ways of using infographic, video, animation; * The do’s and don'ts of content visualisation; * How to display your own content and organise it effectively; * How the media use visual material; * Familiarize participants with open-source data visualization tools commonly used in statistics. Equip participants with the necessary skills to effectively analyze and present statistical data using open-source tools.
Target Audience: ESS staff with some basic knowledge of data visualisation.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 07 Mar 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: Content: * An introduction to Earth Observation; * Examples using EO for statistical reporting; * Processing and analyse of EO data; * Practical exercises on receiving EO data; * Advanced analytics; * Reporting statistical values; * Question and Answer Session.
Target Audience: NSIs and Other National Authorities (with lower priority), working in the field of Earth observation, geographic information systems and statistics. Participants are expected to have knowledge of Earth observations and Scripting.
Description: Both the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM) and the Statistical Commission (StatComm) recognize the important role of the integration of statistical and geospatial information in all its forms, including Earth observations, for making informed decision-making in response to climate-related challenges, disasters, security issues, food production and other thematic areas of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at both national and local levels. In this regard, both UN-GGIM and the StatComm have urged Member States to implement and operationalize the Global Statistical Geospatial Framework, anchored by the United Nations Integrated Geospatial Information Framework (UN-IGIF), as the guiding framework that facilitates the integration of statistical and geospatial information. Furthermore, both bodies have supported the development of the SDGs Geospatial Roadmap. The Statistics Division (UNSD) as the secretariat to UN-GGIM is organizing the Joint Expert Meeting on Geo-statistical Integration, incorporating the eighth meeting of the Expert Group on the Integration of Statistical and Geospatial Information and the seventh meeting of the Working Group on Geospatial Information of the IAEG-SDGs in Nairobi, Kenya from 17 - 19 September 2024 at the offices of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), United Nations Office in Nairobi, Kenya. This Joint Expert Meeting aims to bring together national, regional, and international experts from governments, the United Nations system, SDGs Custodian Agencies, international organizations, the private sector, academic and research institutions, and civil society. Participants are expected to engage, share, and discuss relevant sciences, knowledge, practices, and experiences. They will consider priority issues and actions in the area of geo-statistical integration for the SDGs to: Address the challenges faced in the collection, processing, analysis and dissemination of reliable, timely and accessible geospatial data and earth observations for better evidence-based policymaking and the 2030 Agenda; Leverage national geospatial information management, its systems and infrastructures and today's geospatial technologies to collate and integrate the data needed to keep the promise to leave no one behind; Discuss recent views and guidances from UN-GGIM and StatComm to develop applicable work plans and establish future working modalities to ensure the Expert Group and Working Group can deliver their objectives and functions to Member States; Review and deliberate their respective future directions, including identifying how to advance the GSGF, SDGs Geospatial Roadmap and other relevant internationally agreed norms and practices, while also considering how to optimize resources and capabilities across the membership of both groups; Agree on the next steps to support Member States in strengthening geo-statistical integration and coordination towards the full implementation of the 2030 Agenda; Identify means of providing guidance to Member States that enable the full disaggregation of statistical data, including SDG indicators, by geography; and, Provide Member State representatives responsible for geo-statistical integration the opportunity to discuss challenges in the geo-statistical domain and develop work plans that identify and advance solutions in a participatory and inclusive manner.
Description: The overall objective of this technical assistance is to improve the technical capacity of staff and management of the Department of Gender Affairs, the Department of Statistics, and other Ministries, Departments and Agencies of the Government of Turks and Caicos Islands to collect, analyze, utilize and disseminate sex-disaggregated data in accordance with international standards and best practices.
Description: In this Global Network Webinar, we welcomed Herman Smith of the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). He presented on the topic “Towards the 2025 System of National Accounts (2025 SNA).” The System of National Accounts 2025 (2025 SNA) updates the 2008 SNA to include new economic developments such as globalization and digitalization, and strengthens the articulation of the linkages between the System of National Accounts and broader measures of well-being and sustainability. The presentation covered the update process and main changes to the 2008 SNA, the development of implementation guidance and a 2025 SNA implementation strategy.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 07 Mar 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: Objectives: * This course will enable you to pick your next top data-science programming language; * Know the characteristics of R, Python, Julia; * Understand the advantages of each language for different use-cases; * Ability read and modify a small program in each language.
Target Audience: Statistical production units and methodologists of NSIs, having an interest in data science tools and a basic understanding of development.
Description: Background The ESCAP Committee on Statistics decided at its 7th Session decided to “feature big data for official statistics in its future work, with an emphasis on sharing country research, experiences and good practices and facilitating capacity development” and “strengthening legislative provisions and institutional mechanisms to enable national statistical systems to take full advantage of new and innovative technologies while respecting the Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics.” In implementing this decision, ESCAP is running a capacity development project entitled the 2030 Data Decade - Strengthening the institutional capacity of national statistical offices in Asia and the Pacific to use innovative, new and big data sources for official statistics in support of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (the Big Data Project) amongst others. One component of this project involves capacity development in the area of web scraping prices focusing on consumer price indices in Azerbaijan, Cambodia, Fiji, Lao PDR, Maldives, Nepal, Thailand, Tonga and Uzbekistan. Concept note and Tentative programme Objectives and Expected Outcomes The in-person workshop's overall aim is to embed the knowledge and skills delivered to participants via the webinars May through August 2024. By the end of the workshop, participants will: Have embedded Python coding knowledge and skills for web scraping prices data and applied this to their chosen website. Understand how to process and clean web-scraped data, ready for inclusion into the CPI calculation process. Have discussed further and explored coding to automate a pipeline for incorporating web scraped prices data into the NSO’s processes. Have a deeper appreciation of the methodological challenges for incorporating web scraped prices into CPI calculations, and how to overcome these.
Description: The Asia-Pacific Stats Café on "Balancing Access and Confidentiality: The Role of Synthetic Data in Official Statistics" was held on Monday, 16 September 2024, from 14:00 to 15:15 hrs (UTC+7). Concept note Flyer Presentations UNECE: Synthetic Data for Official Statistics & the UNECE Starter Guide Thailand: Why we need Synthetic Data New Zealand: Balancing Access and Confidentiality: The Role of Synthetic Data in Official Statistics Singapore: Data Exploration and Research: Use of Synthetic Data in the Singapore Department of Statistics Agenda Moderator: Afsaneh Yazdan, ESCAP Opening remarks: Rachael Beaven (3 mins) Presentation 1: Introduction to Synthetic Data and the Guide, Christopher Jones, UNECE (10-15 mins) Presentation 2: Thailand (10-15 mins) Presentation 3: New Zealand (10-15 mins) Presentation 4: Singapore (10-15 mins) Q & A and discussion Closing remarks: Rachael Beaven (2 mins) Concept Note Producers of official statistics encounter the complex challenge of balancing data access with confidentiality. They must safeguard the confidentiality of individuals and businesses while addressing the increasing demand for detailed datasets. Traditionally, national statistical offices have granted trusted users, such as academics, access to micro-level data while providing aggregate statistical tables to other users. However, this approach is not a perfect solution, as it restricts the level of detail available to many users, and the process of vetting and managing trusted users is time-consuming and does not guarantee data security and confidentiality. An alternative solution is the use of synthetic data, which replicates the properties of the original dataset and yields comparable insights, thereby significantly reducing the risk of disclosing sensitive information. This Stats Café session explored the potential of synthetic data and how some countries have used or considered the use of synthetic data in the Asia-Pacific region. Relevant links UNECE Publication: Synthetic Data for official statistics Article on synthetic data (aimed at non-technical readers): Could synthetic data redefine the way we share statistical insights? , Stats Café Home: Upcoming events Concluded events
Description: Health policy evidence-building requires data sources such as healthcare claims, electronic health records, probability and nonprobability survey data, epidemiological surveillance databases, administrative data, and more, all of which have strengths and limitations for a given policy analysis. Data integration techniques leverage the relative strengths of input sources to obtain a blended source that is richer, more informative, and with better fitness-for-use than any single input component. This presentation notes the expansion of opportunities to use data integration for health policy analyses, reviews key methodological approaches to expand the number of variables in a data set or to increase the precision of estimates and provides directions for future research. As data quality improvement motivates data integration, key data quality frameworks are provided to structure assessments of candidate input data sources.
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: The course aims at providing an advanced knowledge of the elaboration and use of statistics on: trade in goods, services, financial flows, trade in value added and IIP statistics.
Target Audience: Staff members in the field of National Accounts (NA) and Balance of Payment (BoP) departments in National Statistical Offices and National Banks.
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: Objectives: * To provide the participants with a state of the art knowledge of the methodology and practice of nowcasting; * To introduce the participants to the use of R to produce nowcasts for their own series.
Target Audience: Staff of national statistical institutes involved in the production process who want to acquire a good understanding of nowcasting methods and practices.
Description: The annual Seminar on national accounts for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2024 is held in hybrid format (in-person and virtual) on 10 and 11 September 2024, at ECLAC headquarters.
Description: The webinar will take the participants through the key features of a successful data strategy such as the establishment of measurable objectives, reporting, outcomes, governance model and getting the users' buy in. Additionally, this webinar will showcase the difference between international and national data strategies, as well as project-level versus organizational data strategies to equip participants with the knowledge necessary to bring to their own projects.
Description: Addressing climate change, biodiversity loss and other related issues requires high quality and consistent data on the environment-economy nexus. The System of Environmental Economic Accounting (SEEA) provides the agreed upon statistical framework for measuring the relationship between the environment and the economy. There is a need to strengthen the capacities of NSOs to produce and disseminate SEEA accounts to better meet the needs of users for high quality integrated data on climate change, biodiversity and the economy. In the Central Asia region, national statistical offices (NSOs) have expressed strong interest to compiling various SEEA accounts, including taking steps towards compiling energy and air emission accounts which are among the most relevant accounts for informing climate change. Ecosystem accounts inform biodiversity as well as climate change related issues. With the recent adoption of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), demand by users for ecosystem accounts will increase as the SEEA Ecosystem Accounting is the methodological base for several headline indicators of the GBF. The workshop, organized by the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) and the UN Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific (SIAP), with the support of the Office of the Director-General for Policy Planning on Statistical Policy, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications of the Government of Japan, and in collaboration with the National Statistical Committee of the Kyrgyz Republic aims to further build capacities in the Central Asia region for the compilation of SEEA accounts relevant to climate change and biodiversity.
Description: The ESCAP-ASEAN Workshop on Tracking Progress Against the SDGs Tracker aims to convene technical experts from the ASEAN Secretariat and national statistical agencies and institutions of ASEAN Member States involved in the compilation, reporting, and monitoring of activities related to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The primary objective is to equip WGSDGI members with the skills to effectively utilize statistical indicators and quality data for tracking SDG implementation progress. Participants will have the opportunity to understand how SDG progress is being tracked, identify their countries’ strengths and gaps in SDG tracking, and explore ESCAP’s methodology and the SDG Tracker tool. This workshop will demonstrate how these tools can support and streamline SDG assessments at the national level. Target participants ASEAN Secretariat and members of the ASEAN Working Group on SDG Indicators (WGSDGI) from the national statistical agencies and institutions involved in the compilation, reporting, and monitoring of activities related to the SDGs.
Organizer(s): UNHCR ESCAP NSO India BPS Indonesia AI Generated
Description: The Asia-Pacific Stats Café on "Asia and the Pacific Regional Trends on Forced Displacement and Statelessness" was held on Monday, 9 September 2024, from 11:00 to 12:15 hrs (UTC+7). Concept note Flyer Presentations UNHCR: Asia-Pacific Regional Trends Report 2023 Population and Housing Census in Thailand: The Analysis of Stateless Persons National Statistical Office Presented Indonesia's experience in Population Data collection from Census and Survey UNHCR RBAP, in collaboration with ESCAP, organized this Stats Café to: Highlight the trends in forced displacement and statelessness in Asia and the Pacific in 2023. Share Thailand's experience in including stateless people in the CRVS system and census. Share Indonesia's experience in including refugees, IDPs, and stateless people in the national survey. Please find the following methodology papers which provided more detailed guidelines on statistical inclusion of forcibly displaced and stateless people in national systems: EGRISS Methodological Paper 1 on standardized refugee and IDP identification questions in surveys. Including refugees or IDPs in a population census. Including refugees in a sample survey of the national population, or running a stand-alone survey of refugees. Including IDPs in a sample survey of the national population, or running a stand-alone survey of IDPs. First issue of the EGRISS Methodological Paper Series. The collection of documents is intended as the Expert Group's input to ongoing methodological debates. , Stats Café Home: Upcoming events Concluded events
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: The aim of the course is to: * give an overview of the functioning of ESS, including ESS procedures and concepts; * create understanding of the requirements originating from the EU cooperation * introduce in the relations of the European statistical world with EU institutions, the legal basis of the ESS, the decision-making process, the cooperation among the different stakeholders, etc.; * prepare participants and enable them to tackle the day-to-day challenges of the ESS system for the purpose of strengthening efforts and thereby increasing their involvement; * train the participants in negotiating with colleagues from other European countries, including negotiation and presentation skills, effective oral communication and active participation in an ESS meeting..
Target Audience: Staff members wishing to understand the framework and functioning of the European Statistical System (ESS) as well as staff who participate or will be participating in the meetings of committees, working groups and task forces.
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Organizer(s): ESCAP SIAP PARIS21 Government of Mongolia
Description: This training will provide NSO heads with leadership skills to improve their effectiveness through greater awareness of their strengths and weaknesses and the challenges they face both internally within their organization and externally within the larger environment they are engaging with. OftenNSO heads rarely have the opportunity to receive extensive feedback from staff and stakeholders outside. It is necessary to have to open opportunity and understanding to build a comprehensive plan for driving success within the NSO and the NSSand by extension the data ecosystem.
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Organizer(s): ESCAP SIAP UNODC-KOSTAT UN-WOMEN
Description: This regional training introduces crime statistics from a gender perspective to produce reliable indicators to monitor the relevant SDGs (SDGs 5 and 16). The training provides an opportunity for participants to learn about gender concepts and frameworks on SDG indicators relevant to crime and criminal justice statistics including gender-based SDG targetswith the overall aim of strengthening regional capacity in producing high-quality SDG indicator data and overall statisticsto inform policy decisions at national and international levels.
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: Designed for all those who are engaged in providing statistical, technical and analytical training, giving statistical, technical and analytical presentations, providing statistical, technical and analytical consulting and facilitating group sessions with statistical and non-statistical audiences. Courses will provide attendees with the competences required to be effective when training/teaching colleagues in statistical, technical and analytical topics. Specific details can be seen under ‘Outcomes’ below.
Target Audience: Designed for all those who are engaged in providing statistical, technical and analytical training, giving statistical, technical and analytical presentations, providing statistical, technical and analytical consulting and facilitating group sessions with statistical and non-statistical audiences.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, introduces the fundamentals of compiling monetary statistics, with special attention to other financial corporations (OFCs). It also gives an overview of financial statistics and national accounts. The course material is based on the Monetary and Financial Statistics Manual and Compilation Guide (MFSMCG). Although the course summarizes the main principles underlying the compilation of monetary statistics, it assumes participants already understand these principles (e.g., having participated in the MFS-I course). The core of the course deals with characteristics of various OFCs (insurance corporations, pension funds, non-MMF investment funds, etc.), their typical balance sheet structure, and their role in the financial sector. The course also covers some aspects of financial statistics, dealing with financial flows and stocks of all sectors of the domestic economy and their interactions with the rest of the world; the balance sheet approach to vulnerability analysis; and the relationships between monetary, balance of payments, government finance, and national accounts statistics. The course consists of lectures and case studies to familiarize participants with practical aspects of compiling monetary statistics for OFCs and the basic principles underlying the compilation of national accounts. At the end of the course, participants are expected to make a short presentation on monetary statistics compilation issues in their own countries.
Target Audience: Central bank officials and officials from regulatory agencies responsible for compiling monetary statistics.
Description: The second session of two-part series to be held on Monday, 2 September 2024, from 12:00 to 13:00 hr (UTC+7), following the first session on Wednesday, 14 August 2024, from 12:00 to 13:00 hr (UTC+7).This Stats Café series aims to provide support to participants in the process of completing the questionnaire for the 2025 review of progress in implementing the Regional Action Framework on CRVS in Asia and the Pacific. The objectives of the series are as follows:For ESCAP to share more information on the process and timeline for completing the questionnaire for the 2025 review of progress in implementing the Regional Action Framework on CRVS in Asia and the Pacific, including highlighting some frequently asked questions and answers;For countries that have already completed the questionnaire to share experiences and lessons learned;For participants to ask and/or seek clarification from ESCAP on any questions and required information in the questionnaire;To update participants on preparations for the 2025 Ministerial Conference on CRVS in Asia and the Pacific and call for their support in facilitating optimal engagement from their governments.Concept notePresentations2025 review of progress in implementing the Regional Action Framework on CRVS in Asia and the Pacific: Process, timeline, and FAQsPhilippines: Completing the Questionnaire for the 2025 Review of Progress in Implementing the Regional Action Framework on CRVSMaldives: Experience Sharing on 2025 Review Questionnaire CompletionPreparations for the 2025 Ministerial Conference on CRVS in Asia and the Pacific.embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 50%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }
Description: The producer price index (PPI) and the export and import price index (XMPI) are important complements to the consumer price index (CPI) in drawing a more complete picture of how inflation affects major parts of an economy, including businesses and institutions, in addition to households. These indexes are used to deflate production and expenditure values in the national accounts, adjust prices in long-term contracts, analyze short-term inflation trends, and perform terms of trade analysis.In the Producer, Export, and Import Price Index course, or PPIx, you will learn the fundamentals of how these statistics are compiled and used. In this course, we take a close look at the types of transactions and prices included in these indexes, and how they are weighted together to create the total index values reported in the news.
Target Audience: Compilers of producer price indexes (PPIs) and export and import price indexes (XMPIs), and users of these data interested in understanding key concepts and compilation issues.
Description: As Uganda undergoes rapid urbanization, the pressures on urban infrastructure, services, and management are escalating. However, amidst these challenges lies a significant opportunity to harness advanced spatial and remote sensing data to optimize urban planning, decision-making, and resource management. In preparation for this transformative phase, three organizations—Sunbird AI, UN Global Pulse, and ToroDev—are collaborating under […]
Title in Spanish: Evento paralelo – Cuentas Nacionales de Transferencia (NTA) y Cuentas Nacionales de Inclusión (NIAs)
Organizer(s): ECLAC DANE Colombia
Description: Partiendo de la importancia de la estimación de las NIA y las NTA para los países de la región en la formulación de políticas y programas públicos que tengan en cuenta los cambios demográficos, este evento tiene como objetivo compartir las buenas prácticas y desafíos que desde la perspectiva de las y los directores o gerentes de las oficinas nacionales de estadística, organismos internacionales y otros actores clave del ecosistema de datos identifican en la implementación y adaptación de las NIA y las NTA en los sistemas estadísticos, así como su uso para la toma de decisiones en materia de política pública.
Description: This twenty-third meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas will be held from 28 to 29 August 2024, at the headquarters of ECLAC in Santiago, Chile.
Description: The Asia-Pacific Stats Café on "Governance Statistics – New Solutions and Approaches to Address the Information Gap" was held on Wednesday, 28 August 2024, from 14:00 to 15:00 hr (UTC+7). Concept note Flyer PowerPoint presentations Governance statistics to monitor SDG 16, including through the SDG 16 Survey Praia Group on Governance Statistics About the session This session aimed to provide updated information, guidance and tools for NSOs and statisticians to address data gaps in reporting on the SDG 16 survey-based indicators and to strengthen official statistical production on participation in political and public affairs and on non-discrimination and equality. Seven years after the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Asia Pacific region faces considerable challenges in monitoring targets for Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 16 (“Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels”.) Many countries in the region have prioritized SDG 16 in their national development priorities, recognizing the importance of addressing peace, justice and inclusion as part of sustainable development. However, reporting progress on SDG 16 indicators has been a challenge. ESCAP’s 2024 SDG Progress Report notes that SDG 5 on Gender equality and SDG 16 continue to be the goals with the least available data and for SDG 16 there is no data for nearly 60% of the indicators and only 23% of the indicators have sufficient data. The SDG16 Survey Initiative jointly developed by UNDP, UNODC, and OHCHR, and approved by the United Nations Statistical Commission provides a high-quality, well-tested tool that countries can use to measure progress on many of the survey-based indicators under SDG16. The SDG16 Survey is primarily for countries that are not yet producing SDG 16 indicators in line with relevant SDG metadata and was created to translate the approved metadata for survey-based SDG 16 indicators into a consolidated survey instrument. The tool is made available to national statistical systems, which might want to use it according to their needs and priorities, either as a standalone survey, to collect data on all the indicators in one single operation, or as separate modules to be inserted in other household surveys. The Survey focuses on eight domains, namely: Access to Justice – Access to Dispute Resolution Mechanisms; Access to Justice – Violence Reporting; Corruption; Discrimination; Harassment; Physical Violence; Psychological Violence; Satisfaction with Public Services; Sexual Violence; and Trafficking in Persons. Meanwhile, the Praia City Group on Governance Statistics continues to work towards the establishment of global standards for measuring key areas of governance statistics, building on the Handbook on Governance Statistics which was endorsed by the UN Statistical Commission in 2020. With the landmark adoption in 2023 of an updated Classification of Statistical Activities (CSA 2.0) which includes Governance as a new domain of official statistics, the need for such standards and internationally agreed methods for compiling statistics on various sub-domains of governance has become even more pressing. This session informed about the ongoing work of two Task Teams of the Praia Group which were developing short survey modules to enable the production of globally comparable official statistics on Non-Discrimination and Equality and on Participation in Political and Public Affairs. In 2024, twelve NSOs across the world will be field-testing or piloting the draft modules, and eight more have committed to doing so in 2025. To date, however, no NSO in the Asia-Pacific region has indicated interest in testing the modules. The Praia Group Task Teams are keen to engage with NSOs of the region to discuss the relevance of these modules in the Asia-Pacific context, and the possibility of testing them, independently or as part of a larger survey already planned for 2024 or 2025. It is of paramount importance for NSOs from all regions and all development contexts to participate in this critical testing phase, to validate the applicability of the modules across diverse socio-cultural and political settings. , Stats Café Home: Upcoming events Concluded events
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Description: This is a side event of the twenty-third meeting of the Executive Committee of the SCA-ECLAC. The objective of the seminar is to share innovations from the 2020 census round and lessons learned from the perspective of directors of national statistical offices. It seeks to contribute to the planning of the 2030 census round, enhancing lessons learned and capacities acquired in light of the results and challenges.
Description: The CRVS applied research training (CART) initiative focuses on enhancing CRVS systems through supporting applied research on strategies, interventions, and tools. This project aims to strengthen the capacity of CRVS practitioners to conduct high quality relevant research. The first workshop was held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, from 26 to 30 August 2024. The agenda is attached.
Description: FAO water data experts participated in the World Water Week in Stockholm from 25 to 29 August, contributing to the global annual conference on water.
Description: The theme of the IFC 2024 Biennial Conference, to be held at the BIS in Basel on 22–23 August 2024, is “Statistics and beyond: new data for decision making in central banks”. The programme will cover issues such as the evolving role of the central banks’ statistical function, in particular to produce official statistics and support policy-making; opportunities and challenges related to new data sources and tools, including advances in artificial intelligence and data science; and ongoing international statistical initiatives, especially the revision of the System of National Accounts (SNA) and balance of payments (BPM) manuals, the G20 Data Gaps Initiative (DGI), and the implementation of the Statistical Data and Metadata eXchange (SDMX) standard.
Title in Spanish: Taller para la generación de cuentas de ecosistemas de Guatemala
Organizer(s): ECLAC Banco de Guatemala AI Generated
Description: El objetivo de esta asistencia técnica fue la de revisar conceptos clave de la Contabilidad de los Ecosistemas para fortalecer las capacidades de la Sección de Cuentas Ambientales del Banco de Guatemala y conocer buenas prácticas en la región para impulsar su desarrollo.
Description: The webinar will be held on 20th August 2024, 11:00-12:00hr Bangkok Time (UTC+7). ESCAP Statistics Division continues to support member states in strengthening their statistical capacity to produce relevant data to monitor the 2030 agenda. Different countries are at various stages of progress in implementing SDGs and face different challenges while adapting all the time. The most critical aspect of monitoring SDG progress is data. Data is produced by different agencies in a country. As part of implementing SDGs as a global development agenda, countries have adopted different approaches to suit their specific national contexts. Others have created national action plans as a way of implementing SDGs and overall national SDG progress across various goals and targets. This webinar will showcase the process of creating a national action plan for implementing and monitoring SDGs by the National Development Planning Agency of Indonesia (Bappenas). The webinar will give insights on how key users of statistics apply data in national development planning in practice. , Stats Café Home: Upcoming events Concluded events
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, deals with identification and assessment of elementary indicators and techniques for combining them into a single index of economic activity to track national trends. Flash estimates or indexes of economic activity bring together a range of elementary indicators to give timely general measures of economic activity. These measures give policy makers useful information that complements annual and quarterly GDP estimates, which are more comprehensive but usually only available after substantial lags, and provide a more comprehensive picture than individual monthly and quarterly indicators, which are up-to-the-minute but reflect just a portion of the total economy).This course is for actual or potential compilers of short-term indicators in central banks and statistical offices and for those who collect data for monthly indicators. Participants are expected to work with their own monthly and quarterly time series during the course. These indicators will be used in the practical session as the basis for experimental estimates.
Target Audience: Officials responsible for compiling short-term or monthly economic indicators in central banks and statistical offices.
Description: The first session was held on Wednesday, 14 August 2024, from 12:00 to 13:00 hr (UTC+7). The second session will be held on Monday, 2 September 2024, from 12:00 to 13:00 hr (UTC+7).This Stats Café series aims to provide support to participants in the process of completing the questionnaire for the 2025 review of progress in implementing the Regional Action Framework on CRVS in Asia and the Pacific. The objectives of the series are as follows:For ESCAP to share more information on the process and timeline for completing the questionnaire for the 2025 review of progress in implementing the Regional Action Framework on CRVS in Asia and the Pacific, including highlighting some frequently asked questions and answers;For countries that have already completed the questionnaire to share experiences and lessons learned;For participants to ask and/or seek clarification from ESCAP on any questions and required information in the questionnaire;To update participants on preparations for the 2025 Ministerial Conference on CRVS in Asia and the Pacific and call for their support in facilitating optimal engagement from their governments..embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 50%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; } Event websiteRegistration form
Source: ESCAP SIAP (Data extracted on: 27 Nov 2024 )
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Organizer(s): ESCAP SIAP UNSD
Description: Identifying and responding to the needs of users for data and statistics is at the heart of the mission of National Statistical Offices (NSOs) and national statistical systems. NSOs already undertake many activities interacting with different users such as preparing press releases to aid journalists and communicate with the public at large and organizing launch events/workshops to disseminate important results from surveys and censuses. In generalthe NSO interacts with users towards the tail end of the statistical production process when the data is disseminated. There is an opportunity for national statistical offices to further improve their collaboration with users by engaging more systematically throughout the statistical production process. User engagement is the process of conducting a dialogue with users of official statistics to understand their needs and improve the productsservices and operation of a statistical organization accordingly.
Description: Theme: Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) The objectives of this virtual quarterly CR8 meeting are to (1) share country experience on developing a M&E plan and system, and (2) highlight the 2025 review of progress in implementing the RAF including the process and timeline associated with the completion of the 2025 review questionnaire. The meeting also provides an opportunity for CR8 members to ask questions and seek clarification on the questionnaire as well. The meeting will be held virtually via MS Teams on 8 August 2024 at 14:00-15:30, Bangkok time. The modality of the meeting will mainly be presentations followed by Q&As. Link to meeting website To register for the meeting, use this Registration form To attend the meeting, click CR8 meeting link
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Description: The Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM) was established to provide the leadership to ensure that geospatial information and resources are coordinated, maintained, accessible and able to be leveraged by Member States and society to find sustainable solutions for social, economic, and environmental development. The Committee provides a forum for coordination and dialogue with and among Member States and relevant international organizations on enhanced cooperation in the field of global geospatial information management for the achievement of its operations focused on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the United Nations Integrated Geospatial Information Framework (UN-IGIF), to strengthen and ensure its continued effectiveness and benefits to all Member States.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, acquaints participants with the fundamentals of compiling and using FSIs in support of macroprudential analysis. The course covers methodological and technical issues in the construction of FSIs, as discussed in the 2019 Financial Soundness Indicators Compilation Guide (2019 FSI Guide). The course takes an interactive approach using hands-on exercises in discussing the main topics as follows: Preparation of the sectoral financial statements and compilation of FSIs for deposit takers; Regulatory framework for deposit takers; Accounting principles and data consolidation for the compilation of FSIs for deposit takers; and Overview of key points and changes in the 2019 FSI Guide. Asynchronous Component — July 1–15, 2024 This component will comprise five modules and will focus on the conceptual issues that will be performed by the participants after each synchronous part. The asynchronous component will be supplemented with assigned readings and references. These modules will be made available to the participants at least five days before the start of the synchronous classes.Participants will be required to take a pre-course quiz. Successful completion (i.e., a passing grade) will not be a pre-requisite for participating in the synchronous component. The results of the quiz will be only used by the instructors to determine the knowledge of the participants. Synchronous Component — August 5–9, 2024 The synchronous component will focus on the practical compilation of issues and topics that may require greater instructor input and feedback. It will comprise lectures, question and answer sessions and practical workshop exercises. The lectures will be developed using existing lecture presentations and the scripts that were prepared for the online course. The lectures will be presented in 30 minutes to 45-minute slots. Each presentation will be followed by a brief exercise or question-answer session. Participants will be invited to present case studies of practical problems or proposed solutions to practical problems. These issues could be related to source data or compilation. Participants will also be invited to respond to some practice questions in discussion forums. This will be followed by a workshop where the responses to these questions will be discussed, along with the correct answers.
Target Audience: Officials at central banks and supervisory agencies for the financial sector who are involved in the collection, compilation, and analysis of financial soundness indicators (FSIs).
Description: A virtual meeting of Pacific Civil Registrars Network (PCRN) will be organized with support from ESCAP and the Pacific Community (SPC) on 31 July 2024, at 08:00 – 09:00 am. Bangkok time (GMT+7) via Microsoft Teams. The purpose of the meeting is to provide an overview of the process and timeline for completing the 2025 review questionnaire on the implementation of the Regional Action Framework on CRVS in Asia and the Pacific, addressing common questions. It also seeks to facilitate the sharing of experiences and lessons learned from previous and current reviews among PCRN members and SPC, and to clarify any questions regarding the questionnaire. Additionally, the meeting will update PCRN members on the preparations for the 2025 Ministerial Conference on CRVS and encourage their support for active government participation.Registration for the 2024 Virtual PCRN Meeting MS Teams link
Description: This presentation scrutinises the transformative potential of Large Language Models (LLMs) in survey research, focusing on three critical areas: questionnaire design, synthetic data creation, and the role of LLMs as qualitative interviewers. In the domain of questionnaire design, the lecture delves into if and how LLMs can construct contextually accurate and highly effective survey items. However, there are valid concerns about the model’s understanding and potential biases, which we will critically evaluate. She also discusses LLMs’ ability to fabricate synthetic data, preserving core statistical properties whilst ensuring privacy. Here too, the ethical implications and the potential for misuse of this capability pose challenges that need to be addressed. Lastly, the lecture explores how LLMs, with their human-like conversational ability, can act as qualitative interviewers, allowing in-depth information gathering at scale. Yet, questions about their ability to fully capture the complexity and subtleties of human interaction and response also remain. The underlying theme of this talk is the question on how research in this space should be structured.
Description: This three-day course, conducted by the Statistics Department familiarizes participants with key climate change related indicators that can be developed to better inform economic and financial policies. The statistics covered include Environmental revenues and expenditures, Natural Resource Accounts, Physical and Transition risk indicators, Air Emission Accounts and indicators of Sustainable Finance. The course consists of a series of lectures giving overview of methods for compiling climate change-related indicators, and insights into the analytical uses of the climate change-related indicators.
Target Audience: Officials from National Statistics Agencies, Ministries of Finance, Planning and Environment, Central Banks, and other agencies, who are responsible for compiling and/or using environment or climate change related indicators.
Description: Concept note Unpacking gender dimensions within climate-related concerns, policies and programmes is important to enhance social, economic, and environmental outcomes. In particular, exploring the gender and climate change nexus is key to reducing the differentiated impacts of disasters and climate change on women and men, promoting the empowerment and opportunities of women and men in all their diversities, enhancing their access to environmental decision-making, and ensuring a just transition. Data plays a critical role in uncovering gender-climate change nexus issues, informing actions, and supporting the monitoring of policy implementation and outcomes. The statistical community at various levels has been advancing statistical guidance and tools in the areas of gender, climate change, and the intertwining between the two. They include, for instance, the Global Set of Climate Change Statistics and Indicators, the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting and Climate change, the Disaster-related Statistics Framework, the Asia-Pacific Gender-Environment Indicators and the Model Questionnaire on Gender and Environment. Understanding particular circumstances, needs, and priorities of countries is essential for policy-relevant applications of these tools and guidance in addressing national gender-climate change concerns. To this end, ESCAP and UN Women are partnering to support the Government of Indonesia in the production and use of selected priority statistics and indicators that may help understand the gender-climate change nexus and inform related policies based on national needs. In particular, this support will include: (1) A facilitated national multistakeholder consultation to identify key information needs and priority areas for measurement; (2) Technical support for the production of selected indicators of national policy interest using available data; and (3) Assistance for the preparation of a short data brief for policy advocacy/use and way forward. Within the context of pursuing step (1) above, UN Women and ESCAP are looking to organize a national consultation with key stakeholders in Indonesia. In particular, the national consultation, scheduled to take place on July 30th and July 31st, will bring together representatives from BPS-Statistics Indonesia and representatives from key Ministries or Civil Society Organizations engaging in climate-related work. Concept note and Agenda , National consultation: Harnessing the Power of Data to Inform a Gender-Climate Change Nexus: Fiji Indonesia Philippines
Description: The 2024 United Nations World Data Forum (UNWDF) presents a unique opportunity to turn dialogue into actionable commitments, accelerating progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This webinar marks the official launch of the UNWDF Commitments Campaign, inviting stakeholders from all sectors to join the movement and commit to transforming data into impact. The following key topics will be covered: Introduce the UNWDF Commitments Campaign and its goals. Showcase examples of current commitments from diverse sectors. Provide guidance and answer questions on how to submit and promote commitments. Speakers:
Description: About This Session This session was the second in the series, following the first one held on 20 June 2024, to further discuss the review of the groups and communities of practice supporting the Committee’s work. The secretariat circulated the revised version of the consultation paper on 8 July 2024, which incorporated feedback received from the first round of the consultation received in June 2024. The session was chaired by Dr. Koh, Singapore’s Chief Statistician and Rapporteur of the Bureau of the Committee on Statistics. It was a panel discussion, where each panelist “shared their reflections on the proposed new structure, highlighting the potential benefits and any challenges which might still need to be addressed.” Audience ESCAP stats cafe’s main audience is NSOs and statisticians. Open to the public Roles and Speakers .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 50%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; } , Stats Café Home: Upcoming events Concluded events ESCAP Committee on Statistics: Fit for the future: 1st session 2nd session
Description: In this Global Network Webinar, we welcomed Dr. Haidong Wang and Dr. Bochen Cao from the World Health Organization (WHO). They presented on the topic “World Health Statistics 2024: The World’s Annual Health Check.” The latest edition of the World Health Statistics report revealed that the COVID-19 pandemic reversed the trend of steady gain in life expectancy at birth and healthy life expectancy at birth (HALE). The pandemic wiped out nearly a decade of progress in improving life expectancy within just two years. Between 2019 and 2021, global life expectancy and HALE dropped back to the levels of 2012. COVID-19 rapidly emerged as a leading cause of death, ranking as the third highest cause of mortality globally in 2020 and the second in 2021. Communicable diseases surged back to causing 23.0% of all deaths in 2020 and 28.1% in 2021 – a return to 2005 levels. These effects have been felt unequally across the world. The two speakers provided details on these and other key findings from the report during the webinar.
Description: This one-week workshop will be presented by experts from the International Monetary Fund's Statistics Department and a representative from India's Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation. The workshop will be based on the System of National Accounts 2008 (2008 SNA) and the Quarterly National Accounts Manual, 2017. The workshop will cover the following topics: (1) national accounts concepts and methods from the perspective of GSDP; (2) data sources and indicators (annual and quarterly), including use of benchmarking techniques; (3) price and volume measures; and (4) fundamental aspects of state/regional economic accounts. The workshop will feature interactive lectures and hands-on exercises that enable participants to operationalize what they learn.
Target Audience: The workshop is intended for Indian subnational government officials who are integrally involved in the compilation of and dissemination of gross state domestic product statistics (GSDP).
Within this context, the UN Statistics Division is organizing an expert group meeting on the use of non-traditional data sources and data integration for the SDGs. More specifically, the meeting will :
Review national and global practices on the use of non-traditional data sources and an integration of data sources for SDGs;
Review progress and provide guidance in piloting and implementing the Copenhagen Framework on Citizen Data;
Review and provide input to the draft guideline on the quality framework for non-traditional data sources and integrated data sources;
Seek guidance on a roadmap in supporting countries on the use of non-traditional data sources and data integration.
Within this context, the Collaborative on Citizen Data is organizing a one-day workshop on citizen data. The workshop aims to familiarize participants with the Copenhagen Framework on Citizen Data; and facilitate an exchange of experiences and peer-learning on leveraging citizen data for public policy, including challenges faced and lessons learnt on how to overcome the challenges. Some of the topics that will be covered include, but not limited to
Data collection and validation
The use of citizen data for public policy
Quality assurance
Ethical considerations and rights-based approach to data
Collaboration between civil society organization (CSO) and state institutions including national statistical offices (NSO) and trust-building
Statistics Poland and the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) are jointly organizing a four-day Technical Workshop on International Migration and Temporary Mobility Statistics in Warsaw, Poland. The event will take place on 16-19 July 2024.
The workshop aims to address the gaps in the availability of reliable and timely migration data, crucial for designing effective operational and policy responses in alignment with the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM) and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The objectives of the workshop include to: 1) facilitate knowledge exchange, 2) discuss implementation issues and 3) build statistical capacity in the production and use of relevant, high quality and disaggregated statistics on international migration.
Organizer(s): UNSD UNICEF Paris21 European Commission
Description: Co-hosted by the State Department of Economic Planning of Kenya, PARIS21, Directorate General of International Partnerships of the European Commission, the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), this side event focuses on highlighting the indispensable role of National Statistical Offices (NSOs) in strengthening the evidence-base of the Voluntary National Review (VNR) process and the follow-up. The organisers will share best practices from countries and present new analysis and guidance for Governments, who look for ways to boost their capacities for an improved monitoring of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and for a better data governance. Registration
Description: The demand for analyzing labour market data has risen, in line with the prioritization of countries to better understand the functioning of the labour market and the impact of policies and programmes on outcomes, including unemployment and employment. The adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development requires governments and other stakeholders to monitor progress towards the defined goals and targets, including SDG 8 on Decent Work and Economic Growth. At the same time, new measures of the labour market are evolving through the adoption of statistical standards by the International Conference of Labour Statisticians (ICLS). The 19th and 20th ICLS resolutions on work statistics are crucial for decent work related SDG indicators, particularly SDG 8 on promoting inclusive and sustainable growth, employment and decent work for all. The analysis of labour market data relies on the availability of data, which has expanded in recent years, and the use of appropriate methodologies to identify key factors and trends relevant to evidence-based policymaking. In this regard, analysts and statisticians depend on statistical software that provides a user-friendly approach to data management, description, graphics and analysis. STATA is such a tool, which is powerful but easy-to-use, and is utilized across the world for analysing labour market data. Building on its long experience in delivering training on labour market statistics, the International Training Centre of the ILO in full collaboration with the ILO Department of Statistics is proud to offer the training Advanced STATA for labour market analysis. Harnessing the latest ground-breaking learning technologies, the ITCILO is proudly offering this face to face training in full collaboration with the ILO Department of Statistics. - This course qualifies for the Labour Market Statistics & Analysis Diploma.
Target Audience: The course targets: - Labour Statisticians from national statistical offices; Ministries of labour and related institutions (such as labour observatories); Other Ministries or Government institutions in charge of SDG statistical monitoring; - Employment and development policy analysts from National Statistical Offices, Research and Academic institutions, International organizations and Donor organizations; and - Officials responsible for managing the production and dissemination of labour market statistics, particularly for the SDG national reporting.
Title in Spanish: Taller introductorio a las cuentas ambientales de Cuba
Organizer(s): ECLAC ONEI Cuba AI Generated
Description: En virtud de la cooperación técnica previa entre ONEI y la CEPAL, se solicitó a esta última continuar el apoyo técnico. En octubre de 2023, CEPAL realizó una misión para fortalecer capacidades en estadísticas e indicadores ambientales, promoviendo marcos internacionales y desarrollando cuentas ambientales en Cuba para apoyar los ODS y fortalecer el Sistema Estadístico Nacional.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 30 Jul 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat
Description: The event is an opportunity to present the Annual Report on Migration and Asylum which highlights the most significant legislative and policy developments introduced by EMN Member and Observer Countries during 2023. The report provides an overview of key developments and cross-cutting themes in all areas of migration and asylum, set in the context of statistics developed by Eurostat and provided by EMN Observer Countries.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 07 Mar 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: Learn how to extract relevant information for statistical purposes from huge amounts of data.
Target Audience: IT professionals whose role is to support statisticians with big data infrastructure, either via local big data clusters or via cloud solutions, and the engineering of big data processing. Methodologists and statisticians with a strong IT background who are expected to handle big data infrastructures and unstructured data.
Description: With only six years remaining to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), accelerating action is paramount if the promise of the SDGs is to be fulfilled. The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2024 offers critical data insights into the current trajectory of SDG implementation. Unfortunately, mounting crises continue to hinder progress on many SDGs, reversing early favorable trends. Registration
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 29 May 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat ILO
Description: The Statistical Office of the European Union (Eurostat) in partnership with the International Labour Organization (ILO) has the pleasure of organising The Global Conference on Measuring New Forms of Employment in Brussels on 4-5 July 2024. Rapid changes impact labour markets, emphasising the need to advance the measurement of emerging forms of employment. This conference will gather high-profile policy makers and statistical experts from across Europe and around the World, who will provide input in the future development of reliable statistical information on digital and innovative economy in the labour market domain. Throughout the course of the conference, we intend to tackle issues linked to data sources, definitions and measurement. We also intend to explore current experiences in measuring the phenomenon of forms of employment, both at national and international levels, and new or forthcoming international recommendations. The event will bring together labour statisticians, data scientists, researchers, labour force analysts, policy users and stakeholders for this opportunity to have rich exchanges on future labour statistical measurements in a global perspective. Conference highlights: * Speeches from leaders and experts in the field; * Sessions on a wide range of topics; * Expertise and knowledge sharing.
Description: The webinar of the sprint will take a deep dive into Statistics Canada's framework for housing statistics, while also addressing the question of why housing data matters from the point of view of policy makers and other users.
Description: South-South cooperation flows: insights from methodological developments and existing country quantificationIn a time marked by rapid change and compounding challenges, the global landscape of international development cooperation is undergoing a transformative shift, especially as the world surpasses the halfway mark to achieving the sustainable development goals (SDGs) by 2030. South-South cooperation can play an essential role, alongside other development support, in enhancing development efforts and results through mutual sharing of good practices, pooling resources, and exchanging know-how between countries of the global South.Thanks to the joint efforts of the Global South, for the first time, there is now a global, voluntary Conceptual Framework to measure South-South Cooperation. In the session countries will share their experience in measuring South-South cooperation for strategic management of international cooperation flows to advance sustainable development in the global South.The session will share recent conceptual and methodological developments in quantifying South-South cooperation flows. Pioneering countries will show how better data can support more efficient policy measures and contribute to global efforts in reaching sustainable development for all.Speakers * Anu Peltola (Moderator)Director of Statistics, UN Trade and Development * Hend Abdalrahman Al-MuftahPermanent Representative, Permanent Mission of Qatar to the UN * Pedro Manuel MorenoDeputy Secretary-General, UNCTAD * Dima Al-KhatibDirector , United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation * Na JiangDirector General of the Department of Policy and Planning, China International Development Cooperation Agency * Lina Marcela Puentes GruesoCoordinator in South-South and Triangular Cooperation, Directorate of International Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Colombia
Organizer(s): UN-GGIM: Americas ECLAC AI Generated
Description: The Integrated Geospatial Information Framework (UN-IGIF) was developed in collaboration between the United Nations and the World Bank, with the purpose of providing guidance to countries in developing and strengthening their national and subnational arrangements on geospatial information management and related infrastructure.
Jointly organized by the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), and the Arab Institute for Training and Research in Statistics (AITRS), this regional workshop will review international recommendations and standards for Statistical Business Registers. The program will facilitate the implementation of the Maturity Model for Statistical Business Registers and address emerging developments, including the global assessment questionnaire, revised industrial classification systems, geospatial information integration, and the global initiative on unique business identifiers.
Description: The objective of International Workshop on Time-Use Statistics is to strengthen national capacity to collect and regularly produce comparable high-quality time-use data in cost-effective ways by adopting innovative data collection methods and latest technologies to inform and monitor public policies, including SDGs. The workshop will include presentations on conceptual and methodological issues, data sources, collection and compilation, country practices, and round-table discussions. The workshop will also be an opportunity to introduce the UN Guide to Producing Statistics on Time Use, endorsed by the UN Statistical Commission at its 55th session in 2024.
The UN Committee of Experts on Environmental-Economic Accounting (UNCEEA) functions as an umbrella body to provide overall vision, coordination, prioritization and direction in the field of environmental-economic accounting. The UNCEEA meets once a year and is governed by the Bureau of the UNCEEA.The Nineteenth Meeting of the UNCEEA will take place virtually on 25-26 June 2024, from 7:30 to 11:00 EDT.
The agenda of this meeting is organized around the main areas of work of the Committee, namely, coordination and communication, methodological development for normative standards and other research, development of databases for the SEEA, and implementation and statistical capacity building. Background documents reviewing progress and outlining key questions for discussion will be circulated in advance of the meeting to facilitate the discussion and will be made available online on this webpage.
Members of the Committee are encouraged to send written feedback on the questions prior to the meeting, preferably by 24 May 2024, to seea@un.org.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 07 Mar 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: The main objective of the courses is to enhance the theoretical and practical knowledge related to the treatment of unit non-response and item non-response. In particular, participants will gain knowledge on weighting techniques in order to deal with unit non-response and imputation techniques in order to deal with item non-response. For unit-nonresponse, participants will also learn about up to date monitoring of data collection and application of adaptive survey designs.
Target Audience: All NSIs staff dealing with data collection facing non-response, either unit non-response where entire units intended to be collected are missing or item non-response where some items of otherwise responding units are missing.
Description: UNSD, under the Data For Now initiative, organized a high-level seminar and technical workshop to discuss the potential of mobile network operator (MNO) data to gain insights into internal migration to deliver information needed by decision makers.
The Tunisian Institut National de la Statistique (INS), recognizing the strategic nature of timely estimations of internal migration for many development domains such as demographic projections, resource allocation and social equity, has identified the area of internal migration as one of the priorities in line with their national development plans within the Data For Now initiative.
The event brought together, for the first time, representatives from all the three Tunisian telecommunication companies, the telecommunication regulator, the data protection authority and other relevant national stakeholders in a joint conversation on the feasibility of accessing and using mobile positioning data for statistical production. While the high-level seminar presented the potential of the mobile phone data in light of international benchmarks and local stakeholder feedback, the workshop was focused on technical aspects of the use of MNO data for statistical purposes, including statistical needs, data requirements, data processing modalities, data privacy, ethical use of data, and quality criteria.
At the end of the workshop, the participants jointly developed a roadmap which defines next steps for project planning for access to migration data outputs based on MNO data, with commitment and support from national stakeholders to ensure the privacy and confidentiality.
Before and after the events, several meetings and online events took place, including a preparatory webinar on the use of MNO data for statistics for the MNOs facilitated by UNSD.
Description: In this insightful Global Network Webinar on the vital nexus between official statistics and democracy, Luca Di Gennaro Splendore from the University of Malta shared his research, showcasing a quantitative relationship between a country's level of democracy and the performance of its national statistical system. Key points of the presentation included: * Official statistics are the lifeblood of democracy, influencing policymaking, media narratives, and electoral choices. * There is a striking correlation between the Democracy Index and Statistical Performance Indicators across countries, regions, and continents. * The most democratic countries tend to have the best-performing national statistical offices. * The independence of national statistical offices is crucial, akin to the freedom of speech and justice system. * Statisticians and data users have a vital role to play in defending the independence and integrity of national statistical systems, especially in the face of democratic backsliding. The discussions during the Q&A session covered issues like data quality, causality, and the role of statistical systems in both thriving and deteriorating democracies. This event underscored the importance of official statistics as constitutional guardians of democracy.
Description: The meeting aimed to engage countries in detailed discussions on the presentations and topics covered during the initial kickoff workshop held in Barbados on 21-22 May 2024. It was meant to ensure all participants have the opportunity to contribute and clarify outstanding points, discuss and refine the selection of priority sectors for analysis and pilot testing, review and confirm focal points for each country, address any remaining questions from the workshop, and plan next steps, including the installation of TiSSTAT, piloting activities, and scheduling the next regional events. The objective was to foster collaboration among countries, ensuring the project aligns with their development goals and priorities.
Description: About This Session During its 8th session, the ESCAP Committee on Statistics decided “That its Bureau shall, with the support of the secretariat, conduct a review of the groups and communities of practice supporting the Committee’s work and propose recommendations to that end for consideration by the Committee to streamline, consolidate and improve those groups and communities to ensure that they continue to be fit for purpose. This could include moving towards less formal collaboration mechanisms, as appropriate, that may be better suited to the complex world in which national statistical offices now operate, while bearing in mind the lead role played by such offices. Particular attention should be paid to arrangements and mechanisms to support statistical offices in their efforts to meet the growing demand for climate change-related statistics and to navigate complex data governance choices.” As part of the review process, a consultation paper was sent to all member States for their feedback. The paper outlined the proposed new structure for groups and communities, which would replace the existing structure. There will be two rounds of consultation on the review and each one will be accompanied by an ESCAP Stats Cafés, where the proposals will be presented and there will be an opportunity for participants to share their feedback and to ask questions. .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 50%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; } , Stats Café Home: Upcoming events Concluded events ESCAP Committee on Statistics: Fit for the future: 1st session 2nd session
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 30 Jul 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat
Description: Discover the “Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) - monitoring report – 2024 edition” that was published on 18 June and be among the first to learn about the European Union`s progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals. In this webinar, you will also get an insight into past, present and future perspectives of the global SDG monitoring by the United Nations. The 17 SDGs, which are at the heart of the UN's 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, provide a comprehensive policy framework worldwide towards ending all forms of poverty, fighting inequalities, protecting the environment and tackling climate change, while ensuring that no one is left behind.
Description: Unit nonresponse in surveys, which occurs when selected units cannot be reached or refuse to participate, is a common issue when conducting surveys. One option to address these non-responses is through weighting techniques in post-data collection adjustments, which existing survey statistics literature has primarily focused on. However, substitution presents an alternative approach during data collection itself. While substitution is commonly used already, ongoing concerns exist about its impact on nonresponse bias. Still, under certain conditions, substitution can mitigate bias while preserving essential aspects of sample designs typically disrupted by nonresponse. Despite its practical application, theoretical research on substitution remains limited, especially in the context of longitudinal surveys using face-to-face interviews as a sample frame. This webinar will offer preliminary results of a study evaluating the use of matching substitution in longitudinal surveys, drawing data from the MICS and MICS Plus conducted in Georgia and Nigeria. Specifically, it will examine the “matching substitution” approach (Zanutto, 1998; Rubin and Zanutto, 2002; Nishimura, 2015), used by MICS Plus, which deterministically selects a substitute that most resembles the nonrespondent with respect to auxiliary variables observed across all units in the population.
Description: The region faces droughts and floods, affecting food security and the economy. Environmental statistics in Latin America and the Caribbean require inter-institutional collaboration. They are crucial for the 2030 Agenda, but insufficient. This seminar seeks to improve the resilience of statistical systems with innovative data and modern technologies, reviewing advances and challenges in climate change statistics.
Description: The objective of this virtual seminar is to provide Member States and interested parties with the conceptual foundations related to the five principles of the United Nations Global Statistical and Geospatial Framework, to enhance the use of integrated statistical and geospatial information.
Description: This course, presented by Statistics Department, is based on the conceptual framework of the 2008 System of National Accounts (2008 SNA). It covers advanced methodological and practical issues related to the compilation of the sequence of accounts of the SNA (current and capital accounts, financial accounts, other changes in volume of assets accounts, revaluation accounts, and balance sheets) by institutional sectors. The course also examines the linkages between institutional sectors as a basis for establishing from-whom-to-whom accounts. The aim of the course is to provide participants with the necessary skills to compile—or further enhance—their country’s institutional sector accounts and the balance sheets. The course consists of lectures covering conceptual and methodological issues, workshops sessions on practical compilation issues, discussions on emerging financial issues such as fintech and crypto assets. It reviews case studies involving new applications of ISA such as household distributions to examine income, consumption and wealth accumulation by various cohorts and intergenerational transfers and pensions. The myriad ways in which the ISA supports economic policy is also examined. The lectures provide a thorough review of the methodological framework, concepts, and definitions relating to sectoral institutional sector accounts and balance sheets, examine potential data sources for the compilation of annual and quarterly ISA, and illustrate possible compilation techniques and procedures. The course also provides a forum for participants to share country practices and experiences relating to the compilation of sectoral institutional accounts and balance sheets.
Target Audience: Officials whose main responsibility is compiling national accounts, including financial accounts statistics and balance of payments statistics (specifically responsible for the sectoral accounts, household distribution accounts and accounts on a from-whom-to-whom basis), who are employed by national statistical agencies and central banks.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, introduces the conceptual frameworks and practical aspects to build prerequisite knowledge for the compilation of government finance and public sector debt statistics that are useful for policy- and decision-makers, as well as other users. The course material is based on the Government Finance Statistical Manual 2014 (GFSM 2014) and the Public Sector Debt Statistics: Guide for Compilers and Users 2011 (PSDSG 2011) - which both are harmonized with other macroeconomic statistical frameworks. The course covers fundamental principles, definitions, and classifications, accounting rules (including accrual accounting and consolidation), balance sheets and public sector debt instruments, and the sources and methods relevant to the compilation of fiscal and debt statistics. It also deals with the data dissemination and highlight its importance in fiscal analysis and debt sustainability analyses (DSA). Additionally, it covers the data dissemination and highlight its importance in debt sustainability analyses (DSA) and fiscal analysis. Case studies, online self-paced blended learning, in-person lectures, and peer-to-peer learning are incorporated into the curriculum to familiarize participants with the practical aspects of compiling government finance and public sector debt statistics. As eligibility requirements, selected applicants are required to complete self-paced online tutorials and prepare short presentation on chosen topics relating to the compilation of government finance and public debt statistics in their respective countries.
Target Audience: Officials at ministries of finance, central banks and other agencies in charge of compiling government finance statistics and public debt statistics.
Description: The demand for analysing labour market data has risen, in line with the prioritization of countries to better understand the functioning of the labour market and the impact of policies and programmes on outcomes, including unemployment, employment, and decent work indicators. The adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development requires governments and other stakeholders to monitor progress towards the defined goals and targets, including SDG 8 on Decent Work and Economic Growth. In line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, governments have committed to policy action concerning decent employment creation and inclusive economic growth, with references to the demand-side, supply-side, and labour market policies. Hence, the need for good labour market governance and institutions able to collect, store, analyse, disseminate, and monitor labour market information has become paramount for evidence-based policy-making. A Labour Market Information System (LMIS) is "a network of institutions, persons and information that have mutually recognized roles, agreements, and functions with respect to the production, storage, dissemination, and use of labour market-related information and results in order to maximise the potential for relevant and applicable policy and programme formulation and implementation." The LMIS serves as a tool to aid decision-making in the area of labour market policy, and helps policy makers make informed policy decisions. Overall, an efficient LMIS will enhance the scope of evidence-based policy-making and facilitate the measurement of progress towards the achievement of the policy objectives set out in national employment strategies in line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Recognizing the rising demand of countries to better understand the functioning of Labour Market Information Systems (LMIS) doubled by the rising demand for measuring the impact of policies and programmes on labour market outcomes, the International Training Centre of the ILO in Turin (ITCILO) in close collaboration with the ILO Department of Statistics are proud to offer the course "Labour Market Information Systems (LMIS)".
Target Audience: National Statistical Offices (NSOs); Ministries of Labour and related Institutions (such as labour observatories); Governmental agencies in charge of labour market data analysis and SDG national reporting; ILO Social Partners (Employers' and workers' organizations), Research and academic institutions; International organizations; Development agencies; in addition to Non-governmental organizations.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 07 Mar 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: The goal of this activity is to provide participants with basic knowledge about the syntax and basis of the R programming language and to provide an overview of the main packages which are important for the statistical production process. The activity will pay special attention to these packages devoted to management of large databases and the analysis of complex surveys.
Target Audience: Statistical production units and methodologist of NSIs.
Source: ESCAP SIAP (Data extracted on: 27 Nov 2024 )
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Organizer(s): ESCAP SIAP SPC
Description: Climate change is one of the most pressing issues in the Pacific region. Many countries are already experiencing intensifying threats such as rising sea levelsincreasing ocean acidificationand escalating extreme weather eventsprofoundly impacting the region's economysocietyand environment. There is a need to address the well-being of people through good evidence-based policy. Reliable statistics and indicators on the impact of climate change are vital to enable evidence-based policydecision-makingplanning and investment. Importantlythese statistics and indicators must be able to speak to the range of economicsocial and environmental impacts of climate change in a timely manner. This workshop aims to support capacity building and knowledge sharing across this topic in the region.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 23 Apr 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: The course will provide participants with information on theory (methodological framework) and practical challenges in the context of the compilation of Physical Environmental Accounts (Eurostat questionnaires).
Target Audience: * Statisticians involved in compiling data on economy-wide material flow accounts (EW-MFA), air emission accounts (AEA) or physical energy flow accounts (PEFA) under Regulation (EU) 691/2011. * Specialists in one of the areas listed above who need to improve their knowledge of the other areas listed above. * Managers with responsibility on several or all the areas listed above.
Description: Background and purpose National statistical and civil registration and vital statistics systems in Asia and the Pacific are facing ever-increasing demand for statistical products that are timely, frequent, granular, and accurate. To be able to continuously respond to this demand effectively and efficiently, they need to transform into systems that are agile by taking advantage that opportunities such as new data sources, new methods, new technologies, pathways to business process improvement, and change management provide. The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) supports statistics development of its members and associate members, especially those that are least developed, landlocked, small islands developing States, and in or emerging from conflict. Over recent years, a broad range of work has been undertaken to strengthen national statistical and civil registration and vital statistics systems, including through system reviews and efforts to improve business processes. The workshop will showcase the results of this work, while discussing options for the further strengthening of national statistical and civil registration and vital statistics systems, including under the Power of Data initiative.1 In this context, the workshop will also serve as a forum for initial discussions on the high-level theme topic Agile Statistical Systems Fit for the Future of the 9th session of the ESCAP Committee on Statist advantage that opportunities such as new data sources, new methods, new technologies, pathways to business process improvement, and change management provide. Concept note
Description: Travelling can be a major challenge for the 16% of the world´s population who experience significant disability. Around 1.3 billion people face major physical, sensory, cognitive and cultural barriers on a daily basis. Accessibility is a human right, but also a business opportunity for the tourism destinations and the entire business ecosystem of the travel value chain. Travellers with specific access requirements and seniors struggle to find clear, accurate and trustworthy information on the accessibility of the tourism facilities, services and experiences, offered by destinations and service providers. Accessible tourism enables destinations and companies to tap into this expanding market, engage with diverse customer groups and host communities. Destinations can adopt methodologies to size up the market, introduce monitoring and evaluation indicators and encourage feedback systems meant to improve the overall service quality. The ISO Standard 21902:2021, the San Marino Action Agenda for the Future of Accessible Tourism 2030 and the recently adopted MST, serve as catalysts for the disability inclusion and tourism’s contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals. They encompass strategies to advance in training, undertake specific access improvements in different environments, develop measurement systems and increase awareness in the industry of the benefits of accessible tourism for all. Measuring and monitoring accessibility, at a global level, is gradually progressing. This is important as for decision- making on future developments and investments in the sphere of accessible tourism, specific qualitative and quantitative data is needed. Such will not only help to better understand the actual needs and behavioural patterns of the travellers with specific access requirements. This data will also make the business case of Tourism for All more evident for the private sector and public investments. Accessibility is one of the eleven key issue area that INSTO members are committed to monitor at the destination level. This INSTO webinar will discuss latest concepts and specific developments in the sphere of measuring accessibility. It will feature solutions and lessons learned by selected experts and Members of the UN Tourism International Network of Sustainable Tourism Observatories (INSTO) in the field of measuring and monitoring accessibility, at the destination level.
Description: Asia-Pacific Stats Café Series: Launch of the Questionnaire for the 2024 Review of the Asia and Pacific CRVS Decade (2015-2024) was held 13 June 2024, from 10:00 to 11:00 hrs. (UTC+7).Concept noteFlyerPresentationsLead with Purpose: Reflections on measurement and monitoring of CRVS systems (Vital Strategies)Rationale, timeline, process and support for completing the 2024 review questionnaire (ESCAP).embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 50%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 07 Mar 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: The content produced by a statistical organisation is essentially facts and figures. This course will explain how you can translate it to a more understandable and simple way and reach everybody outside the statistical world. Writing in a clear, concise and simple manner while avoiding statistical jargon.
Target Audience: Staff drafting /writing statistical texts and articles for publications, the web or any other type of product. Staff working in the communication/dissemination/press departments with the role of promoting the widest possible dissemination and use of official statistics.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 07 Mar 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: To improve the theoretical and practical knowledge related to the collection, transmission, validation and aggregation of official water statistics. The main focus will be on different data sources and the complementarities of different direct and indirect methods such as measurements, surveys, models and estimations. The description of the respective strengths and weaknesses with special attention to data quality should thus result in an enhancement of the comparability between water statistics from countries using different methods. The courses shall also provide a platform and starting point for cooperation in method development among the countries. The aim of the courses is to explore possible ways of avoiding inconsistencies in the European water statistics and to obtain a more effective statistics production.
Target Audience: Staff involved in the production of official water statistics and other quantitative information under Union law on water.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 07 Mar 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: Objectives: * To provide participants with a basic knowledge of the seasonal adjustment methods and tools included in JDEMETRA+; * To understand the basic principles of the ESS seasonal adjustment guidelines and to be able to apply them using JDEMETRA+, including for mass production; * To motivate the participants to acquire and advanced knowledge in the various seasonal adjustment methods and in other time series algorithms.
Target Audience: Junior users of seasonal adjustment methods involved in regular/massive data production wishing to enhance their knowledge of the methods and to use the JDEMETRA+ tool in an efficient way. People currently using TRAMO/SEATS and/or X13 family product and/or old version of DEMETRA/JDEMETRA+ family products aiming at implementing the latest JDEMETRA+ version.
Title in Arabic: منهجية علم البيانات في الاحصاء الرسمي
Organizer(s): ESCWA AITRS
Description: تُعدّ البيانات عنصرًا هامًا لاتخاذ القرارات ورسم السياسات السليمة ويلعب علم البيانات دورًا رئيسيًا في تحليل هذه البيانات واستخلاص المعلومات منها، بينما يُساهم الإحصاء الرسمي في ضمان جودة البيانات وسلامتها. وتهدف هذه الدورة التدريبية عن بعد إلى تعريف المشاركين بمفاهيم منهجية علم البيانات في الإحصاء الرسمي، وتزويدهم بالمهارات اللازمة لتطبيقها في مختلف مجالات العمل الاحصائي. تأتي هذه الورشة في سياق الاهتمام الإقليمي والدولي بتطوير القدرات الإحصائية وذلك من خلال المقترح الذي أيدته لجنة الإحصاءات التابعة للأمم المتحدة المعد من اللجنة الاستشارية للخبراء عن البيانات الضخمة وعلوم البيانات للإحصاءات الرسمية لإدماج البيانات الضخمة وعلوم البيانات في العمل اليومي لمكاتب الإحصاء الوطنية، وإنشاء شبكة من قادة علوم البيانات في هذه المكاتب. بالإضافة إلى ذلك، تأتي هذه الورشة بعد ورشة عمل إقليمية ناجحة حول موضوع البيانات الضخمة في الإحصاء الرسمي، التي نظمتها الاسكوا بالتعاون مع المعهد العربي للتدريب والبحوث الاحصائية. تهدف الورشة بالأساس الى تعزيز قدرات المشاركين في مجال الإحصاء الرسمي باستخدام أساليب علم البيانات وذلك من خلال: * تعريف المشاركين بمفاهيم أساسية في علم البيانات والإحصاء الرسمي. * شرح منهجية علم البيانات في الإحصاء الرسمي. * إكساب المشاركين مهارات تحليل البيانات واستخلاص المعلومات منها. * تمكين المشاركين من تطبيق مهارات علم البيانات في الإحصاء الرسمي من خلال حالات احصائية عملية.
Description: The demand for analyzing labour market data has risen, in line with the prioritization of countries to better understand the functioning of the labour market and the impact of policies and programmes on outcomes, including unemployment and employment. The adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development requires governments and other stakeholders to monitor progress towards the defined goals and targets, including SDG 8 on Decent Work and Economic Growth. At the same time, new measures of the labour market are evolving through the adoption of statistical standards by the International Conference of Labour Statisticians (ICLS). The 19th and 20th ICLS resolutions on work statistics are crucial for decent work related SDG indicators, particularly SDG 8 on promoting inclusive and sustainable growth, employment and decent work for all. The analysis of labour market data relies on the availability of data, which has expanded in recent years, and the use of appropriate methodologies to identify key factors and trends relevant to evidence-based policymaking. In this regard, analysts and statisticians depend on statistical software that provides a user-friendly approach to data management, description, graphics and analysis. STATA is such a tool, which is powerful but easy-to-use, and is utilized across the world for analysing labour market data. Building on its long experience in delivering training on labour market statistics, the International Training Centre of the ILO in full collaboration with the ILO Department of Statistics is proud to offer this online training on using STATA for labour market analysis. Harnessing the latest ground-breaking distance learning technologies, the ITCILO is proudly offering this course online in full collaboration with the ILO Department of Statistics. - This course qualifies for the Labour Market Statistics & Analysis Diploma.
Target Audience: The course targets: - Labour Statisticians from national statistical offices; Ministries of labour and related institutions (such as labour observatories); Other Ministries or Government institutions in charge of SDG statistical monitoring; - Employment and development policy analysts from National Statistical Offices, Research and Academic institutions, International organizations and Donor organizations; and - Officials responsible for managing the production and dissemination of labour market statistics, particularly for the SDG national reporting.
Organizer(s): UNSD BC3 INE Spain Gobierno Vasco Spain Ministry of External Affairs, EU and Cooperation Spain Instituto Vasco de Estadística Spain Excelencia María de Maeztu Spain
Description: As the world grapples with numerous global challenges, including environmental issues, climate change, health crises, food insecurity, economic recovery, and human displacement, the need for knowledge integration has never been more critical. Amid a data landscape with fast-increasing volumes of data, information remains compartmentalised to pre-defined scales and fields, rarely building its way up to collective knowledge. The statistical community, the data science community, the geospatial community and the modelling community are tasked with delivering this integrated knowledge, to shed light on the ongoing “wicked problems”—intertwined, multistakeholder and with potential solutions dependent on subjective, competing interests. The purpose of the conference is to address and share knowledge on these emerging issues that require the timely and flexible production of integrated scientific, statistical and geospatial information. This involves collaboration with strategic partners from the public and private sectors, as well as from academic and research institutes, and needs a paradigm shift that will favour open synthesis to contribute and reuse knowledge and apply it toward decision making. The conference will consist of a ministerial opening, high-level panels, technical sessions as well as a several workshops. The overall theme of the conference is “Informing Climate Change and Sustainable Development policies with integrated data”.
Title in Arabic: المنهجيات الدولية في اعداد ونشر البيانات الوصفية
Organizer(s): AITRS
Description: تسعى الاجهزة الاحصائية لتوفير بيانات إحصائية تتمتع بجودة عالية وتلائم احتياجات المستخدمين في كافة المجالات الاقتصادية والاجتماعية بحيث تساعد في إعداد برامج وخطط التنمية المحلية وتسهم في توفير البيانات الضرورية من خلال اعتماد واتباع المعايير الدولية في مجال إعداد وتحليل ونشر البيانات الاحصائية الاحصائية ً مع مبدأ الشفافية وتلبية احتياجات المستخدمين. لذلك على الاجهزة الاحصائية نشر بيانات وصفية عن الاحصاءات التي ينتجها وينشرها بما يتوافق والمعايير الدولية في هذا المجال والمبادئ الأساسية للإحصاءات الرسمية الصادر عن الامم المتحدة والتي لها ارتباط بالبيانات. تندرج هذه الورشة في إطار تنفيذ البرنامج السنوي للمعهد العربي للتدريب والبحوث الإحصائية لعام 2024 من اجل دعم قدرات الأجهزة الإحصائية العربية في مجال توثيق المفاهيم والتعاريف والمصطلحات والتصانيف والمنهجيات المستخدمة في جمع البيانات وذلك للرجوع اليها عند الحاجة والاستئناس بها، بالإضافة الى احترام مقتضيات المبادئ الأساسية للإحصاءات الرسمية في الخصوص وخاصة المبدأ المتعلق بالشفافية. تتمثل الأهداف الرئيسية للورشة في تمكين المشاركين من فهم البيانات الوصفية واهميتها للمستخدمين للبيانات سواء كانوا من داخل الاجهزة الاحصائية او خارجها وذلك من أجل: * توثيق المفاهيم والتعاريف والمصطلحات والتصانيف والمنهجيات المستخدمة في جمع البيانات * وصف الجوانب الرئيسية لنوعية البيانات * المساهمة في تعزيز الشفافية وزيادة عدد المستخدمين للإحصاءات الرسمية * تأكيد جودة البيانات الاحصائية * اثراء العمل وتوفير الموارد وسهولة الرجوع للبيانات والتعاريف وإعادة استخدامها.
Description: The Fourth Roundtable Meeting on Statelessness in Cambodia took place on June 6, 2024, bringing together UN representatives, civil society organizations, and other groups.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 07 Mar 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: The course will provide participants with training on the compilation of SEEA-CF monetary environmental accounts as requested by Regulation 691/2011 on European environmental economic accounts (amended by Regulation 538/2014). Both a brief, overall introduction to the different accounts, including relevant definitions, classifications, and approaches to compilation will be covered. Introductions to each of the 3 main accounts, Environmental Taxes, EGSS, EPEA, plus some relevant extensions such as environmental subsidies and related transfers and ReMEA (resource management expenditure accounts) will be in focus. The course will make emphasis in putting together the practical difficulties that participants have in their offices to produce the monetary environmental accounts and discussing solutions and best practices.
Target Audience: * Junior statisticians of environmental statistics or environmental accounts departments involved in compiling data on Environmental Goods and Services Sector (EGSS) Accounts, Environmental protection expenditure accounts (EPEA), environmental taxes or environmental subsidies and other transfers. * Specialists in one of the areas listed above who need to improve their knowledge of the other areas listed above. * Managers with responsibility on several or all the areas listed above.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 07 Mar 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Statistics Norway
Description: To provide the participants with a basic understanding of how to produce statistics with the use of geocoded statistical registers and map databases. Emphasis is on the use of Vector data and Vector tools, but we will also touch into the use of Raster tools and Raster data. We will be using the Open Source GIS-tool QGIS.
Target Audience: The course is introductory, for persons with none to some practical experience in GIS/ GI/ cartography, wanting to learn the basics in using GIS for statistics production and analysis.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 29 May 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat INE Portugal
Description: Statistics Portugal and Eurostat are pleased to invite you to the 11th European Conference on Quality in Official Statistics (Q2024) in Estoril (the Greater Lisbon region) from 4 to 7 June 2024. Following a longstanding quality-driven tradition in the European statistical community, this conference will gather statisticians, academics, and external stakeholders to foster the dissemination of knowledge and research on emerging issues related to quality in official statistics. By bringing diverse stakeholders together, Q2024 aims to enhance and improve cooperation between official statistics and the scientific community — in which students play a significant role — and to promote closer dialogue between users and producers. Q2024 will focus on the role of official statistics as a pillar of democracy and on some of the most challenging issues currently faced by the official statistics community. The conference topics aim to be broad enough to cover the diversity of challenges faced by the statistical community while also addressing the most relevant dimensions within the field of quality. Q2024 will explore how institutional frameworks and the role of innovation and research impact on quality in official statistics, and it will also focus on the power of data and NSIs’ capabilities to harness opportunities in a challenging environment. Bearing in mind the importance of capacity-building in previous editions of the conference, a variety of engaging and informative one-day training courses will be held on 4 June 2024. These courses will be organised around four main pillars: quality management, innovation/data science/AI, dissemination/communication, and the integration of administrative and privately-held data.
Description: The inter-regional expert meeting on the measurement of South-South cooperation, organized by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for West Asia (ESCWA), in collaboration with the UN Regional Commissions, and other partners will be hosted by and held in Qatar, Doha, from 4 to 6 June 2024.This meeting is part of the United Nations Development Account project on Quantifying South-South Cooperation to Mobilize Funds for the Sustainable Development Goals. The first Expert Meeting held in Brasilia, in July 2023, launched the project and discussed implementation of the global, voluntary Framework to Measure South-South Cooperation, developed in a joint effort by the countries of the Global South. The Framework is currently being refined and will be presented in Qatar, through a Manual, a step-by-step guidance supporting countries to fill the Framework with data.The Inter-regional expert meeting will have three segments. The morning of 4 June 2024, will be holding a preparatory expert meeting involving pioneering and pilot countries, jointly with project partners, to advance methodological and data collection work as a follow-up to the Brasilia meeting and finalize materials, like the Manual on the Framework, for sharing with a broader group of countries to guide future reporting of data on SDG indicator 17.3.1. The main meetings will commence in the afternoon of 4 June, with a high-level event to tackle strategic issues related to South-South cooperation, discussing the importance of South-South cooperation for accelerating progress towards the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the role of data in related research, development, and policy agendas. The high-level segment aims to agree on a way forward to enhance the voice of the global South in development finance debates.Lastly, a two-day technical capacity development workshop will follow, on 5-6 June, to guide Southern countries on applying the Framework and its Manual to empower national authorities to collect and analyse data on South-South cooperation and enable the reporting of country-owned data to the SDG indicator on development support. The events will discuss countries’ capacity support needs, and future data and tools to enable strategic management and further mobilization of South-South cooperation flows.The event aims to foster dialogue and empower Southern countries to collect and report their own data from country-owned systems. This effort helps to target national policy action and bolster strategic management of development support in the global South.The target audience will include national, regional and international experts on South-South cooperation and its measurement from development cooperation agencies, statistical offices, and ministries. For the high-level segment, senior officials from countries, regional and international organizations, project partners, and the academic community are invited to discuss and agree on strategies for integration of the Framework to strengthen South-South cooperation.High-Level speakersOpening remarks * Mr. Shaheen Ali Al Kaabi, Director of the Department of International Cooperation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Qatar; * Mr. Pedro Manuel Moreno, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) ;Session 1 * Moderator: Ms. Wafa Aboul Hosn, Chief of Economic Statistics, ESCWA * His Excellency Mr. Mohammed Abdul Aziz Al Nuaimi - Assistant President of the Planning and Statistics Authority; * Ms. Cristina Xalma, the main responsible for the Report of the South-South and Triangular Cooperation in Ibero-America, by the Iberoamerican General Secretariat (SEGIB); * Mr. Salah AlMuzahmi, Ph.D., Director of Research & Development Indicators department at the Statistical Centre for the Cooperation Council for the Arab Countries of the Gulf (GCC-Stat); * Mr. Alex Shimuafeni, Statistician-General of Namibia; * Mr. Sameh Hussein, Lead Technical Cooperation Specialist in the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB);Session 2 * Moderator: Ms. Anu Peltola, Director of Statistics, UN Trade and Development; * Mr. Denis Nkala, Ph.D., Chief- Intergovernmental and UN Systems Affairs in the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation; * Mr. José Guillermo Ordorica Robles, Ambassador of Mexico in Qatar; * Ms. Reem Ismail Elsybaey, head of Sustainable development Unit at the Central agency for Public mobilization and statistics (CAPMAS) * Mr. Márcio Lopes Corrêa, General Coordinator for Multilateral Technical Cooperation, Brazilian Cooperation Agency (ABC); * Mr. Stefan Schweinfest, Director of the Statistics Division in UN Department on Economic and Social Affairs (DESA); * Mr. Matthias Reister, Chief of the Development Data Section at the United Nations Statistics Division.
Description: The webinar will provide an introduction to developing a data strategy, including the contextual user need impetus for this work. The sessions will explore theoretical links between user needs, data governance, and data stewardship and will illustrate how to put theory into practice, by establishing solid data governance. The webinar will also delve into how data, throughout the various life cycle processes, can be better managed and leveraged when a solid data strategy is in place. Register for the webinar here: Registration
Source: ESCAP SIAP (Data extracted on: 27 Nov 2024 )
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Organizer(s): ESCAP SIAP SPC
Description: Climate change is one of the most pressing issues in the Pacific region. Many countries are already experiencing intensifying threats such as rising sea levelsincreasing ocean acidificationand escalating extreme weather eventsprofoundly impacting the region's economysocietyand environment. There is a need to address the well-being of people through good evidence-based policy. Reliable statistics and indicators on the impact of climate change are vital to enable evidence-based policydecision-makingplanning and investment. Importantlythese statistics and indicators must be able to speak to the range of economicsocial and environmental impacts of climate change in a timely manner. This workshop aims to support capacity building and knowledge sharing across this topic in the region.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, is intended to provide participants with a thorough understanding of the international standards for the compilation of EDS presented in the 2013 EDS: Guide for Compilers and Users (2013 EDS Guide). The course will cover basic concepts, definitions, and classifications, along with the principal accounting rules (including valuation and time of recording) that are relevant for compilation of the EDS. Finally, participants will be briefed on basic concepts of the debt sustainability analysis framework.
Target Audience: This course is for those interested in learning the fundamentals of compiling international accounts—specifically compilation of external debt statistics (EDS) and/or international investment position (IIP) statistics. It is a basic-level course laying the foundation for the face-to-face EDS course. It is open to those who compile, or plan to compile, EDS/IIP and to the general public.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, teaches you how to compile timely and high-quality Quarterly National Accounts (QNA) and High-Frequency Indicators of Economic Activity (HFIEAs). The course presents the concepts, data sources, and compilation techniques needed for producing QNA and HFIEAs, covering both theoretical and practical compilation issues. It introduces participants to benchmarking, seasonal adjustment techniques, as well as volume estimates; and explains the application of these techniques to time series data. The course also discussed how to identify and assess available data sources, use real-time series databases to assess the quality, and implement a suitable revisions policy for compiling QNA and HFIEAs.
Target Audience: This introductory online course is designed for anyone interested in learning how to compile and disseminate Quarterly National Accounts and High-Frequency Indicators of Economic Activity, according to the recommendations of the System of National Accounts, and using them to better understand the role of high-frequency data in analyzing current economic developments.
Description: Understand the importance of fit for purpose data, its availability and accessibility, foster new partnerships and strengthen existing ones among regional stakeholders, facilitating shared initiatives and collaborative projects, acquire actionable insights and best practices for integrating digital and geospatial technologies into their work, contributing to more informed decision-making and policy formulation.
Description: This Joint Webinar of the Intersecretariat Working Group on Household Surveys (ISWGHS) and of the Global Network of Data Officers and Statisticians, which was attended by around 210 participants, featured Stephanie Eckman from the Social Data Science Center of the University of Maryland. She discussed how insights from survey methodology can help improve the quality of training and feedback data used for machine learning models like large language models (LLMs) which can improve model performance. Stephanie highlighted two key areas where survey methodology principles are relevant: 1) Representation - ensuring the labelers who train the models are representative of the target population, and 2) Measurement - ensuring the labeling instruments and procedures yield high-quality labels. On representation, she showed how characteristics of the labelers can impact the labels and resulting models, creating selection biases. If many labelers are from specific countries/regions then this can introduce demographic biases. One possible solution to adjust for this is using statistical weights for the different groups of labelers. On measurement, she described how aspects of the labeling interface like question wording, order, and format can significantly impact the quality of labels, which then impacts the trained model performance. Through an experiment, she demonstrated the importance of carefully designing labeling instruments akin to survey design principles. The Q&A covered topics like using sentiment analysis instead of binary labels, accounting for survey fatigue, leveraging existing survey data for model training, and concerns around cultural biases embedded in LLMs trained primarily on data from western, rich countries. Overall, Stephanie made a strong case for interdisciplinary collaboration between the survey research and AI/ML communities to improve training data quality and develop more accurate, unbiased AI models aligned with human values.
Description: The digital economy heavily relies on ICT for information management, enhancing productivity supported by ICT goods, services, and trade. This economy is characterized by core technologies (e.g., semiconductors, computers), enabling infrastructures (e.g., the Internet), and digitalized sectors like finance and media. Despite widespread digitalization, traditional economic metrics often overlook digital aspects. The Digital Supply-Use Tables (SUTs) framework addresses this by incorporating digital products and actors into national statistics. The 5th International Seminar aims to equip staff from developing countries' NSOs with skills to produce high-quality digital economy statistics, supporting informed policymaking and sustainable development.
Description: Geospatial information provides key insights, and policymakers leverage it to make evidence-based decisions. Geospatial information reflects the digital version of our physical world, in which all human, economic and environmental activity and events take place. Geospatial data is a vital component of the overall information and management systems related to the Earth and human activities, enabling us to not only map the current situation on Earth, but also the modelling of nature's processes. By understanding natural and built environments, stakeholders tackle complex challenges and bolster resilience, sustainability, and societal equity. Our changing climate is increasing the fragility of the most vulnerable countries, making adaptation and mitigation even more challenging, leaving those that are already the furthest behind in terms of development further behind still. Although strengthening climate resilience is essential for all countries, it is especially crucial for SIDS, hampered by their unique vulnerability to exogenous shocks because of their small size, geographical remoteness, and the limited scale and undiversified nature of their economies. The primary objective of the side event is to build awareness and explore innovative applications of geospatial information for climate resilience, showcase the UN-GGIM discussion paper Applying Geospatial Information to Climate Challenges, and shares national examples of the use of geospatial information for climate resilience. In particular, participants at the side event will be informed of the following: High-level statements and perspectives on the importance of geospatial information for climate resilience by global leaders from Member States. How Member States are leveraging geospatial information for climate resilience Highlighting national good practices of integrated geospatial information management in SIDS
Description: For several decades, area-level models have played a critical role in the theory and practice of small area estimation. For an area-level model, we propose a random effects variance estimator that simultaneously (i) improves on the estimation of the related shrinkage factors, (ii) protects empirical best linear unbiased predictors (EBLUP) of the random effects from the common over-shrinkage problem, (iii) avoids complex bias correction in generating strictly positive second-order unbiased mean square error (MSE) estimator either by the Taylor series or single parametric bootstrap method. The idea of achieving multiple desirable properties in an EBLUP method through a suitably devised random effects variance estimator is the first of its kind and holds promise in providing good inferences for random effects under the EBLUP framework. The proposed methodology is also evaluated using a Monte Carlo simulation study and real data analysis. This is a joint work with Prof. Partha Lahiri at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 07 Mar 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: The main objectives of the course are: * Illustrate “standardisation” activities within the European Statistical System and, more in general, within the statistical community. * Explain how to define a standardization strategy to improve the statistical business processes * Focus on the main conceptual, logical and technical statistical standards detailed in the ESS Enterprise Architecture Reference Framework (GSBPM, GSIM, SDMX, DDI) * Introduce open data (DCAT) and spatial (INSPIRE) standards * Highlight the relationships between conceptual and implementation standards * Experiment with tools in implementing a standards-based metadata-driven architecture for more efficient processes related to metadata management, data dissemination and data reporting
Target Audience: Subject-matter experts (domains, dissemination and metadata management staff) without specialist IT knowledge
Description: The theme "Charting the Course Toward Resilient Prosperity" highlights with "charting" the necessity for better planning and managing resources, where geospatial information and mapping technologies can play a critical role, towards addressing national priorities and sustainable development. Geospatial information now underpins everything we do and is essential for sustainable development across countries, including Small Island Developing States (SIDS). Considering the challenges that face SIDS due to their geographical remoteness and vulnerability to weather-related disasters, geospatial information and technologies can provide data, knowledge, shared understanding and innovative solutions for "charting" the course towards sustainable development and resilient prosperity The use of timely and reliable geospatial information and enabling technologies are critical to address national priorities, for national development and for decision-making. The availability of geospatial data integrated with other data that is relevant to our lives and livelihoods are key to providing better information and shared understanding of what happens where, and in turn address challenges and priorities such as those that may relate to climate, biodiversity, resilience, sustainability and economic opportunities, to name some. The development, strengthening, integration and delivery of national geospatial information policy, data, systems, tools, services and capabilities is critical for the development of national policies, strategies and arrangements and to enable the implementation of national development priorities and the SDGs. The primary objective of the side event on Geospatial Technologies for Sustainable Development of SIDS aims to explore data, platforms, frameworks and experiences for the benefits of countries including SIDS and how geospatial information and technologies contribute to addressing national development priorities and sustainable development toward resilient prosperity. The side event will also provide opportunity for participants to discuss how global cooperation can foster innovation with geospatial technologies to enrich data resources and strengthen capacity.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 23 Apr 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat
Description: The aim of the course is: * To improve the capacity of national statistical services to produce high quality ESA 2010 national accounts; * To achieve an understanding of the theoretical basis and structure of ESA 2010 national accounts, together with sources and methodology; * To provide a general overview and an understanding of the links of the different areas of the system of NA.
Title in Spanish: Taller sobre la medición de la distribución del ingreso a partir de la integración de los datos de encuestas, registros tributarios y cuentas nacionales
Organizer(s): ECLAC DANE DIAN AI Generated
Description: Este taller se enfoca en el análisis de estadísticas distributivas en Colombia, usando datos de encuestas de hogares, cuentas nacionales y registros de renta. Se busca mejorar la transparencia y precisión de las estadísticas, identificando áreas de mejora y desarrollando estrategias innovadoras.
Description: The 13th PSMB meeting provide oversight and guidance on the statistical meethods, systems and procedures used by Pacific Island Countries and Territories and ensuring these are inline with internal best practises while at the same time relevant to the local context.
Organizer(s): UNCTAD CARICOM OECS ECLAC AI Generated
Description: Services-led diversification is critical to economic resilience and structural transformation in the CARICOM region. Services trade has been growing in the region, and many countries rely strongly on service exports.The session will provide a forum to identify opportunities and challenges in harnessing the potential of trade in services.It will consider how to strengthen the evidence base and effectiveness of policy action to strengthen the economic resilience of CARICOM countries.It will provide an opportunity for countries to share practices and identify areas for greater efforts jointly with trading partner countries and the international community.ProgrammeModerator:Jan Yves Rémy, Director, Shridath Ramphal Centre, University of West IndiesSpeakers: * Rebeca Grynspan, Secretary-General, UNCTAD * Chad Blackman, Minister of Economic Affairs and Investment, Barbados * Chantal Ononaiwu, Director, External Trade, Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat * Ricardo James, Head, Trade Policy Unit, Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Commission * Sheldon Mc Lean, Coordinator, Economic Development Unit, Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean, United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UN-ECLAC)
Description: Date Location 21 May 2024 The International Statistical Literacy Project (ISLP) is happy to initiate the International Day of Statistical Literacy, which will from now on be celebrated annually. To inaugurate this new thematic day, you are most warmly welcome to the International Statistical Literacy Project's first-ever, one-day online conference. The day is full of interesting presentations, panel discussions, and networking opportunities, as well as a pre-conference workshop.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 29 May 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat
Description: Can Eurostat data affect our daily life? What makes Eurostat statistics reliable? In a world that is faced with complex issues and is therefore difficult to understand, statistics provided by Eurostat support the work of journalists, decision-makers, and fact-checkers all over the EU and beyond. Available to everyone and free-of-charge, Eurostat data can also help EU citizens make evidence-based decisions, better understand the trends in many of Europe’s sectors. In this webinar, you will get to know more about how Eurostat works to provide high-quality statistics and learn how to find the information you are looking for on Eurostat’s website.
Organizer(s): UNCTAD CARICOM OECS ECLAC AI Generated
Description: The kick-off workshop will launch the Development Account project: "Strengthening capacity for evidence-based policymaking and the economic resilience of CARICOM".This exclusive workshop focuses on advancing the capacity and data infrastructure of selected CARICO Member States to enhance evidence-based policymaking for resilience and transformational change in services.Trade in services is pivotal for economic development, particularly amidst challenges such as the COVID-19 pandemic and climate disasters. Our objectives include highlighting the significance of services for economic diversification, sharing best practices in compiling trade statistics, identifying priority sectors and data gaps, and discussing the project's workplan.This invitation-only event will gather experts from beneficiary countries, including statistical and policy experts and representatives from CARICOM, UN Barbados, OECS, ACS, and their members.By invitation only, this activity is limited to a specific number of participants.
Title in Arabic: استخدام برنامج نظم المعلومات الجغرافية "QGIS"
Organizer(s): AITRS
Description: تعتبر نظم المعلومات الجغرافية وسيلة مميزة في جمع وتحليل مختلف البيانات وربطها بالبعد المكاني في أوقات مختلفة وقدرتها على المساعدة على تشخيص ونمذجة مختلف الظواهر الاقتصادية والاجتماعية والبيئية. كما تساعد بشكل كبير في فهم العلاقة بين البيانات الإحصائية والبعدين المكاني والزماني. وتنفيذا للبرنامج السنوي للتدريب لعام 2024، سينظم المعهد العربي للتدريب والبحوث الإحصائية ورشة تدريبية متقدمة عن بعد حول استخدام برنامج نظم المعلومات الجغرافية "QGIS" خلال الفترة 20 – 23 مايو/أيار 2024، لفائدة إطارات الأجهزة الإحصائية العربية من أجل دعم مكتسباتهم ومهاراتهم في تحليل البيانات المكانية والاستغلال الأمثل لبرنامج نظم المعلومات الجغرافية "QGIS" في الاحصائيات الرسمية. تهدف الورشة بصورة أساسية إلى: * اكتساب المهارة في أتمتة سير عمل نظم المعلومات الجغرافية "GIS workflow". * حسن كفاءة استخدام برنامج "QGIS". * إيجاد حلول للمسائل المعقدة للتحليل المكاني. * ربط أهداف التنمية المستدامة بنظم المعلومات الجغرافية.
Description: This webinar is part of the SEEA Webinar series “Uses of the SEEA for Policy, developed with the aim to highlight various priority and/or emerging policy areas that can be informed by the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA). This webinar will provide an opportunity for participants to learn about recent country experiences in compiling the SEEA Ecosystem Accounting, the statistical framework underlying headline indicators A.2 Extent of natural ecosystems and B.1 Services provided by ecosystems. The webinar will look at these experiences from a technical and practical standpoint, with an eye towards how the accounts can feed into countries’ monitoring and reporting efforts for the Global Biodiversity Framework. The objectives of this webinar are: To share experiences in the compilation of the SEEA Ecosystem Accounting, with focus on data sources, institutional environment, resources and methods used. To gain an insight into the lessons learned and practical steps that countries have taken in the compilation of SEEA Ecosystem Accounting; and To understand how the ecosystem accounts can be used for national monitoring and reporting under the Global Biodiversity Framework.
Description: In accordance with Article VI-1 of the FAO Constitution, the FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (RAP) organized the Thirtieth session of the Asia and Pacific Commission on Agricultural Statistics (APCAS30), convened along with its side events in Kathmandu, Nepal during 19-24 May 2024 at the kind invitation of the Government of Nepal.
Description: Mexico's National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), the International Association of Official Statistics (IAOS) and the International Statistical Institute (ISI) welcome you to the website for the 19th IAOS Conference and the 5th ISI Regional Statistics Conference which will be held jointly as the IAOS-ISI 2024 Mexico Conference. Join us in Mexico City from 15 - 17 May 2024 to discuss the future of statistics. The Conference theme, "Improving Decision-Making for All", points to official statistics' role as a valuable public good all kinds of users rely on to inform their decisions. The IAOS-ISI 2024 Mexico Conference aims to build a new social contract around data based on value and trust.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 07 Mar 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: Gain a comprehensive understanding of Symbolic Data Analysis as conceived within Benzecri’s French school of "analyse des données," appreciating its historical and conceptual foundations. Develop expertise in distinguishing and managing various forms of symbolic data, enhancing their versatility in working with diverse datasets. Acquire hands-on skills to preprocess symbolic data efficiently, preparing it effectively for subsequent analysis.
Target Audience: Staff involved in preparing quality reports
Description: UNSD and UNDP, under the Data For Now initiative, organized a high-level seminar to discuss and establish a mutual understanding of how to better collaborate and make increased use of administrative data sources for statistics production. The event was followed by a practical workshop which provided an opportunity to jointly engage on technical level, ensuring that administrative data sources can be used for official statistics production.
Sierra Leone has identified, among others, two priority areas and respective SDG indicators that can be calculated using administrative data sources, environment and climate (SDG 13.1.1, 14.4.1 and 14.7.1) and crime and justice (SDG 16.1.1), that feeds into the National Mid Term Development Plan (NMTDP) and other policy documents.
The events were attended by high-level representatives and technical staff of the national statistical office and line ministries and agencies across sectors, including the National Disaster Management Agency, the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources and the Justice Sector Coordination Office. The high-level seminar focused on the importance of data sharing within government and with the public for more informed decision-making, while the training covered different components, from mapping to quality management of administrative data sources, from metadata to data-sharing, interoperability and security.
Before and after the events, several meetings took place both online and in person, including a knowledge exchange with Dominican Republic and Cameroon, facilitated by UNSD.
Participants jointly developed a roadmap for sharing administrative data between institutions in which collaboration and capacity building has been recognized as key-drivers of change.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 29 May 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat
Description: What are the skills sought-after by employers? How do they vary across EU countries? To answer these questions, Eurostat has developed an interactive tool to explore which are the most demanded skills in online job advertisements. In this webinar, you will learn more about the development of the Top & trending skills tool by our experts, and how you can navigate it to find useful information on the skills demand in Europe.
Description: The objective of this virtual seminar is to provide Member States and interested parties with the conceptual foundations related to the five principles of the United Nations Global Statistical and Geospatial Framework, to enhance the use of integrated statistical and geospatial information.
Title in Spanish: Seminario sobre Integración de fuentes de datos y estadísticas oficiales
Organizer(s): ECLAC INEGI Mexico
Description: El propósito de generar un intercambio regional sobre los avances recientes en los distintos ámbitos de integración de fuentes de información, así como discutir sobre los desafíos que enfrentan los organismos productores de estadísticas oficiales y las alternativas para abordarlos con miras a la planificación estratégica para el próximo decenio.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, focuses on the conceptual framework of government finance statistics (GFS) as presented in the Government Finance Statistics Manual 2014 (GFSM 2014), with an emphasis on new concepts introduced in GFSM 2014. The course requires that participants are familiar with the basic GFS framework and classification system. Emphasizing the integrated GFS framework, the course addresses complex cross-cutting GFS issues, such as social protection, government employee pension liabilities, standardized guarantee schemes, contracts, leases, licenses, public-private partnerships, and public sector balance sheets. It also examines coverage of the public sector, giving special attention to borderline and complex cases. The course discusses internal and intersectoral data consistency, coordination between data-producing agencies, as well as data presentation and communication with users. The format is lectures and discussions.
Target Audience: Officials whose main responsibility, for at least three years, has been compiling and disseminating GFS and who are regularly faced with complex GFS methodological and compilation issues, such as those described below.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 07 Mar 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: The objectives: * Understand how to collect Web Data regarding Online Job Vacancies and store them; * Understand of data processing techniques; * Understand the challenges and the issues of web data; * Base understand of data classification techniques on standard taxonomies and base understand of advanced techniques on taxonomies improvement.
Target Audience: Official statisticians working on big data methodology, data science and in employment and education statistics, as well as other statistical domains which can profit from this data source.
Description: Objectives The seminar aims to promote knowledge sharing, capacity building, and networking among UN officers responsible for supporting the development of national statistical systems, aiming to improve the quality, reliability, and relevance of statistics for inclusive decision-making and sustainable development. The event will update participants about the latest global efforts to strengthen and modernize national statistical systems. This includes discussing advancements in data governance, innovative data initiatives, and emerging trends in SDG monitoring. Participants can enhance their skills to support UN partners and national institutions effectively. The seminar also intends to provide a platform for participants to share their experiences and exchange good practices in coordinating development partners and stakeholders. Through interactive sessions and discussions, attendees can learn from each other's successes and challenges. Audience The main participants are Results Monitoring and Data Management Officers from the UN Resident Coordinator’s Offices in the Asia-Pacific region. The event is also open to participants from UN entities based in Bangkok. Presentation Agenda , RCP Data and Statistics Working Group SDG Data and Statistics Clinics SDG Learning Lab
Organizer(s): FAO European Commission European Space Agency WFP GEOCLAM
Description: The European Space Agency (ESA), the European Commission (EC), the World Food Programme (WFP), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and GEOGLAM are co-organising the EO for Agriculture Under Pressure 2024 Workshop, which will take place in Frascati (Italy), from 13 to 16 May 2024.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 07 Mar 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: The course aims at enhancing participants' theoretical and practical knowledge of National Accounts. They should become familiar with the system framework, the integration and balancing of source data and the presentation of national accounts data.
Target Audience: Junior statisticians of National Accounts (NA) departments or statisticians of other statistical departments dealing with NA statistics.
Title in Arabic: التحليل الاحصائي المتقدم باستخدام برمجية SPSS
Organizer(s): AITRS
Description: تمكن عمليات معالجة وتحليل الإحصائيات المتأتية من مختلف المصادر الاحصائية من التعرف عن مجتمع الدراسة بكل عناية، وشرح صفاته، وتحديد مميزاته وتوفر مقارنة مع المجتمعات الاخرى او مع فترات زمنية سابقة. وكي يتحقق هذا الهدف لا بد من التعمق بدراسة البيانات التي تميز هذا المجتمع عن غيره كما يتوجب القيام بالدراسة من خلال عينة ممثلة للمجتمع الاساسي وفق الأسس العلمية، ليستخرج منها المؤشرات والخصائص التي يمكن تعميمها على المجتمع. ويأتي ذلك بتحويل البيانات الأولية إلى معلومات وحقائق قابلة للفهم وتزيد المعرفة الاحصائية، وذلك باستخدام عدة طرق وبرامج في عملية تحليل البيانات وتفسيرها. ومن هذا المنطلق تهتم الأجهزة الإحصائية بالتحليل الاحصائي الاستدلالي الى جانب التحليل الاحصائي الوصفي والذي يمكنه من اجراء اختبارات إحصائية للبيانات بغرض مزيد فهم الاحصائيات وإنجاز الأبحاث العلمية المختلفة حسب طبيعة البيانات، كما ويزيد من فهم الحزمة الإحصائية SPSS وامكانياتها العالية في هذا المجال.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 07 Mar 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: The course should provide participants with a better understanding of the underlying principles and concepts of European and international economic and social classifications, their content and use.
Target Audience: Any statistician of a National Statistical Institute (including newcomers) dealing with any statistical domain and wishing to understand better the system of classifications used.
Source: World Bank (Data extracted on: 24 Apr 2024 )
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Organizer(s): World Bank
Description: In a survey experiment conducted in El Salvador, we explore whether alternative survey methods can alleviate the underreporting of women's and young men'slabor market outcomes, thus enhancing the measurement of gender- and age-based gaps. We compare two alternative methods—a List of Activities survey module (LOA) and enforced self-responses (ESR)—with a traditional household survey, which relies on proxy responses without an LOA module. Our findings reveal significant differences. The inclusion of the LOA module leads to higher reported work and employment rates for the average respondent compared to the standard household survey. Notably, the reported work gap between men and women decreases when using the LOA module. Furthermore, employing ESR reduces the age gap for male respondents' employment and work rates. Our research underscores the impact of peer examples of informal employment and social norms regarding domestic obligations on these outcomes. This study offers valuable insights into the potential of alternative survey methodologies to provide more accurate representations of labor market dynamics and address gender and age disparities in employment.
Organizer(s): UN Global Pulse UNFPA WFP WHO Finland
Description: Three Tales of Transformation: Catalysing innovations for the 2030 Agenda with the UN Global Pulse Scale Accelerator Organized by: UN Global Pulse, the Government of Finland, United Nations Population Fund, World Food Programme and World Health Organization Join teams from WFP, WHO and UNFPA as they share their journeys of catalysing their promising innovations to turn […]
Description: This online workshop is organized by the Food and Nutrition Centre of CREA and the Food and Nutrition Division of FAO (ESN) within the framework of the Memorandum of Understanding between FAO and Italian Research Institutes (IRI).
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 07 Mar 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: To provide participants with theory and practice of quality in Official Statistics, in particular process and product quality. To this purpose, a brief overview of the ESS quality framework is given. Then, the focus of the course shifts on process and product quality measurement. The statistical process is described and tools for preventing and reducing the errors are presented and discussed. Methods and tools to assess the effect of non-sampling errors such as coverage, measurement and nonresponse errors in statistical products are widely described.
Target Audience: Staff of national statistical institutes involved in statistical production processes and in quality management.
Description: The tenth meeting of the Regional Steering Group (RSG) for Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) in Asia and the Pacific will be organized in hybrid format from 7 to 9 May 2024, at 09:00-17:00 Bangkok time (GMT+7). The purpose of the meeting is to prepare for Third Ministerial Conference on Civil Registration and Vital Statistics in Asia and the Pacific in 2025, formally launch the 2024 Review of the Asia Pacific CRVS Decade (2015-2024), support RSG members in completing the 2024 Review questionnaire, and discuss priority areas for the extension to realize the goals and targets under the Regional Action Framework (RAF) on Civil Registration and Vital Statistics in Asia and the Pacific. Please find agenda, concept note and reference documents in the attachments.
Description: In a rapidly evolving educational landscape, the strategic use of data has become essential for training institutions to enhance the quality of learning experiences and extend their reach. "Analytics for Learning: Leveraging Data for Effective Training" is a comprehensive online course designed to empower educators, learning designers, training managers, and administrators with the knowledge and skills needed to harness the power of learning analytics and outreach strategies. This course will provide participants with insights into utilizing data-driven insights to optimize learning design, track learner progress, and implement successful outreach initiatives.
Target Audience: This course is tailored for a diverse audience that includes: - Educators and trainers seeking to leverage data for informed decision-making and improved learning outcomes. - Learning designers aiming to align course design with data-driven insights. - Training managers and administrators interested in enhancing the efficiency and impact of their training programs. - Professionals involved in outreach and marketing activities for training institutions.
Source: ESCAP SIAP (Data extracted on: 27 Nov 2024 )
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Organizer(s): ESCAP SIAP
Description: This e-learning course aims to build capacity in national statistical systems for the development and implementation of Reproducible Analytical Pipelines (RAPs) for Official Statistics.What is a Reproducible Analytical Pipeline?Simply putreproducible analytical pipelines (RAPs) are automated statistical processes (data processing and analysis) that codify to the greatest extent possible the production of official statistics. Common tools that are used to develop RAP include software such as R or Pythonand version control management tools such as Git.Reproducibility is at the heart of the approach. It implies that the outputs can be generated again with any new or revised input datasets using the RAP developed. This also implies drafting documents explaining the RAP that make it possible to build institutional knowledge and use the RAP in the future by new staff.
Description: Objective: The objective of the workshop was to provide participants with comprehensive insights into the production of tourism statistics and to foster discussions on harmonized methodologies and good practices, in line with the internationally agreed statistical frameworks for tourism statistics. Participants were better equipped to foster the development of the System of Tourism Statistics in their country, including by conducting relevant tourism surveys, the compilation of the Tourism Satellite Accounts, as well as the implementation of the Statistical Framework for Measuring the Sustainability of Tourism.
Organizer(s): BIS Bank of France Deutsche Bundesbank Germany
Description: The workshop on "Addressing climate change data needs: the global debate and central banks’ contribution" will be hosted by the Central Bank of the Republic of Türkiye, with the support of the Irving Fisher Committee on Central Bank Statistics (IFC), the Bank of France and Deutsche Bundesbank. The event is scheduled to take place in İzmir, Türkiye, from Monday 6 May to Tuesday 7 May 2024. For those unable to attend in person, we also offer the option of virtual participation. We aspire to convene experts from the public and private sector, as well as academia, to facilitate an insightful discussion on the challenges and prospective solutions that can enhance climate resilience strategies, especially through bridging data gaps. The imperative to improve climate risk data (and data on all ESG policies more generally) is now a universally acknowledged priority. While the workshop will be centred on initiatives by central banks to improve their policy-making and climate risk data frameworks, we intend to illuminate a broader spectrum of data-related challenges and potential remedies, considering the perspectives and inputs of all stakeholders involved. Specifically, we explore how ongoing and future initiatives, both at the national and international levels, can contribute towards identifying and closing data gaps for key policy areas. These include, but are not limited to, measuring the climate impact of economic activities, the volume of climate finance and government expenditure to mitigate climate change as well as developing forward-looking physical and transition risk indicators. The workshop is meant to contribute to the global debate on the subject matter and will particularly emphasise forward-looking physical and transition risk indicators.
Description: The course will review concepts and definitions of key welfare indicators such as the consumption aggregate, poverty line and headcount rate, inequality, and shared prosperity measures. It will outline the key steps of household survey design and implementation, including sampling, survey instruments, and data quality monitoring. The training will also have a hands-on session using Stata, a statistical software for data management and analysis, to familiarize participants with its functionalities, including data importing, cleaning, and analysis. Through real-world examples, the course will cover how a consumption aggregate is calculated from food and non-food components of household expenditure, and the necessary imputations to capture rent, subsidized goods, and spatial differences in prices. Using these concepts, the course will enable participants to calculate welfare measures at national and sub-national levels. The training will also consist of interactive sessions among participants and trainers for focused country specific discussions on upcoming household surveys, labor force modules, and aspects of multi-dimensional poverty. The overarching goal would be to improve statistical capacity and create a basis for engagement on statistics that the Poverty team can build upon in future.
Target Audience: The training program on poverty measurement is specifically designed for officials and policymakers at the National Statistics Organizations (NSO), Ministries of Planning, Finance, Social and Labor Affairs, and related government think tanks of MENA countries. Countries where statistical capacity needs to be improved, and which are either in the early stages or in the process of implementing a household survey are especially encouraged to participate. This audience is targeted due to their roles in data management, analysis, and policy-making that require a deep understanding of household survey data and welfare measurement.
Source: World Bank (Data extracted on: 08 Mar 2024 )
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Organizer(s): World Bank
Description: Foundational models like large language models (LLMs) have recently commanded widespread public attention—and caution—given their transformational potential for both our economy and society. Naturally, questions loom about how these AI innovations will impact the global development research and policy landscape. If used properly by the right actors, these tools might unlock enormous troves of data and create new opportunities to improve lives around the world. The World Bank's Development Impact (DIME) department and Development Data Group (DECDG), the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA), and and the development community at the University of Chicago are excited to explore this topic at our tenth annual Measuring Development (MeasureDev) Conference, “AI, The Next Generation.” MeasureDev 2024 will feature presentations on AI that span the measurement ecosystem: from efforts to improve and expand responsible data infrastructure in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and facilitate the development of a new generation of AI tools, to analysis tailoring foundational models to optimize generative AI (GenAI) including LLMs for social impact. The event will feature speakers who are shaping the way these new tools will be adopted and regulated.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, covers the fundamentals needed to compile the international accounts. The course introduces the conceptual statistical framework for balance of payments and IIP-as presented in the Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Statistics Manual, sixth edition (BPM6), which is harmonized with other macroeconomic statistical frameworks. You will learn about the current, capital, and financial account balances, and how they reflect your economy's interaction with the rest of the world. Basic concepts, definitions, and classifications are covered, along with the principal accounting rules (including valuation and time of recording) that are relevant for compilation of the international accounts. The course also discusses the functional categories, including direct investment. The need for integration of the balance of payments with the IIP for compiling comprehensive, internationally comparable statistics will also be discussed.
Target Audience: This course is for those interested in learning the fundamentals of compiling international accounts that cover balance of payments and international investment position (IIP) statistics according to the internationally accepted standards. It is a basic-level course laying the foundation for the intermediate balance of payments and IIP statistics course. It is open to those who compile, or plan to compile, balance of payments and IIP statistics and to the general public.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, covers theoretical and practical aspects in the compilation of national accounts statistics based on the conceptual framework of the System of National Accounts 2008 (2008 SNA). The course consists of lectures covering methodological and compilation issues of the 2008 SNA and workshops consisting of practical exercises in compiling the accounts. The main aim of the course is to train participants in the compilation of annual gross domestic product both at current prices and in volume terms using the production and expenditure approaches, in support of better policy-making and surveillance. The course starts with an overview of the system of national accounts, presenting the sequence of accounts for transactions and other flows as well as balance sheets, with a focus on the framework of the 2008 SNA. It covers the main concepts involving transactions, other economic flows, stocks, institutional units, classifications, and main macroeconomic aggregates measured by the system. The main lectures and workshops include: sessions on the production account covering the definition and measurement of output, intermediate consumption, and value added; valuation issues; and the treatment of particular industries; source data and issues in the compilation of GDP by production and expenditure approaches; deflators and derivation of volume measures of GDP; and specific issues related to goods and services transactions, including supply and use framework, inventory valuation adjustment, consumption of fixed capital, non-observed and informal economy, global supply chains, and the digital economy.Emphasis is also placed on sharing country experiences among the participants.
Target Audience: Compilers of national accounts statistics employed by agencies responsible for official national accounts data.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, focuses on both the conceptual framework of government finance statistics (GFS) as presented in the IMF’s Government Finance Statistics Manual 2014 (GFSM 2014) and on practical aspects of data compilation. Basic concepts and definitions, accounting principles, and detailed classifications are dealt with in the context of the GFSM 2014 , which is harmonized with the System of National Accounts (SNA 2008) . The course examines the GFS framework, as well as its coverage and accounting rules (including accrual accounting), classifications, balance sheets and debt, and the sources and methods used for compiling GFS. Lastly, the course discusses the dissemination of GFS and its uses in fiscal policymaking and analyses.
Target Audience: Officials whose main responsibility is compiling and disseminating fiscal statistics.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, is intended to provide participants with a thorough understanding of the international standards for the compilation of EDS presented in the 2013 EDS: Guide for Compilers and Users (2013 EDS Guide). The course will cover basic concepts, definitions, and classifications, along with the principal accounting rules (including valuation and time of recording) that are relevant for compilation of the EDS. Finally, participants will be briefed on basic concepts of the debt sustainability analysis framework.
Target Audience: This course is for those interested in learning the fundamentals of compiling international accounts—specifically compilation of external debt statistics (EDS) and/or international investment position (IIP) statistics. It is a basic-level course laying the foundation for the face-to-face EDS course. It is open to those who compile, or plan to compile, EDS/IIP and to the general public.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) introduces participants to the underlying concepts, definitions, and methodology for the compilation of Financial Soundness Indicators (FSIs). FSIs were developed by the IMF in the late 1990s and currently, more than 140 countries compile and report FSIs to the IMF. These indicators are widely used by researchers, analysts, and policymakers around the world to monitor the soundness of the financial system as a whole from a macroprudential perspective, as well as by IMF staff in financial stability analysis and surveillance. This course covers the history of the FSIs and their application in surveillance and macroprudential analysis, the conceptual framework for the FSIs, the data collection process for FSI compilation and its underlying aggregation and consolidation methodologies as well as the application of core and additional FSIs in macroprudential analysis. An important reference throughout this course is the Financial Soundness Indicators Compilation Guide revised in 2019. The 2019 FSIs Guide is the ultimate authority on FSI concepts and methods and is the foundation of this course.
Target Audience: Officials at central banks and supervisory agencies for the financial sector who are involved in the collection, compilation, and analysis of financial soundness indicators (FSIs).
Description: This online course, presented by the Statistics Department, introduces participants to key CPI concepts and methods. The course provides an overview of key CPI concepts, definitions, and uses. It provides an overview of different index number formulas and the practical implications of choosing the index number formula at lower and higher levels of aggregation. The course also discusses the sources and methods for sampling areas, items, outlets, and varieties; treatment of temporarily and permanently missing prices; and updating and linking CPI data series. Linkages to the 2008 SNA are highlighted, including the related principles of scope, coverage, and valuation. The course covers the following topics: defining key concepts and uses of CPI data and how these influence the design of a CPI; meeting data users' needs to ensure relevancy; calculating elementary and upper-level indexes; methods for sampling areas, items, outlets, and varieties; methods for handling temporarily and permanently missing prices, including adjusting prices for quality changes; and chaining and linking indexes with updated weighting structures. The course follows the principles and recommendations of the CPI Manual (2020).
Target Audience: Compilers of consumer price indexes (CPIs) and users of CPI data interested in understanding key concepts and compilation issues.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, covers the fundamentals needed to compile and disseminate comprehensive public sector debt statistics (PSDS) that are useful for policy- and decision-makers, as well as other users. The course introduces the conceptual statistical framework for PSDS—as presented in the Public Sector Debt Statistics: Guide for Compilers and Users 2011 (PSDSG 2011) —in the context of the government finance statistics (GFS) framework, which is harmonized with other macroeconomic statistical frameworks. Basic concepts, definitions, and classifications are covered, along with the principal accounting rules (including valuation and consolidation) that are relevant for PSDS compilation. The course discusses the recommended instrument and institutional coverage for compiling comprehensive, internationally comparable PSDS, and how to record contingent liabilities such as government guarantees. It also deals with the impact on PSDS of some debt-related issues such as debt assumption, debt forgiveness, on-lending, financial leases, and financial bailouts. Important PSDS compilation considerations—including what PSDS to compile and disseminate—and the IMF’s guidelines and standards on disseminating PSDS are also covered. The course also presents possible uses of PSDS, including debt sustainability analyses (DSA), and fiscal risk and vulnerability analyses.
Target Audience: Officials whose main responsibility is compiling and disseminating public sector debt statistics.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, teaches you how to compile timely and high-quality Quarterly National Accounts (QNA) and High-Frequency Indicators of Economic Activity (HFIEAs). The course presents the concepts, data sources, and compilation techniques needed for producing QNA and HFIEAs, covering both theoretical and practical compilation issues. It introduces participants to benchmarking, seasonal adjustment techniques, as well as volume estimates; and explains the application of these techniques to time series data. The course also discussed how to identify and assess available data sources, use real-time series databases to assess the quality, and implement a suitable revisions policy for compiling QNA and HFIEAs.
Target Audience: This introductory online course is designed for anyone interested in learning how to compile and disseminate Quarterly National Accounts and High-Frequency Indicators of Economic Activity, according to the recommendations of the System of National Accounts, and using them to better understand the role of high-frequency data in analyzing current economic developments.
Description: This online course, presented by the Statistics Department, reviews the basic skills, concepts, and principles required to compile and disseminate macroeconomic and financial statistics. The course covers topics such as residence, institutional units, institutional sectors, accounting rules, financial instruments, stocks and flows, the IMF’s Data Standards Initiatives, and presents the basic macroeconomic linkages among these statistics.
Target Audience: Officials who compile macroeconomic and financial statistics in national statistical organizations, ministries of finance, economy, or planning, or in central banks.
Source: World Bank (Data extracted on: 24 Apr 2024 )
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Organizer(s): World Bank
Description: Caribbean-wide, there is an urgent need to measure poverty to understand exactly who is affected and how. Only by doing so can the region effectively implement corrective policies. Many Caribbean countries struggle with weak statistical capacity and low data usage. According to the World Bank's Statistical Performance Indicator (SPI), which measures statistical capacity at the country level, the region ranks lowest in statistical performance compared to other regions, aligning more closely with low-income countries. With some exceptions, like Jamaica and the Dominican Republic, the most recent poverty estimates are between 6 and 8 years old. Furthermore, national poverty estimates are only available for the 2000s in more than a handful of countries. This data deficit hinders the effective tracking of Sustainable Development Goals related to poverty and inequality (SDG1: eradicating poverty in all its forms, and SDG 10: reducing inequality within and among countries) and the design of targeted poverty alleviation programs and policies. In the past, even if data to measure poverty was available, it had not been used sufficiently for purposes other than national poverty monitoring. A recent World Bank effort harmonized data from living conditions and household budget surveys in four Caribbean countries with existing microdata (Grenada, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, and Suriname) to produce internationally comparable poverty and equity estimates and allow the inclusion of these estimates into global monitoring of SDG1 and SDG 10. These estimates are now available on the World Bank’s Poverty and Inequality Platform. Harmonized welfare aggregates are essential for providing a consistent and comparable welfare measure across different populations or countries, allowing for global monitoring and benchmarking. This is especially valuable in regions like the Caribbean, where countries may have diverse economic contexts but share similar development objectives. Harmonized welfare aggregates facilitate cross-country analyses, inform policy decisions, and contribute to more effective regional cooperation and development strategies. Join us for another Ask WB Caribbean on April 30, where we will present the global estimates of poverty and inequality in the Caribbean and discuss committing to regular and comprehensive data collection on poverty and key socio-economic indicators, investing in the capacity of national statistical offices and policy analysis units, and promoting data transparency and accessibility.
Description: The producer price index (PPI) and the export and import price index (XMPI) are important complements to the consumer price index (CPI) in drawing a more complete picture of how inflation affects major parts of an economy, including businesses and institutions, in addition to households. These indexes are used to deflate production and expenditure values in the national accounts, adjust prices in long-term contracts, analyze short-term inflation trends, and perform terms of trade analysis. In the Producer, Export, and Import Price Index course, or PPIx, you will learn the fundamentals of how these statistics are compiled and used. In this course, we take a close look at the types of transactions and prices included in these indexes, and how they are weighted together to create the total index values reported in the news.
Target Audience: Compilers of producer price indexes (PPIs) and export and import price indexes (XMPIs), and users of these data interested in understanding key concepts and compilation issues.
Description: Massive digitization drive across public and private sectors has led organizations and their people to possess vast amounts of data, both qualitative and quantitative, often complex, unstructured, and varied. This huge data proliferation has also been accompanied with advances and rapid developments in data analytics by a corresponding surge in the creation of powerful tools. The exponential growth in both data and analytical capabilities, including artificial intelligence, is creating opportunities and challenges for managing knowledge. By integrating data analytics and knowledge management individuals and organizations can gain and share powerful insights, test strategies, improve transparency, increase value and improve the impact. If you have witnessed a knowledge gap in your organization and want to learn about developing strategies on leveraging data to bridge this gap this is the course for you. Alternatively, if you seek to build a culture in your organization that capitalizes on data-driven knowledge to develop impactful policies, programmes and projects and streamline work processes, this certification programme will guide you in doing so. Or, if you are interested in learning how data analytics can improve your own performance and, if you are curious about the latest trends and the future foresights towards data analytics and knowledge management, this course is the right place to be! Welcome to the certification course on "Data Analytics and Knowledge Management for Development".
Target Audience: Programme and project managers, knowledge management officers, monitoring and evaluation officers, technical specialists, project professionals, professionals from private enterprises, academicians and researchers involved in the identification, design, implementation and evaluation of development policies, programmes and projects.
Description: Assessing the status of implementation of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and its contribution to the follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development during the decade of action and delivery for sustainable development.
Target Audience: The Commission is composed of 47 Member States elected by the Economic and Social Council for a period of four years on the basis of geographic distribution. Representatives should have a relevant background in population and development.
In today's digital age, citizen data stands at the forefront of efforts to bridge data gaps, promote inclusivity, and strengthen accountability worldwide. Defined as data co-created with or initiated by citizens, these invaluable insights offer a unique perspective on addressing the most pressing challenges facing our communities.
At this event, we will delve into the crucial role of citizen data in advancing the UN 2.0 vision, where innovation, cultural shifts, and enhanced skills converge to turbocharge support for people and planet. Moreover, we will showcase the groundbreaking work of the UN Collaborative on Citizen Data, highlighting the recently unveiled "Copenhagen Framework on Citizen Data" as a blueprint for action.
Join us as we explore how UN agencies and country offices can champion citizen data initiatives, amplifying the voices of marginalized communities and driving meaningful progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals.
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Programme:
Opening: Yongyi Min
Presentation of Collaborative on Citizen Data and the Copenhagen Framework: Haoyi Chen
UN country team (Bangladesh): Halima Neyamat
UN Women: Jessamyn Encarnacion
ODW: Francesca Perucci
International Disability Alliance: Jose Maria Viera
Description: UNSD, under the Data For Now initiative, has conducted online training on metadata on geospatially enabled statistical indicators prioritized by the project countries. National staff from Morocco, Jordan, State of Palestine and Kyrgyzstan participated in the training which aimed to strengthen their capacity to compile metadata on those SDG 9 and 11 indicators they work on in the project.
Description: We consider model-based optimal sampling designs for multipurpose surveys with multiple measures of size. The problem is motivated by surveys conducted by the United States Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), in which estimates of planted and harvested acres of different crops are of interest, and historical acreages are available on the frame as measures of size. We use convex optimisation to find the inclusion probabilities that minimise expected sample size subject to target precision requirements for different study variables, along with other inequality constraints. The precision requirements are computed as anticipated coefficients of variation under models relating study variables to frame measures of size. These same models are used in established NASS strategies for the multipurpose survey problem to obtain Multivariate Probability Proportional to Size (MPPS) inclusion probabilities. MPPS uses the measures of size to determine optimal inclusion probabilities for each model, then maximises over models. This solution is practical but not optimal. We compare the use of the MPPS and optimal inclusion probabilities under different designs (Poisson sampling and balanced sampling) and different estimators (calibrated and uncalibrated) via a Monte Carlo experiment using a simulated population of farms with realistic size and complexity.
Description: The United Nations Integrated Geospatial Information Framework (UN-IGIF) serves as a foundational roadmap for enhancing geospatial information management globally. Its primary goal is to aid countries in developing, integrating, and optimizing their geospatial resources, thereby narrowing the digital gap, and fostering socioeconomic progress for all.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 07 Mar 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: The objective is to enable participants: * To have an understanding of the range of techniques which make up a cognitive interview; * To have increased their own ability to do cognitive interviewing; * To have insight into selecting and recruiting respondents; * To have insight into analysing cognitive interview data and creating better survey questions; * To have awareness of a broad range of uses for cognitive interviewing; * To have awareness of the contribution of cognitive interviewing in comparison to other testing methods; * To understand how cognitive interviewing can improve questionnaires on gender topics and thus the associated social statistics.
Target Audience: The course is targeted at NSI methodologists and social scientists whose work involves conducting surveys
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, introduces the fundamentals of compiling monetary statistics, with special attention to other financial corporations (OFCs). It also gives an overview of financial statistics and national accounts. The course material is based on the Monetary and Financial Statistics Manual and Compilation Guide (MFSMCG). Although the course summarizes the main principles underlying the compilation of monetary statistics, it assumes participants already understand these principles (e.g., having participated in the MFS-I course). The core of the course deals with characteristics of various OFCs (insurance corporations, pension funds, non-MMF investment funds, etc.), their typical balance sheet structure, and their role in the financial sector. The course also covers some aspects of financial statistics, dealing with financial flows and stocks of all sectors of the domestic economy and their interactions with the rest of the world; the balance sheet approach to vulnerability analysis; and the relationships between monetary, balance of payments, government finance, and national accounts statistics. The course consists of lectures and case studies to familiarize participants with practical aspects of compiling monetary statistics for OFCs and the basic principles underlying the compilation of national accounts. At the end of the course, participants are expected to make a short presentation on monetary statistics compilation issues in their own countries.
Target Audience: Central bank officials and officials from regulatory agencies responsible for compiling monetary statistics.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 07 Mar 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: This course shall democratize the accessibility of privately held data and valorisation thereof; Get to know the techniques and tools to access privately held data; Understand the stages of data valorisation pipelines, including data storage and accessibility; Familiarize with the European Data Strategy and Digital Strategy; Experiment with web-crawling, web-scraping, web-automation and API interfacing techniques; Gain hands-on experience with diverse data mining techniques from privately held data sources.
Target Audience: Official Statisticians wishing to develop a toolbox for data acquisition with respect to privately held data at national level.
Description: This workshop will bring representatives from Member State civilian science, defence and policy agencies together to: 1. Introduce the global geodesy supply chain and explain why it is vital for national economies and the operation of critical infrastructure. 2. Discussthe weaknessesin the global geodesy supply chain and the threat to our use ofspace from a civilian and defence perspective. 3. Discuss pathways and actions to address weaknesses in the global geodesy supply chain in the short, medium and long-term.
Description: Join us for an exclusive event unveiling the cutting-edge capabilities of the new UN Data Platform! Harnessing AI-based natural language query and knowledge graph technologies, this platform revolutionizes how we access and utilize authoritative statistical data from across the UN system. UNDESA’s Statistics Division, in collaboration with Google’s Data Commons, launched the UN Data Commons for the SDGs at the 2023 SDG Summit. Building upon this success, the UN Data Platform has since expanded to include WHO data, with plans for further integration of data across the UN system in the upcoming year. The event will also feature a distinguished panel that will delve into topics such as new data governance models, collaborative approaches to data management, and strategies for providing powerful search and analytic capabilities for all users. Don't miss this opportunity to shape the future accessibility and usability of the UN Data Platform. View live stream on YouTube here.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 23 Apr 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat
Description: Would you like to know more about how our statistical maps are created and become a mapmaker of your own? Maps are an integral part of our daily lives, helping us to navigate the world around us. They are powerful tools for data visualisation that enable us to translate complex information into instantly understandable insights. In this webinar you will learn more about the geographic information system of the European Commission, abbreviated as GISCO, and how to use Eurostat data to create your own statistical maps with the so-called IMAGE tool.
Title in Spanish: Power of Data: Alianzas estratégicas para la generación de datos para el desarrollo en América Latina y el Caribe
Organizer(s): ECLAC
Description: Evento paralelo de la Séptima reunión del Foro de los Países de América Latina y el Caribe sobre el Desarrollo Sostenible llevada a cabo en Santiago, del 15 al 18 de abril de 2024.
Description: ARFSD Side event Webinar: Africa Progress Towards SDG 16.9: Legal Identity for All Registration Link: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kcj7yB5VSyeAMYvtkn7_6g#/registration Date: 18/04/2024 Time: 09:00-10:30 (Addis Ababa time)
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 07 Mar 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: The course will enhance the theoretical and practical knowledge of waste statistics validation approaches. The main focus will be on validation routines, looking at strengths and weaknesses in the chosen approaches and possibilities for shared responsibilities between countries and Eurostat. The course will explore possible ways of avoiding duplication of validation routines and in waste statistics and means of obtaining more effective statistics.
Target Audience: Staff members involved in the production of official waste statistics, advanced level.
Organizer(s): UNCTAD SDG Lab Rethinking Economics AI Generated
Description: BackgroundIt is by now well understood that today’s financial and economic systems are not fit-for-purpose to address the triple planetary crisis and ensure a sustainable future for all. Our current system is biased towards prioritizing short-term profit over the long-term wellbeing of people and planet.As we head into the UNs Summit of the Future, one of the key structural challenges that needs to be addressed to advance the SDGs is the development of a universal and comprehensive measurement of progress on sustainable development to complement Gross Domestic Progress (GDP). It is key that young people have a voice in the development of a framework to complement GDP, a framework that will have implications on their futures and wellbeing.To this end, the SDG Lab is organizing an intergenerational discussion on “What Counts in the future?” in collaboration with the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the international student movement, Rethinking Economics. The objective is to infuse the discussion on how we move Beyond GDP with a diverse range of youth perspectives and expertise, to provide input for Member States as they negotiate the Pact for the Future.The dialogue is the continuation of discussion at the event “Rethinking Economic Systems for Long-term Sustainable Development”, which took place in October 2023 as part of the SDG Lab`s What`s Next series. The session brought together several influential organizations and stakeholders to reflect on the way forward to ensure that the economy creates value for local communities and countries today and in the future. The discussion made it clear that we need a mindset change and political courage to make use of the momentum to move beyond GDP.To generate insights from young people, an essay competition was launched in advance of the dialogue on 17 April. Over 630 young people from more than 50 countries submitted their response to the question: What values and principles would you like to see in a Framework to Value What Counts beyond GDP and what are the challenges to be addressed as a priority? ProgrammeAt this interactive in-person meeting the five winners of the global essay contest will share their perspectives on the values and principles that should be included in a framework to move beyond GDP. Furthermore, the meeting will invite leaders from both the public and private sphere, including senior UN officials and Member States and other international organizations, to reflect and engage with the young speakers.Speakers include: * Ms. Tatiana Valovaya, Director-General, United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG) * Mr. Pedro Manuel Moreno, Deputy Secretary-General, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) * H.E. Ms. Eunice M. Tembo Luambia, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Zambia to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva * Mr. Jean-Luc Bernasconi, Chief of Staff, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), Member of the Directorate at SDC * Mr. Laurence Jones-Williams, Director of Rethinking Economics International * Ms. Özge Aydogan, Director of the SDG Lab, United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG) * The five winners of the global essay competition on Moving Beyond GDP: * Ms. Paula Borges (Brazil) * Ms. Rose Holm (Denmark) * Ms. Kaydence Drayak (United Kingdom) * Ms. Julianna Makonise (Zimbabwe) * Ms. Aymen Ahmad (Pakistan)Read the publication"What counts in the future? Youth perspectives on measuring what we value".
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 07 Mar 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: The objective of this course is to provide the participants with an overview of Statistical disclosure theory and methods related to tabular data protection and microdata protection, as well as the respective software. Participants will be asked to bring case studies that will be discussed in the training.
Target Audience: Staff dealing with statistical confidentiality
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 07 Mar 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: The course will enhance participants' methodological and technical knowledge of Quality reporting in the European Statistical System (ESS). Participants will understand and have practical experience on how to prepare detailed quality reports for the different types of statistical processes according to the Single Integrated Metadata Structure (SIMS) V.2.0 and its derived structures ESMS (Euro-SDMX Metadata Structure) and ESQRS (ESS Standard for Quality Report Structure), including how to calculate ESS Quality and Performance indicators. The ESS Metadata Handler, the web application used by Eurostat to collect metadata and quality report from National Statistical Institutes and Other National Authorities producing European statistics, will be presented.
Target Audience: Staff of National Statistical Institutes (NSIs) and Other National Authorities (ONAs) producing Official Statistics directly involved in the compilation of quality reports or working in quality management and/or quality reporting coordination units.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 07 Mar 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: Main objectives of the course: to provide practical training in writing about statistics in clear and understandable language, with the aim to improve the attractiveness and efficiency of presenting statistics, while bearing in mind the principles of the Code of Practice.
Target Audience: Staff involved in/responsible for drafting/writing press releases, statistical texts and articles for NSI’s publications, for the web, for social media or other types of communication channels.
Description: 16 April 2024 we had a meeting were we discussed the ongoing development of the Guide on the Use of Administrative Data for Statistics on Non-Discrimination and Equality. The Guide aims to enhance the collection of high-quality administrative data for improved production of statistics on non-discrimination and equality, thereby supporting better informed policies in this area. Ms. Shadia Rask delivered a presentation covering the Guide's objectives, the feedback received so far, as well as proposed ways for the Task Team members to contribute to the Guide.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 07 Mar 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat EFTA Statistics Iceland
Description: This objectives are: * Present how R can be used for processing, analyzing and disseminating official statistics. * Introduce the “tidyverse” and how it can be used for data wrangling. * Present ggplot and how it can be used to produce graphs. * Introduce the GSBPM, how it applies to the production of official statistics and linking it to available R libraries and functions. * Introduce RMarkdown and how to write reports through R.
Target Audience: Statisticians working in the production of official statistics, especially data processing and analysis. No specific experience within official statistics is necessary. The course should both be relevant for junior as well as senior statisticians.
Description: UNSD, under the Data For Now initiative, organized a workshop on using geospatial and statistical data to produce three SDG 11 indicators: 11.2.1 on convenient access to public transport, 11.3.1 on the ratio of land consumption rate to population growth rate, and 11.7.1 on access to open public spaces. The national partners have identified these indicators in line with Morocco’s national priorities.
Description: From 15 to 16 April, FAO organized a workshop in Rome to convene key national stakeholders to introduce them to the ASTI methodology and procedures as well as initiate dialogues between national agricultural research institutes (NARIs) and national statistical offices (NSOs). These dialogues aim to unveil and present the new data collection approach while deliberating on and exploring strategies for effective integration of ASTI into National Statistical System (NSS) mechanisms, a crucial step for providing collecting agencies with a clear mandate, ensuring quality, and official validation of the data.
Description: This is the first webinar of the webinar series on the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA) organized by the United Nations Committee of Experts on Environmental-Economic Accounting (UNCEEA). This webinar aims at providing a foundational understanding of the SEEA and how the SEEA can support national implementation of the monitoring framework of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF). The SEEA provides the methodological basis for a number of indicators of the monitoring framework of the GBF. In particular, the SEEA Ecosystem Accounting will provide the methodological basis for three headline indicators adopted for high-level monitoring of the GBF, including in national reports under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) — i.e., indicators A.2 Extent of natural ecosystems, B.1 Services provided by ecosystems and 9.1 Benefits from the sustainable use of wild species. In addition, the SEEA Central Framework includes accounts which contain information on biodiversity expenditures and investments, which are relevant to the GBF’s financing indicators, such as D.3 on Private finance. The full list of indicators can be found in the CBD Decision 15/5. Objectives To understand the SEEA framework and its relevance to the headline indicators of the Kunming Montreal GBF monitoring framework, with a focus on indicators A2 and B1. To discuss the challenges and opportunities in applying the SEEA Ecosystem Accounting for national level monitoring of biodiversity.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 07 Mar 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: Provide an introduction to cartographic design principles for statistical map design. Introduce basic and advanced cartographic representation methods with practical examples on statistical data. Provide guidelines for creating maps for online publication and for printout.
Target Audience: Statisticians working in the field of Earth observation, geographic information systems and statistics, who would like to gain knowledge and practical skills on using cartographic representation methods to visualize statitiscal data.
Description: Background and rationale National Statistical Offices (NSOs) and other entities comprising national statistical systems in the Asia-Pacific region are facing ever-increasing demand for statistical products that are timely, frequent, granular, and accurate. The continuous improvement of statistical business processes, including through standardization and automation, is imperative to keep up with this demand while assuring that quality standards are being met. This requires the deployment of IT tools that can be used for a wide range of these processes, are cost effective, and are widely accepted and supported. In R, NSOs in many countries are converging on a programming language and software environment that meets these criteria. Designed for statistical analysis, reporting and visualization, R is a powerful tool for data analysis. R and specific packages developed for it cover many of the processes schematized in the Generic Statistical Business Process Model (GSBPM).1, 2 R is open-source, which not only makes it free, but also makes it a solution that facilitates sharing and collaboration. And R is used by a worldwide community of an ever-increasing number of users, not only in official statistics, but also in academia, business, and other branches of government. Programme Concept note Objective The objective of the workshop was to strengthen and/or build (whatever the case may be) the capacity of participants in applying R and the packages developed for statistical business processes at their organizations. Specifically, the participants were expected to: Use R and RStudio and gain a sound foundation from which they can continue to learn within their organizations Learn about some commonly used R packages Explore examples of how R can be applied to official statistics Gain an understanding of how business processes for the production and dissemination of statistics can be structured, as reflected in the GSBPM
Description: The fifth meeting of the Expert Group on Land Administration and Management is hosted by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía) of Mexico and will also incorporate the Second International Seminar on United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management with the theme "Effective land administration". This in-person meeting allows members of the Expert Group together with invited experts to review, discuss and consider a number of substantive items that are presently before the Expert Group. The International Seminar on United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management with the theme ""Effective land administration", will provide an open forum for dialogue and deliberating key considerations leveraging the nine pathways of FELA to provide the reference and guidance for Member States when establishing, strengthening and modernizing their land administration nationally or sub-nationally. This International Seminar seeks to share and exchange knowledge, information and experience, facilitate peer-to-peer engagement and learning; promoting and raising awareness of the merits and benefits of effective land administration; accelerating efforts to recognize and record people to land relationships in all its forms; addressing climate-related challenges and improving resilience including the technical complexities around the land/sea interface; and broadening perspectives in effective land administration.
Description: The MAM-CoP secretariat is pleased to invite you to participate in the upcoming webinar. Title of the webinar: “Insights in Determining Causes of Death Amongst Adults using Verbal Autopsies”, Date: Monday 8 April 2024 Time: 08:00 – 09:00 am (New York time) (please click to check your time) Venue: Online via MS Teams Registration link: (Please register here) Once you have completed the registration process, a meeting link will be generated for you to access the webinar. For more details about the content and objectives of the webinar, please refer to the attached flyer.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 07 Mar 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: The course will provide participants with training on the compilation of SEEA-CF monetary environmental accounts as requested by Regulation 691/2011 on European environmental economic accounts (amended by Regulation 538/2014). It’s an overall introduction to the different accounts, including relevant definitions, classifications, and approaches to compilation will be covered.
Target Audience: Junior statisticians of environmental statistics or environmental accounts departments involved in compiling data on Environmental Goods and Services Sector (EGSS) Accounts, Environmental protection expenditure accounts (EPEA), environmental taxes or environmental subsidies and other transfers. Specialists in one of the areas listed above who need to improve their knowledge of the other areas listed above. Managers with responsibility on several or all the areas listed above.
Description: ESCAP in collaboration with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Statistics Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNSD) hosted a webinar on Updates to the Balance of Payments Manual and the System of National Accounts. The objective of the Webinar was to facilitate understanding of the update processes, the resulting changes, and their implications for official statistics production. Participants were also informed of the joint BPM/SNA chapters, and were expected to identify priority changes for implementation in their country. During the webinar, participants had ample time and opportunity to engage in plenary and group discussions and seek insights from other participants and resource persons. The Webinar was organized for mid-level management and technical staff involved in the compilation and dissemination of external sector and national accounts statistics. Agenda , Webinar: Asian countries (26-27 March 2024) Webinar: Pacific countries (3-4 April 2024)
Description: An insight into implementation of CRVS Business Process Improvement (BPI), and the experiences and success stories from countries in Asia and the Pacific. .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 50%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; } , Stats Café Home: Upcoming events Concluded events
Description: The objective of this virtual seminar is to provide Member States and interested parties with the conceptual foundations related to the five principles of the United Nations Global Statistical and Geospatial Framework, to enhance the use of integrated statistical and geospatial information.
Description: For this Joint UNICEF and Global Network Webinar on Benchmarking Progress on Child-Related SDGs Across Countries we welcomed João Pedro Azevedo from UNICEF. The SDG midpoint must be a turning point. As we approach the halfway mark of the Sustainable Development Agenda, it is imperative that we accelerate progress, particularly for children. UNICEF’s benchmarking approach helps countries set ambitious and realistic child-related SDG targets. This method sheds light on the effort that will be needed in the second half of the SDG period compared to past achievements within each country. Moreover, it offers insights into the future efforts required, drawing comparisons with similar countries. The webinar will feature a presentation describing the nature of the benchmarking exercise and the main results of a recent UNICEF report followed by a QA session.
Source: ESCAP SIAP (Data extracted on: 29 Jul 2024 )
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Organizer(s): EGRISS ESCAP SIAP UNSD
Description: The numbers of refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) have increased rapidly in recent yearswith UNHCR estimating over 108.4 million forcibly displaced persons in 2022. Similarlythe issue of statelessness continues to persist in societywith 4.4 million people currently estimated to be stateless. This course introduces the “International Recommendations on Refugee Statistics” (IRRS)the “International Recommendations on IDP Statistics” (IRIS) and the “International Recommendations on Statelessness Statistics” (IROSS). These sets of recommendations were endorsed by the United Nations Statistical Commission in 2018 (IRRS)2020 (IRIS) and 2023 (IROSS)respectively. The course is spread over six substantive modules and provides details on the statistical framework for compiling refugeeIDP and stateless persons statistics. It introduces conceptsdefinitionsclassifications and methodologies relevant to collectingcompilinganalyzing and disseminating data and indicators on refugeesIDPs and stateless persons2 including Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicators. The course also includes information on data sourcesinstitutional mechanismsand coordination.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, prepares participants to compile QNA and/or HFIEA by providing them with a thorough understanding of the concepts, source data, and compilation techniques used for producing these datasets. The course covers both theoretical and practical compilation issues. It introduces participants to benchmarking, seasonal adjustment techniques, as well as volume estimates; and explains the application of these techniques to time series data. Participants will learn how to identify and assess available data sources for compiling QNA and HFIEAs; use related real-time series databases to assess the quality of QNA and HFIEAs; and implement a suitable revisions policy.
Target Audience: This online course is designed for officials worldwide who are responsible for compiling quarterly national accounts (QNA) and/or high frequency indicators of economic activity (HFIEA).
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, is intended to provide participants with a thorough understanding of the international standards for the compilation of EDS presented in the 2013 EDS: Guide for Compilers and Users (2013 EDS Guide). The course will cover basic concepts, definitions, and classifications, along with the principal accounting rules (including valuation and time of recording) that are relevant for compilation of the EDS. Finally, participants will be briefed on basic concepts of the debt sustainability analysis framework.
Target Audience: This course is for those interested in learning the fundamentals of compiling international accounts—specifically compilation of external debt statistics (EDS) and/or international investment position (IIP) statistics. It is a basic-level course laying the foundation for the advanced EDS course. It is open to those who compile, or plan to compile, EDS/IIP and to the general public.
Description: The increasing availability of multiple data sources to investigate complex socio-economic, agricultural, health and environmental phenomena represents a great opportunity for survey statisticians, given the need to reduce the cost of data collection and the increasing demand for detailed information. Combining already available data sources is a key element in complementing and increasing the relevant information available in a single source. However, sometimes lack of standardisation, different forms and structures (if any) of data pose challenges to data linkage procedures and may result in an error-prone linkage. Probabilistic data linking comprises a set of statistical methods for combining multiple sources, recognising the same units even in the absence of common identifiers. In addition, probabilistic linkage produces some measure of the potential errors generated by the statistical integration procedure itself. The propagation of uncertainty from data linkage to downstream analyses based on linked data is a topic of growing interest to survey statisticians, with some interesting proposals for adjusting standard methodology (and more).
Description: ESCAP in collaboration with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Statistics Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNSD) hosted a webinar on Updates to the Balance of Payments Manual and the System of National Accounts. Agenda The objective of the Webinar was to facilitate understanding of the update processes, the resulting changes, and their implications for official statistics production. Participants were also informed of the joint BPM/SNA chapters, and are expected to identify priority changes for implementation in their country. During the Webinar, participants had ample time and opportunity to engage in plenary and group discussions and seek insights from other participants and resource persons. , Webinar: Asian countries (26-27 March 2024) Webinar: Pacific countries (3-4 April 2024)
Description: For this Global Network Webinar, we were pleased to welcome Francesca Perucci, Jahanara Saeed, and Deirdre Appel from Open Data Watch who presented on Advancing National Data Systems with the Gender Data Compass. As a compass helps travelers orient themselves, the Gender Data Compass (GDC) is a guide for national statistical offices (NSOs), other government agencies, development practitioners, and donors seeking to build robust, inclusive, and effective gender data systems. It has five cardinal points: gender data availability, gender data openness, institutional foundations, technical and statistical capacity, and financing. The results of the first round of Gender Data Compass reveal a stark reality: many countries face significant challenges in producing the necessary gender indicators for informed policymaking and monitoring progress towards equitable and sustainable development. Despite these challenges, the Gender Data Compass offers a roadmap of recommendations and solutions to overcome them. Specifically, this webinar presented the Gender Data Compass and offered ways in which countries can use this research to improve and strengthen their own gender data systems. For more information on the Gender Data Compass please visit: https://gdc.opendatawatch.com/
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, focuses on the conceptual framework of government finance statistics (GFS) as presented in the¿Government Finance Statistics Manual 2014¿(GFSM 2014), with an emphasis on new concepts introduced in¿GFSM 2014. The course requires that participants are familiar with the basic GFS framework and classification system. Emphasizing the integrated GFS framework, the course addresses complex cross-cutting GFS issues, such as social protection, government employee pension liabilities, standardized guarantee schemes, contracts, leases, licenses, public-private partnerships, and public sector balance sheets. It also examines coverage of the public sector, giving special attention to borderline and complex cases. The course discusses internal and intersectoral data consistency, coordination between data-producing agencies, as well as data presentation and communication with users. The format is lectures and discussions.
Target Audience: Officials whose main responsibility, for at least three years, has been compiling and disseminating GFS and who are regularly faced with complex GFS methodological and compilation issues, such as those described below.¿¿
Description: The 27th Energy Statistics Course from the IEA, will take place in a virtual format on 25-28 March 2024. This free course offers training in the internationally recognised IEA methodology and tools for collecting and organising national-level energy data by different fuels and sectors of the economy. It focuses on creating complete and accurate energy balances through the use of consistent definitions and units, in order to inform national energy policy and enable consistent international reporting. The course is from 12:00 to 15:30 Paris time and it will be divided into 8 modules with a strong focus on exercises.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 24 Aug 2023 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: Aims at enhancing the theoretical and practical knowledge related to the HICP, based on the HICP Methodological Manual and other HICP guidance material. Describes the purpose, use and construction of HICP. Participants become familiar with the standard methods, the specific HICP requirements, as well as with recent developments such as the use of scanner data.
Target Audience: Statisticians of CPI/HICP departments in National Statistical Institutes involved in the production of CPI/HICP with one to two years of experience on CPIs.
Description: Join FAO on Thursday 21 March 13.00-18.00 CET for this hybrid series of technical sessions to find out about some of the outstanding innovations that are helping to protect forests and unlock the many benefits they bring.
Description: The Fourth Plenary Meeting of the Subcommittee on Geodesy (Subcommittee) will be hosted by the United Nations Global Geodetic Centre of Excellence (UN-GGCE) at the United Nations campus in Bonn alongside the meeting of the UN-GGCE International Advisory Committee (IAC) meeting from 18 to 21 March 2024. Representatives of the Subcommittee (including Member States and Partners), the staff of the UN-GGCE, and members of the UN-GGCE's IAC that are not members of the Subcommittee are invited to participate in the full agenda. All participants are asked to assist by providing their scientific and operational expertise, and to contribute to discussions about the global geodesy needs assessment and the global geodesy development plan. Furthermore, the Subcommittee members will be asked to participate in developing the work programme of the Subcommittee which is aligned to the UN-GGCE Strategy and Operating Plan.
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Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 07 Mar 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: This Course aims at: * defining the reference framework of data generated by smart devices, technologies, networks and their relations with official statistics, also comparing NSIs’ different situations (different level of integration, etc.); * introducing the main concepts, frameworks and artefacts to carry out Enterprise Architecture for official statistics; * focussing on the Business Architecture Model/Activity model within NSIs, orientating it to ongoing modernisation changes and related mainly to innovative data sources, Big Data, new data; * explaining how to apply and map GAMSO to new business models for official statistics, innovative sources and Big Data; * explaining how to map GSBPM to the statistical processes related to innovative data sources; * providing an overview of the main statistical and technical guidelines, best practices, and standards as pre-requisites for the implementation of EA and BREAL; * focussing on the context of Big data REference Architecture and Layers – BREAL; * providing theoretical training to develop BREAL; * promoting group discussions on topics such as setting up a capability assessment and roadmaps for acquiring and benefiting from ESS shared investments.
Target Audience: Business architects; IT managers responsible for the design of new processes and innovative IT systems; Statistical survey managers; Statisticians and Technicians involved in statistical production processes.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 07 Mar 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: Objectives: * Validation and reporting results of machine learning methods. * Mathematical concepts of supervised and unsupervised machine and deep learning models, like PCA, SVM, trees, ensembles and neural networks. * Use of scikit-learn, matplotlib, pandas, tensorflow, keras to design models and perform machine learning experiments * Understanding of symbolic computation for backpropagation and gradient descent * Model selection, Hyper-parameter tuning and practical considerations * Understanding the lego bricks of neural networks (deep learning) and the numerical issues, in particular vanishing gradients. * Use pretrained models for text and vision applications with libraries like deeppavlov and detectron2.
Target Audience: Python programmers with ambitions to apply machine and deep learning in software engineering and research questions.
Half-way through the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and despite improvements, critical gender data gaps still exist across the SDGs in terms of geographic coverage, timeliness and the level of disaggregation required. Intensified efforts need to be made to fill those gaps. The Agenda 2030 asks that follow-up and review processes at all levels should be open, inclusive, participatory and transparent for all people and support the reporting by all relevant stakeholders. Therefore, the successful as well as gender-sensitive implementation and monitoring of the Agenda needs the engagement of citizens, with particular attention to the voices of the poorest and most vulnerable – more often, women and girls.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, focuses on the conceptual framework of public sector debt statistics as presented in the Government Finance Statistics Manual 2014 (GFSM 2014) and the Public Sector Debt Statistics: Guide for Compilers and Users (PSDSG). The course requires that participants are familiar with the basic government finance statistics (GFS) and PSDS framework and classification system. Emphasizing the integration of stock positions and flows in the framework, the course addresses more complex issues regarding the:definition of gross and net debt in terms of debt instruments;coverage and sectorization of the public sector, with special attention to borderline and complex cases;valuation of public sector debt statistics; andconsolidation of public sector debt statistics.In addition, the course addresses a number of complex cross-cutting PSDS issues, such as government employee pension liabilities, standardized guarantee schemes, contracts, leases, licenses, public-private partnerships, and the balance sheet approach (BSA) to identify risks and vulnerabilities.The format is lectures and discussions.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, acquaints participants with the fundamentals of compiling and using FSIs in support of macroprudential analysis. The course covers methodological and technical issues in the construction of FSIs, as discussed in the 2019 Financial Soundness Indicators Compilation Guide (2019 FSI Guide). The course takes an interactive approach using hands-on exercises in discussing the main topics as follows: Preparation of the sectoral financial statements and compilation of FSIs for deposit takers; Regulatory framework for deposit takers; Accounting principles and data consolidation for the compilation of FSIs for deposit takers; and Overview of key points and changes in the 2019 FSI Guide.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 07 Mar 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: This course shall democratize the understanding and use of blockchain technology, showcasing how decentralized, asynchronous data economies leveraging micro-data, official statistics, verifiable credentials and the European blockchain, change the way we live and work – blockchains have so much more to offer than just cryptocurrencies. Understand the cryptographic principles behind blockchains Understand the components of blockchains Get to know impactful use cases of diverse blockchains Get to know the ecosystems of available blockchains and tools Develop an application and its smart contracts on the blockchain for Official Statistics
Target Audience: Official statisticians/data scientists/IT experts
Organizer(s): ESCAP EGRISS International Data Alliance for Children on the Move
Description: This workshop is a joint ESCAP-EGRISS-IDAC initiative to support the Asia-Pacific Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Decade. The workshop aims to strengthen the capacity of Member States to achieve inclusive CRVS systems and, thereof, to produce and use statistics on statelessness, forced displacement, and children on the move through: Introducing key resources developed by EGRISS, IDAC and ESCAP and strengthening understanding of concepts and methodologies related to statelessness and forced displacement statistics and CRVS Enabling exchange of experiences, best practices and lessons learned between countries and other stakeholders in ensuring inclusion in CRVS systems and producing and using statistics on statelessness and forced displacement statistics Identifying gaps and challenges that need to be addressed and facilitate discussions around solutions and innovative approaches related to inclusion of stateless and displaced people in CRVS systems and the production and use of statistics from these systems. Identifying areas of technical support, collaboration and partnerships within wider technical and political regional priorities. Relevant resources: Find the agenda and the resources links listed in attachments! Link to Inequality Assessments project (ESCAP) Link to Principles and Recommendations for a Vital Statistics System Link to Guidelines on the Legislative Framework for Civil Registration, Vital Statistics and Identity Management Systems Link to Bali Process Civil Registration Assessment Toolkit Link to Guidelines for estimating completeness of civil registration of vital events: a guide for practitioners
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 07 Mar 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: Aims at enhancing the theoretical and practical knowledge related to the HICP, based on the HICP Methodological Manual and other HICP guidance material. Describes the purpose, use and construction of HICP. Participants become familiar with the standard methods, the specific HICP requirements, as well as with recent developments such as the use of scanner data.
Target Audience: Statisticians of CPI/HICP departments in National Statistical Institutes involved in the production of CPI/HICP with one to two years of experience on CPIs.
Title in Spanish: Taller sobre los lineamientos globales de Naciones Unidas para la gestión de información geoespacial y su integración con la información estadística
Organizer(s): ECLAC ONEI Cuba ONHG Cuba
Description: En este taller se expusieron los lineamientos globales para la gestión de información geoespacial y su integración con la información estadística.
Description: The Second Meeting of the International Advisory Committee will be held from 18 to 19 March 2024 at the UN Campus in Bonn, Germany. Over these two days, there will be a joint workshop on the global geodesy needs assessment and global geodesy development plan where the UN-GGCE and the UN-GGIM Subcommittee will participate
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 07 Mar 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: The course aims at providing a sound knowledge on the elaboration and use of statistics on : trade in goods, services, travel, financial flows, trade in value added, use of bop and IIP statistics.
Target Audience: Staff members in the field of National Accounts (NA) and Balance of Payment (BoP) departments in National Statistical Offices and National Banks.
Description: The results of the ICP are important for policymakers at both the national and regional levels in areas as diverse as the allocation of resources for production or the targeting of plans to address the well-being of the population.
Description: For this Global Network Webinar we were pleased to welcome Enrique Delamónica (UNICEF) and Oliver Fiala (Save the Children) who presented on Pro-poor public social spending and its concepts, data challenges, and measurement. SDG indicator 1.b.1, Pro-poor public social spending, measures the share of government spending that directly benefits the monetary poor in education, health and direct transfers. Measuring, analyzing and reporting on this indicator will help countries access the evidence needed to properly design, implement and finance policies to end poverty and achieve the other SDGs. This webinar presented details about the methodology behind the measurement and explained what data is required. It highlighted examples and best-practice cases, and pointed to existing tools and support available to produce estimates for this indicator.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 07 Mar 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: This course will enable you to pick your next top data-science programming language: * Know the characteristics of R, Python, Julia; * Understand the advantages of each language for different use-cases; * Ability read and modify a small program in each language.
Target Audience: Statistical production units and methodologists of NSIs, having an interest in data science tools and a basic understanding of development.
Source: ESCAP SIAP (Data extracted on: 27 Nov 2024 )
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Organizer(s): ESCAP SIAP UNSD
Description: Statistical Business Registers (SBRs) are often described as the backbone of economic statisticsas they provide the core infrastructure to support the collection of economic data and the production of economic statistics. They provide a coherent set of units and classifications to collect and compile data across all domainsand a consistent set of rules to maintain this set of units over time. SBRs are considered as the backbone for producing economic statistics that meet the increasing demand for better integratedcoherent and comparable statistics across countries and statistical domains. Inclusive and exhaustive SBRs are becoming an increasingly more important element of the statistical infrastructure for maintaining the relevanceresponsiveness and quality of economic statistics in order to measure the structure and dynamics of economic activity.
Description: This online course, presented by the Statistics Department, introduces participants to key CPI concepts and methods. The course provides an overview of key CPI concepts, definitions, and uses. It provides an overview of different index number formulas and the practical implications of choosing the index number formula at lower and higher levels of aggregation. The course also discusses the sources and methods for sampling areas, items, outlets, and varieties; treatment of temporarily and permanently missing prices; and updating and linking CPI data series. Linkages to the 2008 SNA are highlighted, including the related principles of scope, coverage, and valuation. The course covers the following topics: defining key concepts and uses of CPI data and how these influence the design of a CPI; meeting data users’ needs to ensure relevancy; calculating elementary and upper-level indexes; methods for sampling areas, items, outlets, and varieties; methods for handling temporarily and permanently missing prices, including adjusting prices for quality changes; and chaining and linking indexes with updated weighting structures. The course follows the principles and recommendations of the CPI Manual (2020).
Target Audience: Compilers of consumer price indexes (CPIs) and users of CPI data interested in understanding key concepts and compilation issues.
Description: The MAM-CoP secretariat is pleased to invite you to participate in the upcoming webinar. Title of the webinar: “Verbal autopsies to determine causes of death amongst adults in countries where vital statistics are lacking”, Date: Thursday, 7 March 2024 Time: 10:00 – 11:00 am (GMT) (please click to check your time) Venue: Online via MS Teams Registration link: (Please register here) Once you have completed the registration process, a meeting link will be generated for you to access the webinar. For more details about the content and objectives of the webinar, please refer to the attached flyer.
Source: ESCAP SIAP (Data extracted on: 27 Nov 2024 )
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Organizer(s): ESCAP SIAP
Description: This webinar will provide the participants with a clear understanding of the importance of measuring digital tradeand the conceptual framework for measuring digital trade whilst focusing on the fundamental concepts and statistical definitions. A variety of examples and practical applications will be shared by country representatives. The webinar will also emphasize the importance of digital trade statistics in evidence-based policy making.
Description: The mission of the Voorburg Group on Services Statistics is to establish and maintain an internationally comparable methodology for measuring output and producer price indexes for the service industries. We focus on the development of concepts and methods, the sharing of best practices, and identification of classification needs. The Voorburg Group has contributed over the years to building up and sharing a considerable and growing body of knowledge of Service Sector Statistics. It has prompted international cooperation in the development of standards and has assisted in resolving statistical and measurement challenges in the Service Sector.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 07 Mar 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: To provide the participants with a basic understanding of the main concepts of seasonal and calendar adjustment, trend cycle, irregular components and related time-series issues To introduce the participants to the use of software JDEMETRA+ via the graphical interface and R.
Target Audience: Official statisticians (including managers) interested in seasonal adjustment methods and have no specific knowledge on this subject.
Organizer(s): UNSD Ministry of Envronment Rwanda Global Program on Sustainability World Bank
Description: The Global Policy Forum on Natural Capital is the signature annual event of the Global Program on Sustainability of the World Bank. Co-organized with the United Nations Statistics Division, the Forum aims to connect users—primarily the investment community and policy makers—with both data and analytics, and data providers, to share knowledge and experiences on incorporating natural capital accounting and approaches in decision making. The 7th Global Policy Forum on Natural Capital, Implementing the Global Biodiversity Framework: Leveraging Natural Capital Data, Accounting and Analysis to Inform Policies, taking place in Kigali, Rwanda, will bring together governments and other relevant stakeholders to discuss the policies that will help with the implementation of the National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs) and thus contribute to the achievement of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) goals and targets. Over two days, sessions will focus on and highlight the importance and need to leverage existing data and analytics on natural capital and ecosystem services, including natural capital accounting, to design such policies and actions.
Source: ESCAP SIAP (Data extracted on: 27 Nov 2024 )
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Organizer(s): ESCAP SIAP
Description: This course introduces the SEEA Central Frameworkthe international statistical standards for measuring the interactions between the environment and the economy. It is comprised of 5 modules. The first module introduces the SEEA. Modules 2 discusses accounting for physical flows while module 3 discusses accounting for environmental assets. The fourth module contains details on environmental activity accountscombined presentations and indicators. The last module contains an overview of subsystemsapplications and extensions.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, targets compilers with a certain degree of experience in the compilation and/or analysis of balance of payments and/or IIP. It aims at providing a deep understanding of the concepts, data sources and compilation techniques for balance of payments and IIP statistics and their application for addressing complex methodological issues. The course does not cover the basic balance of payments and IIP concepts. The intermediate level of the course presupposes participants’ familiarity with the basic concepts.The course consists of a series of lectures and workshops analyzing country cases with a strong data component and to allow peer learning and sharing of experiences. Recognizing the challenges in compiling data in emerging areas of user interest, the course emphasizes specific topics, such as estimating informal cross border activities and the treatment of special purpose entities. The course examines themes and challenges emerging from developments in global economy, and participants have the opportunity to discuss how these impact compilation work. Specific exercises are geared to integrating data compilation with Fund surveillance and policy advice; and to demonstrate the analytical uses of ESS.
Target Audience: Officials responsible for the compilation of external sector statistics (ESS) (balance of payments and/or international investment position (IIP)) statistics, and who are familiar with the methodology of the Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Statistics Manual, sixth edition (BPM6).
Description: This course, presented by the IMF Statistics Department, is intended to provide participants with a thorough understanding of the international standards for the compilation of EDS presented in the 2013 EDS: Guide for Compilers and Users (2013 EDS Guide). It also offers practical compilation guidance on data sources and techniques for compiling EDS, as well as on analysis of these data, taking into account the relevant developments in the global financial market. It comprises a series of lectures, practical exercises, and case studies that cover: Recent developments in the global financial market (e.g., process of disintermediation, moving away from traditional cross-border investment vehicles, etc.) and their effect on EDS compilation; Implementation of the 2013 EDS Guide and ensuring consistency and comparability among external debt statistics and other macroeconomic statistics, namely balance of payments, IIP, government finance statistics, and national accounts; Data dissemination and requirements of the World Banks Quarterly External Debt Statistics (QEDS) database.
Target Audience: Officials whose main responsibility is the compilation of external debt and/or international investment position (IIP) statistics.
Description: The United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management had recognized that to sustainably manage that significant portion of the Earth's surface that is covered by water - lakes, rivers and tributaries, deltas, seas, and oceans and all that it has to offer, governments will need to ensure that marine geospatial information management is fully integrated within the wider national digital information ecosystem for evidence-based policy development and decision making. Well managed and integrated marine geospatial information program nationally will be a necessity to meet the challenges of governance, planning, managing and coordinating resources, transportation, coastal resilience, recreation, and other aspects of the blue economy. The Operational Framework for Integrated Marine Geospatial Information Management (UN-IGIF-Hydro), a two-part document to leverage the guidance offered in the United Nations Integrated Geospatial Information Framework (UN-IGIF), provide practical guidance for countries to ultimately working towards the vision of the integrating marine geospatial information into the global geospatial information ecosystem and to enhance the ability to make informed decisions to support the preservation and management of the marine resources. At its thirteenth session in August 2023, the Committee of Experts, in decision 13/111, adopted the Operational Framework for Integrated Marine Geospatial Information Management comprising Part One - The Strategic Overview, and Part Two - The Strategic Pathways, and encouraged the Working Group to provide practical support for countries to extend the nine strategic pathways of the UN-IGIF into the hydro domain and the integration of marine geospatial information into the broader national geospatial information ecosystem. The Committee emphasized that it was strategically crucial for any national hydro or marine programmes to increase their value and recognition within the broader national geospatial information management programmes to support national development priorities, including the ability to address climate-related challenges and improve resilience, the land-sea interface, coastal zones and the pressing need to monitor sea level rise, recognizing their importance in mainstreaming the Blue Economy and achieving sustainable coastal resilience and development. The Working Group plays a leading role in marine geospatial information policies at the global level to support the wellbeing of billions of inhabitants reliant on sustainable inland water bodies and waterways, coastal zones, seas and oceans. The Working Group provides a forum for dialogue and coordination among Member States, and between Member States and relevant international organizations including the International Hydrographic Organization and the United Nations system to enhance global cooperation, advocate and improve the availability and accessibility of marine geospatial information. The Committee of Experts further noted that the Working Group would convene its sixth expert meeting with an international seminar in Indonesia in March 2024, jointly with the fifteenth meeting of the International Hydrographic Organization Marine Spatial Data Infrastructures Working Group and the 2024 meeting of the Open Geospatial Consortium Marine Domain Working Group.
Description: Date and Time: 1 March 2024, 13:15-14.30 at Labousse Hall, UNICEF House. This side event for 55th UNSC, organized by ESCAP, ECA, UNICEF, UNFPA, Vital Strategies, and UNDP under the umbrella of the UN Legal Identity Agenda, provides an opportunity for national statistical offices, international organizations and delegates of Permanent Missions to acquire a more detailed overview of global, regional and national progress towards achieving universal legal identity and target 16.9 on birth registration for children under 5 years. This will include a focus on measuring who is currently left behind. UNICEF will share an overview of global progress on 16.9 highlighting who are on track to achieve universal birth registration by 2030 and who are lagging behind. The event will provide examples of country progress under the African CRVS Decade and the Asia and the Pacific CRVS Decade (2015-2024) as well as examples from Latin America. As both these decades are planned to end this year, the side event will also offer participants with insights into the next steps anticipated in the regions. The concept note and flyer are attached below. More detail of UNSC side event
Description: This webinar aims to explore cutting-edge approaches for handling sensitive microdata while preserving privacy. Experts will discuss state-of-the-art techniques, real-world applications, and collaborative efforts across international projects. Join us for insightful presentations, engaging discussions, and an open Q&A session.
Organizer(s): UNSD Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data World Bank UNDP SDSN TReNDS
Description: This session, jointly organized by the core partners, will share the progress made thus far, as well as the initiative’s future strategic direction. Countries will share concrete work on implementing innovative approaches on their prioritized areas and its link to the national decision-making needs supported through the initiative. This dynamic session will also provide information on how the Data for Now initiative aims to help implement the Power of Data High-Impact initiative, launched at the SDG summit in September 2023, that aims to mobilize political leadership and investment to strengthen data systems and scale progress between now and 2030.
Description: Composite indices are increasingly recognized as a useful tool for measuring complex and multidimensional phenomena, such as development, poverty, quality of life, well-being, globalization, competitiveness, freedom, and so on. Technically, a composite index is a mathematical combination of a set of indicators representing the different dimensions of a phenomenon to be measured. The idea of summarizing a complex phenomenon into a single number is not straightforward, as it implies both theoretical and methodological assumptions that must be carefully evaluated to avoid producing results of dubious analytic rigor. One of the main criticisms of composite indices is that their simple "big picture" results may lead users to draw simplistic analytical or policy conclusions. Methods for constructing composite indices are proposed, taking into account appropriate methodologies for different areas of application.
Description: Persons with disabilities are one of the most marginalized and excluded groups in society and face countless barriers globally, yet lack of data on the barriers and enablers of persons with disabilities remains. One way to address this is the wider recognition of citizen-generated data, including data efforts led by organizations of persons with disabilities, to complement official statistics to address critical data gaps. This webinar will provide (1) an overview of citizen-generated data and stakeholder collaborations and (2) case studies on how organizations of persons with disabilities and allies have led data design, collection, management, and use to fill critical data gaps on the experiences of persons with disabilities to complement official statistics.
Description: This side-event will provide heads of National Statistical Offices (NSOs) and other participants of the 55th session of the United Nations Statistical Commission (UNSC) with insights into the Productive Capacities Index (PCI), which was developed by UNCTAD, as well as details of its statistical or methodological rigor and policy relevance for economic and social development. It will provide further information on the relevant background and underlying concepts related to the PCI. The event will also deliver updates on the outcomes of the Statistical and Technical Advisory Group on the PCI (STAG) meeting held in February 2023, highlighting the progress and challenges encountered in the maintenance and updates of the PCI. Attendees are encouraged to provide feedback and guidance on the PCI in the lead up to the next meetings of the STAG, as well as the High-level Advisory Board, which oversees the conceptual framework underpinning the PCI.
Description: This talk will cover recent developments in the literature on small area estimation in developing countries from a practitioner’s perspective. It will consider the merits of non-traditional sources of auxiliary data, particularly geospatial data. It will also consider different statistical methods for estimation, software packages to carry out estimation, and propose a research agenda to fill knowledge gaps.
Description: The United Nations Statistical Commission, established in 1947, is the highest body of the global statistical system. It brings together the Chief Statisticians from member states from around the world. It is the highest decision making body for international statistical activities especially the setting of statistical standards, the development of concepts and methods and their implementation at the national and international level. The Statistical Commission oversees the work of the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), and is a Functional Commission of the UN Economic and Social Council.
Organizer(s): UNWTO Statistik Austria INE Spain UNCEEA
Description: UN Tourism, Statistics Austria, the National Statistics Institute of Spain, are jointly organizing in collaboration with UNCEEA, a high-level side event titled "Measuring the Sustainability of Tourism: Bridging the Gap between Policy and Statistics". This event will be held on Tuesday, 27 February 2024, at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, under the auspices of the 55th session of the United Nations Commission. Back on the agenda of the United Nations Statistical Commission since 2017, tourism statistics has undergone important developments amidst particularly challenging times for the sector. This side event will introduce the Statistical Framework for Measuring the Sustainability of Tourism, present pioneering country experiences that showcase its relevance and feasibility, and reflect on the lessons learnt from the integration of economic, environmental and social dimensions that characterize the framework.
Description: The event "New challenges for national statistical offices for environment and climate change statistics: Role of the SEEA" is organized as a side event of the 55th session of the United Nations Statistical Commission (UNSC) will tentatively be held on Tuesday , 27 February 2023, from 13:15 to 13:30 in New York. This side event will review new and emerging demands for environmental and economic information that are being faced at global, regional and national levels. It will identify ways that the statistical community can address these demands through existing SEEA frameworks, as well as identify areas which could be addressed through an update of the SEEA Central Framework (CF) in order to make the SEEA CF more responsive to the new demands.
Description: What is digital trade? And what action can countries take to measure, monitor, and respond to the challenges of digital trade? Digital technologies have made it increasingly feasible for buyers and sellers to place and receive orders globally. They also enable the remote delivery of services directly into businesses and homes. Digitalization is changing how products are purchased and delivered. Yet, it remains largely invisible in macroeconomic statistics. This side-event to the 55th session of the United Nations Statistical Commission introduces the newly released IMF-OECD-UNCTAD-WTO Handbook on Measuring Digital Trade and showcases several key measurement approaches. Its goal is to help statistical compilers across the world to address policymakers’ demands for better statistics on digital trade, and to ensure that developing economies are not left behind. Focusing on two key criteria – digital ordering and digital delivery across borders – the Handbook clarifies the definition of digital trade, reviews best data sources, and presents advances by countries in the measurement of digital trade. The Handbook thereby establishes a valuable shared foundation for understanding and measuring digital trade in a way that is consistent with the broader macroeconomic statistics and internationally comparable. Furthermore, it provides a crucial resource for an active programme of technical assistance and statistical capacity-building, through which the four co-authoring partner organizations can support statistical compilers as they seek to measure, monitor and respond to the challenges of digital trade. Side-events are open to all registered delegates to the 55th session of the UNSC. Speakers Mr. Bert Kroese, Chief Statistician, Data officer, and Director of Statistics, IMF. Ms. Anu Peltola, Acting Director of Statistics, UNCTAD. Dr. Mohd Uzir Mahidin, Chief Statistician, Malaysia. Mr. Paul Schreyer, Chief Statistician and Director of Statistics and Data, OECD. Mr. Vipin Arora, Director, Bureau of Economic Analysis, United States.
Description: The first meeting of the fourth series of seminars, “Case studies on food and agricultural statistics” in conjunction with La Sapienza, will take place on Monday, February 26 at 6:00 p.m. in room 34 (fourth floor) of the Department of Statistical Sciences.
Description: Skills mismatching is a common concern of policy-makers, employers and workers. It is a recurring theme in vocational education and skills development, with many policy initiatives launched to address various forms of the phenomenon. Where evidence-based skills are concerned, policy-making statistics on various forms of skill mismatching are needed. Building on its long experience in delivering training on skills and labour-market analysis, the International Training Centre of the ILO, in full collaboration with the ILO Department of Statistics, offers the second edition of this online course that aims to equip national and international stakeholders with the necessary competencies to measure and analyse skills mismatches and imbalances for evidence-based policy making. The course is designed to enhance capacities to identify, collect, analyse and disseminate labour-market information related to skills imbalances from both the demand and supply sides.
Target Audience: National statistical offices (NSOs); ministries of labour and related institutions (such as labour observatories); governmental institutions engaged in employment, skills development, skills matching and analysis; international organizations and donor agencies engaged in skills matching; skills councils; national TVET authorities; TVET Centres; workers' and employers' organizations; research and academic institutions; international organizations; development agencies; non-governmental organizations.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, deals with identification and assessment of elementary indicators and techniques for combining them into a single index of economic activity to track national trends. Flash estimates or indexes of economic activity bring together a range of elementary indicators to give timely general measures of economic activity. These measures give policy makers useful information that complements annual and quarterly GDP estimates, which are more comprehensive but usually only available after substantial lags, and provide a more comprehensive picture than individual monthly and quarterly indicators, which are up-to-the-minute but reflect just a portion of the total economy).This course is for actual or potential compilers of short-term indicators in central banks and statistical offices and for those who collect data for monthly indicators. Participants are expected to work with their own monthly and quarterly time series during the course. These indicators will be used in the practical session as the basis for experimental estimates.
Target Audience: Officials responsible for compiling short-term or monthly economic indicators in central banks and statistical offices.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 07 Mar 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: The main objectives of the course are: Introducing the participants to the Python language and ecosystem Make the participants able to read and write basic Python programs for common data processing tasks (data analysis, exploration and visualization)
Target Audience: Official statisticians (including managers) involved in Big Data and Data Science activities having no specific knowledge on this subject; Official statisticians (including managers) who, without being directly involved in Big Data and Data Science activities, need basic knowledge on the use of the Python language.
The High-level Forum on Official Statistics, an annual event of the Statistical Commission, is a pivotal event commemorating the 30th and 10th anniversaries of the adoption of the Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics (FPOS) by the UN Statistical Commission and the General Assembly, respectively. This forum, more than just a seminar, is a tribute to the significant milestones achieved and a proactive step towards shaping the future of official statistics, guided by the FPOS.
Titled "Empowering Official Statistics - Upholding the Fundamental Principles to Stay Relevant," this High-level Forum represents the culmination of a series of global initiatives, including expert consultations, collaborations with statistical associations, webinars, workshops, and international conferences. These efforts have been crucial in enhancing the understanding of the FPOS within an ever-evolving data ecosystem, setting the stage for the 55th session of the Statistical Commission to celebrate the global endorsement of these principles.
Description: The Committee for the Coordination of Statistical Activities (CCSA) promotes interagency coordination and cooperation on statistical programmes and consistency in statistical practices and development. As a forum of committed members it fosters good practices in statistical activities of international organisations, in accordance with the Principles Governing International Statistical Activities, and within the constraints of their own governance arrangements and resource envelopes. The members of the CCSA are committed to contribute actively to the development of a coordinated global statistical system producing and disseminating high-quality statistics, e.g. by facilitating the development and well functioning of regional and national statistical systems.
Description: The High-level Forum on Official Statistics, an annual event of the Statistical Commission, is a pivotal event commemorating the 30th and 10th anniversaries of the adoption of the Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics (FPOS) by the UN Statistical Commission and the General Assembly, respectively. This forum, more than just a seminar, is a tribute to the significant milestones achieved and a proactive step towards shaping the future of official statistics, guided by the FPOS. Titled 'Empowering Official Statistics - Upholding the Fundamental Principles to Stay Relevant,' this High-level Forum represents the culmination of a series of global initiatives, including expert consultations, collaborations with statistical associations, webinars, workshops, and international conferences. These efforts have been crucial in enhancing the understanding of the FPOS within an ever-evolving data ecosystem, setting the stage for the 55th session of the Statistical Commission to celebrate the global endorsement of these principles. The event will be structured into two main segments. The first segment, 'Celebrating Milestones,' will explore the genesis and historical importance of the FPOS in fostering trust and credibility in official statistics. Esteemed speakers will provide thoughtful interventions, tracing the journey of the FPOS and examining their impact on monitoring Sustainable Development Goals and other regional and national development policies, emphasizing how the FPOS have been instrumental in shaping national statistical systems and establishing data integrity and public confidence in statistical outputs over the years. The second segment, 'Shaping the Future of Official Statistics,' will begin with introductory speeches, followed by a dynamic panel discussion. This segment will embark on an exploratory journey, examining how the FPOS can guide Official Statistics in navigating challenges and seizing opportunities in a rapidly changing data ecosystem, highlighting its role as a reliable and adaptable source of information. The discussion will also consider how the Terms of Reference for the Independent Advisory Board and the commented outline of the revitalized FPOS implementation guidelines, submitted for discussion and approval at the 55th session of the Statistical Commission, might contribute to their broad implementation. The High-level Forum will conclude with an open debate, offering a unique opportunity for attendees to engage with the topics, share insights, and contribute to the dialogue.
Citizen participation throughout the data value chain is increasingly recognized in addressing data gaps for marginalized communities and enhancing data fairness, inclusiveness, openness, accountability and transparency. As the global community strives to meet the Sustainable Development Goals and increase the impact of data, the insights derived from the lived experiences and perspectives of citizens are indispensable in decision-making. However, leveraging citizen data and making it fit for policymaking encounters various challenges. These include the lack of trust between state and non-state actors, data quality and sustainability, and capacity constraints faced by civil society organisations and communities in data production.
Description: The Data For Now initiative, with technical support from UN-Habitat and contributions from ESCWA, organized a series of training sessions to strengthen technical knowledge and practical capabilities of the relevant members of national statistical system in Jordan to calculate and produce SDG indicators 11.3.1 and 11.7.1. These indicators were chosen by Jordan Department of Statistics (DoS) in close cooperation with all stakeholders line ministries and government departments.
Description: The Committee of the Chief Statisticians of the United Nations System promotes coherent and integrated system-wide United Nations actions to support statistics at the national, regional and international levels, following the principles governing international statistical activities, adopted by the Committee for the Coordination of Statistical Activities in 2005, and the Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics, adopted by the General Assembly in 2015. Taking into account the comparative advantages of each member, the Committee encourages coordinated efforts by United Nations agencies and programmes in strengthening national statistical capacity through the definition of common approaches and joint interventions. The Committee supports in particular the modernization of national statistical systems and the reinforcement of their capacity to respond to new data demands for underpinning evidence-based policymaking, including the monitoring of global, regional and national development goals. Recognizing that national needs and priorities should guide the United Nations system’s efforts to support national statistical systems, the Committee supports the development and full implementation of international statistical standards in member States for the production of high-quality and internationally comparable data. The Committee promotes the coordination of the statistical programmes of the United Nations system entities with the aim of “delivering as one”, by fostering synergies, avoiding duplication and overlap, and facilitating data exchange. It promotes the adoption of common quality criteria to drive the statistical production of all agencies of the United Nations system and supports the sharing of knowledge and good practices. It also defines common United Nations positions on statistical matters, to be reported at the Statistical Commission or at other coordination bodies, such as the Committee for the Coordination of Statistical Activities.
Organizer(s): UNSD Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data World Bank UNDP SDSN TReNDS
Description: This closed meeting will review the progress of the implementation of activities with Data For Now participating countries, core and implementing partners, and donors involved under the Data For Now initiative. Participants will exchange on successes of the work, challenges faced, and how we can work together to improve the progress on activities. The meeting will also discuss the impact of the work, the sustainability aspect, and the priorities ahead.
Description: The Friday Seminar on Emerging Issues was established as a space for the global statistical community to explore emerging issues. It is a place which serves as a learning environment where statisticians come together with specialists and experts to explore innovative topics and address the interplay between official statistics and the broader data ecosystem. Data governance can be described as the policies, guidelines, standards, procedures and practices that regulate the generation, management, use and reuse of data. It addresses the overarching vision for data within a system and how it is shared, accessed and integrated while mitigating risks and maintaining trust. The implementation of data governance strategies differs across domains and is dependent on national practices. It is essential for the global statistical community as the data space evolves in a dynamic fashion to discuss different ways of handling data governance and explore commonalities that can help define the role and the strategies of the national statistical offices within the larger landscape of data governance across the whole system. Data governance has been discussed across various groups at the national and international levels. It applies to data within the private and public sectors and on how data is exchanged between them. The Statistical Commission focuses on official statistics and is the primary body for the coordination of the global statistical programmes in general and of the United Nations statistical and data-related system. In 2022, the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations requested the Commission to play the role as the apex for discussions, knowledge exchange and sharing of best practices on statistics and data across all domains, to develop and maintain international statistical standards and norms, tools and methodologies, to support and bolster the development of sustainable national statistical systems, to develop and build the capacity of national systems, to advocate for the professional community of official statistics, and to ensure continued innovations to adapt to the changing statistical and data system. The 2022 update to the terms of references of the Commission emphasizes the need for technological innovations, the promotion of practices for the generation of information aligned with principles that ensure coherence, comparability, data privacy, among others, and the importance to build partnerships. This calls for a better, more thorough understanding of how governance of data applies across the system.
Description: The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) are co-custodians of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicator 16.4.1 on the “total value of inward and outward illicit financial flows”. UNCTAD, in collaboration with the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), has implemented a UN Development Account project from 2018 to 2022 on “Defining, estimating and disseminating statistics on Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs)”, in 11 countries on the African continent, including Ghana, Namibia, and Zambia. The project focused on developing a statistical methodology to estimate IFFs and resulted in the finalisation of the UNCTAD-UNODC IFF Conceptual Framework in 2020 and the UNCTAD Methodological Guidelines in 2021, to measure tax and commercial IFFs, and tested by all pioneering countries. The project and related guidelines supported the countries to assess the types of IFFs relevant to their national contexts. Countries pilot tested between one and three of the methods to measure different types of IFFs, including trade misinvoicing, profit shifting and offshore wealth. In parallel, UNCTAD Africa, Least Developed Countries (ALDC) Division was focusing on strengthening research and data analysis skills in selected pioneering countries and developing targeted policy measures linked to specific IFF activities. These pioneering countries have paved the way for the approach to measure IFFs, providing a wealth of knowledge, lessons learned and resources such as terms of references, tools and guidelines. At the end of the project, more work was necessary to confirm the preliminary estimates and extend them to other types of IFFs towards reporting data on the Global SDGs Indicator Database for 16.4.1. At half-way point through the 2030 Agenda and in the conditions of compounding crises, it is more urgent than ever to pursue SDG target 16.4 to significantly reduce illicit financial (and arms) flows by 2030, strengthen the recovery and return of stolen assets and combat all forms of organized crime. The new project proposes to refine preliminary estimates, to pilot test new methodologies and report results on the Global SDGs Database, as well as to link estimates with policy formulation and action. Objectives The objectives of the online regional workshop are as follow: Kick-off the project and introducing the different entities; Present the project components, objectives, activities and timeline; Countries share expectations on measurement and policy pillars, confirming their national objectives. Participants UNCTAD Statistics; UNCTAD ALDC; Ghana Statistical Service; Bank of Namibia; Zambia Statistics Agency; other relevant national institutions in countries; ECA (tbc); UN Regional Coordinator Offices (tbc).
Description: The Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development (APFSD) is an annual, inclusive intergovernmental forum to support follow-up and review of progress on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the regional level. The 11th APFSD will be organized from 20-23 February under the theme: “Reinforcing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and eradicating poverty in times of multiple crises: The effective delivery of sustainable, resilient and innovative solutions in Asia and the Pacific” at the United Nations Conference Center (UNCC) in Bangkok, Thailand. Click here for more information Subregional preparatory meetings for the APFSD 2024: - South and South-West Asia, Kathmandu, Nepal, 10-12 October 2023 - North and Central Asia, Almaty, Kazakhstan, 01-02 November 2023 - South-East Asia, Bangkok, Thailand, 06-07 November 2023 - East and North-East Asia, Beijing, China, 20-22 November 2023 - Pacific, Suva, Fiji, 21-22 November 2023
Organizer(s): UN-GGIM: Europe EuroGeographics National Geographic Institute Belgium
Description: At its Thirteenth Session, the Committee of Experts welcomed the report of the Working Group on Policy and Legal Frameworks for Geospatial Information Management and its continuing efforts to address the Committee's issues related to authoritative data. The Committee also appreciated the efforts of the Working Group to engage and collaborate with other functional groups and key partners of the Committee of Experts and to promote and raise awareness on the importance of sound and robust policy and legal frameworks for achieving the societal, environmental, and economic benefits from geospatial information management. The Committee endorsed the paper entitled "Authoritative data in an evolving geospatial landscape: an exploration of policy and legal challenges", intended as a policy and legal guide to help national geospatial entities to better produce, sustain and govern the use of geospatial information that is deemed authoritative and trusted. The paper promotes the concept of a continuum of "Control versus Trust" (figure below) when considering authoritative data governance framework according to national circumstances. Given the increasing global challenges and the related need for reliable data, the Committee acknowledged the Working Group's planned exploration of fit-for-purpose authoritative geospatial data and applications in crises and disasters is timely. The Committee of Experts further noted the convening of the next expert meeting of the Working Group in Belgium in February 2024 in partnership with the United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management Regional Committee for Europe (UN-GGIM: Europe) and EuroGeographics, to be held back-to-back with the EuroGeographics Policy Knowledge Exchange Network (POLKEN) to maximize the participation of and input from Member States, relevant stakeholders, and policymakers. The Second expert meeting of the Working Group on Policy and Legal Frameworks on Geospatial Information Management is hosted by the Nationaal Geografisch Instituut (National Geographic Institute) of Belgium in partnership with the United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management Regional Committee for Europe (UN-GGIM: Europe) and EuroGeographics. The second expert meeting will be held back-to-back with the meeting of EuroGeographics's Policy Knowledge Exchange Network to maximize the participation of and input from Member States, relevant stakeholders, and policymakers. This second expert meeting will also incorporate the workshop on "Fit-for-purpose authoritative geospatial data for crisis".
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 24 Jan 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: The main objective of this course is to offer theoretical overview of SHA Methodology, but also to give practical approach to build a health data questionnaire. The course will provide to the participants overview of current SHA requirements.
Target Audience: The course is targeted at statisticians working on health administrative data from National Statistical Institutes or Ministries of health/welfare.
Description: Organized by the United Nations Committee of Experts on Food Security, Agriculture and Rural Statistics (UN-CEAG) on the sidelines of the 55th Session of the United Nations Statistical Commission.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, covers theoretical and practical aspects in the compilation of national accounts statistics based on the conceptual framework of the System of National Accounts 2008 (2008 SNA). The course consists of lectures covering advanced methodological and compilation issues of the 2008 SNA and workshops consisting of practical exercises in compiling the accounts. The main aim of the course is to train participants in developing and using more advanced compilation techniques in areas including supply and use tables (SUTs), input-output tables, price and volume measures, and thematic satellite accounts. The course starts with SNA framework and will discuss how these accounts can be extended to address specific user needs. The main lectures and workshops include: * Conceptual framework of the SNA; * Output of specific industries; * SUTs and input-outputs tables; * Price and volume measurement; * Estimating consumption of fixed capital; and * Thematic satellite accounts, with a focus on topics covered in the update of the 2008 SNA (e.g., informal economy, labor accounts).
Target Audience: Compilers of national accounts statistics employed by agencies responsible for official national accounts statistics.
To prepare for the discussion on the Copenhagen Framework on Citizen Data at the upcoming 55th session of the United Nations Statistical Commission, this side event will provide an opportunity for the Collaborative to present the draft Framework and the roadmap for its implementation; and solicit input from national statistical offices (NSOs), civil society organisations (CSOs) and a broader range of stakeholders. More specifically, the event will
Foster an exchange and solicit feedback on the Copenhagen Framework on Citizen Data and the roadmap for its implementation;
Share experience of the production and use of citizen data for policy and impact;
Expand the outreach of the Framework and gather interest from a variety of stakeholders on leveraging the power of citizen data.
Description: The report launch event was held on Thursday, 15 February 2024, from 11:00 to 12:00 hours (Bangkok time, UTC+7), at the Foreign Correspondent’s Club of Thailand (FCCT), Bangkok and Online via Zoom. Presentation for the launch Opening remarks Attendance summary Report website Full Report: (English | Japanese) | Highlights Blog: Urgent action needed so no one in Asia and the Pacific is left behind UN NEWS: Asia-Pacific off track on path to SDGs, UN data shows (English | Chinese) .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 50%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; } Key speakers: Lin Yang, Deputy Executive Secretary for Programme, Office of the Executive Secretary, ESCAP Rachael Beaven, Director, Statistics Division, ESCAP Moderator: Mitch Hsieh, Chief of Communications and Knowledge Management, ESCAP Key messages As of 2024, how has the Asia-Pacific region progressed for each of the 17 SDGs? How does sex, age, and income influence the chances of being left behind? Are there examples of evidence-based actions taken to achieve the SDGs?
Description: يعتبر تأمين الغذاء من التحديات الكبرى التي تواجهها المنطقة العربية والذي يتفاقم في المستقبل مع ضغط التغيرات المناخية وتزايد الطلب على المواد الغذائية وندرة الموارد خاصة منها المياه وتدهور الأراضي الزراعية اضافة الى العادات والنظم الغذائية التي تأثرت بشكل كبير بالعولمة والانفتاح على الأسواق الخارجية وتحسن مستوى معيشة السكان. ويعتبر توفر المعلومة الإحصائية المرتبطة بالأمن الغذائي مفتاح القرارات الذي ترتكز عليها الجهات الحكومية وكذا تستعملها مختلف الجهات ذات المصلحة في إبداء الرأي في القضايا التي تطرح عنها. ويشكل توفر المعطيات الإحصائية الخاص بالأمن الغذائي تحديا كبيرا للمنظومات الإحصائية الوطنية في مختلف القطاعات وفي كل الدول.
Description: This conference on External Statistics brings together users and compilers of external statistics. It is organised jointly by the Irving Fisher Committee on Central Bank Statistics (IFC) of the Bank for International Settlements, the European Central Bank (ECB) and the Banco de España (BdE). The event aims to foster regular discussions and sharing of experiences within the central banking community as well as with other interested stakeholders and users to identify the main analytical needs, prioritise data collections and address upcoming challenges in external statistics. To this end, the agenda will include keynote speeches from influential policymakers and academics, round table discussions and thematic sessions, with inputs both from analysts and compilers. Following its first edition held in 2020 (Lisbon, Portugal), this conference will focus on the recent factors that have been reshaping the landscape for external statistics: in particular, the consequences of the pandemic and its aftermath, digitalisation, geo-political tensions and growing attention to environmental issues. The event will also be an opportunity to shed light on important statistical developments affecting the measurement of the external sector, namely improvements in compilation methods, the use of multiple information sources, the growing importance of micro data and the ongoing review of international statistical standards, particularly the update of the Balance of Payments Manual (BPM7).
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development represents an ambitious and comprehensive global development agenda to address the most urgent social, economic, and environmental challenges of our times. The monitoring frameworks play a crucial role in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda by systematic tracking of the progress towards achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 targets of the Agenda, from local to global.
This side event will delve into key aspects of SDG monitoring:
how to transform the SDG data into actionable information;
reflect on the lessons learned from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and SDGs in terms of measurement and monitoring and discuss the relevance of the SDG monitoring framework in the broader context of well-being measurements and beyond GDP considerations;
share details about the 2025 Comprehensive Review process, including the guiding principles, specific criteria, submission requirements, and timeline.
Description: The members of the Data Science Leader's Network (DSLN), under the umbrella of the Committee of Experts on Big Data and Data Science for Official Statistics, have agreed to develop a DSLN Playbook with the objective to provide a comprehensive guide for integrating data science into the work of National Statistical Offices, and to offer a systematic approach to piloting projects, pooling resources, documenting successes, and overcoming institutional barriers. The "playbook" format has been chosen as a way of capturing (in a user-friendly manner) a structured set of practical guidelines designed to help NSOs achieve specific objectives towards the mainstreaming of data science in the day-to-day business of official statistics, providing both strategic and tactical guidance. It aims to be a practical, hands-on resource that can be easily consulted and followed by practitioners at the frontlines of statistical work, with step-by-step procedures, best practices, checklists, and real-world examples that help a team understand not just the "what" but also the "how" of implementation. The event will be an opportunity to present and discuss the progress towards the development of the Data Science Playbook, based on the outcome of the 2nd Sprint of the Data Science Leaders' Network, which took place in Dubai from 22 to 24 January, as part of the International Seminar on Data Science for the Statistical and Transport Communities.
Jointly organized by the Statistics Division and Division of Inclusive Social Development, DESA, the side event aims to explore the impact of citizen engagement across the data value chain, for highlighting social issues, shaping policy, and driving change, particularly in marginalized and underrepresented communities. The event will also provide a comprehensive overview of the Copenhagen Framework on Citizen data, a major effort initiated by the UN Statistics Division with its partners within the Collaborative on Citizen Data, to harness the power of citizen-generated data to foster social justice and reduce inequality. The event will also call on partners to join the effort to implementing the Framework.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 24 Jan 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: Main objectives of the course are: Introducing the participants to the concept of Big Data, the associated challenges and opportunities, and the statistical methods and IT tools needed to make the use of Big Data effective in official statistics. Overviewing statistical methods and IT tools available for Big Data usage in Official Statistics
Target Audience: Official statisticians (including managers) to be involved in big data activities and having no specific knowledge on this subject; Official statisticians (including managers) who, without being directly involved in big data activities, need basic knowledge on the use of big data in official statistics.
Description: In this webinar, Ginette Azcona and Antra Bhatt of UN Women will share data and insights from the Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The SDG Gender Snapshot 2023 Report. The presentation will cover key insights from UN Women and UNDESA’s Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The SDG Gender Snapshot 2023 Report which provides a comprehensive analysis of gender equality progress across all 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This year’s report shows that halfway to the end point of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the world is failing to achieve gender equality, making it an increasingly distant goal. If current trends continue, more than 340 million women and girls will still live in extreme poverty by 2030, and close to one in four will experience moderate or severe food insecurity. Growing vulnerability brought on by human-induced climate change is likely to worsen this outlook, as many as 236 million more women and girls will be food-insecure under a worst-case climate scenario. The presentation will discuss these key findings as well as present data and insights on all 17 SDGs and also focus on the need for an integrated, holistic approach to advancing gender equality, involving multistakeholder collaboration and sustained financial backing including through costing of SDG 5.
Source: ESCAP SIAP (Data extracted on: 27 Nov 2024 )
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Organizer(s): ESCAP SIAP IMF
Description: The Statistics Department (STA) of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)is implementing the “Environment and Climate Change Statistics Capacity Development Program”supported by the State Economic Cooperation (SECO). The program is oriented towards assisting beneficiary countries in the development and dissemination of indicators most relevant to their policy needs. Accordinglytechnical assistance will focus on developing one or two indicators that reflect the most urgent data needs of the targeted countries; and encompass the use of internationally agreed methodology or testing methodology underdevelopment. The program will build capacity in the project countries to compile select indicators through the organization of workshopstrainingsand targeted hands-on technical assistance.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, provides practical advice on compiling and disseminating the international accounts (balance of payments and IIP) statistics based on the BPM6 Compilation Guide (the Guide). The purpose of the course is to demonstrate how the conceptual framework described in the BPM6 may be translated into practice. The course consists of a series of lectures, workshops, and discussions on methods for compiling international accounts. They focus on compilation practices, including data sources that international accounts can draw on, as well as complex methodological and compilation issues related to specific balance of payments and IIP components and other issues that cut across accounts. Participants have the opportunity to discuss compilation challenges they have encountered and gain insights into the analytical uses of the international accounts.
Target Audience: Officials whose main responsibility is the compilation of balance of payments and/or international investment position (IIP) statistics. Participants should be familiar with the methodology of the sixth edition of the Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Manual (BPM6).
Title in Arabic: العمل بالنموذج العام للعمل الإحصائي (GSBPM)
Organizer(s): AITRS
Description: تشكل العصرنة التنظيمية وتدبير الجودة الإحصائية رهانين وتحديين هامين بالنسبة لمكاتب الإحصاء العربية بشكل خاص ولأنظمتها الوطنية للإحصاء بصفة عامة. اذ تزايد الطلب على المعلومات الإحصائية بجودة عالية وبتدفق مستمر في إطار تدبير وأخذ القرارات الناجعة للبرامج العالمية والجهوية والوطنية، وخاصة برنامج اهداف التنمية المستدامة، وبرامج التنمية القطرية في مختلف المجالات. هذا ويشكل تبني أدوات تدبيرية حديثة معتمدة عالميا من طرف المنظمات الدولية المشتغلة بالمجال الإحصائي، احدى الركائز الأساسية لعصرنة سلسلة الانتاج وتحقيق الجودة المطلوبة في العمل الإحصائي. وفي هذا الإطار يشكل النموذج العام للعمل الإحصائي GSBPM احدى الأدوات الأساسية التي طورت من طرف منظومة الإحصاء الدولية والتي اعتمدت ويتم العمل بها من طرف العديد من أجهزة الإحصاء الوطنية في العالم، كل حسب سياقه المؤسسي ومستوى النضج التنظيمي والرقمي لها. وبناء على ما سبق، أصبح حيويا بالنسبة لأجهزة الإحصاء الوطنية العربية العمل بهذا النموذج الذي سيمكن، ان طبق بشكل ذكي ومتدرج، من تطوير العمل بها، وتتبع الجودة الإحصائية بارتباط به، كما سيمكنها أيضا من تدبير البيانات الوصفية التي تعتبر من أهم أعمدة تشكيل وتوثيق المعلومات حول العمليات الإحصائية، خلال جميع مراحل سلسلة الإنتاج الإحصائي. تماشيا مع استراتيجية واهداف المعهد العربي للتدريب والبحوث الإحصائية في مجال تعزيز القدرات الإحصائية للدول العربية واستنادا على الحاجة الماسة والمعبر عنه على مستوى الدول لتكوين كوادرها على المناهج والأدوات المعيارية المرتبطة بتنظيم العمل الإحصائي على أسس حديثة تمكن من تجويد العمل الإحصائي وتبادل التجارب بين الدول والمنظمات الدولية حول المناهج، تأتي هذه الورشة التدريبية لدعم قدرات الأجهزة الإحصائية العربية في العمل بالنموذج العامل للإنتاج الإحصائي GSBPM.
Description: This meeting follows-up on the request of the Commission to develop additional materials and guidance to support countries in the implementation of a national quality assurance framework and to address relevant issues such as quality assurance when administrative or other data sources are used to produce official statistics. Specifically, the meeting will work on the finalization of draft guidance on the use of administrative and other data sources and draft guidance on the implementation of a quality culture. The meeting will address remaining issues and amend the existing draft materials as required and prepare a worldwide consultation on them. The meeting will also review the status and possible development of guidance and tools on other issues and review the further workplan of the Expert Group.
Description: This side event of 55th session of the United Nations Statistical Commission, aims to showcase the experiences and lessons learned from the Global Training on Small Area Estimation across three key regions: Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia Pacific, and Africa.
Description: The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations is organizing a special event to launch a new data domain on food and diet on FAOSTAT, the world’s largest portal on food and agriculture statistics.
Description: The webinar, organized by the United Nations Network of Economic Statisticians and the United Nations Committee of Experts on International Statistical Classifications, will explore the role of technology in making the process of classification more efficient. Practical examples from various NSOs and organizations using international classifications will illustrate this point. Additionally, the webinar will close with a panel of senior executives from organizations around the world who will address some of the biggest challenges faced by organizations when implementing international classifications, such as the frequency of revisions, building and maintaining capacity, modernizing the classification process and more.
Description: The United Nations Statistical Commission holds a series of side events, including three high-level webinars, as part of the Road to the Commission series. The second of three high-level events planned leading up to the 55th session focuses on Representation and inclusiveness in the Statistical Commission.
In this high-level side event, Bureau members of the 54th session of the Statistical Commission will present their investigation into representation and inclusiveness in the Statistical Commission which stems from recent discussions within the Commission at its 53rd and 54th sessions. The updated background note prepared for and made available on the Commission’s 55th session website will be discussed as well as the draft resolution developed in consultation with various Permanent Missions to the United Nations for consideration for recommendation to the Economic and Social Council. The Bureau members will present the draft resolution and field questions regarding the document and related processes.
Description: The use of latent variable models has become common practice in estimation from complex surveys, particularly to address small area estimation problems and non-sampling errors. In their basic definition, the assumption of Normality is made for the variable of interest and/or for the random effect(s) introduced to account for unobserved heterogeneity. In this talk, I will discuss the use alternative latent variable models, such as latent class models and latent trait models in estimation from complex surveys. Latent class models are useful tools to deal with (possibly non-ignorable) unit nonresponse to build better response homogeneity groups and using, for example, generalized calibration, when measurement error on the response variables is suspected. Latent trait models can be used to obtain a measure of the "attitude to respond" to a survey that can be used as a covariate in response propensity estimation. Finally, these models are very useful when the variable of interest is not directly observable, such as disability, social integration, educational poverty, and/or measured with error by means of a set of binary/categorical variables. I will present applications of these methods to Italian Household Surveys, such as the Survey on Households Income and Wealth and the survey on Health Conditions and Appeal to Medicare, and discuss their use to handle the process of integration of administrative and survey data for the production of official statistics.
Description: The Expert Group on Innovative and Effective Ways to Collect Time-Use Statistics (EG-TUS) is convened to present the final version of the revised UN Guide to Producing Statistics on Time Use and accompanying time-use data resources hub, which marks the conclusion of a phase of methodological development as expressed in the terms of reference of the EG-TUS and to strategize on ways to build national capacity and provide technical assistance to countries, particularly in developing regions in the area of time-use statistics as requested by the Statistical Commission. The EG-TUS meeting will also provide an opportunity for members to exchange the latest practices, lessons learned, and future projects.
Description: The Call for Programme Proposals was launched last month as a first step in plans to develop the programme for the next United Nations World Data Forum (UNWDF) in Medellín, Colombia to be held between 11 and 14 November 2024. The call is open until Monday, 12 February (noon, New York time). This webinar will provide an opportunity to learn the process the Programme Committee plan to follow to develop the programme for the next Forum; what should be taken into consideration when developing a proposal and generally answer any questions of those thinking of submitting a proposal. Representatives from the host country, the Programme Committee and the UN secretariat will be present to share their perspective on the main themes to be discussed in Medellín and insights into the selection of proposals from the Call. Participants will have an opportunity to share questions in the registration before the webinar as well as during the webinar through the live chat. Key questions covered in this webinar will include: Key questions covered in this webinar will include: What are the benefits and appeal of submitting a proposal What are the expectations and responsibilities for an organizer if their proposal is chosen What does an attractive proposal look like according to the Programme Committee Introduction by UNWDF PC co-chairs: Ola Awad, President, Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) Shaida Badiee, Co-founder and Managing Director, Open Data Watch Scene setting on process/timetable: Ian Rutherford, Development Data and Outreach Branch, United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD-DESA) Presentation Host and regional context: Piedad Urdinola, Director General, Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadistica (DANE) Rolando Ocampo, Director, Statistics Division of the United Nations Regional Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) Partnership and momentum within the data community: Alankrita Dayal, Youth representative, United Nations Major Group for Children and Youth (UN MGCY) Javier Bussi, Director, Statistics School, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Estadísticas, Universidad Nacional de Rosario Catalina Restrepo, Director, Corporate Solutions MAKAIA
Description: The webinar is an overview of the report on the 10-years of use of Big Data and Data Science for Official Statistics. The survey details will be described along with results and recommendation based on the survey. The full report of the 10-year review has been released as a background document to the Statistical Commission and is available here.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, covers theoretical and practical aspects in the compilation of national accounts statistics based on the conceptual framework of the System of National Accounts 2008 (2008 SNA). The course consists of lectures covering methodological and compilation issues of the 2008 SNA and workshops consisting of practical exercises in compiling the accounts. The main aim of the course is to train participants in the compilation of annual gross domestic product both at current prices and in volume terms using the production and expenditure approaches, in support of better policy-making and surveillance. The course starts with an overview of the system of national accounts, presenting the sequence of accounts for transactions and other flows as well as balance sheets, with a focus on the framework of the 2008 SNA. It covers the main concepts involving transactions, other economic flows, stocks, institutional units, classifications, and main macroeconomic aggregates measured by the system. The main lectures and workshops include: sessions on the production account covering the definition and measurement of output, intermediate consumption, and value added; valuation issues; and the treatment of particular industries; source data and issues in the compilation of GDP by production and expenditure approaches; deflators and derivation of volume measures of GDP; and specific issues related to goods and services transactions, including supply and use framework, inventory valuation adjustment, consumption of fixed capital, non-observed and informal economy, global supply chains, and the digital economy. Emphasis is also placed on sharing country experiences among the participants, both informally and via specific country case study sessions. Asynchronous Component — January 15–19, 2024 This component will comprise five modules and will focus on the conceptual issues that will be performed by the participants after each synchronous part. The asynchronous component will be supplemented with assigned readings and references. These modules will be made available to the participants at least five days before the start of the synchronous classes. Participants will be required to take a pre-course quiz. Successful completion (i.e., a passing grade) will not be a pre-requisite for participating in the synchronous component. The results of the quiz will be only used by the instructors to determine the knowledge of the participants. Synchronous Component — January 29–February 9, 2024 The synchronous component will focus on the practical compilation of issues and topics that may require greater instructor input and feedback. It will comprise lectures, question and answer sessions and practical workshop exercises. The lectures will be developed using existing lecture presentations and the scripts that were prepared for the online course. The lectures will be presented in 30 minutes to 45-minute slots. Each presentation will be followed by a brief exercise or question-answer session. Participants will be invited to present case studies of practical problems or proposed solutions to practical problems. These issues could be related to source data or compilation. Participants will also be invited to respond to some practice questions in discussion forums. This will be followed by a workshop where the responses to these questions will be discussed, along with the correct answers.
Target Audience: Compilers of national accounts statistics employed by agencies responsible for official national accounts data.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 24 Jan 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: This course is an eye-opener, democratizing the ethical development and use of AI to empower every human to achieve more Understand the working principles of Artificial Intelligences (AI) Get to know the processes and tools involved in creating an AI Get to know impactful use cases of AI Understand the risks and challenges related to AI Unlock entirely new data sources for science by Leveraging existing AIs (without coding) Training new custom AIs (with some coding)
Target Audience: Statistical production units and methodologist of NSIs.
Title in Arabic: الأرقام القياسية الخاصة بالانتاج الصناعي
Organizer(s): AITRS League of Arab States
Description: تندرج سلسلة هذه الورشات التي ستتعرض الى الرقم القياسي لأسعار المستهلك والإنتاج الصناعي وأسعار المنتجات الصناعية وأسعار الجملة في إطار تنفيذ برنامج المعهد التدريبي لعام 2024 الذي صادق عليه مجلس الأمناء في دورته الثامنة والأربعين وكذلك برنامج ادارة الاحصاء وقواعد المعلومات بجامعة الدول العربية في هذا المجال. وتتمثل دواعي تنظيم هذه الورشات بالأساس في الدور المهم الذي تلعبه الأرقام القياسية في اعمال الأجهزة الإحصائية الوطنية لتركيب مؤشرات في مختلف المجالات وكذلك للتطور السريع في كيفية معالجة بيانات الأرقام القياسية من حيث المنهجيات والتصانيف ومصادر البيانات وطرق جمعها. وتاتي هذه الورشة بواقع جلستان للفترة 29-30 يناير / كانون الثاني 2023: حول الأرقام القاسية الخاصة بالانتاج الصناعي سواء أسعار منتجين صناعيين وكذلك كميات الانتاج الصناعي وآلية جمع وتبويب ومعالجة البيانات ومعادلات الاحتساب الخاصة بهذين المؤشرين.
Source: World Bank (Data extracted on: 26 Jan 2024 )
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Organizer(s): World Bank
Description: This event is part of the 55th Session of United Nations Statistical Commission (UNSC) side events and will focus on the UNSC’s “Data and indicators for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” agenda item. The World Bank’s Development Data Group is organizing the event. Since 2013, the World Bank has monitored “shared prosperity” as one of its Twin Goals alongside “ending extreme poverty”. This goal aims to provide an “alternative to average income as the benchmark for progress” judging progress by comparing how much the growth is reaching the least well-off in society. The new corporate mission indicators attempt to better capture the growth of the least well off in society and track the number of countries with high inequality. The event will introduce two new indicators to measure shared prosperity and inequality. The World Bank proposed these new corporate mission indicators at the Annual Meetings in October 2023 to replace the current World Bank measure of shared prosperity (“boost growth in the bottom 40%”). The first measure is the prosperity gap, which captures the average factor by which individual incomes need to increase to attain a prosperity standard of $25 per day. It is a measure that gives increasingly greater weight to poorer people, providing statistical support to the notion of “leave no one behind”. The second measure is tracking the number of countries with high inequality, defined by the Gini index.
Source: ESCAP SIAP (Data extracted on: 27 Nov 2024 )
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Organizer(s): ESCAP SIAP ESCAP
Description: The United Nations System of National Accounts (2008 SNA) manual represents the flagship of international economic accounting standards across all macroeconomic statistics disciplines. In factthe Macroeconomic statistics are expressed in terms of a set of conceptsdefinitionsclassificationsand accounting rules that comprise the internationally agreed-upon standard for measuring different areas of economic statistics.
Description: Session Agenda Time Agenda 5 mins Welcome Remarks - Rachael Beaven, UN ESCAP 10 mins Presentation on Data Governance Framework – Jonathan Palmer, Statistical Consultant 30 mins Panel Discussion & dialogue- two rounds of questions to panel members 15 mins Q&A 3 mins Wrap up and Closing - Moderator Data Governance in Asia and the Pacific .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 50%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; } , Stats Café Home: Upcoming events Concluded events Data governance Homepage
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, provides participants with an introduction to the compilation of monetary statistics covering the central bank (CB) and other depository corporations (ODCs) in accordance with international standards. Course materials are based on the Monetary and Financial Statistics Manual and Compilation Guide (MFSMCG). The course discusses the principles of residency and sectorization of institutional units, the characteristics and types of financial instruments, valuation principles, and other accounting issues that are relevant to the compilation of monetary statistics. Participants also become familiar with the defining characteristics of depository corporations (DCs), notably their role as money issuers, and with the main principles on which analysis of monetary and credit aggregates is based. The course consists of lectures, and exercises covering practical aspects of compiling monetary statistics, especially the use of financial statements for filling out standardized report forms (SRFs 1SR and 2SR) and the derivation of the respective surveys for the CB, ODCs, and the consolidated DCs sector. Participants should be prepared to ask questions and discuss challenges related to MFS compilation practices. This course is an abbreviated version of the longer, introductory MFS course traditionally offered by STA in-person.
Target Audience: Central bank officials and officials from financial regulatory agencies responsible for compiling monetary statistics.
Description: This in-person Aguascalientes expert consultation and meetings with expert representatives of Member States and relevant stakeholders seek to review and enhance the inclusive, integrated, self-paced, country-owned and country led approach to strengthen and enhance national geospatial information management arrangements, resources and capacities towards accelerating implementation of the Committee's adopted norms, frameworks, principles and guides for the achievement of the SDGs according to national circumstances. It will engage and consult with the Bureau and the Expanded Bureau of UN-GGIM, the High-level Group of the Integrated Geospatial Information Framework (HLG-IGIF) and contributing countries and partners from the SDG Data Alliance. It will incorporate the formal meeting the Expanded Bureau of UN-GGIM, the third plenary meeting of the HLG-IGIF and the meeting and workshops of the SDG Data Alliance. These formal meetings will allow the Expanded Bureau, the HLG-IGIF, and key contributing countries of the SDG Data Alliance to engage and consult on the implementation of the UN-IGIF and discuss upcoming priorities for strengthening and enhancing geospatial information management arrangements for accelerating the implementation of the SDGs. The formal meetings will primarily address strategic strategic directions and priorities of the Committee of Experts to ensure a lasting impact to support Member States in enhancing geospatial information management arrangements for accelerating the implementation of the SDGs. Topics will include considerations of the work programs of the Committee of Experts and its Secretariat, the work and achievements of the HLG-IGIF, the contributions of the Centers of Excellence, the implementation of the UN-IGIF at the country-level through the SDG Data Alliance, the Seventh High-level Forum on Global Geospatial Information Management, the future geospatial information ecosystem, and the new agenda item on climate and resilience. There will also be a number of workshops embedded within the program on strengthening and enhancing the effectiveness of the Committee of Experts, particularly for the achievement of its operations focused on the SDGs and the UN-IGIF, to strengthen and ensure its continued effectiveness and benefits to all Member States.
Description: The United Nations Statistics Division, under the guidance of the Inter-Secretariat Working Group on Household Surveys (ISWGHS), is embarking on a project to revise and update the series of United Nations methodological publications on household surveys. A technical meeting is conducted to assess what the revised Handbook will cover and how the revision will be carried out. More specifically, the experts will (a) discuss what will be covered by the revision and how to offer a practical guide based on sound theories, tested and backed up by academic work; (b) discuss topics to be covered by the revision and further steps to cover additional topics, given a wide range of topics that household surveys encompass; and (c) agree on the timeline and processes for the revision.
Organizer(s): UNSD FCSC United Arab Emirates Road & Transport Authority United Arab Emirates
Description: Integrating data science into the production of official statistics to inform and enhance efficacy of policy decisions, with a special focus on the transport sector. Get practical insights into human-centric transformation of transport information systems and see how modern transportation information systems play a pivotal role in designing and implementing sustainable transportation policies utilizing new data sources and technologies. The second sprint of the Data Science Leaders Network will focus on developing a detailed outline of a playbook to integrate data science into National Statistical Offices. The International seminar will also feature a workshops on Mobile Phone Data in transport statistics and hands-on GIS training for SDGs.
Title in Arabic: الرقم القياسي الخاص بأسعار المستهلك
Organizer(s): AITRS League of Arab States
Description: تلعب الأسعار دورا أساسيا في نمط واتجاهات التجارة الدولية وتسترشد غالبية الدول النامية منها والمصنعة على حد سواء بالأسعار وآلية تغيراتها في وضع توزيع اقتصادي لاستثماراتها المختلفة. كما تعتمد هذه الدول على الأرقام القياسية لأسعار المستهلك وكذلك تكاليف المعيشة في تعديل وتحديد الرواتب والأجور. وانطلاقا من هذه الأهمية للأسعار، تقوم الأجهزة الإحصائية في مختلف الدول بجمع بيانات الأسعار بصورة دورية وبدراسة أسعار السلع المختلفة المتداولة في أسواقها المحلية بصورة خاصة بالإضافة إلى واقع الأسعار بالبلدان المجاورة والدول الأخرى. وتاتي هذه الورشة بواقع جلستان للفترة 22-23 يناير / كانون الثاني 2023: حول الرقم القياسي الخاص بأسعار المستهلك وآلية جمع وتبويب ومعالجة البيانات ومعادلات الاحتساب الخاصة بالرقم القياسي لأسعار المستهلك كذلك آلية احتساب التضخم (Inflation)والتضخم الأساسي Core Inflation.
The United Nations Statistics Division cordially invites you to the webinar 'Advancing Official Statistics - Celebrating Milestones and Shaping the Future of FPOS,' held remotely on January 18 from 09:00 to 10:30 New York Time. This event marks the culmination of a series of global engagements, which included consultations with experts, statistical associations, webinars, workshops, and international conferences. These initiatives have been aimed at deepening the understanding of the Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics (FPOS) within a rapidly changing data ecosystem, paving the way to the 55th session of the Statistical Commission, where the global adoption of these principles will be celebrated.
This webinar will feature a dynamic panel discussion. Following a brief introduction, we will embark on an exploratory journey covering key topics such as the genesis of the FPOS, their relevance in today's fast-evolving data landscape, as well as success stories and challenges in implementation. The discussion will also delve into how the Terms of Reference for the Independent Advisory Board and the commented outlines of the revitalized FPOS, submitted for discussion and approval at the 55th session of the Statistical Commission, might contribute to their broad implementation. The panel will be followed by an open debate, offering a unique opportunity for attendees to engage with the subjects, share insights, and contribute to the dialogue.
Senior experts, including Jean-Louis Bodin, Ximena Clark, Norah Madaya, Shailja Sharma, and Hallgrimur Snorrason, will lead our exploration, responding to your questions and reflecting on your contributions.
Please use the following link to register for the event: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/cdcb60d8-3da6-4210-98ef-51bcc5c10ab1@0f9e35db-544f-4f60-bdcc-5ea416e6dc70
Title in Spanish: Taller para la generación de una hoja de ruta para la integración de información estadística y geoespacial de Costa Rica
Organizer(s): ECLAC INEC Costa Rica AI Generated
Description: La definición de una hoja de ruta permite avanzar en el proceso de integración de la información estadística y geoespacial siguiendo las recomendaciones de las Naciones Unidas.
Description: This course, presented by Statistics Department, is based on the conceptual framework of the 2008 System of National Accounts (2008 SNA). It covers advanced methodological and practical issues related to the compilation of the sequence of accounts of the SNA (current and capital accounts, financial accounts, other changes in volume of assets accounts, revaluation accounts, and balance sheets) by institutional sectors. The course also examines the linkages between institutional sectors as a basis for establishing from-whom-to-whom accounts. The aim of the course is to provide participants with the necessary skills to compile—or further enhance—their country’s institutional sector accounts and the balance sheets. The course consists of lectures covering conceptual and methodological issues, workshops sessions on practical compilation issues, discussions on emerging financial issues such as fintech and crypto assets. It reviews case studies involving new applications of ISA such as household distributions to examine income, consumption and wealth accumulation by various cohorts and intergenerational transfers and pensions. The myriad ways in which the ISA supports economic policy is also examined. The lectures provide a thorough review of the methodological framework, concepts, and definitions relating to sectoral institutional sector accounts and balance sheets, examine potential data sources for the compilation of annual and quarterly ISA, and illustrate possible compilation techniques and procedures. The course also provides a forum for participants to share country practices and experiences relating to the compilation of sectoral institutional accounts and balance sheets.
Target Audience: Officials whose main responsibility is compiling national accounts, including financial accounts statistics and balance of payments statistics (specifically responsible for the sectoral accounts, household distribution accounts and accounts on a from-whom-to-whom basis), who are employed by national statistical agencies and central banks.
Description: This course, conducted by the IMF SARTTAC deals with the conceptual framework of public sector debt statistics as presented in the Public Sector Debt Statistics Guide and on the practical aspects of compiling public sector debt data. Basic concepts, accounting principles, and detailed classifications are discussed in the context of methodology harmonized with government finance statistics and the system of national accounts. The course examines coverage and accounting rules for public sector debt, valuation, classification, important methodological issues, and the sources and methods used for compiling the statistics. It also deals with reporting debt data to the IMF and the World Bank. The course is organized around a series of case studies.
Target Audience: Officials whose main responsibility is compiling public sector debt statistics.
Title in Arabic: الأرقام القياسية وأنواع الأسعار ومؤشراتها والمنهجيات
Organizer(s): AITRS League of Arab States
Description: تعد الأرقام القياسية للأسعار من أهم المؤشرات الاقتصادية في كافة دول العالم على اختلاف أنظمتها، وخاصة مع سرعة التقدم التكنولوجي والمعلوماتي حيث أنها تعطي ايضاحا بسيطا ومختصرا عن كم هائل من البيانات وتربط بينها عبر الأزمان و الأمكنة المختلفة، مما يساهم ويساعد في فهم الحاضر وتوقع أحداث المستقبل. كما تستخدم هذه الأرقام في مجالات واسعة ومتعددة في الاقتصاد الوطني على غرار الحسابات القومية والتجارة الخارجية وقياس مستوى عيش الأسر. من ناحية أخرى، توفر الأرقام القياسية للمخططين وصناع القرار وسائر المستخدمين بيانات موجزة وفاعلة تلبي احتياجاتهم لإدارة شؤونهم ورسم سياساتهم في مختلف المجالات الاقتصادية والاجتماعية، إضافة إلى تحليل الواقع الاقتصادي القائم تاتي هذه الورشة حول الأرقام القياسية وأنواع الأسعار ومؤشراتها والمنهجيات المختلفة ومنافع وعيوب كل منها، وكذلك التسلسل والربط والتطرق الى مواضيع أولية وتعريفية وآلية تركيب الأرقام القياسية والطرق المستخدمة في ذلك. مع الاشارة الى التحديثات التي تمت على كل طريقة مؤخرا، كما سيتم التطرق الى دراسة المقارنات الدولية للأسعار .
Description: The International Association of Survey Statisticians (IASS) presents this short auto-instructional course, including: introductory videos; and course notes with theoretical lessons, followed by tutorials for practical computer sessions in R, and computer workshops. In the practical sessions, participants will conduct tasks using the methods and software presented. Examples with data are presented and used in the practical sessions. Short videos, course materials, data files, and R scripts are provided on this website. Main topics include probability sampling designs, an introduction to the analysis of survey data, point and standard error estimation, model selection and model fitting, and plotting survey data.
Title in Spanish: Taller para la generación de una hoja de ruta para la integración de información estadística y geoespacial de Ecuador
Organizer(s): ECLAC INEC Ecuador IGM Ecuador AI Generated
Description: La definición de una hoja de ruta permite avanzar en el proceso de integración de la información estadística y geoespacial siguiendo las recomendaciones de las Naciones Unidas.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, deals with identification and assessment of elementary indicators and techniques for combining them into a single index of economic activity to track national trends. Flash estimates or indexes of economic activity bring together a range of elementary indicators to give timely general measures of economic activity. These measures give policy makers useful information that complements annual and quarterly GDP estimates, which are more comprehensive but usually only available after substantial lags, and provide a more comprehensive picture than individual monthly and quarterly indicators, which are up-to-the-minute but reflect just a portion of the total economy).This course is for actual or potential compilers of short-term indicators in central banks and statistical offices and for those who collect data for monthly indicators. Participants are expected to work with their own monthly and quarterly time series during the course. These indicators will be used in the practical session as the basis for experimental estimates.
Target Audience: Officials responsible for compiling short-term or monthly economic indicators in central banks and statistical offices.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) introduces participants to the underlying concepts, definitions, and methodology for the compilation of Financial Soundness Indicators (FSIs). FSIs were developed by the IMF in the late 1990s and currently, more than 140 countries compile and report FSIs to the IMF. These indicators are widely used by researchers, analysts, and policymakers around the world to monitor the soundness of the financial system as a whole from a macroprudential perspective, as well as by IMF staff in financial stability analysis and surveillance. This course covers the history of the FSIs and their application in surveillance and macroprudential analysis, the conceptual framework for the FSIs, the data collection process for FSI compilation and its underlying aggregation and consolidation methodologies as well as the application of core and additional FSIs in macroprudential analysis. An important reference throughout this course is the Financial Soundness Indicators Compilation Guide revised in 2019. The 2019 FSIs Guide is the ultimate authority on FSI concepts and methods and is the foundation of this course.
Target Audience: Officials at central banks and supervisory agencies for the financial sector who are involved in the collection, compilation, and analysis of financial soundness indicators (FSIs).
Description: This course is presented by the ISI Statistical Capacity Building (SCB) Committee. It is available for free to everyone. The course includes an introduction to (descriptive) statistics, and modules on sampling, probability, statistical inference, experimental design, categorical data, non-parametric methods, and linear regression.
Description: Financing Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) process and achievement has been at the heart of global leaders around the way due to the challenge it represents in terms of amounts to be mobilized and their sources. The SDG agenda foresaw in its Target 17.3 the need to “Mobilize additional financial resources for developing countries from multiple sources” as a supporting means to implement the Agenda beside ODA flows and strengthening of domestic resources mobilization. In this respect, understanding the contribution of South-south Cooperation (SSC) constitutes an important step in better comprehending the sources of development support for developing countries as well as the specific challenges faced by developing countries in meeting the SDGs.The Economic Commission for Africa, African Center for Statistics (ECA-ACS), in collaboration with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Statistics Service, are organizing a session during the StatsTalk-Africa webinar on progress and challenges regarding the measurement of SSC, as part of the new SDG indicator 17.3.1 on ‘additional financial resources mobilized for developing countries from multiple sources’. The new indicator’s methodology was adopted by the United Nations Statistical Commission (UNSC) at its 53rd session in March 2022.Thanks to the joint efforts of the South, now for the first time there is a global, voluntary Conceptual Framework to Measure South-South Cooperation which will support countries’ reporting on the SDG indicator. The Statistical Commission, at its 53rd session, welcomed the development of this conceptual framework and “requested that further work on this, including on global reporting and capacity-building, be enabled by the co-custodianship of UNCTAD and be led by countries from the global South, building on country-led mechanisms”. The Commission also invited countries involved in SSC to work closely with UNCTAD to that effect. This event will update heads of National statistical offices (NSOs) and international cooperation agencies across Africa as well as other participants interested in this field. Specifically, this event on the quantification of SSC aims to: * Share information on the new SDG Indicator 17.3.1 and on the Framework to measure South-South cooperation elaborated by countries of the South; * Present the ongoing UN Development Account project on Quantifying South-South cooperation to mobilize funds for the SDGs; * Discuss African perspectives on South-South cooperation and its measurement.Kindly register here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_e8vHNn2MSOq7vMuyGHnYMg
Description: At this meeting, statisticians from Colombia, the Democratic Republic of Congo (South Kivu), Nigeria, and Norway shared overall impressions and key results from cognitive testing of the draft questionnaire in their respective national contexts and national languages. Further test results from the Slovak Republic and Cabo Verde are expected by the end of 2023. The key focus for 2024 will be on field-testing (piloting) the revised questionnaire on larger samples (100-300 respondents). To save on costs, this can be done as part of an ongoing survey, to which the NSO can attach a short (“core”) module on the topic. NSOs from all regions and all development contexts were invited to take part in this critical step towards the finalization of the questionnaire.
Source: World Bank (Data extracted on: 11 Dec 2023 )
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Organizer(s): World Bank
Description: Representative surveys on individuals’ daily time use—across unpaid domestic and care work, employment and other productive activities—are essential to understand economic decision-making among men and women. However, standard recall-based time use surveys can be costly to conduct, and often face challenges in accurately capturing people’s multiple daily activities. Addressing these difficulties is important to design data-driven labor policies and to improve the monitoring of global targets that recognize and value unpaid work across countries. Our study is one of the first to compare real-time against recall-based time use data collection from a low-income context, and in this talk, we present findings from a randomized experiment in Malawi. We compare how real-time data collection, through a low-cost pictorial smartphone-based app, can address potential recall bias in traditional 24-hours and 7-days time use diaries. The findings reveal several benefits of the smartphone diary approach, such as the possibility of capturing a greater range of multitasked activities and the avoidance of potential fatigue in recalling time allocation within the day—particularly among women. We will discuss how the insights of our paper can advance the validation of scalable best practices to individual-level data collection on time use, which could, in turn, be considered for implementation as part of large-scale surveys conducted by national statistical offices.
Description: The Second United Nations Expert Group Meeting on the Revision of the Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses is organized by the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) in New York from 13 to 15 December 2023. The main objective of the Expert Group meeting is to review the draft version of the Principles and Recommendations for the 2030 round. The Expert Group, which was established for the purpose of overseeing the revision of the Principles and Recommendations, held its first meeting virtually from 23 to 25 May 2023. The Expert Group set up seven Task Teams — corresponding to seven themes identified by the Expert Group as critical for the revision — to carry out the work of revising components of the publication. The meeting will review the draft version of the Principles and Recommendations with a view to bringing it in line with good practices and contemporary approaches to conducting population and housing censuses. A multitude of changes have been documented in the current census round pertaining to the use of technologies, adoption of multi-modal data collection, and utilization of administrative data sources. Many countries had to innovate to overcome the challenges of conducting censuses during the global COVID-19 pandemic. As a reference publication, the revised Principles and Recommendations will reflect the innovations made and the experiences collected thus far and provide comprehensive guidance to national statistical authorities for planning, organizing, conducting, and utilizing 2030 round population and housing censuses. It is expected that the next revision of the Principles and Recommendations will be submitted for endorsement by the Statistical Commission at its 56th session in 2025.
Description: The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) produces more than 500 state and national reports a year and conducts a census of the nation’s 2.0 million farmers once every five years. At the heart of the Agency’s current data collection strategy is its ability to persuade a respondent to voluntarily respond to surveys. Respondents are becoming less willing to participate in surveys and demands for statistics and secure data access are becoming increasingly challenging. The gold standard to produce official statistics has been probability-based sample surveys for many years. Yet, the environment for obtaining information and providing statistical summaries to policy makers and the public is changing. At the same time, new technology and data sources provide opportunities to reduce the burden on the public by reducing the number of survey questions or even eliminating surveys while increasing timeliness, geographic or subpopulation detail, and statistical efficiency. This webinar will present practical approaches and techniques to data collection and provide examples of how technological advances and new procedures like the use of administrative and previously reported data can be used to enhance the experience for data providers and data users. This presentation will also share how the USDA-NASS plans to improve accessibility, ease of use, and access to data through modernizing data collection and product design.
Organizer(s): INS Romania Ecological University of Bucharest Romania
Description: Date Location More information 12 December 2023 - 14 December 2023 The uRos2023 is the 11th International Conference of the Use of R in Official Statistics. After 3 on-line editions, this year we are inviting you at uRos home country and institution - Bucharest, Romania, at the premises of Romanian NIS.
Description: In this Global Network Webinar, Sophie Mitra of Fordham University and the Disability Data Initiative presented on the use of household surveys and population censuses to monitor the inequalities that affect persons with disabilities: recent evidence from the Disability Data Initiative. The speaker shared recent developments and highlighted research opportunities related to the situation of adults with disabilities worldwide. Based on recent results from the Disability Data Initiative, the webinar: (i) discussed various approaches to collect and analyze data on disability in household surveys and population censuses, in particular with respect to the types of questions used and how to analyze answer scales on severity; (ii) documented how and where questions on functional difficulties using the internationally tested Washington Group Short Set or similar questions have been adopted around the world; and (iii) presented results of analyses of Demographic and Health Survey and census data on whether persons with disabilities are being left behind in 15 countries. The webinar was attended by 44 colleagues from across the globe, including those from national statistical offices, UN resident coordinator offices, civil society, and academia. The recording is available on the Global Network. The Global Network of Data Officers and Statisticians aims to improve coordination and collaboration among peers and organizations, to connect existing but not necessarily wellconnected networks and initiatives, and to provide and share information on capacity building efforts globally. In the framework of the Global Network UNSD organizes a series of webinars. For more information visit our information pages.
Description: This course, presented by the IMF's Statistics Department, aims at providing a thorough understanding of concepts, sources of data, and compilation techniques for producing quarterly national accounts (QNA) statistics. It introduces participants to benchmarking, seasonal adjustment techniques, as well as volume estimates; and explains the application of these techniques to time series data. The course also discussed how to identify and assess available data sources, use real-time series databases to assess the quality, and implement a suitable revisions policy for compiling QNA.
Target Audience: Officials responsible for compiling and using intensely national accounts statistics (NAS).
Source: ESCAP SIAP (Data extracted on: 07 Dec 2023 )
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Organizer(s): ESCAP SIAP ESCAP UNSD UN DESA DOSM Malaysia MIC
Description: Quality data are vital for enabling governmentsinternational organizationscivil societyprivate sector and the general public to make informed decisions and to ensure the accountability of representative bodies. Effective planningfollow-up and review of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development requires the collectionprocessinganalysis and dissemination of an unprecedented amount of data and statistics at localnationalregional and global levels and by multiple stakeholders.
Description: The Expert Group Meeting on the Synergies between Census, CRVS Systems and Administrative Records: Implications for the 4th revision to the UN Principles and Recommendations on Population and Housing Censuses is co-organized by the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). The meeting is to be held in New York from 11 to 12 December 2023. The expert group meeting will bring together experts from National Statistics Offices, CRVS Systems, and international organizations to review insights, experiences and lessons from recent census rounds and ongoing efforts to strengthen CRVS systems. The objective of the expert group meeting is to synthesize lessons and insights from recent census and CRVS efforts to guide the updating of the UN Principles and Recommendations on Population and Housing Censuses (Revision 4) in the following areas: i) the assessment of the completeness and quality of vital event registration data and identity management system data using census data; ii) the leveraging of administrative records from CRVS systems and related administrative registers for the production of census operations and census data; and, iii) the use of censuses to measure human mobility including international migration, internal displacement and refugee stocks and flows.
Title in Spanish: Taller para la generación de una hoja de ruta para la integración de información estadística y geoespacial de Paraguay
Organizer(s): ECLAC INE Paraguay AI Generated
Description: La definición de una hoja de ruta permite avanzar en el proceso de integración de la información estadística y geoespacial siguiendo las recomendaciones de las Naciones Unidas.
Description: UNSD convened the 3rd virtual meeting of the Task Team 1 of the Revision of the Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses (P&R), on 12 October 2023. The Task Team 1, chaired by Statistics Canada, carries out the work of revising the portion of the Principles and Recommendations pertaining to census planning, organizing and management. The Task Team members went through the substantial revisions and new elaborations to be made to specific chapters and sections of the P&R, including, among others, the guidance on risk management and emergency planning (e.g., for censuses conducted during pandemics such as the recent global COVID-19 pandemic or natural disasters) as well as potential threats and possible consequences related to, for example, use of online questionnaire and the adoption of new technology.
Description: At this meeting, statisticians from Colombia, Cabo Verde, Ireland, Madagascar, Peru and Vietnam shared overall impressions and key results from cognitive testing of the draft questionnaire in their respective national context and national languages. The key focus for 2024 will be on field-testing (piloting) the revised questionnaire on larger samples (100-300 respondents). To save on costs, this can be done as part of an ongoing survey, to which the NSO can attach a short (“core”) module on the topic. NSOs from all regions and all development contexts were invited to take part in this critical step towards the finalization of the questionnaire.
Description: The effective follow-up and review of progress made towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is essential for achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. One of the critical follow-up and review mechanisms is the Voluntary National Reviews (VNRs) prepared by Member States to be presented at the High-Level Political Forum (HLPF). Since the adoption of the 2030 Agenda, countries have made significant strides in enhancing their monitoring frameworks for the SDGs, leading to improved inclusion of data and progress assessments in VNRs and overall SDG reporting.
Description: The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), in collaboration with the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), is organizing a regional thematic conference on 'Managing a statistical organization in times of change' for South-East and Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia countries (SE-EECCA), including Russia and Turkey. The Conference is scheduled to take place from 5 to 7 December 2023 in Almaty, Kazakhstan and is part of a series of regional events to understand and priorities the recent institutional, organizational and technical developments for the production of official statistics and indicators for the monitoring of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and related regional and national development plans. The Conference will also stimulate an exchange of information on national best practices as well as on recent global and regional initiatives and Programmes that will inform and illustrate the next edition of the Handbook of Statistical Organization.
Organizer(s): National Survey Authority Oman Arabic Division of Geographic Names
Description: This conference aims to promote joint Arab work in the following areas: * Documenting the geographical names. * Standardising the Arabic geographical names. * Implementing the Unified Arab System for Romanization 2017. * Promoting the work of the national committees and authorities for geographical names. * Linking between geospatial information and geographical names. * Enabling the Geographical Names.
Description: This webinar was jointly organized by the Inter-Secretariat Working Group on Household Surveys (ISWGHS) and the Global Network of Data Officers and Statisticians. We welcomed Marcelo Pitta, Thiago Meireles, and Pedro Silva from the Brazilian Network Information Center (NIC.Br) and the Brazilian Institute for Geography and Statistics (IBGE) who presented on the topic of leveraging non-probability samples and organic data for producing public statistics. The use of non-probability samples and of non-designed organic data for producing reliable public statistics is now a hot field of study and academic production. Such alternative data sources have been growing in importance due to the increasing demand for more timely and disaggregated data, resource constraints, and the increasing non-response associated with conventional probability sample surveys. Substantial body of emerging literature aims to enable official and public statistics producers to cope with the challenges presented by using such alternative data sources, namely the potential biases created by selection effects or undercoverage. The COVID-19 pandemic has compounded this scenario and increased the difficulties already faced by statistics producers. In this context, some experiments were developed to produce public data from alternative data sources in the Brazilian Network Information Center (NIC.br), a non-profit organization responsible for the planning, evaluation, and monitoring of the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in Brazil. Here we present the approaches adopted in two projects developed to fulfil the information needs of policymakers and civil society for insights into Internet usage and Internet quality. The first experience focused on Internet usage and adopted a designed non-probability sample of internet users conducted via web self-interviewing during the COVID-19 pandemic. The second experience involved estimating from a large, non-designed organic database of Internet quality measurements taken in self-selected schools. For the Internet usage survey, a web panel, initially selected utilizing quota sampling, was surveyed to assess emerging policy-relevant topics such as privacy and e-waste among Internet users. The survey was developed in response to the urgent need for Internet usage data during the COVID-19 pandemic, in a period when traditional face-to-face household surveys were infeasible. For the Internet quality study, our experience comprised determining pseudo-weights for Brazilian public basic education schools participating in a voluntary scheme where measurements of internet quality are regularly reported to the NIC.br via the ‘Simet’ devices installed in the schools. While not all public schools have installed the Simet devices, we have developed an approach to leverage existing School Census data to estimate pseudo-weights for the participating schools, thus enabling the production of Internet quality estimates for the entire school population while minimizing response bias.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, provides participants with an introduction to the compilation of monetary statistics covering the central bank (CB) and other depository corporations (ODCs) in accordance with international standards. Course materials are based on the Monetary and Financial Statistics Manual and Compilation Guide (MFSMCG). The course discusses the principles of residency and sectorization of institutional units, the characteristics and types of financial instruments, valuation principles, and other accounting issues that are relevant to the compilation of monetary statistics. Participants also become familiar with the defining characteristics of depository corporations (DCs), notably their role as money issuers, and with the main principles on which analysis of monetary and credit aggregates is based. The course consists of lectures, and exercises covering practical aspects of compiling monetary statistics, especially the use of financial statements for filling out standardized report forms (SRFs 1SR and 2SR) and the derivation of the respective surveys for the CB, ODCs, and the consolidated DCs sector. Participants should be prepared to ask questions and discuss challenges related to MFS compilation practices. This course is an abbreviated version of the longer, introductory MFS course traditionally offered by STA in-person.
Target Audience: Central bank officials and officials from financial regulatory agencies responsible for compiling monetary statistics.
Description: This in-person, two-week course, conducted by the IMF Statistics Department, will familiarize participants with the sources and methods to develop macroeconomic relevant climate change-related indicators that can inform economic and financial policies. The participants gain an understanding of a) environmental accounting concepts; b) how to assess global/open-source datasets that can be used for the compilation; and c) the different approaches and methodologies used to estimate the indicators. The course consists of a series of lectures, workshops, and plenary discussions on country practices describing the methods for compiling environmental and climate change statistics, including data sources. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss compilation challenges they have encountered and gain insights into the analytical uses of the environmental and climate change statistics. The statistics covered include Environmental revenues and expenditures, Natural Resource Accounts, Physical and Transition risk indicators, Air Emission Accounts and Sustainable Finance indicators.
Target Audience: Officials from National Statistics Agencies, Ministries of Finance, Planning and Environment, Central Banks and other agencies, who are responsible for compiling environment and/or climate change related indicators.
Description: The aim of the course is to better equip data officers serving in UN offices in using the new SDG statistical monitoring system. The course is designed to enhance capacities for identifying, collecting, analysing and disseminating labour-market information and other indicators related to decent work. It also emphasizes the latest ICLS Resolutions on the statistics of work relationships as an important pillar for measuring progress towards the 2030 Global Agenda, particularly Goal 8 on promoting inclusive and sustainable growth, employment and decent work for all.
Target Audience: Data officers serving in UN offices.
Course Language: English
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Description: UNSD participated in the First Global Workshop for the 2024 Voluntary National Reviews (VNRs) organized by the DESA and hosted by ECA with the support of the European Union. The workshop facilitated a practical exchange of experiences and knowledge among countries, as well as explored specific issues and challenges related to the VNR preparations. To this end, it engaged officials from finance ministries, statistical offices, planning and sectoral and other ministries and institutions engaged in the VNR at national level. UNSD led the data session in exploring how statistics and data are critical for reviewing progress towards the SDGs. The session explored challenges in the availability and analysis of statistics in the preparation of their VNR and at the same time, the key opportunity to build on countries’ statistical capacities and understand countries’ progress towards the SDGs. The session encouraged countries in developing a data and statistics roadmap for the VNR process following the Practical Guide for Evidence-based VNRs developed by UNSD, based on the national SDG monitoring framework and exploring additional opportunities to fill data gaps. It also provided lessons learned from countries who have presented their VNR in the previous years. In addition, Colombia and Mauritius presented their country experience followed by UNECA highlighting the regional support mechanism. The workshop attracted participation from thirty-four countries slated to present their VNRs in 2024. The event commenced with opening remarks by H.E. Paula Narváez, Permanent Representative of Chile to the United Nations in New York and President of ECOSOC. Mr. Antonio Pedro, Deputy Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), also extended welcome remarks.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 25 Jan 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat
Description: Are you interested in macroeconomic statistics and want to learn more about national accounts and balance of payments? During this webinar, you will get valuable insight into the main concepts of macroeconomic statistics. The webinar will focus in particular on the innovations that will be introduced in the macroeconomic measurements frameworks - the system of national accounts and the balance of payments manual - to keep them abreast of the changes in the global economic environment.
Description: This side event on “Integrating Natural Capital Accounting and Climate Change” was organized by the Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3) during the UN Climate Change Conference COP28 in Dubai. The event was moderated by the Scientific Director of BC3 and included interventions by representatives from the IMF and the World Bank, who emphasized the importance of using the harmonized methodology of the System of Environmental Economic Accounting (SEEA) in support of informing climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies and the role of capacity building to support countries to develop the necessary information. The event was opened with a message by the UNSD Director, who underlined the strengths of the SEEA in linking environmental and economic information to support decision-making in a statistical framework endorsed by the international statistical community through the UN Statistical Commission. Tools such as ARIES for SEEA, developed by BC3 in collaboration with UNSD, can facilitate the implementation of the SEEA in countries by providing easily accessible data and models that are consistent with SEEA. More information on the side event is available here
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 25 Jan 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat
Description: Are you interested in regional statistics and want to learn more about the nomenclature of territorial units for statistics, the so-called NUTS? During this webinar, you will get valuable insight into European regional statistics. How can we compare small EU countries like Luxembourg to Germany, which is the most populous one? Comparing regional data is often more informative compared with country data: it may reveal the disparities or similarities between EU members or even within EU countries themselves. Speakers will give fascinating insights into the lives of the 448 million people living in the EU. They will be covering a variety of topics, from demography to education, labour market, and economy. With the help of interactive visuals, the speakers will show how the EU regions are coping with the green and digital transition. In addition, you can learn how to make your own statistical map for regions.
Description: The Working Group aims to advance cooperation on measuring electronic commerce (e.commerce) and the digital economy and enhance the availability, quality, comparability, usability and relevance of statistics on e-commerce and the digital economy, with a view to supporting evidence-based policymaking, in particular in developing countries. The Intergovernmental Group of Experts on E-commerce and the Digital Economy, at its sixth session in May 2023, agreed on the following topics for the fourth meeting of the Working Group: a) Progress in measuring e-commerce and the digital economy: Work by relevant international organizations. b) Measuring the value of e-commerce. c) Non-survey–based measurement of e-commerce and the digital economy.
Description: In this Global Network Webinar, we welcomed Yongyi Min, Heather Page, Daniel Eshetie, and Sokunpanha You from the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA). They shared data and insights from The Sustainable Development Report 2023: Special Edition and supplementary materials and introduced participants to the UN Data Commons for the SDGs. 2023 is the critical midpoint of the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). To mark this occasion, DESA released a special edition of its annual flagship Sustainable Development Goals Report. Using the latest available data and estimates, this publication provides a comprehensive midpoint assessment of the 2030 Agenda, highlighting not only impacts of multiple crises affecting people's lives and livelihoods, but also areas of progress where acceleration is needed. This report is prepared by DESA, in collaboration with the entire UN Statistical System, consisting of more than 50 international and regional agencies, based on data from over 200 countries and territories. Serving as a companion to the report, The Sustainable Development Goals Progress Chart 2023 presents an overview of global progress with respect to the targets outlined in the 17 Goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, employing a visual framework of stoplight colours to measure progress towards each target using trend data between the baseline year of 2015 and the most recent year. And enabling access to even more granular SDG data and the visualization and analyses of those data, UNSD recently launched UN Data Commons for the SDGs, a platform integrating authoritative SDG data and information from across the UN System into a public repository with advanced search functionality and a modern, user-friendly interface.
Description: The United Nations Network of Economic Statisticians and the United Nations Committee of Experts on International Statistical Classifications jointly organized a sprint webinar series on international statistical classifications, with the objective to raise the awareness of the importance of international classifications among users, provide a forum for discussing and sharing modern ways of updating and implementing classifications, and highlight the value of investing in classification work as a foundation for data integration. This second webinar’s theme was: the mechanisms for rendering the classification process more efficient through collaboration and coordination. It was attended by over 200 online participants from national statistics offices, regional and international organizations, classification users from specific industries, and experts on statistical classifications. The meeting provided an outreach opportunity for the Committee of Experts on International Statistical Classifications to engage directly with classification users on the concept of evergreening and on the importance of a more efficient revision process to develop agile and responsive international classifications. The webinar also provided a platform for sharing knowledge and experience on the review process and revision cycles of national, regional and international classifications. More information on the classifications sprint is available on UNSD website.
Description: The Subgroup on Administrative and Other Data Sources under the United Nations Expert Group on National Quality Assurance Frameworks (EG-NQAF) organized its seventh meeting. A key agenda item was the review of the list of requirements that are of special importance in assuring the quality of official statistics when using administrative and other data sources and their links to the UN National Quality Assurance Framework (UN NQAF). Participants stressed the importance of establishing precise terminology aligned with the existing UN NQAF to prevent duplication of work and confusion. On the issue of implementation, the experts agreed to develop a module specifically for administrative and other data sources which will complement the existing UN NQAF. The meeting of the Subgroup was attended by 13 experts from national statistical offices and international organizations. The next meeting is scheduled for 6th December 2023.
Description: In unit-level small area models, the response variable corresponds to an individual element within a small area. Unit-level models serve a fundamental role in the field of small area estimation. Predictors based on unit-level models have been demonstrated to be more efficient than predictors based on area-level models, where the response variable is a direct estimator for an area. The seminal work on unit-level small area models is Battese, Harter, and Fuller (1988). This work uses unit-level small area models to predict crop areas at the county level. The model of Battese, Harter, and Fuller (1988) is linear and postulates normal distributions for the random terms. The assumptions of linearity and normality fail to hold in many practical situations. Therefore, research on the unit-level model has expanded in a variety of directions. Extensions of the Battese, Harter, and Fuller (1988) model include lognormal models, zero-inflated models, models with gamma response distributions, models for count data, and methods to incorporate an informative sample design. In this webinar, we discuss the use of the unit-level model for small area estimation, with emphasis on recent developments.
Description: Background United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) as the Secretariat for UN-GGIM and the core partner of the Data for Now initiative, together with ESCAP and Statistics Norway, is convening an international high-level seminar that aims to foster this collaboration by bringing together representatives from National Statistical Offices (NSOs), National Geospatial Information Agencies (NGIAs) and other relevant national institutions to learn from globally recognized good practices, increasing awareness of the global frameworks and resources, and discuss current practices and potential ways forward at national level. The seminar also provides an opportunity for countries to utilize a Self Assessment Tool, developed by the United Nations Expert Group on the Integration of Statistical and Geospatial Information, that aims to assist countries to self-assess their geo-statistical capacity (or maturity). By understanding their level of capacity, countries can take concise actions to improve their capacity according to their own ambitions, needs for statistics and at their own pace. Participating countries will be asked to apply the Self Assessment Tool in advance of the high-level event and to share the findings so that international experts can provide input and guidance during the discussions at the seminar. The roadmap and action plan that each country will be encouraged to develop during the seminar can then be used for individual follow up in countries, where feasible also with support from UNSD and other partners. Aim and Objectives The workshop’s primary aim is to equip Member States with the necessary skills to ensure continuous production and disaggregation geospatially enabled statistical data. Specific objectives include: Present the Global Statistical Geospatial Framework (GSGF) and the SDGs Geospatial Roadmap and highlight how it can be implemented; Facilitate discussions on countries’ geo-statistical capacity (maturity) and help identify specific actions that can improve implementation, ideally developing national draft roadmaps, which in turn also can guide needs for further capacity development; In this context, present methodologies for continuously calculating geospatially enabled statistical data, inclusive of relevant SDGs indicators; Highlight the importance of collaboration across the National statistical and geospatial ecosystem; Identify needs for partners to better be able to provide support to countries through follow-up activities Programme Programme for download Report Seminar Report , Contacts Programmatic and Substantive: Ms. Vibeke Nielsen, Inter-Regional Advisor, UNSD - vibeke.nielsen@un.org Ms. Faryal Ahmed, Statistician, UNSD – faryal.ahmed@un.org Mr. Mark Iliffe, Geographer, UNSD – mark.iliffe@un.org Mr. Richard Tonkin, Statistician, ESCAP – richard.tonkin@un.org Administrative: Mr. Jaspreet Doung, Statistics Assistant, UNSD - doung@un.org (UNSD & Statistics Norway-funded participants) Ms. Anne Kerdlapphon, Statistics Assistant, ESCAP – anne.kerdlapphon@un.org (ESCAP funded participants & questions relating to Thai visas and venue)
Description: The International Data Alliance for Children on the Move (IDAC), in partnership with UNICEF Innocenti – Global Office of Research and Foresight (Innocenti) and UNICEF Division of Data, Analytics, Planning and Monitoring (DAPM), facilitated a global collaboration around the theme of improving data on climate-related child and family mobility. The workshop will convene a core group of cross-sectoral data and thematic experts working on issues relevant to mobility, climate, and child rights, protection and well-being. The objectives of the workshop will be to take stock of, and improve, data for informing solutions to the needs of children and their families engaged in contexts of climate-related migration and displacement, in order to set a shared research agenda, identifying common gaps, priorities, and opportunities for knowledge-sharing and collaboration.
Description: The Expert Group on National Quality Assurance Frameworks (EG-NQAF) conducted its 33rd meeting via MS Teams. A total of 20 experts of 14 countries and 2 international organizations attended the meeting. UNSD as the secretariat of the Expert Group presented the work progress of the two Subgroups of the EG-NQAF, one focusing on quality culture and one focusing on quality assurance when administrative and other data sources are used to produce official statistics. The meeting also discussed the results of the two global seminars that were conducted, and the results of the regional workshop for countries of Latin America and the Caribbean in Bogota, Colombia. In addition, the Expert Group reviewed the logistics and preparations of its upcoming in person meeting, which is scheduled for 5-7 February 2024. The Expert Group also suggested to host a side event during the 55th Session of the Statistical Commission in late-February 2024, aiming to generate awareness about the ongoing work and its forthcoming global consultation on guidelines for quality assurance when using administrative and other data sources for official statistics.
Source: ESCAP SIAP (Data extracted on: 23 Jan 2024 )
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Organizer(s): ESCAP SIAP ESCAP ADB
Description: This 8-week course developed by SIAP in partnership with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) introduces machine learning as a tool for using either traditional (surveysmicro data…) or non-traditional (big data) data sources to produce high quality predictions for Official Statistics or Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) indicators. It provides an opportunity for participants to explore and manipulate the techniques of Machine Learning and their links with traditional statistical methods. The 6 modules (+1 module with recalls/prerequisites) aim at providing an overview of the current methods and applications of Machine Learningthrough simplified theoretical conceptspedagogical case studies and interactive resources.The course is not basednor does it requirea particular software. Howeverreproducible examples on either simulated or real data are provided using the R/RStudio environment. Some Python procedures and packages are also provided. The weekly webinars are planned on Wednesdays at 4 p.m. Japan time.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 03 Feb 2023 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: Objectives of this course: * This course shall democratize the accessibility of privately held data and valorisation thereof; * Get to know the techniques and tools to access privately held data; * Understand the stages of data valorisation pipelines; * Familiarize with the European Data Strategy and Digital Strategy; * Experiment with webscraping and API interfacing techniques; * Gain hands-on experience with data mining techniques from privately held data sources.
Target Audience: Official Statisticians wishing to develop a toolbox for data acquisition with respect to privately held data at national level.
Description: Concept note Over the past decade, countries have made good progress towards meeting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) but the COVID-19 pandemic has severely disrupted these efforts and even led to reversal of gains in several area1. To that end, there is a critical need for timely, reliable, and disaggregated data, estimates and forecasts, and it is of paramount importance that all stakeholders unite to work on this common agenda. Citizen data—that is data produced by people or organizations to directly monitor, demand, or drive change on issues that affect them2 —, has the potential to meet this need. In particular, citizen data is able to fill crucial data gaps for vulnerable and marginalized groups, integrating their situations and conditions into statistical production processes. Citizen data also progresses fundamental values namely fairness, openness, inclusiveness, non-discrimination, accountability and transparency in statistics. Data collection process for citizen data can be initiated by different stakeholders, including national statistical offices (NSOs), civil society organizations (CSOs), community leaders, national human rights institutions (NHRIs) and other state institutions, scientists, or individual citizens. Moreover, citizen data can be integrated into different stages of the data value chain. For instance, CSOs and citizens are often at the forefront of data collection generally focusing on vulnerable and marginalized population groups and ensuring that their voices are heard. CSOs can also engage in collecting citizen data for SDG monitoring and Voluntary National Reviews (VNRs) led by NSOs. Finally, NSOs, relevant government agencies, and UN entities can coordinate and facilitate validation processes for citizen data in close collaboration with CSOs and community leaders. Noting the potential contributions of citizen data in inclusive statistics production, there is a critical need for a comprehensive and inclusive guide on citizen data. To that end, United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) organized an expert group meeting on citizens’ contribution to data in September 2023 with the specific objective of deriving insights from experts for the development of a Conceptual Framework on Citizens’ Contribution to Data. More specifically, the meeting allowed participants to review and discuss a draft Conceptual Framework on Citizens’ Contribution to Data, discuss ways and steps to operationalize the Conceptual Framework, and identify solutions to key challenges in engaging with citizens in data processes such as data quality, building trust and keeping engagement sustainable. 1 Ms. Amina J. Mohammed, Deputy-Secretary General, United Nations, “High-Level Political Forum 2021,” 2021, https://hlpf.un.org/2021/programme/closing-hlpf 2 Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data, “World Data Forum: Citizen-generated data for inclusive data ecosystems,” 2023, https://www.data4sdgs.org/world-data-forum-citizen-generated-data-inclusive-data-ecosystems ESCAP also organized a side event at the expert group meeting with a specific focus on the use of citizen data in health and well-being statistics. At the side event, WHO and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) presented their latest publication on key processes and considerations for the use of citizen science and data for the production of health and well-being statistics. Representatives from Philippine Statistics Authority and Kenya National Bureau of Statistics also shared their experiences including the processes and outcomes of using citizen data in producing health and wealth-being statistics, challenges faced, and lessons learned. Prior to the expert group meeting, ESCAP and UNSD also co-organized a VNR Lab on the use of citizen-generated data to leave no one behind at the High-Level Political Forum in July 2023. The Lab focused mainly on initiatives designed to harness the power of citizen data to improve VNR and SDG reporting processes and facilitated insightful experience sharing by countries in Asia and the Pacific and beyond. These events offer up-to-date information on the progression of citizen data as a viable non-traditional data source in official statistics and SDG reporting. Nonetheless, they were all invite-only events which limited the sizes of audience. Therefore, ESCAP and UNSD organized this Stats Café session to: Present on insights and outcomes of discussions occurred throughout the three events; Share country experience with using citizen data in official statistics and/or SDG reporting; Share updates on the development of the Conceptual Framework on Citizens’ Contribution to Data and way forward for citizen data. , Stats Café Home: Upcoming events Concluded events
Description: Starting with a question, a knowledge gap, and looking for an answer through data. This certification programme aims to provide development practitioners with the knowledge, methods, tools and software solutions to gather, store, process, analyse, visualise, and utilise qualitative and quantitative data to meet the information needs of an organisation and its stakeholders. With the technological advances of recent years, the amount of data and its potential have multiplied, but together with the risks of data manipulation and misinformation. This situation calls for stronger evidence-based management in the public sector and in development cooperation. Through this certification programme, participants develop their data analysis skills to generate and manage knowledge that ultimately inform decision-making. The course relates to the phases of the policy and programme cycles and prepares for the identification of need of knowledge and data in order to - inform strategic intervention planning - the development of evidence-based development models and theories of change - allow adaptive and agile management fed by an up-to-date and on demand data and evidence availability - strengthen evaluation robustness on the basis of solid data collection, analysis and knowledge provision - underpin organisational development based on ready availability of data and analysis - enhance external communication fed by credible evidence
Target Audience: This certification program on data analysis and knowledge management for development is intended for a wide range of actors active in the field of development cooperation, in the public sector or the third sector who want to improve evidence-based management processes: technical specialists, programme and project managers, monitoring and evaluation officers, evaluators, programme managers. Members of the research community involved in the identification, design, implementation and evaluation of development policies, programmes and projects are also invited to participate.
Description: The workshop will train participants from national statistical offices on quality assurance and its implementation throughout the national statistical system. It will also support the development of additional guidelines on quality assurance. Specifically, the workshop will provide an overview of the contents of the Manual, the United Nations National Quality Assurance Framework, the Code of Good Practice in Statistics for Latin America and the Caribbean, and ECLAC’s Guide for the implementation of a quality assurance framework for statistical processes and outputs. It will review and discuss the implementation of quality assurance in participating countries. A special focus will be on quality assurance when administrative and other data sources (such as big data or citizen generated data) are used for producing official statistics. Other topics will include quality culture and data stewardship. The sharing of experiences will be a central element of this workshop and support the development of additional guidance on some of the above-mentioned topics.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 03 Feb 2023 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: The training course will introduce the theoretical and practical know-how of TSA compilation and will position TSA vis-à-vis primary tourism statistics. The main compilation challenges for each TSA table (with a focus on core tables 1 to 7) will be discussed, with the aim of improving the international comparability through maximising the use of existing harmonised European statistics. The final goal of the course is to prepare participants to embark on the production of TSA at national level or to improve the existing TSA and to better align national TSA to the international recommendations.
Target Audience: Staff of national statistical authorities involved in the production process of tourism statistics, national accounts or (tourism) satellite accounts, who want to acquire a good understanding of the macro-economic measurement of the tourism sector, in particular the tourism satellite accounting framework (TSA), with the objective to develop or improve TSA in their country. The training is targeted at experienced as well as novice or future TSA compilers with the aim of spreading/exchanging the know-how and best practices within and between the different levels of expertise.
Description: UNSD’s IRA for Global Geospatial Information Management attended the Tenth Plenary meeting of UN-GGIM: Europe, held at the European Commission in Brussels. 61 participants from 23 Member States and 17 international bodies and observer organizations, and Chairs of other UN-GGIM regional committees attended. UNSD was invited to provide welcome and congratulatory remarks on UN-GGIM: Europe reaching its milestone tenth regional session and for its inputs, support and leadership into the global geospatial agenda. UNSD then provided an overview of the key outcomes from the thirteenth session of UN-GIM,convened in August 2023, and to present and lead a discussion on ‘Enhancing the SDGs with authoritative and integrated geospatial data’, including considering the prospects of how geospatial information must be integral to the framework that will inform the post-2030 Development Agenda. UN-GGIM: Europe in implementing its Workplan 2022 – 2025, the blueprint for putting into practice the UN-GGIM Europe Strategy, confirmed their support to the broad programme of work being undertaken by the UN-GGIM Committee of Experts and in taking the guidance from the global level and applying regionally, and maximizing efforts, resources and outputs. With regard to the global agenda, UN-GGIM: Europe reiterated the importance of continued advocacy among Member States and their Permanent Missions in the negotiations for adequate and sustainable resources in the UN-GGIM Secretariat, and maintained its position that these dedicated resources must be realized and will be critical to continue to support and advance the work program and activities of the Committee of Experts. Noting that new and emerging technologies and the wider digital and data ecosystem are fast evolving, UN-GGIM: Europe explored two significant developments that provide a European perspective on digital transformation through geospatial information, national digital twins, and the importance of governance, funding and investment models. Noting that inclusivity and diversity should be included across the broad programme of work of the UN-GGIM Committee of Experts, the Plenary Meeting appreciated practical examples presented, showing how by focusing on strengths and talents of neurodivergent people ensures that they can contribute to the production of geospatial information. In closing, the UN-GGIM: Europe confirmed the nominations of Belgium, Germany, Portugal and Slovenia for further three-year terms on the Executive Committee of UN-GGIM: Europe and adopted a co-chair leadership model for the UN-GGIM: Europe Executive Committee moving forward, confirming Portugal as vice-Chair, and The Netherlands and United Kingdom as co-Chairs of UN-GGIM: Europe for the next three years.
Description: The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), in collaboration with Statistics Indonesia (BPS), is organizing a workshop on Big Data in Asia-Pacific countries, focusing on an introduction to Remote Sensing and Land cover classification using remote sensing. The overall objective of the week-long workshop is to help participants better understand the use and benefits of Big Data specifically the utilization of Remote Sensing for Land Cover Classification. To that end, the workshop program will present methods, case studies, and processes that can support the Agricultural Statistics to identify the agricultural lands. This workshop is one of the first activities organized under the umbrella of the new Regional Hub for Big Data and Data Science in Official Statistics, which will be launched on 24 November 2023.
Source: ESCAP SIAP (Data extracted on: 07 Dec 2023 )
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Organizer(s): ESCAP SIAP Paris21
Description: The Partnership in Statistics for Development in the 21st Century (PARIS21) in collaboration with the Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific (SIAP) developed a unique training course for NSSNSO leaders and national planning senior managers to improve strategic planning for data and statisticsdevelopmentusing innovative tools and methods. The course will give a thorough introduction to the NSDS design process and introduces the data gaps assessment and planning using ADAPT. In additionthis course will feature special topics on gender statisticsclimate change data as well as fragility and resilience of NSS in crisis context.
Description: The 2023 Global Meeting of the UNWTO International Network of Sustainable Tourism Observatories (INSTO) took place on 21 and 22 November 2023 at the UNWTO Headquarters in Madrid, Spain. The content of the event was structured around these key themes: * Importance of Governance: Exploring the critical role of effective governance in steering sustainable tourism development towards success and long-lasting impact and the role of observatories in this context. * Importance of participatory approaches: Showcasing the significance of involving local communities and stakeholders in shaping sustainable tourism practices and policies through the work of the Observatories. * The net positive approach: Focusing on practical experiences in assessing the environmental impacts of tourism activities through cases studies and tools for measuring and mitigating the ecological footprint of tourism and will looking into measurement aspects in the areas of waste, wastewater and water management and climate action.
Description: The Second Consultative Meeting for the Global Geodesy Development Plan was hosted by the United Nations Global Geodetic Centre of Excellence (UN-GGCE) at the United Nations campus in Bonn from 20 to 23 November 2023. The meeting included 13 participants, with expert representatives from each of the five regional committees of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM) and relevant international organizations (partners). All participants actively contributed to the discussion along with three Members of the UN-GGCE Office.
Description: UNSD took part in a regional workshop on core SDG indicators organized by the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat at the Central Statistical Office of Trinidad and Tobago in Port-of-Spain. The main objective of the workshop was to provide capacity building and support to CARICOM Member States to fill in data gaps in key areas – especially those that relate to the monitoring of the SDGs. Thirty statisticians from the national statistical offices of CARICOM members attended in person, and another ten?plus participants joined online. At the workshop, UNSD presented on the current state of data availability from CARICOM countries in the UN global SDG indicators database and shared information on resources and initiatives available from UNSD to enhance SDG data availability in the CARICOM region and globally. UNSD also contributed to sessions on data disaggregation; data-driven National Voluntary Reviews; the use of nontraditional data sources, including geospatial and citizen generated data; and Statistical Data and Metadata Exchange (SDMX) for SDG reporting. On the final day, participants were able to use the tools and knowledge gained from the workshop to define data priorities and to develop national work plans to improve the production and dissemination of SDG indicators in each country. Post-workshop, the CARICOM Secretariat plans to conduct follow-up in-country missions with the primary aim of improving the range, quality, and dissemination of SDG indicators with a focus on social, gender, environmental, and information and communication technology (ICT) statistics.
Description: Agenda Opening remarks, Ms. Rachael Joanne Beaven – Director, Statistics Division, ESCAP Transforming a Yearbook into a digital portal using .Stat Suite and SDMX, Ashiyath Shazna, Statistician, Maldives Bureau of Statistics Using PowerBI to automate Dashboards, Natthamon Mayurasakhon, Statistician, Government Strategic Information Center, National Statistics Office, Thailand New training on tools to simplify SDMX implementation for data exchange, Jeffrey Napoles, Consultant, Economic Research and Development Impact Department, Asian Development Bank (ADB) Q&A and discussion , Stats Café Home: Upcoming events Concluded events
Description: UNICEF, ESCAP Statistics Division and Vital Strategies will jointly organize the side event at the 7th Asia Pacific Population Conference on Getting everyone in the picture: investing in children. This side event will highlight that serious action and resources are needed to achieve universal and responsive civil registration as agreed to by governments in Asia and the Pacific. To enable the new generations to manage and cope with emerging challenges and ageing populations, governments need to allocate more resources to support the growth and development of children, particularly through child-related benefits. The starting point being to ensure every one has a legal identity and is included in official statistics. The event will take place on 17 November 2023, 12:30-13:45 at Meeting Room G at the UNCC and Microsoft Teams (Please register here)
Source: ESCAP SIAP (Data extracted on: 07 Dec 2023 )
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Organizer(s): ESCAP SIAP ESCAP UNSD ADB
Description: SDMX stands for Statistical Data and Metadata eXchange. It is an ISO standard designed to describe statistical data and metadatanormalize their exchangeand improve their efficient sharing across statistical and similar organizations. SDMX provides an integrated approach to facilitating statistical data and metadata exchangeenabling interoperable implementations within and between systems concerned with the exchangereporting and dissemination of statistical data and their related meta-information. This course has been developed by Asian Development Bank (ADB)United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD)Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)and Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific (SIAP) with comments from the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) and the International Labour Organization (ILO).The course will be available in ADB eLearnand is free-of-chargeself-pacedand open to anyone who is interested in learning more about SDMX.
Description: FAO appointed as one of the international advisers to the newly established Remote Sensing Laboratory for Agricultural Statistics in Hangzhou, China.
Description: The Seventh Asian and Pacific Population Conference is organized by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN ESCAP) in collaboration with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in Asia and the Pacific.It will be held at the United Nations Conference Centre in Bangkok and online from 15 to 17 November 2023. The Conference will provide an opportunity to review the implementation of the Asian and Pacific Ministerial Declaration on Population and Development and the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development in the region. It will focus on intersecting population and development considerations as they relate to sustainable development, both now and in the future. ESCAP member States, relevant stakeholders, United Nations partners, international organizations and others are invited to submit side event proposals by 20 October 2023 at the latest. Please click here for more information and complete the form. CSOs and youth-led organizations are invited to apply to participate in the Seventh APPC and preparatory CSO and Youth Forums. More information can be found here.
Description: The 11th Statistical Forum of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will take place in hybrid format (in person and virtually) in Washington, D.C. during November 15 to 16, 2023. The Forum is a platform for policymakers, researchers, the private sector, regulators, and compilers of economic and financial data to come together to discuss cutting edge issues in macroeconomic and financial statistics and to build support for statistical improvements. The theme of this year’s Statistical Forum is Measuring Money in the Digital Age. Digitalization is pervasive. It has impacted all aspects of life – money is no exception. There are daily accounts of the rise and fall of digital currencies, stable coins and other types of crypto assets, however there is little formal “accounting” of these new forms of money. Digitalization is also changing the way individuals and businesses interact with the financial system. As digitalization continues to impact the future of money and the exchange of value, effective policy and regulation are needed to ensure a stable and equitable financial system. The Forum will explore (i) the new forms of money and payments, (ii) the implication for financial stability and monetary policy, (iii) the impact on financial inclusion and illicit financial flows, and (iv) how we can better measure the new forms of money and payments to support policymaking. The Forum focuses on a discussion track, where participants will have the opportunity to share experiences, and build on topics of mutual interest through presentations and panel discussions.
Description: The PACIFIC CIVIL REGISTRARS NETWORK (PCRN) will be organizing the third webinar in the Webinar series (Journey Towards ICD-11 in the Pacific) on ICD applications, introduction to WHO-FIC and in-depth ICD-11 transition discussion. When: 15 November 2023 To register: Click here.
Description: Nowadays the conditions for the use of Earth Observation (EO) data for agricultural statistics are very favorable. The generous availability of free and open high resolution satellite data (such as from the Copernicus program) offer an unprecedented possibility to detect crop phenology and spectral traits, and to derive accurate agricultural statistics. Moreover, the expansion of cloud storage and computing capabilities, and the rise of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) has opened the door to high flexibility and alternatives for deploying low-cost infrastructures and automation. Despite all this, the actual uptake of EO data for operational use in national statistical offices is still relatively low globally, especially in developing countries, due to a series of barriers, such as the complexity of image pre-processing, low availability and low quality of in-situ data due to high cost of surveys and inconsistent use of georeferencing methods in the field, and models are area and time dependent, and a lack of user-friendly EO platforms. The 4th International Seminar was organized by the Global Hub on Big Data and Data Science for Official Statistics of the National Bureau of Statistics of China together with UNSD and the UN task team on EO data for agriculture statistics. The topic of the seminar was remote sensing for agriculture statistics. The program of the seminar was led by experts from FAO, Mexico and Brazil and consisted of (i) Collection and validation of in-situ data, (ii) Pre-processing of the Satellite data, (iii) Classification of crops using various ML methods, (iv) Quality assessment of the classification, and (v) Crop yield estimation and data analysis and dissemination. In addition, various Chinese experts as well as experts of Rwanda shared their experiences in this field. The audience of the seminar consisted of about 20 participants from Asia and Africa and 80 participants of China. The opportunity of the seminar was taken to launch the laboratory of remote sensing for statistics. This laboratory is part of the Global Hub and will be used by experts from around the world.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 03 Feb 2023 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: Learn how to extract relevant information for statistical purposes from huge amounts of data.
Target Audience: IT professionals whose role is to support statisticians with big data infrastructure, either via local big data clusters or via cloud solutions, and the engineering of big data processing. Methodologists and statisticians with a strong IT background who are expected to handle big data infrastructures and unstructured data.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 02 Dec 2022 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat EFTA FSO Switzerland
Description: Providing participants with a better understanding of transforming statistical data into effective, data-based, open, timely, and user-friendly information objects. How to make complex data understandable with a visual object, incl. storytelling. Meet the tools to choose the right visualisation, tools and frameworks adapted to produce visualisation, and best practices with guidelines and processes.
Description: The Global Bioenergy Partnership (GBEP) is a CSD Partnership registered with the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) since 2007. Its purpose is to provide a mechanism for Partners to organize, coordinate and implement targeted international research, development, demonstration and commercial activities related to production, delivery, conversion and use of biomass for energy, with a focus on developing countries. Among the annual meetings was the 16th meeting of the GBEP Working Group on Capacity Building for Sustainable Bioenergy, where UNSD presented on “Bioenergy statistics for the monitoring of SDG 7 targets”. The intervention was a follow-up of UNSD’s September 2023 presentation on the uncertainties of wood energy data at the global level at the webinar “Carbon accounting for wood energy” as part of the GBEP webinar series. While uncertainties in the data were discussed in September, UNSD now raised conceptual issues as to how sustainability is measured, calling for both issues to be addressed in the set of indicators to be adopted in the post-2030 agenda, and for GBEP to step up and play a bigger role. The meetings also updated members on the activities of GBEP Task Forces and Activity Groups, as well as setting the GBEP agenda for 2024. UNSD’s intervention was within the scope of work of Activity Group 4; "Towards sustainable modern wood energy development". More information, events and publications on this theme can be found on the GBEP website.
Description: The UN Expert Group on National Quality Assurance Frameworks (EG-NQAF) and its Subgroup on administrative and other data sources are hosting a global seminar on assuring the quality when administrative and other data sources are used to produce official statistics. The seminar will present insights on how the use of such data sources poses challenges and how quality aspects of the source data and the source itself impact the final statistical output. Expert speakers from four countries will share their experiences, exploring the promise and complexities of utilizing administrative and other data sources to produce official statistics. Registration: here Date & Time: Tuesday, 14 November at 8:00 – 9:15 AM EDT
Description: The Arab Digital Agenda 2023-2033 has been adopted by the Arab Telecom and Information Technology Council of Ministers, the League of Arab States Economic and Social Council, and the Arab Economic and Social Summit. The agenda relies on the concerted efforts of Arab countries, United Nations and regional organizations, and various relevant parties. In this context, ESCWA and the League of Arab States are organizing the seventh meeting of the Joint Technical Committee and the Core Research and Technical Cooperation Mechanism to discuss means to activate the Arab Digital Agenda. The meeting focuses on the associated products and toolkits to support the deployment, analysis, monitoring, and follow-up of the agenda, as well as on means to update it and widen its scope. The meeting also aims to continue the ongoing preparations for convening the first High-Level Partners' Conference to launch the Arab Digital Agenda 2023-2033 ecosystem.
Description: Measuring and analysing the informality of jobs, economic units and productive activities continues to be a challenge for many developing countries; it hinders policymaking, as the contribution made by the informal economy is unaccounted for due to a lack of data and statistics. Bearing in mind the growing demand for a better understanding of the functioning of the informal economy and ways of measuring informal employment, the International Training Centre of the ILO in Turin (ITCILO), in close collaboration with the ILO Department of Statistics, is proud to offer this e-learning course on Measuring Informal Employment.
Title in French: Mesurer l'inadéquation des compétences
Organizer(s): ILO ITC ILO
Description: L'inadéquation des compétences est une préoccupation commune des décideurs politiques, des employeurs et des travailleurs. Il s'agit d'un thème récurrent dans l'enseignement professionnel et le développement des compétences, avec de nombreuses initiatives politiques lancées pour faire face aux diverses formes du phénomène. En ce qui concerne les compétences fondées sur des données factuelles, des statistiques d'élaboration des politiques sur les diverses formes d'inadéquation des compétences sont nécessaires. S'appuyant sur sa longue expérience dans la prestation de formations sur les compétences et l'analyse du marché du travail, le Centre international de formation de l'OIT, en pleine collaboration avec le Département des statistiques de l'OIT, propose la première édition de ce cours en ligne en français dans le but d'équiper les et des acteurs internationaux dotés des compétences nécessaires pour mesurer et analyser les inadéquations et les déséquilibres de compétences pour l'élaboration de politiques fondées sur des données probantes. Le cours est conçu pour renforcer les capacités d'identification, de collecte, d'analyse et de diffusion des informations sur le marché du travail liées aux déséquilibres de compétences du côté de la demande et de l'offre.
Target Audience: Offices nationaux de statistique (ONS) ; ministères du travail et institutions connexes (telles que les observatoires du travail); les institutions gouvernementales engagées dans l'emploi, le développement des compétences, l'adéquation et l'analyse des compétences ; les organisations internationales et les agences donatrices engagées dans l'adéquation des compétences ; conseils de compétences ; les autorités nationales de l'EFTP ; centres d'EFTP ; les organisations de travailleurs et d'employeurs; les établissements de recherche et universitaires; organisations internationales; agences de développement; organisations non-gouvernementales.
Course Language: French
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Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, acquaints participants with the fundamentals of compiling and using FSIs in support of macroprudential analysis. The course covers methodological and technical issues in the construction of FSIs, as discussed in the 2019 Financial Soundness Indicators Compilation Guide (2019 FSI Guide) . The course takes an interactive approach using hands-on exercises in discussing the main topics as follows: Preparation of the sectoral financial statements and compilation of FSIs for deposit takers; Regulatory framework for deposit takers; Accounting principles and data consolidation for the compilation of FSIs for deposit takers; and Overview of key points and changes in the 2019 FSI Guide.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 03 Feb 2023 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: The main objectives of the course are: * Introducing the participants to the Python language and ecosystem; * Make the participants able to read and write basic Python programs for common data processing tasks (data analysis, exploration and visualization).
Target Audience: Official statisticians (including managers) involved in Big Data and Data Science activities having no specific knowledge on this subject; Official statisticians (including managers) who, without being directly involved in Big Data and Data Science activities, need basic knowledge on the use of the Python language.
Description: AFW2 conducted a regional workshop to promote best practices and international standards for GDP rebasing, and to strengthen participants’ knowledge on using the Supply and Use Tables (SUT) framework as an integral compilation framework. The regional GDP rebasing workshop was attended by both experienced and new national accounts compilers, which gave everyone an opportunity to share experiences across countries.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 25 Jan 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat
Description: Are you interested in unemployment statistics and want to learn more about the evolution of unemployment in the EU? During this webinar, you will get valuable insight into European statistics on unemployment, which is one of the key European economic indicators. Discover how these statistics are compiled and how the figures have evolved over time. To give an in-depth picture of the unemployment in the EU, we present selected results on unemployment across EU countries and additional indicators, such as the labour market slack and labour market transitions. The relevance of these data and the ways in which they inform EU policy are also discussed.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 03 Feb 2023 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: Participants will be able to (re)design statistical categories for the collection of equality data and actively participate in the review of indicators adequate for the relevant EU policy processes. They will also be able to disseminate equality data to diverse audiences.
Title in French: Rôle des Instituts Nationaux de la Statistique dans l’écosystème de production des statistiques environnementales et du changement climatique
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 03 Feb 2023 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: The course aims at enhancing participants' theoretical and practical knowledge of National Accounts. They should become familiar with the system framework, the integration and balancing of source data and the presentation of national accounts data.
Target Audience: Junior statisticians of National Accounts (NA) departments or statisticians of other statistical departments dealing with NA statistics.
Organizer(s): Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data INE Uruguay AGESIC Uruguay Uruguay
Description: The Festival de Datos takes place in Punta del Este, from November 7-9, 2023, bringing together more than 400 delegates from governments, multilateral organizations, the private sector, academia and civil society of various nationalities.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 03 Feb 2023 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: Objectives of this course: * Provide an overview of the key concepts of SEEA ecosystem accounting; * Provide an overview of how national ecosystem accounts are constructed, and how they relate to ‘mainstream’ environmental and national accounting; * Provide understanding the data and tools used to construct the component parts of the accounts (e.g. spatial and environmental data in GIS for ecosystem extent; ecosystem services evidence; monetary valuation techniques).
Target Audience: NSIs and Other National Authorities (with lower priority), working in the field of ecosystem accounting.
Description: The second meeting of the Webinar Series on the Global Initiative on Unique Identifiers for Businesses will bring together regulatory authorities, national statistical offices and users of national and global unique identifiers for businesses. The purpose of the meeting is to have a better understanding of the need for unique business identifiers and of identifying concrete ways to strengthen the legal registration of businesses and the management of unique identifiers. The Webinar Series on the Global Initiative on Unique Identifiers for Businesses is organized by the United Nations Statistics Division in collaboration with the UN Committee of Experts on Business and Trade Statistics and the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation.
Description: Concept Note Innovations remain an integral part of good practices in the production of economic statistics that are timely and meet the needs of users. Overtime, traditional systems of data collection such as surveys have involved to respond to new business practices such as online trading. As a result, some countries have had to change modalities of data collection for measures of aggregates such as inflation. These measures have included tendencies to scrap the internet for prices to produce consumer price indices. Other countries have not yet adopted such innovations. Similarly, for producing macroeconomic and microeconomic statistics such as gross domestic product (GDP), retail statistics, employment amongst others, countries have embraced different data collection techniques. Besides mere data collection, new industries such as e-commerce have emerged, often facilitated by more efficient payment systems and changes in consumer purchasing habits. While this has improved the timeliness of data produced, it is important that statistical standards are maintained in line with fundamental principles of official statistics. This Stats Café was organized by the Statistics Division of ESCAP and aimed to showcase country level practices and experiences regarding on-line price collection for consumer price indices, purchasing power parities (PPP’s) within the context of the international comparison programme (ICP) and the measurement of e-commerce. By participating in this Stats Café, attendees were expected to: Learn about how some countries are applying new innovations with respect to price data collection for price indices and their associated challenges; Acquaint themselves with some of the approaches and methods for measuring e-commerce. Agenda Moderator: Mr Alick Mjuma Nyasulu, Statistician, Statistics Division, ESCAP Opening remarks: Ms Rikke Munk Hansen, Chief, Economic and Environmental Statistics Section, Statistics Division, ESCAP Measuring E-commerce using market place site, Mr Viktor Suwiyanto, Junior Expert Computer Administrator, BPS Statistics Indonesia Online price collection for the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and experiences on the 2021 International Comparison Programme , Ms Ruth Lee, Senior Manager, Consumer Price Indices, Department of Statistics, Singapore Online Price Collection for Consumer Price Indices, Ms Chindy Saktias Pratiwi, Statistician, Directorate of Price Statistics, BPS Statistics Indonesia & Ms Irien Kamaratih Kamaratih Arsiani, Statistician at Integration of Statistical Processing and Dissemination - BPS Statistics Indonesia Question and Answer/Discussion , Moderator: Mr Alick Mjuma Nyasulu, Statistician, ESCAP Statistics Division Closing remarks: Mr Alick Mjuma Nyasulu, Statistician, ESCAP Statistics Division , Stats Café Home: Upcoming events Concluded events
Source: ESCAP SIAP (Data extracted on: 07 Dec 2023 )
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Organizer(s): ESCAP SIAP ESCAP НИУ ВШЭ
Description: The 2030 Agenda encourages member states to conduct regular and inclusive reviews of progress at the national and sub-national levels which are country-led and country-driven. This course focuses on building capacity in countries for reporting on the SDG indicators using national indicator frameworks. During the course participants will learn about key concepts around metadataparticularly related to the SDGslearn how to fill the SDG metadata template and better understand the importance of metadata to help explain the data and potential differences between data.The target participants are officials in national statistical officesline ministries and other institutions who are responsible for providing data and metadata for one or more national SDG indicators. The course can also be useful to a wider audience who is interested to learn more about metadata in the SDG context.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, acquaints participants with the fundamentals of compiling and using FSIs in support of macroprudential analysis. The course covers methodological and technical issues in the construction of FSIs, as discussed in the 2019 Financial Soundness Indicators Compilation Guide (2019 FSI Guide). The course takes an interactive approach using hands-on exercises in discussing the main topics as follows: Preparation of the sectoral financial statements and compilation of FSIs for deposit takers; Regulatory framework for deposit takers; Accounting principles and data consolidation for the compilation of FSIs for deposit takers; and Overview of key points and changes in the 2019 FSI Guide.
Organizer(s): Group on Earth Observations South Africa
Description: GEO Week 2023 will take place in Cape Town, South Africa, from 6-10 November 2023. Organized by the Group on Earth Observations (GEO), and hosted by the Government of South Africa, the week will bring together practitioners to discuss the potential for earth observation to assist in addressing global challenges. CELEBRATING 2023 GEO SDG AWARD WINNERS The Group on Earth Observations and the Earth Observations for Sustainable Development Goals (EO4SDG) Initiative announced the winners of the 2023 GEO SDG Awards and FAO will receive two awards recognizing the productivity, innovation, novelty and exemplary efforts in the use of Earth observations to support sustainable development.After a careful evaluation by a panel of eight unique experts representing diverse countries and sectors, based on the overall impact, quality, and soundness of the Earth observation endeavors, and its potential for replication and upscaling, two of FAO's groundbreaking projects have been selected to win: WaPOR and EOSTAT. The Award Ceremony will take place in Cape Town, South Africa, on 8 November 2023 at GEO Week. This prestigious award recognizes FAO's projects for their exemplary contribution to advancing sustainable agriculture and water resource management, and underscores the vital role that innovative applications of Earth observation play in addressing the world's most pressing challenges. About WaPOR Launched in 2017, WaPOR is a publicly accessible near real-time database using satellite data to monitor agricultural water productivity at various scales. Since its inception, WaPOR has been providing near-real time data covering Africa and the Near East, and it has recently been expanded to encompass the entire globe. In addition to data production and dissemination, FAO, in collaboration with IHE Delft and IWMI, is actively assisting user groups in target countries in enhancing their capacity to utilize the data and create customized applications to meet the diverse needs of users, ranging from governments to service providers and farmers worldwide. Moreover, WaPOR holds significant relevance in reporting on SDG 6.4.1, focusing on water-use efficiency, with FAO acting as the custodian agency. All data, methodologies, algorithms, and scripts are made openly available, and the data is also disseminated through APIs to facilitate seamless integration into existing platforms, tools, or applications. About EOSTAT Developed by the Bureau of Statistics of Lesotho and the FAO Office of Lesotho, EOSTAT is a solution that allows for on-the-fly computation of the SDG indicator 15.4.2 of the mountain green cover index (MGCI) at the national level, and disaggregated by elevation zones, using 10m resolution Sentinel-2 land cover data. Prior to its implementation, there were no mechanisms in place to update the existing national LC baseline from 2015, which made reporting on SDG 15.4.2 unattainable. In this context, this robust EO-based solution has been a game changer, as it satisfies a multitude of reporting tasks through national land cover and land cover change statistics. This allows for significant cost savings on field survey activities, and for pertinent data gaps to be filled with ensured accuracy, timeliness, and granularity. Thanks to the big data infrastructure underpinning the solution, it was possible to integrate the Land Cover and SDG modules with specific ecosystem health indicators, simplifying the process to monitor ecosystem status in any area in the country at any time.EOSTAT is currently used by the National Meteorological Services to identify hotspots of vegetation degradation, monitor the impact of land restoration projects, and assess the impact of climate change on the status of ecosystems. The Ministry of Forestry, Range and Soil Conservation also uses the tool to monitor the health of rangelands in real-time. This partnership with the national FAO office on the EOSTAT platform increased Lesotho’s national capacity to produce SDG indicators and fostered new possibilities for monitoring national ecosystem health and ecosystem services. Related links WaPOR, remote sensing for water productivity SDG Indicator 6.4.1 "Water use efficiency" EOSTAT project SDG Indicator 15.4.2 "Mountain Green Cover Index" GEO Week 2023 programme
Description: The twelfth plenary meeting, the formal annual meeting of the United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management Regional Committee for Asia and the Pacific (UN-GGIM-AP) was hosted by the Government of Indonesia through its Badan Informasi Geospatial in Bali, Indonesia. The week-long event also included a two-day Asia Pacific Geospatial Forum, the inter-regional committee meeting (a meeting of presidents and chairs of UN-GGIM regional committees, see below), a one-day workshop on geodetic reference frame and applications for disaster, a half-day workshop on the implementation of the United Nations Integrated Geospatial Information Framework (UN-IGIF) in Asia and the Pacific, and a half-day expert consultation and meeting on enhancing national geospatial information management and accelerating the achievements of the Sustainable Development Goals. The Asia Pacific Geospatial Forum was officially opened by HE Mr. Hadi Tjahjanto, the Minister of Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning Indonesia. This regional forum, with the theme ‘Geo-Innovation for a Safe and Sustainable World’ brought together national, regional and international speakers to discuss how to unlock the potential of geospatial information through innovation, geo-enabling solutions for sustainable cities, innovation for effective land administration and developing the geospatial innovation capacities. Participants affirmed the valuable exchange of knowledge, ideas and experiences and many looked forward to sound practices for implementing at the local level. The one-day workshop on geodetic reference frame and applications for disaster allowed participants to interact and discussed on geodesy and its relevance and application for science and society including efforts to better understand the dynamic Earth. The need for geodetic capacity development in the region was re-emphasized. The Regional Committee appreciated the engagement by the United Nations Global Geodetic Centre of Excellence and provided valuable feedback to the Centre on its priorities including the preparation for a joint global geodesy development plan. The Regional Committee will encourage broad participation in the virtual consultation planned by the Centre together with the regional committee in January 2024. The co-Chair of the High-level Group of the Integrated Geospatial Information Framework from the United States provided a recorded ‘set-the-scene’ presentation for the half-day workshop on the UNIGIF. Every Member State from Asia and the Pacific shared how they are leveraging the UN-IGIF to strengthen and improve their national coordination and resources for their geospatial information management. The other four regional committees contributed with presentations related to their region. At the subsequent expert consultation on Friday 10 November 2023, Fiji, Indonesia, Mongolia, Nepal and Tonga shared their journeys towards their UN-IGIF country-level Action Plan. Many countries shared the need for leadership and robust governance arrangements with mandates and legislations. The need to engage stakeholders early in the journey was emphasized. Participants in the consultation appreciated the open exchange of experiences and perspectives and welcomed future opportunities to consult and discuss with one another in a collegial setting. Many countries appreciated the continuous ‘reminders’ to align their efforts to national development priorities and to operationalize the UN-IGIF according to their respective national circumstances. The twelfth plenary meeting was officially opened by HE Mr. Suharso Monoarfa, Minister of National Development and Planning. Twenty-one Member States were represented. In addition, Chile and the United States represented UN-GGIM: Americas and Saudi Arabia represented UN-GGIM: Arab States at the twelfth plenary meeting. At the meeting of the UN-GGIM-AP Executive Board and subsequently affirmed at the plenary meeting, China, Fiji and Nepal were welcomed as members of the Executive Board together with Indonesia (President), India, Japan and Singapore (Vice-Presidents) and Australia, Iran, Korea, Malaysia, Mongolia and Russia. Also decided at the Executive Board Meeting and then confirmed at the plenary meeting, the establishment of the UNGGIM-AP Academic Network and UN-GGIM-AP Private Sector Network. These networks are expected to contribute and support the regional committee’s efforts towards the strengthening and improvement of geospatial information management in countries in Asia and the Pacific. All four working groups of the regional committee met, reviewed their progress, revisited their work-plans and agreed to a set of activities for the upcoming inter-plenary meeting period, including around awareness raising and capacity development. The thirteenth plenary meeting of UN-GGIM-AP will be hosted by India through the Survey of India in November 2024. The venue will be decided at a later date, in consultation with the UN-GGIM-AP Executive Board. Additionally, the plenary meeting agreed that the next meeting of its Executive Board will be hosted by Australia at Locate2024, which takes place in Sydney in May next year.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 01 Nov 2022 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat EFTA
Description: Objectives of the course: * Introduce the GSBPM and how it applies to quality control in NSI’s. * Introduce R and its basic functions. * Present how R can be used within NSI’s for processing, analyzing and creating output for users. * Introduce the tidyverse and how it can be used for data wrangling. * Present ggplot and how it can be used to produce graphs. * Introduce RMarkdown and how to write reports through R.
Target Audience: Statisticians working in the production of official statistics, especially data processing and analysis. No specific experience within official statistics is necessary. The course should both be relevant for junior as well as senior statisticians.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 30 Nov 2022 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat EFTA FSO Switzerland
Description: The objective of the course is to introduce participants to some advanced techniques of non-response treatment, variance estimation, calibration and sample coordination. Theoretical concepts and findings will be illustrated by examples and practical exercises. The course starts with an introduction to the R software, which will allow participants to better understand practical applications of presented survey techniques and their successful implementation in practice.
Target Audience: Junior or senior staff of methodology divisions using sample survey techniques in the production of statistics or staff with comparable knowledge.
Description: Join FAO for the launch of the flagship report "The State of Food and Agriculture 2023", which will be held under the theme "Revealing the true cost of food to transform agrifood systems". Monday, 6 November 2023 | 12.30 – 14.00 (Rome hours) Sheikh Zayed Centre, FAO headquarters and online | Register here The 2023 edition of The State of Food and Agriculture report focuses on uncovering the hidden impacts of our agrifood systems for informed decision-making. It proposes true cost accounting (TCA) as an approach to quantify the hidden costs and benefits of our agrifood systems. Using TCA, this report provides a first attempt at quantifying the environmental, social and health hidden costs of agrifood systems for 154 countries. The findings are a starting point to stimulate debate and dialogue among agrifood systems actors. This initial quantification can be improved based on country-specific information and input from in-country stakeholders and experts, to guide in-depth analyses for transformative actions at country-level. The 2024 edition of the report will continue on this theme and focus on case studies to highlight the flexibility of this approach to support sustainable agrifood systems transformation. Opened by the FAO Director-General, the high-level panelists will share their experiences in addressing these hidden costs of agrifood systems, highlighting the importance of measuring and integrating them into decision-making in order to improve the value of agrifood systems. A discussion will follow on how the TCA approach can reinforce the environmental, social and economic sustainability of agrifood systems. Interpretation will be provided in all UN languages. Previous editions of the series The State of Food and Agriculture are available here.
Source: ESCAP SIAP (Data extracted on: 07 Dec 2023 )
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Organizer(s): ESCAP SIAP ILO
Description: The causes and consequences of informal employment and employment in informal sector and their impact on achieving sustainable development continues to gain attention in national development agendas. The evidence in developing and emerging economies shows that on average more than half of the employment in non-agricultural sectors are informal and this rate can reach as high as 80% in some countries. Thereforeevery national policy targeting povertysocial protectionor decent work needs to recognise the role of the informal economy in national development. Yetthe lack of data and statistics on the informal economy hinders the capacity of countries to better inform decisions and development policies. This regional training course brings together statisticians and labour analysts from Asia-Pacific national statistical systems to discuss technical aspects and share experiences in the production and use of statistics on informality
Organizer(s): UNSD Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data INE Uruguay UNCEBD UNMGCY AWS UN Big Data Regional Hub in Brazil UN Big Data Regional Hub in China UN Big Data Regional Hub in Rwanda UN Big Data Regional Hub in the United Arab Emirates ECLAC Statistics Indonesia Statistics Canada ONS United Kingdom Oblivious OpenMined World Food Forum
Description: Leverage technology and your expertise to develop innovative solutions for a more sustainable and equitable future. Join us on this journey of innovation, exploration, and problem-solving as we harness the power of data to create a more sustainable and resilient world. Datathon participants will develop innovative data-driven applications, tools or statistical models combining geospatial data with other data sources to help advance the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals. Register today!
Description: Under the Data For Now initiative, a knowledge exchange event was organized between Ghana Statistical Services and Statistics Sierra Leone on marine litter data and citizen science, in Accra from 2-3 November 2023. The meeting was hosted by SDSN TReNDS, the Ghana Statistical Services and the Ghana Environmental Protection Agency. The knowledge exchange event is to foster collaborative learning by sharing experiences, lessons learned, challenges and opportunities for collecting marine litter data with a special focus on harnessing citizen science data. The exchange aims to explore sustainable strategies, for expanding data collection efforts and enhancing cross-country cooperation within the Data For Now Initiative. UNSD presented its work around the Collaborative on Citizen Data.
Description: On 11 January 2023, the Expert Group on National Quality Assurance Frameworks conducted its 29th meeting via Teams. During the meeting, UNSD presented the updated survey results on the implementation of quality assurance in countries and expressed its gratitude to countries that have responded to the survey. The meeting also reviewed the updated Roadmap for the implementation of a national quality assurance framework, which was revised based on the feedback received at the Workshop for African countries on 6-9 December 2022. Furthermore, the Expert Group discussed the format and agenda for the side-event on data quality at the 54th session of the Statistical Commission. At this year’s Commission the item on data quality will be for discussion and decision. Nine countries and four international and regional organizations attended the meeting, with a total of 21 participants.
Description: The Joint meeting of the Steering Groups of the ESCAP Committee on Statistics: Steering Group for the Regional Programme for the Improvement of Economic Statistics in Asia and the Pacific and the Regional Steering Group on Population and Social Statistics, was held virtually on 31 October to 2 November 2023, from 10:00 – 13.00 (Bangkok time). Meeting Report List of participants Meeting evaluation Programme Concept note Meeting objectives Exchange national experiences, practices and innovations in economic, social and population statistics Share research and experiences by Steering Group members on priority topics identified by the Committee on Statistics: Data governance, big data, gender statistics, and well-being and sustainability measures Learn of relevant initiatives by regional and international development partners Discuss preliminary findings and emerging recommendations from consultations and the ongoing review of the structure of the ESCAP Committee on Statistics Identify strategies to enhance the Asia-Pacific region’s contribution and influence within relevant global forums The agenda of the meeting tentatively includes: Innovative approaches and methodologies applied by countries represented on the Steering Groups to population, social, and economic statistics Sharing research and experience by countries represented on the Steering Groups on topics featured by the Committee on Statistics in its recent session, e.g., the production and use of complementary progress measures with an emphasis on climate change-related statistics, big data for official statistics, accounting for integrated statistics and analysis, gender mainstreaming, etc. Briefing on the relevant initiatives and tools by development partners Briefing on the consultation results and the Bureau’s work on the “Review of the Committee Structure” Relevant global forums: Strategies to enhance the Asia-Pacific region's contribution and influence.
Description: This course, presented by the IMF Statistics Department, is based on the conceptual framework of the 2008 System of National Accounts (2008 SNA). It covers advanced methodological and practical issues related to the compilation of the sequence of accounts of the SNA (current and capital accounts, financial accounts, other changes in volume of assets accounts, revaluation accounts, and balance sheets) byinstitutional sectors. The course will also examine the linkages between institutional sectors as a basis for establishing from-whom-to-whom accounts. The aim of the course is to provide participants with the necessary skills to compile-or further enhance-their country's institutional sector accounts and the balance sheets. The course consists of lectures covering conceptual and methodological issues, workshops sessions on practical compilation issues, discussions on emerging financial issues such as fintech and crypto assets. It will review case studies involving new applications of ISA such as household distributions to examine income, consumption and wealth accumulation by various cohorts and intergenerational transfers and pensions. The myriad ways in which the ISA supports economic policy will also be examined. The lectures will provide a thorough review of the methodological framework, concepts, and definitions relating to sectoral institutional sector accounts and balance sheets, examine potential data sources for the compilation of annual and quarterly ISA, and illustrate possible compilation techniques and procedures. The course also provides a forum for participants to share country practices and experiences relating to the compilation of sectoral institutional accounts and balance sheets.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 25 Jan 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat INE Spain
Description: Los próximos días 30 y 31 de octubre el Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) y el Instituto de Economía, Geografía y Demografía del CSIC (IEGD-CSIC) organizan la 4ª edición de estas jornadas, con la colaboración del Centro de Estudios Demográficos (CED), la Asociación de Demográfica Histórica, el Grupo de Geografía de la Población de la Asociación Española de Geografía y la Red Retos Demográficos, Red temática de investigación en demografía y estudios de la población RED2022-134952-T. Estas Jornadas, que dan continuidad a las celebradas en 2015, 2018 y 2022, se han consolidado como en un instrumento muy útil para el intercambio entre productores y usuarios de la estadística oficial y han contado con una participación e interés creciente por parte del mundo académico. En esta ocasión las Jornadas tienen un elemento especial. Se realizan coincidiendo con la presidencia española de la Unión Europea y por ello se dedicará una primera sesión, que ocupará toda la mañana del día 30, a celebrar una European Data Users Conference, a analizar la situación de las estadísticas sociales y demográficas en el ámbito de la Unión Europea. Además, en esta edición se va a poder debatir sobre el futuro de las estadísticas públicas en España una vez culminado el proceso de publicación de los Censos de Población y viviendas 2021, basados por primera vez en datos administrativos y con muchas novedades metodológicas.
Description: Concept Note Many statisticians associate the International Statistical Institute (ISI) with the biennial ISI World Statistics Congresses (WSC), while this is just one among many initiatives ISI has spearheaded over its 138-year history, in order to “promote the understanding, development, and good practice of statistics worldwide." ISI spells out its vision, being the one and only outstanding independent international statistical organization that a) sets the global standard for ethical practice in statistics, b) connects its members and shares the most recent developments in statistical techniques and practices, c) offers high-quality scientific content and support the development of statisticians from all over the world. Join us at this Stats Café session, to learn more about ISI and what it can mean to you. This session will overview ISI and its offerings, with a focus on its roles in ethical practice, and fostering the production and sharing of high-quality scientific content plus the development of statisticians. Relevant links: https://www.isi-web.org/ Agenda Moderator: Gemma Van Halderen, Elected member of the International Statistics Institute and former focal point for the Association’s Young Statistician Prize. Opening remarks: Gemma Van Halderen, Chief Data Officer, Data and Evaluation Group, Australian Government Department of Social Services Touching upon the ISI and its offerings, Oliver Chinganya, Director, African Centre for Statistics, UNECA, and ISI Vice President ISI advocating ethical principles in statistics, Walter Radermacher, chair of the Advisory Board on Ethics of the ISI ISI promoting official statistics: the Statistical Journal of the International Association for Official Statistics (SJIAOS), Lisa Grace S. Bersales, member of the executive committee of the International Association for Official Statistics and former member of the editorial team of the SJIAOS ISI promoting survey statistics: the International Association of Survey Statisticians (IASS), Natalie Shlomo, President of IASS ISI and statistical capacity building in the ESCAP region, Matthew Shearing, Co-Chair of the ISI Statistical Capacity Building Committee Q & A and discussion Closing remarks: Rachael Beaven, Director, Statistics Division, ESCAP , Stats Café Home: Upcoming events Concluded events
Organizer(s): UNSD Eurostat World Bank OECD BIS ECB IMF ILO ESCWA Bank of Italy
Description: The 9th Global Conference on Statistical Data and Metadata Exchange (SDMX) will be held 29 October to 2 November 2023 in Manama, Bahrain on the theme of Empowering Data Communities. The Global Conference is a bi-annual event for the official statistics community worldwide to share information on recent and upcoming SDMX developments. The 2023 event, co-organised by the SDMX Sponsors and the Bahrain Information and eGovernment Authority (IGA) with support of ESCWA and Banca d’Italia, will bring together a broad range of official statistics compilers and users from national, regional and international agencies, academia and the private sector.
Description: Classification of the Functions of Government (COFOG) is a classification defined by the United Nations Statistics Division and adapted to the IMF government finance statistics (GFS) reporting framework. COFOG enables trends in government expenditure by function (e.g., defense or education) or policy purposes to be examined over time. The value of this is that expenditure by functions of government of different countries can be compared. Participants will gain an understanding of how the ten functions of government as described in the GFSM 2014 are classified, how to categorize expenditure data to generate a functional split will be explained and how it should reconcile with the economic classification of expenditure data used in the GFS. Participants should feel comfortable to present and discuss relevant data of their own country. Practical exercises with participants working in random groups will feature throughout the course enabling them to be able to appropriately categorize expenditure data to the correct functional categories.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 25 Jan 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat
Description: Do you want to find out more about job skills utilisation in the EU? To mark European Statistics Day, which was celebrated on 20 October, and the European Year of Skills, this webinar on jobs skills offers insights on the statistics available in this field. It can help you understand important topics such as: * skills demand and supply in the labour market; * educational attainment levels; * the level of digital skills; * specifics of working time. These data come from various statistical sources: the EU labour force survey (LFS), job vacancy statistics (JVS), and the EU survey on the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in households and by individuals.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 25 Jan 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat CZSO Czechia
Description: The 9th EMOS workshop will take place on 26 and 27 October 2023 on the premises of the Prague University of Economics and Business in Prague, Czech Republic, bringing together representatives of EMOS-labelled master’s programmes and of organisations producing official statistics, EMOS Board members, EMOS students and graduates, European Central Bank and national central banks, international organisations and Eurostat. With a deliberate structure aimed at nurturing effective collaboration, this workshop aims to harness the richness of diverse perspectives in shaping the future of EMOS. Thursday, 26 October 2023 On the first day of the workshop, Thursday, 26 October, participants will gather to gain insights into the latest developments shaping European statistics and to explore relevant activities in the higher education sphere at the European level. After this, two key topics – internships and employability of EMOS students and collaboration and cohesion in the EMOS network – will be explored from a range of different perspectives in panel discussions. The programme will be concluded at 17:30 and followed by a social dinner. Friday, 27 October 2023 The second day of the workshop, Friday, 27 October, will be organised by the contracted study team responsible for assessing the future of EMOS. This day's program is designed to foster interactive group work, facilitating in-depth discussions and the collaborative generation of ideas, culminating in a plenary session. The main objective of Day 2 is to co-create viable options for the future development of EMOS alongside its key stakeholders. Through group work, participants will actively engage in brainstorming and idea-sharing sessions. The focus will be on identifying potential barriers and challenges that may arise during the implementation of these proposed solutions.
Description: International Statistical Classifications are an essential component of the statistical infrastructure. They ensure quality and relevance of statistics and their comparability across time and domains, e.g., output, trade, employment, balances, etc. International classifications are also essential to guarantee international comparability and therefore monitor global trend and phenomena in a reliable manner. In an increasingly interconnected world, classifications can play an important role for the integration of statistics across domains as long as the underlying concepts are clearly identified and to the extent possible linked. The revision and maintenance of classifications requires continuous and dedicated efforts to ensure that the classifications reflect the reality and support sound policymaking and informed decisions.
The Sprint is jointly organized by UN Network of Economic Statisticians and the UN Committee of Experts on International Statistical Classifications to raise awareness of the importance of international classifications with both internal and external users; advance outreach by the Committee of Experts on International Statistical Classifications to engage NSOs; provide an additional forum for discussing and sharing modern ways of updating and implementing classifications; and highlight the importance of investing in classification work as a foundation for data integration.
The Sprint consists of three webinars. The first webinar will explore the role of statistical classifications for data integration . It will raise awareness of the importance of international statistical classifications with both internal and external users and highlight the importance of investing in classification work as a foundation for data integration by showcasing real life applications inside and outside NSOs.
Description: Two broad categories of voices may be missing in household survey data. The first is people from types of households that are often missed – the very rich and the very poor; and marginalized groups such as indigenous people, unhoused people, or those living in institutional settings. The second category is people who live in households that are surveyed, but whose voices are missed when only one member of the household is interviewed. For instance, when only the household head is interviewed, the voices of women, youth, and the elderly may not be heard. This webinar will present recent research on ways to ensure that data is collected on all members of the household as well as to show the added value of exploring the insights gained when more than one person in the household is interviewed.
Description: The UN Committee of Experts on International Statistical Classifications is the central coordination body for the work on international statistical classifications that are the responsibility of the Statistics Division, and for the coordination and review of other international statistical classifications that are the responsibility of other international organizations and that have been proposed for adoption by the Statistical Commission.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 03 Feb 2023 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: Objective: To provide participants engaged in statistical, technical and other analytical training, presentations, consulting and facilitating group discussions with enhanced levels of competence and the expertise required to be effective in understanding and managing groups and individuals. It provides excellent insights into ‘statistical consulting’ which is frequently part of the statistical trainers’ role.
Target Audience: Designed for all those who are engaged in providing statistical, technical and analytical training, giving statistical, technical and analytical presentations, providing statistical, technical and analytical consulting and facilitating group sessions with statistical and non-statistical audiences.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 24 Aug 2023 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: The main objective of this course is to offer an overview on the various necessary steps to compile a supply-and-use system and for the transformation of the resulting data in matrices, focusing on practical examples on how that compilation is made. The second objective is to provide an introduction into input-output analysis and to show how this technique may be used for structural analyses. In particular the course aims at illustrating in which fields input-output analysis can be used to address questions of high political relevance.
Target Audience: The course is targeted at ESS staff interested in the principles of compiling supply and use tables according to ESA2010 and in understanding the main concepts and the potentials of input-output analysis for empirical investigations of high political relevance.
Description: The Expert Group on National Quality Assurance Frameworks (EG-NQAF) and its Subgroup on Quality Culture hosted a virtual Global Seminar on Quality Culture. The Seminar emphasized the crucial role of establishing and maintaining a quality culture for official statistics within national statistical systems for achieving continuous quality improvements. The Seminar brought together presentations of four countries (Colombia, Norway, Niger and United Kingdom) to showcase best practices in the implementation of a quality culture, addressing challenges, and discussing expectations for the work of the Subgroup on Quality Culture. The event facilitated exchanges on the different dimensions, aspects and approaches to establishing a quality culture, highlighting the interlinkage between quality culture and the national quality assurance frameworks. The Seminar was attended by 48 international experts and colleagues. The presentations are available on the event website.
Description: During this joint webinar by the UN Global Network of Data Officers and Statisticians, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the UN, and of the UN Datathon 2023 we were happy to welcome Aida Khalil, Oluwakayode Anidi, and Max Shang from FAO who talked about how to unlock food and agriculture microdata through the FAM Catalogue. The Food and Agriculture Microdata (FAM) Catalogue was launched by the FAO in 2019 to promote increased access to food security, nutrition, and agriculture-related microdata. As of today, the FAM Catalogue hosts over 1,300 surveys and censuses, providing easy access to their relevant documentation, metadata and, in most cases, microdata. Primarily targeted to FAM current and potential users, the webinar will focus on the Catalogue's main features, its publication workflow and supporting technologies, and on the different microdata access modalities in place. During this webinar the presenters also illustrated some of the datasets available on FAM that could be used in the context of the UN Datathon 2023.
Description: Starting with a question, a knowledge gap, and looking for an answer through data. This certification programme aims to provide development practitioners with the knowledge, methods, tools and software solutions to gather, store, process, analyse, visualise, and utilise qualitative and quantitative data to meet the information needs of an organisation and its stakeholders. With the technological advances of recent years, the amount of data and its potential have multiplied, but together with the risks of data manipulation and misinformation. This situation calls for stronger evidence-based management in the public sector and in development cooperation. Through this certification programme, participants develop their data analysis skills to generate and manage knowledge that ultimately inform decision-making. The course relates to the phases of the policy and programme cycles and prepares for the identification of need of knowledge and data in order to - inform strategic intervention planning - the development of evidence-based development models and theories of change - allow adaptive and agile management fed by an up-to-date and on demand data and evidence availability - strengthen evaluation robustness on the basis of solid data collection, analysis and knowledge provision - underpin organisational development based on ready availability of data and analysis - enhance external communication fed by credible evidence
Target Audience: This certification program on data analysis and knowledge management for development is intended for a wide range of actors active in the field of development cooperation, in the public sector or the third sector who want to improve evidence-based management processes: technical specialists, programme and project managers, monitoring and evaluation officers, evaluators, programme managers. Members of the research community involved in the identification, design, implementation and evaluation of development policies, programmes and projects are also invited to participate.
Description: Weighting is one of the major components in survey sampling. For a given sample survey, to each unit of the selected sample is attached a weight that is used to obtain estimates of population parameters of interest (e.g. means, totals, rates). The weighting process usually involves three steps: (i) obtain the design weights, which account for sample selection; (ii) adjust these weights to compensate for nonresponse; (iii) adjust the weights so that the estimates coincide to some population figures known from external trusted sources. The principle behind estimation in a probability survey is that each sample unit represents not only itself, but also several units of the survey population. The design weight of a unit usually refers to the average number of units in the population that each sampled unit represents. This weight is determined by the sampling method and is an important part of the estimation process. While the design weights can be used for estimation, most surveys produce a set of estimation weights by adjusting the design weights to improve accuracy of the final estimates. Once the final estimation weights have been calculated, they are applied to the sample data in order to compute estimates. The ILO Department of Statistics, in collaboration with the ITCILO, is proud to offer the Online course "Weighting Methods & Strategies". This course is directly linked to the course "Sampling Design: A Practical Approach" planned to take place in the spring of 2023 as both courses complement each other. Both courses are considered a learning journey that qualifies the learner to understand comprehensively Sampling design & weighting. Hence, attending both courses is strongly recommended for a fulfilling learning journey.
Target Audience: This course requires basic knowledge of statistics and probability! - It requires basic capacity to run procedures on statistical software using syntax (e.g. Stata do files, Spss syntax files, R scripts, Sas program files, etc.), and in particular with R3. The target audience includes: - Statisticians and practitioners from national statistical offices that have a role in designing household surveys samples.
Description: The course aims to enhance national capacities in the latest, most up-to-date statistical sampling techniques and methods, survey planning and data weights.
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Description: Nowcasting refers to the practice of using recently published data to update key economic indicators that are published with a significant lag, such as real GDP. The aim of this course is to familiarize participants with cutting-edge nowcasting tools that facilitate the use mixed-frequency data in regression models. The course begins by establishing the importance of nowcasting for more timely and appropriate policy formulation during crisis periods such as the GFC or COVID-19. It then reviews the standard nowcasting regression-based procedures available, including the BRIDGE, MIDAS, and U-MIDAS estimators, both with and without dynamic factors. The course also reviews the more general state-space/Kalman filter approach to formulating and estimating a nowcasting model with mixed-frequency data. Procedures for combining nowcasts from the distinct models are considered, along with statistical procedures for evaluating the accuracy of a sequence of nowcasts. Each topic is complemented by a hands-on workshops and assignment using country-specific data using the EViews econometric package. The workshops and assignments are an integral component of the course designed to illuminate the actual steps required to generate a nowcast.
Description: This was first in a series of regional expert consultations and meetings to enhance national geospatial information management arrangements and accelerate the achievement of the SDGs. It was convened from 23-28 November 2023 on ECA premises with the support of the Geospatial Information Management Section (GiMS) in ECA. The consultation engaged geospatial leaders from Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Mozambique, and South Africa. Staff from ECA and UNSD, including the Director of the recently established United Nations Global Geospatial Knowledge and Innovation Centre (UN-GGKIC) in Deqing (China) as well as invited resource persons participated. The group energetically interacted providing guidance and reviews on their national efforts, challenges, and accomplishments towards implementation of the United Nations Integrated Geospatial Information Framework (UN-IGIF) in African countries, particularly through UN-IGIF Country-level Action Plans. This included sharing challenges and accomplishments in engaging and working with colleagues across government, including national statistical offices, to integrate geospatial information, statistics, and other relevant data to produce ‘geospatially disaggregated’ indicators for visualizing and ‘story telling’national development priorities and the SDGs. In this regard, the group also provided valuable contributions to improve the recommended approach and related guides, resource materials and tools developed to support national efforts towards implementing the SDGs with the UN-IGIF. This highly interactive peer-to-peer learning approach benefited from the selfless sharing of real frustrations, accomplishments, joys, and pains to improve the visibility and impact of national geospatial programs and entities, and their contribution to national development. In this process, the group highlighted the importance of leadership –including personal commitment and passion – and strategies that can be employed to grow geospatial leadership in organizations and across government. A key element for success is having good governance structures and institutional arrangements in place, including government mandates and resources to ensure the sustainability of the UNIGIF. They also highlighted the importance of effective communication, and engagement, not only within their organizations, but also across government and amongst partners and stakeholders. The need to provide key messages and build multi-agency collaboration was referenced several times throughout the week. The geospatial leaders from Africa gratefully acknowledged the valuable support they are receiving from UNSD and the SDG Data Alliance in their journey of learning and discovering, allowing them to improve their national geospatial information management arrangements, and supporting the achievements of national development priorities and the SDGs. They confirmed the efficacy of the United Nations recommended ‘self-pace, learn and discover’ approach to develop their UN-IGIF Country-level Action Plans and the importance of demonstrating impacts through the use of enabling geospatial technologies including SDG Data Hubs. However, whilst appreciating the support and assistance thus far, the group requested further support be made available to the many other countries in their continent that are willing and ready to enhance their national geospatial information management capabilities and capacities. Noting that the overarching goal of the UN-GGKIC is to work towards the ambitions of implementation of the UN-IGIF, and to provide technical assistance and capacity building for national SDG monitoring and reporting and allowing greater availability and visibility of country data at sub-national, national, regional and global levels, it was agreed that the UN-GGKIC will be a key ‘implementation mechanism’ of the UN-IGIF in the years ahead, and is also well placed to support the ongoing work of the SDG Data Alliance. In discussions, the group of also requested that a geospatial leadership and executive training program could be established within the program of the UN-GGKIC as a tangible outcome to decision 13/101(h), where the Committee of Experts, at its thirteenth session, recognized the “efforts of developing countries to enhance and support the leadership roles within national geospatial and mapping agencies to ensure that effective geospatial information management contributes to increased geospatial capacities and capabilities, and shared knowledge for geospatial enablement across and within Member States”.
Description: The fifty-first plenary session of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS 51) will be held from 23 to 27 October 2023 in a hybrid format.
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: The goal of this activity is to provide participants with basic knowledge about the syntax and basis of the R programming language and to provide an overview of the main packages which are important for the statistical production process. The activity will pay special attention to these packages devoted to management of large databases and the analysis of complex surveys.
Target Audience: Statistical production units and methodologist of NSIs.
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: The objectives of this course are: * This course shall democratize the use of blockchain technology; * Understand the cryptographic principles behind blockchains; * Understand the components of blockchains; * Get to know impactful use cases of diverse blockchains; * Get to know the ecosystems of available blockchains and tools; * Develop an application on the Ethereum blockchain for Official Statistics.
Target Audience: Official statisticians/data scientists working on methodology.
Source: ESCAP SIAP (Data extracted on: 06 Sep 2023 )
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Organizer(s): ESCAP SIAP WHO
Description: SDG 3.8.2 indicator is focused on relatively large Out-of-Pocket (OOP) health spending which might lead to cutting spending on other basic needs such as educationfoodhousing and utilities.Butrecognizing that for poor and vulnerable people it is the absolute level of OOP health spending that is crucial – even if it represents less than 10% of a household’s total consumption or income (budget) – indicators of impoverishing health spending are also used to track the lack of financial protection in health and demonstrate the interdependency between SDG 1 “End poverty in all its form everywhere” and SDG target 3.8 on “Universal health coverage”. Specificallythese additional indictors include the proportion of the population impoverished or further impoverished by household expenditures on health using different poverty lines.The Subregional Training on Monitoring Financial Protection in Health will explain in detail the rationale to track SDG indicator 3.8.2why additional indicators are needed and how the monitoring framework can be expanded to support relevant policy discussions. This training will also discuss the data requirements to monitor the lack of financial protection in health.
Description: The fourteenth meeting of the Inter-agency and Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goal Indicators (IAEG-SDGs) will be held in person from 23 to 25 October 2023 at the CPH Conference-DGI Byen in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Description: Main objectives of the Workshop include advancing the implementation of IMTS 2010 recommendations, including issues of scope and coverage, bilateral asymmetries, quality and data comparability, data dissemination, analyses and uses, among others. Participants will discuss analyses of topics of interest on the compilation of international merchandise trade statistics; ways of strengthening the generation of the statistics, including the El Salvadorian International Merchandise Trade System and other experiences in this regard. Furthermore, the Workshop will discuss emerging issues on trade statistics, including the revision of the trade manuals.
Description: The 14th meeting of the Inter-agency Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goal Indicators (IAEG-SDGs) took place from 23-25 October 2023, at CPH Conference-DGI Byen in Copenhagen. Close to 110 participants, including representatives from Member States, international and regional organizations and entities, civil society organizations, and academia, attend the meeting. A members’ meeting was held on 23 October and a plenary session with all participants on 24-25 October. The main topics discussed at the meeting included: 1) Updates on work of the IAEG-SDGs working groups on SDMX and Geospatial Information, and the Task Team on Sustainable Tourism 2) Review of SDG indicator data availability and update on tier classification; 3) Refinements of the global SDG framework; 4) Discussion on 2025 Comprehensive Review; 5) Sharing best practices on implementation, monitoring and reporting on SDGs and lessons learned; 6) Data disaggregation and inclusive data; 7) Data partnership and capacity development for SDGs; 8) Data innovations and initiatives for SDGs and 9) IAEG-SDGs Workplan and next steps. In addition, the work of the High-Level Group on Partnership, Coordination and Capacity Building for Statistics for the 2030 Agenda, the UN World Data Forum, and data related events at the HLPF and SDG Summit were also presented. The recordings of the meeting, background documents, and all presentations are available on the meeting website.
Description: The Inter-Secretariat Working Group on Household Surveys (ISWGHS) held an all-member meeting on 23 October 2023. The meeting reviewed progress made by the ISWGHS since its previous member meeting in March on the implementation of the Positioning Household Surveys for the Next Decade. This covers survey coordination, the adoption of innovative approaches and advocacy. The members were also briefed by the UNSD Director on the initiation of the revision of the UN Handbook on household surveys, the upcoming technical meeting and the next steps for the revision.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 03 Feb 2023 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat EFTA Statistics Norway
Description: To create an awareness of the possibilities and challenges of mixed mode questionnaire design generally, and for IESS surveys specifically.
Target Audience: Pretesting, data collection and subject matter specialists conducting or planning mixed mode data collection for social surveys covered by the IESS framework regulation.
Description: The tenth Session of the United Nations Regional Committee on Global Geospatial Information Management for the Americas will take place in Santiago, from October 18 to 20, 2023.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 01 Nov 2022 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat
Description: The objective of this course is to introduce participants to the practice of output checking for confidentiality risks. The course focuses on output that is generated by researchers from official microdata. In most cases researchers will have had access to microdata through the Research Data Centre of the data producer to produce the output. The participants will be invited to bring their own case studies for discussion in the training.
Target Audience: Staff members dealing with statistical confidentiality, especially staff in Research Data Centres or Safe Centres. The course is intended for staff checking output that was created by external researchers or output from varying statistical analyses created by colleagues in statistical offices.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 03 Feb 2023 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: This Course aims at: * defining the reference framework of data generated by smart devices, technologies, networks and their relations with official statistics, also comparing NSIs’ different situations (different level of integration, etc.); * introducing the main concepts, frameworks and artefacts to carry out Enterprise Architecture for official statistics; * focussing on the Business Architecture Model/Activity model within NSIs, orientating it to ongoing modernisation changes and related mainly to innovative data sources, Big Data, new data; * explaining how to apply and map GAMSO to new business models for official statistics, innovative sources and Big Data; * explaining how to map GSBPM to the statistical processes related to innovative data sources; * providing an overview of the main statistical and technical guidelines, best practices, and standards as pre-requisites for the implementation of EA and BREAL; * focussing on the context of Big data REference Architecture and Layers – BREAL; * providing theoretical training to develop BREAL; * promoting group discussions on topics such as setting up a capability assessment and roadmaps for acquiring and benefiting from ESS shared investments.
Target Audience: Business architects; IT managers responsible for the design of new processes and innovative IT systems; Statistical survey managers; Statisticians and Technicians involved in statistical production processes.
Organizer(s): ECLAC UN-GGIM: Americas AI Generated
Description: The tenth Session of the United Nations Regional Committee for Global Geospatial Information Management for the Americas (UN-GGIM: Americas), as well as the side events, took place from 17 to 20 October 2023 in person at Headquarters of ECLAC.
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: Objectives of this course: * To provide participants with a specific knowledge of the features recently included within JDEMETRA+ and run the tool within the R environment; * To train the participants to use JDEMETRA+ for purposes different from seasonal adjustment, such as estimation of missing values temporal disaggregation, benchmarking, forecasting and analysis of revisions; * To prepare and to motivate the participants to become integral part of the extended network in charge of testing (software releases), maintaining (fixing bugs) and extending (new plug-ins) the tool.
Target Audience: Advanced users of seasonal adjustment methods involved in regular/massive data production and/or developers involved in the integration of SA methods in their IT environment wishing to enhance their knowledge of the JDEMETRA+ tool and/or using or potentially developing relative plug-ins. Ideal participants are either young statisticians with some interest in IT or young IT specialist with some interest in statistics. People currently using TRAMO/SEATS and/or X12 family product and/or old version of DEMETRA/JDEMETRA+ family products aiming at implementing the latest JDEMETRA+ version.
Jointly organized by the Inter-secretariat Working Group on Household Surveys (ISWGHS) and the Global Network of Data Officers and Statisticians, the webinar discusses various approaches to be integrated and implemented in future household surveys – within existing household survey programs and country-specific household surveys. The speakers will explore both customization and integration of data elements proposed in the paper for major household programs and the opportunities for technical support provided to National Statistical Offices (NSOs) by the Expert Group on Refugee, IDP and Statelessness Statistics (EGRISS) on the integration of identification questions in stand-alone national surveys. The webinar will be presented by UNHCR, MICS and a national presentative. More information about this work is available at EGRISS and JDC.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, focuses on both the conceptual framework of government finance statistics (GFS) as presented in the IMF’s Government Finance Statistics Manual 2014 (GFSM 2014) and on practical aspects of data compilation. Basic concepts and definitions, accounting principles, and detailed classifications are dealt with in the context of the GFSM 2014, which is harmonized with the System of National Accounts (SNA 2008). The course examines the GFS framework, as well as its coverage and accounting rules (including accrual accounting), classifications, balance sheets and debt, and the sources and methods used for compiling GFS. Lastly, the course discusses the dissemination of GFS and its uses in fiscal policymaking and analyses.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, focuses on the conceptual framework of government finance statistics (GFS) as presented in the Government Finance Statistics Manual 2014 (GFSM 2014), with an emphasis on new concepts introduced in GFSM 2014. The course requires that participants are familiar with the basic GFS framework and classification system. Emphasizing the integrated GFS framework, the course addresses complex cross-cutting GFS issues, such as social protection, government employee pension liabilities, standardized guarantee schemes, contracts, leases, licenses, public-private partnerships, and public sector balance sheets. It also examines coverage of the public sector, giving special attention to borderline and complex cases. The course discusses internal and intersectoral data consistency, coordination between data-producing agencies, as well as data presentation and communication with users. The format is lectures and discussions.
Description: This course focuses on the conceptual framework of government finance statistics (GFS) as presented in the Government Finance Statistics Manual 2014 (GFSM 2014). The course requires that participants are familiar with the basic GFS framework and classification system. Participants should also have experience in compiling GFS from national source data. Emphasizing the integrated GFS framework, the course addresses some complex cross-cutting GFS issues that we have found to be pertinent to improving data quality. It also examines coverage of the public sector, giving special attention to borderline and complex cases. The format is lectures and exercises. Participants will be requested to propose topics related to methodological concepts that they have found problematic in compiling GFS.
Description: Employment impact assessment is key to increasing the effectiveness of policies intended to promote decent jobs. In times of crisis of the kind the world is currently facing, the importance of timely and accurate assessment is greater than ever. In the light of these issues, the aim of this course is to improve the design and implementation of policies for the creation of decent jobs by building the capacity of all relevant stakeholders to identify, measure and assess the effects on employment of economic, sectoral, trade-related and labour market policies. Special attention will be paid to assessment of the impact on employment of pandemics like COVID-19.
Target Audience: This course will be of particular interest to: - Government officials involved in the design and implementation of policies impacting employment, in particular the staff of ministries of labour and employment, economy, planning, education and training; - Staff of programme-management teams from private-sector entities, non-governmental organizations and community-based organizations; -Operational staff of international organizations, regional development banks and bilateral donor agencies that design or finance programmes impacting employment.
Description: This is a comprehensive training course that covers application of R in Data Management and Analysis in socio-economic fields. The course aims at equipping participants with skills and knowledge in data management, analysis and interpretation.
Target Audience: Planners; Policy Makers; Statisticians; Economists; Monitoring and Evaluation Officers; Researchers and the Academia.
Description: The extraordinary meeting of the Committee on Statistics will be held in Silk Road Samarkand Congress Center, Samarkand, Uzbekistan, 16 October 2023, in the framework of the 25th session of the UNWTO General Assembly Members of the Committee on Statistics (2019-2023) Information note Final Programme
Description: Join FAO for the launch of the flagship report "The Impact of Disasters on Agriculture and Food Security: Avoiding and Reducing Losses through Investment in Resilience", which will be held on the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction.
Description: The Committee for the Coordination of Statistical Activities (CCSA) promotes interagency coordination and cooperation on statistical programmes and consistency in statistical practices and development. As a forum of committed members it fosters good practices in statistical activities of international organisations, in accordance with the Principles Governing International Statistical Activities, and within the constraints of their own governance arrangements and resource envelopes. The members of the CCSA are committed to contribute actively to the development of a coordinated global statistical system producing and disseminating high-quality statistics, e.g. by facilitating the development and well functioning of regional and national statistical systems.
Organizer(s): IEA ESCWA Regional Center for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency
Description: Recognising the importance of accurate energy statistics for evidence-informed policymaking, the International Energy Agency (IEA) is organising a one-day training workshop on energy data in collaboration with the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UNESCWA) and the Regional Center for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (RCREEE), targeting national statisticians and energy analysts across the MENA region. All three organizations aim to strengthen partnerships with stakeholders in energy policymaking. The IEA collects, assesses, and disseminates energy statistics on supply and demand, compiled into energy balances in addition to a number of other key energy-related indicators, including GHG emissions estimates, energy prices, end-use data and energy efficiency indicators, with other measures in development. The UNESCWA provides support and capacity-building for national systems in official statistics and ensures coordination between various actors involved in statistical activities in the region. RCREEE partners with various stakeholders including governments and international organizations to lead the renewable energy development efforts in the MENA region. The workshop is built on the key topics identified with stakeholders in the region and targets national officials with experience around data or being users of data at technical level: from daily practice of data collection and validation, to managing projects with strong components of data collection or use. It will facilitate information exchanges and discussions among national statistics offices of the MENA region and international energy organisations, with the objective to increase awareness on the importance of energy statistics, through knowledge sharing, lectures, exercises, and discussions.
Description: This seminar is held in hybrid format (in-person and virtual) on 12 October 2023, at the ECLAC headquarters. The construction of the household account, distributive accounts and measurement of inequality will be addressed, also incorporating information on the distribution of tax income.
Description: The International Conference of Labour Statisticians (ICLS) is a vehicle for standard-setting in labour statistics, hosted by the ILO every five years.
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Description: The first meeting of the Webinar Series on the Global Initiative on Unique Identifiers for Businesses will provide an overview of the global initiative and underscore the importance of this initiative for the different stakeholders, such as National Statistical Offices, regulatory authorities, and international organizations active in business registration and statistical business registers. The Webinar Series on the Global Initiative on Unique Identifiers for Businesses is organized by the United Nations Statistics Division in collaboration with the UN Committee of Experts on Business and Trade Statistics and the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation.
Description: The Committee of the Chief Statisticians of the United Nations System promotes coherent and integrated system-wide United Nations actions to support statistics at the national, regional and international levels, following the principles governing international statistical activities, adopted by the Committee for the Coordination of Statistical Activities in 2005, and the Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics, adopted by the General Assembly in 2015. Taking into account the comparative advantages of each member, the Committee encourages coordinated efforts by United Nations agencies and programmes in strengthening national statistical capacity through the definition of common approaches and joint interventions. The Committee supports in particular the modernization of national statistical systems and the reinforcement of their capacity to respond to new data demands for underpinning evidence-based policymaking, including the monitoring of global, regional and national development goals. Recognizing that national needs and priorities should guide the United Nations system’s efforts to support national statistical systems, the Committee supports the development and full implementation of international statistical standards in member States for the production of high-quality and internationally comparable data. The Committee promotes the coordination of the statistical programmes of the United Nations system entities with the aim of “delivering as one”, by fostering synergies, avoiding duplication and overlap, and facilitating data exchange. It promotes the adoption of common quality criteria to drive the statistical production of all agencies of the United Nations system and supports the sharing of knowledge and good practices. It also defines common United Nations positions on statistical matters, to be reported at the Statistical Commission or at other coordination bodies, such as the Committee for the Coordination of Statistical Activities.
United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), in collaboration with the United Nations Economic Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), is organizing a three-day Regional Workshop on Time Use Statistics: Methods and Uses in Tunis, Tunisia. The event will take place on 10-12 October 2023.
The objective of the workshop is to develop national capacities on the methodology to collect and regularly produce comparable high-quality time-use data in cost-effective ways by adopting innovative and digitalization data collection methods; to analyze data to inform and answer policy questions; and to better understand progress towards the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The workshop will provide the opportunity to share the updates to the UN Guidelines on time-use statistics and to provide hands-on training on the adaptation at the national level of proposed methods to collect, analyse, disseminate, and communicate time-use data, including time spent on unpaid care and domestic work. It is expected that the newly developed tools will lessen the burden on respondents and the high cost associated with paper diaries and improve data quality.
Description: Sampling is a fundamental aspect of household surveys – it allows National Statistical Offices (NSO) and researchers to collect data from a representative sample of the population. Proper sampling schemes ensure that the results of the survey are accurate and can be generalized to the entire population. Unfortunately, there have been many challenges associated with the above aspects. Currently, population censuses and consequent traditional sampling frames are facing many challenges. These include under-covered areas (such as those under conflict or difficult to access), declining response rates, and the rapidly expansion of urban sectors that get the frame outdated very soon. The census frame also usually does not contain contact information except for the addresses, which makes it difficult to reach the respondents via telephone or emails, for CATI and CAWI surveys. Sampling techniques have also been challenged, especially in efforts to reach the marginalized population. The technical meeting aims to foster knowledge exchange, explore innovative approaches, and address challenges related to sampling methodologies and the development of comprehensive sample frames.
Description: The annual Seminar on national accounts for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2023 is held in hybrid format (in-person and virtual) on 10 and 11 October 2023, at ECLAC headquarters.
Organizer(s): ESCAP UNFPA International Development Research Centre IUSSP Scientific Panel on Population Registers, Ethics and Human Rights
Description: This webinar will explore how law, history and policy have shaped the inclusiveness of birth registration in South Africa, Brazil and Uganda; how the design and implementation of digitized voter registration systems in Cameroon can both be a force for inclusive and mechanism of exclusion; and how the accessibility of population register systems varies for different vulnerable subpopulations. The webinar showcases individual fellow research projects and a collaborative group project being undertaken through the IUSSP Initiative on Population Registers, Ethics and Human Rights. This initiative infuses interdisciplinary perspectives, drawing on perspectives from law, history, economics, public policy, demography, and public health, to address the ethical and human rights challenges that are emerging as population register systems are rapidly digitised. This webinar is co-hosted by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada, the UNFPA Centre of Excellence for CRVS Systems and the IUSSP Scientific Panel on Population Registers, Ethics and Human Rights. Detail: https://iussp.org/en/iussp-idrc-webinar-population-registers-ethics-and-human-rights Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jSR2aIIcSRmYcvMB940ANA#/registration Date: Tuesday 10 October 2023 (14:00-15:30 UTC) (7:00 Los Angeles - 10:00 New York - 11:00 Rio de Janeiro 15:00 Yaoundé - 16:00 Johannesburg/Paris - 17:00 Kampala 19:30 New Delhi - 22:00 Shanghai)
Description: This course, presented by the IMF Statistics Department, focuses on both the conceptual framework of government finance statistics (GFS) as presented in the IMF’s Government Finance Statistics Manual 2014 (GFSM 2014, the update of the 2001 edition), and on practical aspects of data compilation. Basic concepts, accounting principles, and detailed classifications are dealt with in the context of the new methodology, which is harmonized with the system of national accounts. The course examines GFS coverage and accounting rules (including accrual accounting), valuation, classification, debt, balance sheets, and the sources and methods used for compiling the statistics. It also deals with reporting data to the IMF. Central to the course is a series of case studies.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 03 Feb 2023 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: Objectives of this course: * Understand how to collect Web Data regarding Online Job Vacancies and store them; * Understand of data processing techniques; * Base understand of data classification techniques on standard taxonomies and base understand of advanced techniques on taxonomies improvement.
Target Audience: Official statisticians working on big data methodology, data science and in employment and education statistics, as well as other statistical domains which can profit from this data source.
Description: This is a comprehensive training course that covers application of R in Data Management and Analysis in socio-economic fields. The course aims at equipping participants with skills and knowledge in data management, analysis and interpretation.
Target Audience: Planners; Policy Makers; Statisticians; Economists; Monitoring and Evaluation Officers; Researchers and the Academia.
Description: On 10 July 2023, the Demographic and Social Statistics Branch organized a hybrid meeting on the above topic, in collaboration with the European Commission Joint Research Center, Eurostat and UN-Habitat. The meeting discussed the Degree of Urbanisation-DEGURBA method as a geospatial approach to the definition of cities, urban and rural areas in a harmonised manner across countries, which is particularly important for monitoring SDG 11 indicators on “Sustainable Cities and Communities”. The method was endorsed by the UN Statistical Commission in 2020, for international and regional comparison purposes. UN-Habitat, European Commission and UNSD are working towards building member states’ capacity for the implementation of this methodology as recommended by the Statistical Commission. Discussants from the Statistics Division, UNFPA and Eurostat exchanged lessons learned and the progress made in building capacity on the methodology. Data experts from UN-Habitat and the Joint Research Centre presented with examples how geospatial data are used to monitor human settlements and support census activities. Overall, the meeting highlighted the power of geospatial information to assess the urbanisation process and contribute to the localisation of the Sustainable Development Goals.
Title in Spanish: Taller para la generación de una hoja de ruta para la integración de información estadística y geoespacial de República Dominicana
Organizer(s): ECLAC ONE Dominican Republic IGN Dominican Republic
Description: La definición de una hoja de ruta permite avanzar en el proceso de integración de la información estadística y geoespacial siguiendo las recomendaciones de las Naciones Unidas.
Description: The seventh and final meeting is a retrospective of the previous six meetings, returning to key topics and considering the key issues tackled and how we can fit these together.
Description: UNSD participated in an event on privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs), which brought together private sector, civil society and public sector experts. The main themes of the event were (1) how to unlock the power of sensitive data while protecting privacy, (2) ensure compliance with data protection regulations, and (3) accelerate R&D and AI development to improve business practices by ensuring that data collaboration and sharing across teams and organizations is secure and private. UNSD contributed to a panel discussion by explaining how national statistical agencies are exploring the benefits and challenges of using PETs to access, share and disseminate data. The UN PET Guide for official statistics was recently released. It provides guidance on the reasons why PETs can improve the delivery of services of statistical agencies, on the available methods for input and output privacy, and on the legal considerations which are in play when using PETs. Moreover, the PET Guide describes in detail 18 use cases which exemplify how PETs can be used in practice. One use case was described on combining education statistics with student financial aid, and one on the verification of detailed cross-border trade statistics between trading countries. As an outcome of this event, additional experts on PETs (from private sector and civil society) may join the UN PET Lab of the UN Committee of Experts on Big Data and Data Science for Official Statistics.
Description: Leading up to the UN Datathon 2023 UNSD in cooperation with the UN Committee of Experts on Big Data and Data Science (UNCEBD) and with support of the UN Committee of Experts on Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM) organized webinar exploring the crucial synergy between geospatial data and statistics in driving progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) within the realm of big data.Participants were invited to discover why integration matters, how to unlock creative data visualization techniques, and how to gain a deeper understanding of utilizing geospatial insights for the SDGs. The webinar, which was attended by approximately 480 participants, had a lineup of three excellent speakers in the field of integration of geospatial information and statistics. The first speaker was Claudio Stenner, co-chair of the United Nations Expert Group on the Integration of Statistical and Geospatial Information. He is a geographer with experience in regionalization, urban geography and geoprocessing and works at the in Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) where he is in charge of Brazil's 2022 Demographic Census on issues related to geography and its integration with statistics. In his talk he demonstrated the importance and potential advantages for society in the integration of statistical and geospatial information and introduced the attendees to the Global Statistical Geospatial Framework (GSGF) which allows this integration. The second speaker was Ken Field, who after 20 years of academic career, now talks and writes about cartography, teaches, and makes maps at Esri in California. He teaches a Massive Open Online Course on Cartography which had so far over 200,000 participants and is the author of two award-winning books, Cartography (2018) and Thematic Mapping (2021). In his talk Ken said that every map is a product of its maker, its reader, and multiple competing contexts. He argued that maps are rarely right or wrong but, instead, offer different versions of the truth. His talk explored how the design of thematic maps mediates the message using a range of examples based on Covid-19 and election maps. The ideas and techniques explored during his talk provide a strong foundation for use on any other empirical data, big or small, and including the SDGs. The third speaker was Britta Ricker who is a Digital Geographer and faculty member within the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Through her teaching and research, she focuses on the use of open data, open software, and open science for cartographic production. Her work bridges qualitative and quantitative research by identifying practical solutions for spatial data collection, management and effective geovisualization of the UN Sustainable Development Goals at the local and global level. In her talk she shared examples from her open access book published together with the Sustainable World” as well as some ideas for future SDG spatial data solutions. The webinar is part of a series organized by UNSD to prepare the participants of the upcoming UN Datathon 2023 for this big data and data science competition. The UN Datathon will take place in November world-wide and at 8 in-person locations with the main venue in Montevideo, Uruguay.
Description: The Inter-agency Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goal Indicators (IAEG-SDGs) held a virtual meeting on 4 October 2023. This was the last virtual meeting prior to the upcoming 14th annual meeting of IAEG-SDGs to take place in Copenhagen, Denmark from 23-25 October 2023. It was attended by 19 Member States of the working group, FAO and UNSD. Key discussions during the meeting included: Logistics for the 14th IAEG-SDG Meeting: Statistics Denmark provided updates on logistics for the upcoming annual meeting that is planned to take place in Copenhagen. Proxy Discussion for Indicator 2.4.1: FAO presented proxy indicator proposals for Indicator 2.4.1, which has been underreported at the global level To address this data collection challenges, a proxy indicator based on eight sub-indicators with existing national-level data was proposed. A small group of country experts, in collaboration with FAO, reviewed and refined the sub-indicators based on the original proposal to come up with a workable solution that is expected to be adopted at 14th meeting of IAEG-SDGs. Metadata Update: UNSD provided an update on inputs received from members regarding indicator 7.b.1/12.a.1 metadata requests provided by the custodian agency–IRENA in the previous meeting and highlighting the criteria for reviewing and approving metadata updates for the larger member group. 14th IAEG-SDG Meeting in Denmark: UNSD presented draft agendas for the closed member meeting and provisional plenary sessions. The meeting agendas include a review of IAEG-SDGS working group and task team work plans, data availability review, metadata review, 2025 comprehensive review, and discussions on specific indicators. In addition, the meeting will also share experiences and good practices in the areas of implementation, monitoring and reporting on the SDGs, data disaggregation and inclusive data, data innovations and initiatives for SDGs, and data partnership and capacity development for SDGs. Members of IAEG-SDGs contributed their insights and inputs to the discussed topics and the agendas for the member meeting and plenary sessions in Copenhagen. Details of the event are available on the event website here.
Description: WaPOR, FAO's portal to monitor Water Productivity through Open access of Remotely sensed derived data, is migrating to the FAO Hand in Hand platform and will feature data obtained through an updated methodology (version 3.0).
This webinar was jointly organized by the Inter-secretariat Working Group on Household Surveys (ISWGHS) and the Global Network of Data Officers and Statisticians. We welcomed speakers from the UK's Office for National Statistics (ONS) who presented on qualitative research with statistically under-represented groups within the Office for National Statistics.
Qualitative research methods typically involve the collection and analysis of non-numerical data, such as people’s accounts of their experiences, needs and priorities, and perspectives. Their inclusiveness, and ability to help researchers understand nuanced topics and maintain rigour with sample sizes much smaller than typical statistical research makes them perfect for investigating the experiences of groups who are typically under-represented in survey data.
Description: This webinar was jointly organized by the Inter-secretariat Working Group on Household Surveys (ISWGHS) and the Global Network of Data Officers and Statisticians. We welcomed speakers from the UK's Office for National Statistics (ONS) who presented on qualitative research with statistically under-represented groups within the Office for National Statistics. Qualitative research methods typically involve the collection and analysis of non-numerical data, such as people’s accounts of their experiences, needs and priorities, and perspectives. Their inclusiveness, and ability to help researchers understand nuanced topics and maintain rigour with sample sizes much smaller than typical statistical research makes them perfect for investigating the experiences of groups who are typically under-represented in survey data. The Qualitative Research Team at the ONS specialises in using methods such as in-depth interviews and focus groups to carry out exploratory projects, helping to understand the lived experiences of groups and communities who may not be otherwise counted due to issues of trustworthiness, being missed via the traditional data collection pathways, or the inability to disaggregate due to small sample sizes. The team have carried out 5 projects over the past 3 years, working with groups identified by the Inclusive Data Taskforce as under-represented in UK data. They shared an overview of their work with the Global Network of Data Officers and Statisticians to demonstrate the value of qualitative research and analysis both alone and as used alongside statistical data.
Description: 2023 is a watershed moment for governance statistics. In March 2023, the UN Statistical Commission endorsed an updated Classification of Statistical Activities (CSA 2.0) which includes Governance as a new domain of official statistics. In the wake of such a momentous advance for the field of governance statistics, the role to be played by the Praia Group in the coming years needs to be carefully considered. On the 3rd of October, the Praia Group held its 2023 Members’ Meeting to update members on the progress made since 2021 in implementing the Praia Group’s Plan of Work, and to seek feedback from members on this work and suggestions on priority areas for the Praia Group in the remaining two years before the end of its second term (2021-25). To kick off the meeting, national statistical offices (NSOs) from Ghana, Mexico and a Regional Statistical Centre (GCC-Stat) for Arab Countries of the Gulf reflected on what it means, in practical terms, NSOs to now be able to draw on a revised Classification where governance statistics sit on par with economic, demographic and social statistics. This was followed by a progress update on path-breaking methodological work being carried out to help develop internationally recognized methodologies and standards on two dimensions of governance that lack such standards, namely Participation in Political and Public Affairs (Task Team chaired by Statistics Norway) and Non-Discrimination & Equality (Task Team co-chaired INEI Peru and Statistics Finland). The Praia Group on Governance Statistics held its 2023 Membership Meeting with the aim to achieve three main objectives: To discuss what it means, in practical terms, for NSOs and development partners to now be able to draw on an updated CSA 2.0 that explicitly refers to Governance as a standalone domain of official statistics. In a Round Table titled “Leveraging the CSA 2.0 for Governance Statistics: Where do we go from here?”, selected representatives of NSOs and development partners shared experiences and recommendations for the revised CSA to deliver on its promise to lead to a marked increase in governance statistical production worldwide e (also captured in this Brief: Governance Now A Domain the CSA 2.0: What’s Next for Governance Statistics?); To update members on the progress made since 2021 in implementing the Group’s Plan of Work for the period 2020-25, with a particular focus on ‘Pillar 1 – Methodological Work’ and the achievements of the two Task Teams on Participation and Discrimination; and To seek feedback from members on this work and suggestions on priority areas of work for the Praia Group in the remaining two years before the end of its second term.
Source: ESCAP SIAP (Data extracted on: 07 Dec 2023 )
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Organizer(s): ESCAP SIAP
Description: This e-Learning course introduces the System of Environmental Economic Accounting -Ecosystem Accounting (SEEA EA)the agreed statistical framework for collecting such information on ecosystems and their relationship to human activity. The SEEA EA provides an integrated statistical framework for organizing biophysical information about ecosystemsmeasuring ecosystem servicestracking changes in ecosystem extent and conditionand linking this information to measures of economic and human activities. It supports the compilation of indicators for several global policy frameworks including the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the associated SDGs indicators as well as the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. The course is being organized by the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) and the UN Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific (UNSIAP)under the overall guidance of the UN Committee of Experts on Environmental Economic Accounting (UNCEEA).
Description: The Wiesbaden Group on Business Registers is an international expert group under the umbrella of the UN Statistical Commission engaged in further development of business registers, survey frames and associated topics. The group provides a forum for the exchange of views and experiences and the conduct of joint work related to the development, maintenance and use of business registers. The group's work supports a more integrated approach to structural economic statistics and addresses new, globalization-related analytical needs. It is engaged with contemporary and emerging issues in the development and use of business registers. In particular, the Wiesbaden Group tackles forward-looking matters and identifies new challenges concerning business registers in the wider sense. The group analyses the changing nature and roles of the business register as the backbone of business statistics and a source of statistical data in its own right. The Wiesbaden Group is an informal body and participation is voluntary. Participants are, however, required to contribute to the programme of the biannual meetings of the group. Although its mandate does not emanate from a formal body, the Wiesbaden Group reports to the UN Statistical Commission on its activities and recommendations of practices and standards.
Description: This five-day virtual course, conducted by the IMF Statistics Department as three-hour daily sessions, will familiarize participants with key climate change related indicators that can be developed to better inform economic and financial policies. The statistics covered include Environmental revenues and expenditures, Natural Resource Accounts, Physical and Transition risk indicators, Air Emission Accounts and indicators of Sustainable Finance. The course consists of a series of lectures giving overview of methods for compiling climate change-related indicators, and insights into the analytical uses of the climate change-related indicators.
Description: Employment data on tourism are fundamental for understanding labour markets and formulating relevant policies for job creation, promoting employment opportunities, planning workforce needs and contributing to human resource development. Collecting this data also allows to address education and relevant training needs. This is important as the tourism sector suffers from a shortage of workers with the required minimum qualifications or skills, and as a motivated and skilled workforce is a key element for a destination’s competitiveness and sustainability. In addition, gender and decent work issues are important aspects of socio-cultural sustainability. Relevant gender-disaggregated data should allow to identify the share of women employed in tourism and owning tourism enterprises, the level of seniority in employment and existing pay- gaps. It also makes it possible to monitor the quality of jobs and, consequently, the wellbeing of the employees and their families. However, measuring tourism labour markets remains a challenge. Despite existing international recommendations, the different measurement methods and data sources result in fragmented outcomes. This INSTO INSIGHTS webinar discussed the experiences and lessons learned by selected experts and members of the UNWTO International Network of Sustainable Tourism Observatories (INSTO) in the field of measuring and monitoring employment at the destination level. The webinar derives directly from the 11 mandatory key issue areas for INSTO members and touched also upon the initiative Towards a Statistical Framework for Measuring the Sustainability of Tourism (MST).
Source: IMF Metac (Data extracted on: 23 Apr 2024 )
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Organizer(s): IMF Metac
Description: In collaboration with the IMF's Middle East Center for Economics and Finance (CEF), METAC conducted a five-day workshop on Measuring Financial Services. The workshop was attended by 30 participants from 11 Arab countries and covered the techniques and methods used to estimate financial services in nominal and volume terms, their impact on the sequence of accounts, and estimation of financial institutions’ output, intermediate consumption and gross value added as recommended by the 2008 System of National Accounts.
Description: The objective of this virtual seminar is to provide Member States and interested parties with the conceptual foundations related to the five principles of the United Nations Global Statistical and Geospatial Framework, to enhance the use of integrated statistical and geospatial information.
Description: The UN Statistics Division is organizing an expert group meeting with a specific focus on the development of a Conceptual Framework on Citizen Contributions to Data. More specifically, the meeting will:
Review and discuss a draft Conceptual Framework on Citizen Contributions to Data
Discuss ways and steps to operationalize the Conceptual Framework
Discuss ways to overcome key challenges in engaging with citizens in data processes such as data quality, building trust and keeping the engagement sustainable
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Forth Meeting of the Friends of the Chair Group on Social and Demographic Statistics
Description: UNSD convened the 4th virtual meeting of the Friends of the Chair (FoC) Group on Social and Demographic Statistics on 28 September 2023. The meeting took stock of progress made across the various workstreams within the FoC Group and discussed the preparation of a report for the 55th Session of the Statistical Commission, in 2024. The Director of UNSD, underscored the significance of data as a catalyst for development, emphasizing its recognition at the highest political level during the 2023 SDG Summit held on 18-19 September 2023, in New York. Furthermore, UNSD provided insights from the Ninth Global Forum on Gender Statistics (9GFGS) and shared challenges and opportunities identified by the Forum to enhance gender statistics, which are in alignment with the objectives of the FoC Group working towards an agile and more responsive system of social and demographic statistics. UNSD also updated the Group on the ongoing mapping and review process of collective global and regional efforts in the field of social and demographic statistics. Statistics Canada shared the outcomes of an initial review of national approaches for a potential overarching conceptual framework for social and demographic statistics. Finally, Statistics Poland, presented initial efforts in assessing communication practices, stakeholder engagement, and data access modalities in member countries, to identify strategies for elevating the role of social and demographic statistics in the eyes of data users and producers
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 03 Feb 2023 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: Make the participants aware of what is involved in the acquisition of PHD for use in official statistics, including the European legal and policy background and what is needed for developing partnerships. The course should enable the participants to apply the acquired knowledge in roles such as developing policies concerning the acquisition and use of PHD and developing partnerships.
Target Audience: Staff from NSIs who are involved or wish to become involved in the acquisition of privately held data (PHD) as a source for official statistics. This engagement may come in different shapes, such as involvement at a legal or policy level, in negotiations with holders of PHD or stakeholders engagement.
Description: The UN Statistics Division is organizing a one-day workshop on citizen-generated data. The workshop aims to familiarize participants with various global frameworks that govern official statistics; and facilitate an exchange of experiences and peer-learning on leveraging CGD for public policy, including challenges faced and lessons learnt on how to overcome the challenges. Some of the topics that will be covered include, but not limited to:
Data collection and validation
The use of CGD for public policy
Quality assurance
Ethical considerations and rights-based approach to data
Description: UNSD co-organized a high-level event titled 'Unlocking SDG 16.9: Leveraging the UN Legal Identity Agenda for Leaving No One Behind.' The event engaged high-level representatives, including Ministers, Directors-General, and heads of agencies within the CRVS (civil registration and vital statistics), health, and National ID management sectors and attracted a wide audience including around 90 representatives of Member States, multilateral and international organizations and civil society organizations. The event provided an opportunity to discuss strategies for accelerated achievement of universal birth and death registration and legal identity for all in six countries that collectively account for half of the global burden of unregistered children: Bangladesh, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, India, Nigeria, and Pakistan. It provided a platform for sharing knowledge, fostering collaboration, and promoting best practices to ensure that legal identity is accessible to all, thereby advancing progress toward SDG 16.9. The United Nations Legal Identity Agenda, endorsed by the Deputy Secretary-General, was launched as a One UN approach to assist Member States in building holistic, country-owned, and sustainable civil registration, vital statistics, and identity management systems. UNSD serves as a custodian of international statistical standards, methods, and guidelines on these topics, and together with UNDP and UNICEF, co-chairs the UNLIA Task Force - composed of 13+ UN agencies - supporting Member States in delivering the 2030 Agenda commitments.
Description: The definition of statistical units is a recurring issue in the domain of sample surveys. Indeed, not all the populations surveyed have a readily available sampling frame. For these populations, the sampled units are distinct from the observation units, which constitute the population of interest on which we are willing to infer. This issue has been raised for a long time for studying populations that are difficult to reach, e.g. homeless people.To deal with this issue, Deville and Lavallée (2006: Surv. Methodol., 32(2), 165-176) proposed the so-called weight share method. It is based on a principle of duality between the sampled population and the observed population, where a variable of interest defined on the observed population may be written as a synthetic variable defined on the sampling frame. Because it creates a link between the observation units and the sampling units, this method enables the properties of the sampling design to be used to define unbiased estimators of totals for the observed populations, and to derive variance formulas.This work deals with the extension of this method to the case when the sampled population is a continuous frame. We are particularly interested in applications encountered in forest inventories, in which it is common practice to use a sample of points selected in a continuum and then fixed-shape supports defined from these points to perform the survey on a discrete population of trees. The approach which consists of transporting a variable from the discrete population to the continuous population is not new, see for example Stevens and Urquhart (2000: Environmetrics, 11, 13-41) or Gregoire and Valentine (2007: CRC Press). However, the link between the units from the population sampled and the units of the target population are only implicit in these works. The weight share method is a very useful and simple tool to formalize this approach, and enables one to produce general formulas for both point estimators and variance estimators. We will present an application of this approach for formalizing estimation and variance estimation in the French National Forest Inventory. We will also present a possible application to spatial cluster sampling. This is based on joint work with Olivier Bouriaud (Université de Suceava, IGN), Philippe Brion (Irmar), Trinh Duong (IGN) and Minna Pulkkinen (IGN).
Description: The TWG held its 24th virtual meeting on Wednesday, 27 September 2023, from 14:00 to 15:00 hours, Bangkok time (GMT+7). The objectives of the meeting were: To discuss the rationale as well as data and methodological considerations for DRSF tables DRRE Disaster risk reduction expenditure account. To share initial results of the review of DRSF tables DRRE by Philippines. To provide opportunities for TWG participants to reflect on and discuss the experiences from their national statistical systems. , Home: TWG Confluence Previous TWG Meetings
Description: The World Health Organization, Regional Office for South-East Asia (WHO/SEARO) is organizing a regional workshop on strengthening the national civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) system from 26 to 29 September 2023 in Bali, Indonesia. The primary objective of the workshop is to build countries capacities in developing strategic and operational action plans to strengthen the national CRVS system core business processes, to improve data completeness, quality and use (with more focus on mortality statistics) so as to strengthen evidence based operational plans and policies and enhance accountability. The specific objectives of the workshop are to: 1. review the progress to date countries have made in strengthening their CRVS system core business processes and to identify the key gaps and challenges faced in achieving further improvements; 2. discuss and bring into the focus the importance of a comprehensive system approach to strengthen CRVS system and build capacities for reporting of death and cause of death data with protocols for data management, analysis and use. Where necessary, the system approach will address specific issues related to legal, administrative and technical factors that need attention for CRVS improvement; and 3. guide countries in developing a national strategic action plan for implementing a system approach including use of digital technologies to strengthen CRVS, with a focus on data outcomes in terms of production of reliable mortality and cause of death data; 4. support countries in designing an initial implementation plan that targets the production of reliable vital statistics for a pilot set of population clusters, as a 'proof of concept', by mid/end 2025; and 5. develop a broad road map towards improving the national and regional mortality statistics in the short- (2023/2025) to medium- (2026/2028) to long- (2029/2030) term with a notional set of milestones and targets. The participants will be relevant ministries for CRVS work from countries in our region and international partners.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 03 Feb 2023 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: The objectives of the course are: * Present the essentials concepts of open data and linked open data; * Improve data management skills in exploring feasible data sources, finding publications, data portals and how to publish them.
Target Audience: Official statisticians (including process managers) with data management skills, who are interested in exposing data and metadata assets using linked data principles. The course is not meant to be targeted exclusively at IT specialists but can also be useful for staff involved in dissemination.
Description: For this Global Network Webinar we were happy to have with us Pau Garcia, media designer and founder of Domestic Data Streamers, who talked about Artificial Ignorance and Probabilistic Stories. This talk discussed the ethical considerations of utilizing AI in creative industries, exploring its power to produce both astonishing potential and dangerous consequences. It will examine how AI can have unseen impacts and the responsibility of creatives to ensure the safety of their work and the people they work with. Pau Garcia a media designer and founder of Domestic Data Streamers. Since 2013, the Barcelona-based studio has been producing immersive “info-experiences” for institutions like the United Nations, Tate Modern, and Citizen Lab. Garcia is chair of the Master in Data in Design at ELISAVA and has lectured at the Hong Kong Design Institute, the Royal College of Arts, Politecnico di Milano, and the Barcelona School of Economics. He also founded HeyHuman!, an artist residency program that combines music, journalism, data for art research, and social justice.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 25 Jan 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat
Description: Do you want to find out more about the wide range of transport statistics available at Eurostat? This webinar gives you valuable insight into European statistics on the transport of goods and passengers, accidents in transport, data on vehicle registrations and rail infrastructure as well as statistics at regional level. The transport statistics team of Eurostat presents interesting indicators on selected transport statistics, covering aviation, maritime, inland waterways, road and rail transport. Indicators on the share of each mode of transport in the total transport performance are also presented.
Source: ESCAP SIAP (Data extracted on: 07 Dec 2023 )
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Organizer(s): ESCAP SIAP IMF STA
Description: CPIs measure changes over time in the general level of prices of goods and services that households acquire (use or pay for) for the purpose of consumption. In many countriesthey were originally introduced to provide a measure of the changes in the living costs faced by workersso that wage increases could be related to changing levels of prices. Howeverover the yearsCPIs have widened their scope and now are widely used as a macroeconomic indicator of inflationas a tool by governments and central banks for monetary policy and for monitoring price stabilityand as deflators in the national accounts. With the globalization of trade and production and the liberalization of the marketsnational governmentscentral banksand international organizations place great importance on the quality and accuracy of national CPIsand their international comparability.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 03 Feb 2023 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: Aims at enhancing the theoretical and practical knowledge related to the HICP, based on the HICP Methodological Manual and other HICP guidance material Describes the purpose, use and construction of HICP Participants become familiar with the standard methods, the specific HICP requirements, as well as with recent developments such as the use of scanner data.
Target Audience: Statisticians of CPI/HICP departments in National Statistical Institutes involved in the production of CPI/HICP with one to two years of experience on CPIs.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 03 Feb 2023 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: The objective of the course is to learn state of the art techniques in survey sampling.
Target Audience: NSI statisticians dealing with surveys faced with the challenge to change data collection methods such as mixed mode strategies and adaptive survey designs. Additionally they face the use of administrative data and big data in the survey design and weighting stage.
Organizer(s): ECLAC UNSD UN Women INEGI Mexico Instituto Nacional de las Mujeres Mexico
Description: The twenty-first International Meeting of Information Specialists on Time Use and Unpaid Work will be held in Santiago, on September 25, 2023. Discussions will focus on the importance of time use measurements for the formulation and monitoring of policies to move towards the Care Society.
Description: The sixth meeting on “A conversation about composite measures” discusses one of the hardest and most contentious topics within the Beyond GDP arena, which is the relative benefits and trade-offs between dashboards and composite (single measure) indices. Composite indices can be simpler to interpret or communicate but run the risk of over-simplifying complex issues. This meeting will present new composite indices and include a discussion of best practices in developing composite indices and the latest innovations and potential approaches.
Description: This webinar will provide participants an overview of the purpose and importance of the Global Assessment of Environmental Economic Accounting and Supporting Statistics. This year the Statistics Division of the United Nations will administer a benchmark assessment, which will provide a detailed understanding of the national implementation of the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA) in countries, including institutional and funding arrangements, countries’ priorities and future plans for implementing accounts, technical assistance received and provided, and the use of the accounts. This year the survey will be administered in 5 languages: Arabic, English, French, Russian and Spanish. The webinar will cover: * The importance of the 2023 Global Assessment and how the data provided by countries is used; * How to navigate and respond to the survey; * Q&A session.
Description: UNCTAD and UNODC are custodian agencies of indicator 16.4.1 on illicit financial flows (IFFs) and their respective statistical sections jointly developed a Conceptual Framework for the Statistical Measurement of Illicit Financial Flows in 2020.1 The Framework was endorsed by the UN Statistical Commission in March 2022. In parallel, custodian agencies have drafted methodologies to measure various types of IFFs. To date, methodologies to measure IFFs have been tested by 22 countries on three continents in efforts coordinated by UN regional commissions and UNODC field Offices (on crime-related IFFs), alongside UNCTAD and UNODC statistics. This includes 12 African countries, 4 Latin American and 6 Asian countries many of which produced first estimates of commercial or crime-related IFFs. As lessons are learned and estimation methods are tested and refined, interest from countries to systematically and regularly measure IFFs is growing. During the first quarter of the year 2023, for SDG reporting, UNODC has provided the first ever data on crime-related IFFs for SDG indicator 16.4.12. Following up with these efforts, the UN Development Account project Measuring and Curbing Illicit Financial Flows3 aims to strengthen the capacity of developing countries across regions to produce standardized estimates of illicit financial flows and enhance investigative and analytical capacities to develop evidence -based policy responses to monitor and curb illicit financial flows. This meeting will launch activities of the project and is organised with three specific objectives: * To kick-off the UN Development Account project Measuring and Curbing Illicit Financial Flows globally with partners and participating countries; and strengthen stakeholder engagement and coordination. * To enhance capacity on the methodologies to measure SDG indicator 16.4.1 on IFFs and implementation of policy measures to curbing these flows by disseminating globally agreed concepts and methods to measure IFFs and providing examples from different regions. * Allow participating countries to share their experiences and learn. Targeted participants of the international kick-off meeting are national and international stakeholders within the UN Development Account project Measuring and Curbing Illicit Financial Flows. 1 https://unctad.org/publication/conceptual-framework-statistical-measurement-illicit-financial-flows 2 Selecting data series to reflect SDG indicator 16.4.1 on SDG Indicators Database: https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/dataportal/database returns Indicator 16.4.1 series: Total value of inward illicit financial flows (DI_ILL_IN) and Total value of outward illicit financial flows (DI_ILL_OUT). 3 https://unctad.org/project/measuring-and-curbing-illicit-financial-flows
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 03 Feb 2023 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat
Description: The course will introduce the theoretical and practical knowledge of energy statistics in relation to the European Union legal framework (Regulation (EC) No 1099/2008 and its implementation). The focus will be on changes in the energy statistics questionnaires, concepts, definitions, methodology and data validation. Furthermore, they will have the possibility to understand how to use the CONVAL tool for their own needs and purposes. The course will also introduce the annual questionnaires on disaggregated final energy consumptions in Transport and in Services, to prepare participants for the first mandatory data collection in March 2024 (reference year 2022).
Target Audience: Statisticians dealing with compilation of monthly, annual energy statistics questionnaires wishing to understand better the IT tool CONVAL, systems and overall framework of energy statistics
Description: UNCTAD and UNODC are custodian agencies of indicator 16.4.1 on illicit financial flows (IFFs) and their respective statistical sections jointly developed a Conceptual Framework for the Statistical Measurement of Illicit Financial Flows in 2020.1 The Framework was endorsed by the UN Statistical Commission in March 2022. In parallel, custodian agencies have drafted methodologies to measure various types of IFFs. To date, methodologies to measure IFFs have been tested by 22 countries on three continents in efforts coordinated by UN regional commissions and UNODC field Offices (on crime-related IFFs), alongside UNCTAD and UNODC statistics. This includes 12 African countries, 4 Latin American and 6 Asian countries many of which produced first estimates of commercial or crime-related IFFs. As lessons are learned and estimation methods are tested and refined, interest from countries to systematically and regularly measure IFFs is growing. During the first quarter of the year 2023, for SDG reporting, UNODC has provided the first ever data on crime-related IFFs for SDG indicator 16.4.12. Following up with these efforts, the UN Development Account project Measuring and Curbing Illicit Financial Flows3 aims to strengthen the capacity of developing countries across regions to produce standardized estimates of illicit financial flows and enhance investigative and analytical capacities to develop evidence -based policy responses to monitor and curb illicit financial flows. This workshop is organised with three specific objectives: * To kick-off the UN Development Account project Measuring and Curbing Illicit Financial Flows globally and bring partners and participating countries to the similar level of understanding of the project and strengthen stakeholder engagement and coordination. * To enhance the capacity of countries on understanding the methodologies developed by custodian agencies and regional commissions to measure SDG indicator 16.4.1 on IFFs, and support countries in formulating relevant policy responses and providing examples from different regions. * Provide participating countries opportunities to share their experiences and learn. Targeted participants of the international kick-off meeting are national and international stakeholders within the UN Development Account project Measuring and Curbing Illicit Financial Flows. 1 https://unctad.org/publication/conceptual-framework-statistical-measurement-illicit-financial-flows 2 Selecting data series to reflect SDG indicator 16.4.1 on SDG Indicators Database: https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/dataportal/database returns Indicator 16.4.1 series: Total value of inward illicit financial flows (DI_ILL_IN) and Total value of outward illicit financial flows (DI_ILL_OUT). 3 https://unctad.org/project/measuring-and-curbing-illicit-financial-flows
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Organizer(s): FAO International Food Policy Research Institute
Description: The Women’s Empowerment Metric for National Statistical Systems (WEMNS) event is the soft launch of a streamlined tool for measuring women’s empowerment, which is suitable for use by national statistical...
Organizer(s): European Network for Better Establishment Statistics
Description: EESW23 is the eighth biennial European Establishment Statistics Workshop, will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, on 19-22 September 2021. It will be hosted by Statistics Portugal. The first day is devoted to short courses, followed by the traditional two-and-a-half day workshop.
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Description: The 4th Meeting of the Expert Group on Measuring Tourism Sustainability (MST) is scheduled to take place in Marbella, Spain, in September 2023. The Expert Group on MST constitutes a diverse and inclusive assembly, established by UNWTO in collaboration with prominent nations, the International Labour Organization, and the United Nations Statistics Division. Its primary purpose is to provide guidance for the formulation of a Statistical Framework for Assessing Tourism's Sustainability. The framework aims to support a more harmonized and integrated measurement of the impacts and dependencies of tourism on the economy, society and the environment, at both the national and sub-national levels.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, covers theoretical and practical aspects in the compilation of national accounts statistics based on the conceptual framework of the System of National Accounts 2008 (2008 SNA). The course consists of lectures covering advanced methodological and compilation issues of the 2008 SNA and workshops consisting of practical exercises in compiling the accounts. The main aim of the course is to train participants in developing and using more advanced compilation techniques in areas including supply and use tables (SUTs), input-output tables, price and volume measures, and thematic satellite accounts. The course starts with SNA framework and will discuss how these accounts can be extended to address specific user needs. The main lectures and workshops include: Conceptual framework of the SNA; Output of specific industries; SUTs and input-outputs tables; Price and volume measurement; Estimating consumption of fixed capital; and Thematic satellite accounts, with a focus on topics covered in the update of the 2008 SNA (e.g., informal economy, labor accounts).Emphasis is also placed on sharing country experiences among the participants.
Description: This two-week intermediate regional course on balance of payments and IIP statistics is presented by Statistics Department and targets compilers with some experience in compilation of balance of payments and/or IIP. The course will focus on more complex methodological issues than the previous balance of payments/IIP standard courses. It aims at providing a deep understanding of the concepts, data sources, and compilation techniques for balance of payments and IIP statistics and their application for addressing complex methodological issues. The course does not cover the basic balance of payments and IIP concepts. The intermediate level of the course presupposes participants’ familiarity with the basic concepts. Therefore, it is highly recommended to complete the balance of payments/IIP online course (BOP-IIPx) to review or learn the balance of payments/IIP basic concepts. The course consists of a series of lectures and workshops analyzing country cases with a strong data component and to allow peer learning and sharing of experiences. Recognizing the challenges in compiling data in emerging areas of user interest, the course emphasizes specific topics, such as estimating informal cross border activities and the treatment of special purpose entities. The course examines themes and challenges emerging from developments in global economy, and participants can discuss how these impact compilation work. Specific exercises are geared to integrating data compilation with Fund surveillance and policy advice, and to demonstrate the analytical uses of ESS.
Description: Statistical data exchanges often take place in an ad-hoc manner, using all kinds of formats and non-standard concepts, hence the need for common standards, guidelines and tools to enable more efficient processes for exchanging and sharing statistical data and metadata. SDMX (Statistical Data and Metadata eXchange) is an international initiative that aims to standardize and modernize ("industrialize") the mechanisms and processes for the exchange of statistical data and metadata among international organizations and their member countries. The standard has evolved in recent times, going beyond straightforward data exchange and now enabling more efficient and reliable data storage and dissemination. SDMX is a business choice (as opposed to a technical choice), improving the quality of statistical data-processing and exchange through standardization, automation, validation and data-sharing. SDMX is a standard (indeed an ISO standard, 17369:2013) designed to describe statistical data and metadata, normalize their exchange and enable them to be shared more efficiently among organizations. To meet these three requirements, SDMX has three key components: 1. Technical standards (including the Information Model); 2. Statistical guidelines; 3. An IT architecture and tools. SDMX is therefore much more than a mere data-transmission format. All labour market information (LMI) systems implemented with the assistance of the ILO are based on and make intensive use of SDMX. The objective of the course is to enable participants to understand the scope, architecture and features of SDMX, in particular those features that support more efficient processes for reporting, exchanging and disseminating statistical data and metadata. This will enable the to: - Assess how to take advantage of SDMX in their day-to-day work; - Understand DSDs and MSDs, and how they reflect requirements for data and metadata exchange; - Work together (statisticians and IT specialists within an organization) in planning for SDMX in their domain; - Learn how to model data in using SDMX for data-exchange, storage and/or dissemination; - Understand the relationship between SDMX and the production of statistics; - Understand the different roles of organizations in the collection and production of statistics and their relationship with SDMX; - Understand (in broad terms) the different tools available in the marke, and the architecture that can be developed; - Understand how SDMX enables data harmonization across a system.
Target Audience: National statistical offices (NSOs); IT specialists; ministries of labour and related Institutions (such as labour observatories); governmental agencies responsible for labour-market data analysis and national SDG reporting; ILO social partners (employers' and workers' organizations); research and academic institutions; international organizations; development agencies; non-governmental organizations.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 03 Feb 2023 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: The objectives of this course are: * This course will enable you to pick your next top data-science programming language; * Know the characteristics of R, Python, Julia; * Understand the advantages of each language for different use-cases; * Ability read and modify a small program in each language.
Target Audience: Statistical production units and methodologists of NSIs, having an interest in data science tools and a basic understanding of development.
Description: This is a comprehensive training course that covers application of STATA in Data Management and Analysis in socio-economic fields. The course aims at equipping participants with skills and knowledge in design data capture, data entry, management, analysis and interpretation.
Target Audience: Planners; Policy Makers; Statisticians; Economists; Monitoring and Evaluation Officers; Researchers and the Academia.
Description: Geospatial information now underpins everything we do. All countries and all sectors need geospatial information to address national priorities, for national development and for decision-making. Its full integration with other data of relevance to our lives is key to providing better information and shared understanding, which in turn enables us to better achieve local, national, and global goals, including the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, COVID-19 recovery, and our climate agenda. However, while the links and the digital divide between the global development agendas and the application of timely and reliable geospatial information and enabling technologies have been identified and documented by UN-GGIM, transitioning and 'accelerating' these key capabilities to 'implementation reality' for many countries is complex and remains ongoing. Thus, the side event 'Geospatial Information: Accelerating Implementation of the SDGs' is being convened on 17 September 2023 as part of the SDG Acceleration Day, on the SDG Action Weekend 16-17 September 2023. The side event will demonstrate the immense value and utility of geospatial information, as a critical component of a national infrastructure and knowledge economy, providing a blueprint of what happens where, and providing the means to integrate a wide variety of government services that contribute to economic growth, national security, sustainable social development, environmental sustainability, peace, national prosperity and the development agendas and priorities of the United Nations. In particular, participants at the side event will be informed of the following: High-level statements and perspectives on the importance of geospatial information by global leaders from Member States. How UN-GGIM is accelerating implementation of the SDGs through its global programme of work. The critical role of geodesy and positioning in our modern world. How 'on the ground' SDG implementation is being achieved with geospatial information in developing countries. Hear from the 'geospatial voices of Africa' as a shared vision for accelerating implementation of the SDGs with geospatial information.
Organizer(s): UN DESA UNFPA UNDP WHO Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data World Bank
Description: At the SDG Action Weekend on 17 September 2023, UNDESA and partners (UNFPA, UNDP, WHO, the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data (GPSDD), the World Bank) launched the High Impact Initiative on the Power of Data at the United Nations Headquarters. The event garnered numerous commitments and called on world leaders to invest in better data for driving progress and sustainable development. Speakers included Amina Mohammed, Deputy Secretary General of the UN; USG Li from UNDESA, and Principals from UNFPA, UNDP, the World Bank, GPSDD; Ashley Judd, Actor and UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador; Dr. Mo Ibrahim, founder and chair of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation; ministers from Colombia, Botswana, Ghana, Kenya; officials from all over the world; senior figures from NVIDIA and Microsoft; NGOs; and youth advocates. At the event, the following key issues were discussed: the urgent need and opportunity to fund data systems; the role of data in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals; the role of data in driving economic decision making and tackling inequalities; and the role of data in transforming decision making. Commitments made at the event include 15 countries launched cutting-edge National Data Partnerships; The UK made funding commitment of investing over USD 7.5 million to help scale up global support for national data partnerships; and 30 data for development and civil society organizations signed a letter of support for the High Impact Initiative.
Description: UNICEF, in collaboration with UN Legal Identity Agenda co-chairs, UNDESA and UNDP are hosting an in-person side event at the 2023 SDG Summit. The side event aims to facilitate knowledge exchange by showcasing successful strategies, innovative approaches, and insights from six priority countries: Bangladesh, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, India, Nigeria, and Pakistan. High-level representatives from these countries within the CRVS, health, and National ID management sectors have been invited to engage with UNICEF colleagues, civil society organizations, and experts in child rights, human rights, CRVS, and legal identity. The event intends to amplify participants collective experiences to garner greater international support and commitment towards achieving SDG 16.9.
Description: On 15 September, join FAO Liaison Office in Geneva and FAO Office of Chief Statistician (OCS) for the launch of "Tracking progress on food and agriculture-related SDG indicators 2023" report.The high-level event will take place in a hybrid format at the Palais des Nations (Building H 208) on 15 September at 15:00. At the mid-point of the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development, the clock is ticking on meeting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The new report of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), titled Tracking progress on food and agriculture-related SDG indicators, offers a critical look at how far we have progressed to date on the SDG indicators, and highlights the main achievements and challenges faced by countries. With the participation of the FAO Chief Economist, Máximo Torero, the high-level event will present the main findings of the report, as well as policy recommendations to harness the power of data to achieve Zero Hunger and accelerate food systems transformation. Ahead of the 2023 SDG Summit, the event which will bring together FAO Members, UN bodies and partners, is an essential contribution to the ongoing efforts to renew commitment to invest in better data and statistics to inform evidence-based policies for people and the planet. The report will be published in six languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish) at the following link: https://www.fao.org/sustainable-development-goals-data-portal/resources/analytical-reports/en Related links Register here for in-person participation* Register here for online participation * Detailed instructions for access to the Palais des Nations will be sent after Indico registration. Documents Agenda Contact LOG-Director@fao.org Chief-Statistician@fao.org
Description: The fifth meeting on “Mapping distributional frameworks” seeks to discover the synergies among the different distributional frameworks by asking ourselves who are the users, what policy questions are addressed, and how policy applications like models and other techniques are supported.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 03 Feb 2023 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: Providing knowledge and basic practice on use of earth observation data to produce statistics, EO data sets, processing analyses and presenting.
Target Audience: NSIs and Other National Authorities (with lower priority), working in the field of Earth observation, geographic information systems and statistics.
Description: Following up on the discussions and decisions at the 54th session of the Statistical Commission, the Bureau is investigating how to be a more inclusive Statistical Commission as requested in decision 54/114(c) of the session's report E/2023/24-E/CN.3/2023/37 . The Bureau would like to invite you to a Webinar focusing on a more inclusive Statistical Commission to be held on 13 September 2023, at 8AM Eastern, at which Bureau members will present their Note and gather views on the way forward. This webinar is an opportunity for further discussions on ensuring the Statistical Commission is an inclusive body reflective of the current global dynamics.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 03 Feb 2023 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: The course aims at providing an advanced knowledge of the elaboration and use of statistics on: trade in goods, services, financial flows, trade in value added and IIP statistics.
Target Audience: Staff members in the field of National Accounts (NA) and Balance of Payment (BoP) departments in National Statistical Offices and National Banks.
Description: This webinar was jointly organized by the Inter-secretariat Working Group on Household Surveys (ISWGHS) and the Global Network of Data Officers and Statisticians. XIAO Ning, Deputy Director-General of the Department of Household Surveys, and LIAN Jiajia, Director of the Division of Household Monitoring Survey of the Department of Household Surveys, from the National Bureau of Statistics of China gave a presentation on a Brief Introduction to Household Survey in China. The webinar focused on China’s practices of conducting household survey, including the organization, sampling design, data collection, quality control and data release. Challenges and future plan were also shared in the presentation.
Description: UNSD delivered a presentation on the uncertainties of wood energy data at the global level at the webinar “Carbon accounting for wood energy” as part of the Global Bioenergy Partnership (GBEP) webinar series 2023. Data availability plays a crucial role in understanding wood energy value chains and supporting an efficient and sustainable use of wood energy as a renewable energy source. Comprehensive, context specific and updated data on wood energy provide insights into its potential as a renewable energy solution, assists in evaluating its environmental footprint, and supports the development of efficient and inclusive wood energy value chains. Accurate data availability is therefore essential for ensuring the sustainable and responsible utilization of wood energy, therefore maximizing its benefits. This webinar aimed to improve the understanding and explore the challenges regarding wood energy data at the global level, as well as showcase the general methods that can be used to estimate wood energy production and use.The webinar was hosted by the GBEP as part of the Scope of Work of Activity Group 4, under the thematic area ‘Carbon accounting for wood energy’. More information and other webinars on this theme can be found on the GBEP website.
Description: Main goals of the course are to enhance the capacity of trade statisticians to apply the most recent internationally agreed recommendations as contained in the Manual on Statistics of International Trade in Services 2010 (MSITS 2010); to define best possible data sources; to set up or enforce collection systems; and to strengthen statistical production processes. Furthermore, the course would raise awareness of SITS and its concepts, enhance statisticians’ capacity, and help them to better understand the MSITS 2010.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, provides participants with an introduction to the compilation of monetary statistics covering the central bank (CB) and other depository corporations (ODCs) in accordance with international standards. Course materials are based on the Monetary and Financial Statistics Manual and Compilation Guide (MFSMCG). The course discusses the principles of residency and sectorization of institutional units, the characteristics and types of financial instruments, valuation principles, and other accounting issues that are relevant to the compilation of monetary statistics. Participants also become familiar with the defining characteristics of depository corporations (DCs), notably their role as money issuers, and with the main principles on which analysis of monetary and credit aggregates is based. The course consists of lectures, and exercises covering practical aspects of compiling monetary statistics, especially the use of financial statements for filling out standardized report forms (SRFs 1SR and 2SR) and the derivation of the respective surveys for the CB, ODCs, and the consolidated DCs sector. Participants should be prepared to ask questions and discuss challenges related to MFS compilation practices. This course is an abbreviated version of the longer, introductory MFS course traditionally offered by STA in-person.
Description: A Regional Training on Assessing Inequalities in Civil Registration Completeness will take place in Bangkok, Thailand on 11-15 September. It aims to provide selected countries from Asia and the Pacific with practical knowledge to assess the completeness of birth and death registration records using secondary sources of data. More specifically, the training aims to address these objectives: Give participants and overview of the tools and data sources that can be used to assess inequalities related to civil registration. Provide participants with the demographics skills necessary to initiate inequality assessments. Train participants in the computation of completeness rates of birth and death registration. Discuss how to initiate inequality assessments and ensure their findings lead to policy recommendations. The training will use the guidelines for estimating completeness of civil registration of vital events as background documentation and make use of the experience of other countries of the region in conducting such inequality assessments. The workshop will be conducted in English with simultaneous interpretation in Russian. The concept note is available in English here:
Description: This is a comprehensive training course that covers application of STATA in Data Management and Analysis in socio-economic fields. The course aims at equipping participants with skills and knowledge in design data capture, data entry, management, analysis and interpretation.
Target Audience: Planners; Policy Makers; Statisticians; Economists; Monitoring and Evaluation Officers; Researchers and the Academia.
Description: The London Group on Environmental Accounting is a city group created in 1993 to allow practitioners to share their experience of developing and implementing environmental accounts. Members of this informal group of experts come primarily from national statistical agencies but also international organizations. The London Group generally meets annually, and the meetings provide a forum for review, comparison and discussion of work underway by participants towards development of environmental accounts. In light of the global pandemic, the Twenty-seventh Meeting of the London Group will be held virtually on 27-30 September 2021 and 4 October 2021.
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: Objectives of the course: * To provide the participants with a state of the art knowledge of the methodology and practice of nowcasting; * To introduce the participants to the use of R to produce nowcasts for their own series.
Target Audience: Staff of national statistical institutes involved in the production process who want to acquire a good understanding of nowcasting methods and practices.
Description: The fourth meeting on “Mapping domestic wellbeing dashboards and their concepts and contents” will review the current state of domestic wellbeing dashboards globally, their commonality, uses and impact, especially on policy-making.
Description: The Africa Natural Capital Accounting Policy Forum on Using Natural Capital Accounting (NCA) And Analysis to Inform Policies for Development, Climate Change and Nature Protection aims to provide participants with a platform to discuss the use of natural capital approaches, including natural capital accounting (NCA), in particular the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA), and the challenges and opportunities in using natural capital data, tools and analysis to inform and support policies in African countries. The Forum will foster dialogue and sharing of experiences on using NCA and related data and analysis to address policy issues like climate change, biodiversity, and nature protection. Both the latest Climate and Biodiversity Conferences of the Parties (COP 27 and COP15) called for addressing climate change and nature protection simultaneously, as they are closely intertwined. The 2023 Africa NCA Policy Forum will hence focus on how NCA and related approaches can inform the climate change, nature, and development nexus in Africa. The Forum is expected to attract policy makers, statisticians, academics, regional and international experts, as well as private sector entities from countries and organizations across Africa. It will be an in-person event with selected sessions livestreamed.
Description: The first webinar series on "Measuring Adult Mortality Community of Practice (MAM-CoP)" was held on 6 September 2023, from 08.30 to 10.00 a.m. (New York time). The event focused on the use of surveys and censuses to measure the completeness and gaps in death registration and health information systems. Discussion in the event informed further work and guidance to countries on innovative and comprehensive measurement and collection of statistics on adult mortality. Concept note Event page website: https://unstats.un.org/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=143099385 (Member Only). Objectives: The objective of the webinar series is to facilitate knowledge sharing and innovative methods for measuring adult mortality. The specific objectives of this webinar are as follows: To share experiences and best practices, including the data quality and use, of select countries that have successfully incorporated a question on death registration status in their surveys and censuses. To discuss the importance of incorporating death registration status questions in surveys and censuses for improving mortality data accuracy and informing public health policies.
Description: The objective of the webinar series is to facilitate knowledge sharing and innovative methods for measuring adult mortality. The specific objectives of this webinar are as follows: To share experiences and best practices, including the data quality and use, of select countries that have successfully incorporated a question on death registration status in their surveys and censuses. To discuss the importance of incorporating death registration status questions in surveys and censuses (including recommending this topic in the next revision of the UN Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses) for improving mortality data accuracy and informing public health policies. The recording from the webinar is here
Description: Full Report Expert meeting on data governance (master slideshow) Programme Concept note Purpose The Expert meeting was organized to advance the decisions by the ESCAP Committee on Statistics pertaining to data governance and the enhanced use of new technology and data for official statistics. Participants The Head of the national statistics office of Fiji, India, Mongolia, Singapore, Thailand, and Uzbekistan (members of the Bureau of the ESCAP Committee on Statistics). The Head or Deputy Head of the national statistics office of selected other countries in Asia and the Pacific, representing a balanced mix of subregions and types and evolvement of data governance models. Resource persons from international entities such as UN-ECE, UNSD, SPC, ADB, ASEAN, PARIS21 and the World Bank Group will be invited to participate at their own cost. Objectives Review a draft compendium of data governance practices in Asia-Pacific; make recommendations for its finalization or further development. Review a draft information brief on data governance as it pertains to the use of big data for official statistics; make recommendations for its finalization or further development Increase the knowledge of senior statisticians in Asia-Pacific on data governance models pursued by different countries in the region and how such models may facilitate the use of new technology and data for official statistics. Support senior statisticians in Asia and the Pacific in identifying opportunities and possible pathways towards developing the roles and responsibilities of the national statistical office in support of national data stewardship, governance of data and the enhanced use of new technology and data for official statistics. Upskill and empower senior statisticians in Asia and the Pacific to engage with other parts of the National Statistical System to take forward data governance and data stewardship discussions.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 03 Jul 2023 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: Designed for all those who are engaged in providing statistical, technical and analytical training, giving statistical, technical and analytical presentations, providing statistical, technical and analytical consulting and facilitating group sessions with statistical and non-statistical audiences. Courses will provide attendees with the competences required to be effective when training/teaching colleagues in statistical, technical and analytical topics. Specific details can be seen under ‘Outcomes’ below.
Target Audience: Designed for all those who are engaged in providing statistical, technical and analytical training, giving statistical, technical and analytical presentations, providing statistical, technical and analytical consulting and facilitating group sessions with statistical and non-statistical audiences.
Description: The aim of the course is to better equip data officers within the UN offices regarding the new SDG statistical monitoring system. The course is designed to enhance capacities for identifying, collecting, analysing and disseminating labour-market information and other indicators related to decent work. It also emphasizes the latest ICLS Resolutions on the statistics of work relationships as an important pillar for measuring progress towards the 2030 Global Agenda, particularly Goal 8 on promoting inclusive and sustainable growth, employment and decent work for all.
Organizer(s): ESCWA UNFPA AITRS HCP Morocco National Institute for Statistics and Applied Economics in Morocco University of Minnesota
Description: ESCWA, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Arab States Regional Office, the Arab Institute for Training and Research in Statistics, in collaboration with the High Commission for Planning of Morocco, the National Institute for Statistics and Applied Economics in Morocco and the Micro/Single Data Qualification Program for Public Use University of Minnesota, are organizing a regional workshop on population projections and use of microdata files in Arab countries. The workshop provides an opportunity to enhance the capacity of national statistical offices and UNFPA Population and Development focal points in the Arab region to produce accurate and timely official statistics in support of evidence-based policy-making and the SDGs implementation and monitoring. It aims to: - Introduce participants to the basic concepts and methods of population projections - Provide hands-on training on data analysis, demographic models and projection techniques - Improve understanding of population projection applications in policy development and planning - Facilitate knowledge-sharing among participants - Explore how to establish microdata files for public use.
Description: Climate change is one of the most pressing policy issues for many African countries given its wide-ranging impacts on well-being. High quality, consistent data on the environment-economy nexus is needed to inform effective pathways for addressing climate change and related issues. Many national statistical offices (NSOs) of countries in the region have responded to this need by compiling various SEEA accounts, including taking steps towards compiling energy and air emission accounts which are among the most relevant accounts for informing climate change. However, there is still a need to strengthen the capacities of NSOs to produce and disseminate SEEA accounts, in particular energy, air emission and carbon accounts, to better meet the needs of users for high quality integrated data on climate change and the economy. Hence, this regional training workshop will aim to further build capacities in the region for the compilation of SEEA accounts relevant to climate change. The 2-day workshop will take place in Nairobi, Kenya at the Radisson Blu Hotel. During the workshop, participants will discuss technical issues related to the compilation of energy, air emission and carbon accounts and engage in practical exercises on how to compile these accounts This workshop will be held in advance to the Africa Natural Capital Policy Forum.
Description: The Director of UNSD participated remotely in a high-level panel organized by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography of Mexico (INEGI), to engage in a dialogue with users specialized in Mexico's System of National Accounts, on the occasion of the update of the base year change to 2018. Expert users from the public, private, social and international sectors, who presented their perspective on the importance of updating the SNA database, participated in the event. Before an audience of more than 300 in person and several hundred virtual participants, the UNSD director highlighted the importance of using international statistical standards and integrated information in the production of information. INEGI presented the main results of their new database as well as the regional breakdown of several annual and quarterly products, in response to user demand expressed through the public consultation process, helping to measure the three pillars of sustainable development. INEGI implemented the first global pilot on economic and environmental accounts; and more recently the pilot of ecosystem accounts which contributed to the adoption of the SEEA Ecosystem Accounting as a statistical standard.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, covers the fundamentals needed to compile the international accounts. The course introduces the conceptual statistical framework for balance of payments and IIP-as presented in the Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Statistics Manual, sixth edition (BPM6), which is harmonized with other macroeconomic statistical frameworks. You will learn about the current, capital, and financial account balances, and how they reflect your economy's interaction with the rest of the world. Basic concepts, definitions, and classifications are covered, along with the principal accounting rules (including valuation and time of recording) that are relevant for compilation of the international accounts. The course also discusses the functional categories, including direct investment. The need for integration of the balance of payments with the IIP for compiling comprehensive, internationally comparable statistics will also be discussed.
Description: Este curso, presentado por el Departamento de Estadísticas del FMI, se enfoca tanto en el marco conceptual de las estadísticas de finanzas públicas (EFP), como se presentó en el Manual de Estadísticas de Finanzas Públicas 2014 del FMI (MEFP 2014) y en los aspectos prácticos de la compilación de datos. Los conceptos y definiciones básicos, las normas contables y las clasificaciones detalladas se tratan dentro del contexto del MEFP 2014, combinado con el sistema de cuentas nacionales. El curso analiza el marco de las EFP, así como también su cobertura y normas contables (incluida la contabilidad en base devengado), las clasificaciones, balances y deudas, y las fuentes y métodos utilizados para compilar las EFP. Por último, el curso trata la divulgación de las EFP y sus usos en la formulación de políticas y análisis fiscales.
Target Audience: A los funcionarios cuya responsabilidad principal es compilar y divulgar las estadísticas fiscales.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, teaches you how to compile timely, high quality national accounts statistics based on the system of national accounts (SNA) framework. The course introduces the sequence of national accounts, the accounting rules, and the key macroeconomic indicators in the SNA framework. You will learn about gross domestic product (GDP) - the main aggregate of the system, and how to compile consistent and internationally comparable measures of GDP according to the production, income, and expenditure approaches. The course also discusses in detail, how the SNA can be used to track an economy's production, consumption, and income and how to estimate volume measures of GDP.
Target Audience: This introductory online course is designed for anyone interested in learning how to compile and disseminate national accounts statistics according to the System of National Accounts and using them for macroeconomic analyses.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, teaches you how to compile timely and high-quality Quarterly National Accounts (QNA) and High-Frequency Indicators of Economic Activity (HFIEAs). The course presents the concepts, data sources, and compilation techniques needed for producing QNA and HFIEAs, covering both theoretical and practical compilation issues. It introduces participants to benchmarking, seasonal adjustment techniques, as well as volume estimates; and explains the application of these techniques to time series data. The course also discussed how to identify and assess available data sources, use real-time series databases to assess the quality, and implement a suitable revisions policy for compiling QNA and HFIEAs.
Target Audience: This introductory online course is designed for anyone interested in learning how to compile and disseminate Quarterly National Accounts and High-Frequency Indicators of Economic Activity, according to the recommendations of the System of National Accounts, and using them to better understand the role of high-frequency data in analyzing current economic developments.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) introduces participants to the underlying concepts, definitions, and methodology for the compilation of Financial Soundness Indicators (FSIs). FSIs were developed by the IMF in the late 1990s and currently, more than 140 countries compile and report FSIs to the IMF. These indicators are widely used by researchers, analysts, and policymakers around the world to monitor the soundness of the financial system as a whole from a macroprudential perspective, as well as by IMF staff in financial stability analysis and surveillance. This course covers the history of the FSIs and their application in surveillance and macroprudential analysis, the conceptual framework for the FSIs, the data collection process for FSI compilation and its underlying aggregation and consolidation methodologies as well as the application of core and additional FSIs in macroprudential analysis. An important reference throughout this course is the Financial Soundness Indicators Compilation Guide revised in 2019. The 2019 FSIs Guide is the ultimate authority on FSI concepts and methods and is the foundation of this course.
Target Audience: Officials at central banks and supervisory agencies for the financial sector who are involved in the collection, compilation, and analysis of financial soundness indicators (FSIs).
Description: The need for statistics on gender-in-trade is becoming pressing as governments strive to develop gender-responsive trade policies. The Regional Workshop will focus on the importance of collecting and utilising gender-in-trade statistics to support better policymaking across the African continent. In addition, the Regional Workshop also discusses the findings obtained from six pilot countries – Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Senegal, Cameroon, and Zimbabwe – that participated in undertaking exercises in micro-linking trade and non-trade data within their countries and identify ways forward for improved data collection in gender-in-trade statistics. The objectives of this regional workshop is to: * Encourage knowledge sharing amongst statistics officers on best methods and practices to support the collation of data and statistics on gender and trade and to understand how to undertake micro-linking of non-trade and trade data. * Drawing on the findings from the African pilot case studies, discuss the long-term goal of collecting sex-disaggregated trade data and identify gaps and proposed solutions for ensuring that national statistics collection includes gender-responsive indicators across the continent. * Improve understanding of regularising and implementing long-term data collection on informal cross-border trade (ICBT) to inform evidence-based policymaking that meet the needs of informal and small-scale traders. This workshop is organized by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), with contributions from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE). Financial support for this project was provided by United Nations Development Account.
Description: Legal identity for all to achieve gender equality - An inter-regional dialogue Thursday, 31 August, 2023 14.00-16.00hs SAST/CET Watch the event at bit.ly/9gfgsday3 (no registration required) In countries where gender inequalities are most prevalent, lack of legal identity further marginalizes women and hampers progress toward gender equality. Ensuring legal identity for all, underpinned by access to birth, marriage and death registration across the life course, is a crucial layer of protection against social exclusion. Civil registration is also a crucial data source for sex-disaggregated vital statistics. The objective of this session is to share country experiences on the establishment and maintenance of population registers and identity management from birth to death and efforts to ensure interoperability in accordance with international standards and in compliance with a human rights approach, including the right to privacy. (SDGs: SDG 3, SDG 5, SDG 16).
Description: Strengthened marriage registration as a tool for gender equality and women’s empowerment Thursday, 31 August, 2023 7.00hs-8.30hs SAST/CET Watch the event at bit.ly/9gfgsday3 (no registration required) The objectives of this session are to provide a brief overview of the global landscape on marriage and divorce registration and to review recent experiences, innovations and lessons in marriage registration system strengthening from Uganda, Indonesia and Guatemala. Marriage and divorce shape the lives of individuals, families and society at-large and play a particularly significant role in the ability of women and girls to claim their fundamental rights and access relevant services. Yet, despite the recognition of official marriage registration and divorce registration within international human rights conventions for more than 58 years, in practice they are often neglected. This side event will begin with an overview of the state of marriage and divorce registration in terms of international standards, common practices, available data and published statistics.
Description: Labor market statistics are of major importance when addressing social and economic challenges. These statistics are typically derived from complex survey data collected on a monthly or quarterly basis. However, when it comes to small geographical areas or domains, survey samples often fail to provide reliable estimates. To address this issue, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) has put forth a standardized approach that utilizes area-level models, taking into account the multinomial nature of occupation statuses. Within a Bayesian framework, we define a both a linkage and a sampling model that enable the simultaneous estimation of a diverse set of indicators of interest, such as unemployment rates, occupation rates, and participation rates. This innovative approach proposed by ECLAC aims to overcome the limitations associated with traditional survey sampling methods, particularly in smaller areas where the precision of estimates may be compromised. To validate the effectiveness of our methodology, we conducted a design-based simulation, which revealed promising results and demonstrated the favorable performance of the proposed approach. Building upon this success, we proceeded to implement the methodology across several countries in Latin America, leveraging the extensive and reliable data repository provided by ECLAC's BADEHOG survey database. By adopting this standardized approach, ECLAC aims to enhance the accuracy and reliability of labor market statistics at both national and subnational levels. The utilization of area-level models and the incorporation of Bayesian techniques allow for more reliable estimations, thus enabling policymakers, researchers, and practitioners to make informed decisions and develop effective strategies to address labor market challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean region.
Description: The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), in collaboration with Statistics South Africa, is organizing the 9th United Nations Global Forum on Gender Statistics in Johannesburg, South Africa. The event will take place on 29-31 August 2023. The Forum will bring together producers and users of gender statistics from national and international statistical offices, other government agencies, international organizations, academia, civil society, and the donor community. On this occasion, the forum will focus ways to improve data and evidence on the growing challenges and opportunities offered by the care economy and its impact on gender equality. Panelists and audience will also strategize on how to make the best out of existing data, including by mainstreaming a gender lens into existing data processes. Additionally, the Forum will provide an opportunity to take stock and learn of good practices in gender statistics and data management from the African region.
Description: This course examines the conceptual and practical elements of compiling and disseminating fiscal statistics according to international standards, useful to assess the impact of government activities on a country's economy and to facilitate international comparisons. This course, presented by IMF SARTTAC, focuses on both the conceptual framework of government finance statistics (GFS) as presented in the IMF's Government Finance Statistics Manual 2014 (GFSM 2014), and on practical aspects of data compilation. The basic concepts, definitions, accounting rules, classifications and presentation tables of the GFS framework are discussed. The compilation and dissemination of comprehensive and cross country comparable GFS are explained. Finally, the course shows how to use GFS to evaluate the impact of government activities on a country's economy.
Description: The Stats Cafe aimed to provide an overview and highlights in: The trends on Forced Displacement and Statelessness in Asia & the Pacific Region in 2022. Introduce latest asylum trends of Afghans in Europe. Share updates regarding ‘Census preparation and including nationality/statelessness-related questions in the questionnaire’ in Uzbekistan , Stats Café Home: Upcoming events Concluded events
Description: One of the key features of the programme for the update of the 2008 SNA is the outreach component, which aims: (a) to keep countries informed and updated on the process of updating the 2008 SNA; (b) to foster global consultation on recommendations for the update of the 2008 SNA; and (c) to work with countries on the testing and early implementation of new recommendations. The outreach is supported by dedicated webpages (Towards the 2025 SNA) maintained by UNSD, which provide extensive information on the update. As part of this outreach initiative UNSD presented the progress with the update of the 2008 SNA in two webinars. The first was organized in collaboration with the UNECA and the African Union Institute for Statistics on 30 October 2023 and the second was organized by UNESCAP as part of their Joint Meeting of the Steering Groups of the ESCAP Committee on Statistics on 2 November 2023. More information on the recommended changes to the 2008 SNA is available online.
Description: UNSD and ESCWA organized a virtual meeting to initiate a collaboration with MEDSTAT V which is one of the programmes on Euro-Mediterranean statistical cooperation. The programme is funded by the European Union, addressing nine Mediterranean countries with duration 2022-2025. The purpose of MEDSTAT V is to improve the development, production and dissemination of reliable and comparable statistical data in the Southern Neighbourhood countries as well as to strengthen the institutional capacity of the partner countries’ National Statistical Institutes and other producers of official statistics. It covers six thematic areas: 1. Business registers and statistics, circular economy, informal economy; 2. Trade and international investment; 3. Inclusiveness: Gender and Labour statistics; 4. Migration surveys and statistics; 5. Energy, transport and sustainable development; 6. Climate action and biodiversity. The programme has already used several of the UN statistical frameworks, including the Framework for the Development of Environment Statistics (FDES 2013). Key issues and challenges were discussed, in particular for meeting the needs for climate change information and statistics, for which the Global Set of Climate Change Statistics and Indicators will be disseminated among the nine countries and further implementation support will be offered.
Description: "Disclosure: Due to COVID 19, courses will be delivered in person, hybrid, or virtual, according to safety guidelines. As of today, this course is scheduled to be delivered in person in Vienna, but its delivery method may change. By submitting your application, you confirm your availability to participate in the course either in person or virtually. Up-to-date Covid-19 vaccination is likely to be required and related information may be requested from participants for in-person courses. " This course, presented by the Statistics Department, is intended to broaden participants’ understanding of the concepts, methods, and challenges of compiling CPIs. Concepts and methods introduced in the online CPIx are explored in greater detail to address actual compilation issues faced by participants. It provides an overview of the index number theory and the practical implications of choosing the index number formula at lower and higher levels of aggregation. The course covers the sources and methods for developing/validating weights; and practical applications of the methods used for sampling areas, items, outlets, and varieties. New and emerging data sources as well as new collection technologies are discussed. Frontier issues including how to better measure the digital economy are included. Linkages to the 2008 SNA are highlighted, including the related principles of scope, coverage, and valuation. The course covers the following topics: calculating elementary and upper-level indexes; methods for handling temporarily and permanently missing prices; introducing new outlets, items, and varieties; adjusting prices for quality changes; chaining and linking indexes with updated weighting structures; and meeting data users’ needs to ensure relevancy. The course follows the principles and recommendations of the CPI Manual (2020).
Description: This is a comprehensive training course that covers application of statistics in Monitoring and Evaluation fields. The course aims at equipping participants with skills and knowledge in data entry, management, analysis, interpretation and reporting.
Target Audience: Officials working in Planning Policy Making Project Planning Monitoring and Evaluation
Organizer(s): Baltic-Nordic-Ukrainian Network on Survey Statistics University of Helsinki, Finland
Description: The 6th Baltic-Nordic Conference on Survey Statistics provides an international forum for sharing new results and ideas in survey statistics and data science research and application. The conference is organized by the Baltic-Nordic-Ukrainian Network on Survey Statistics and University of Helsinki.
Description: This course is being organized by the Centre of Excellence on Data for Children with Disabilities, which UNICEF launched in 2021, in partnership with the Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science of the University of Trento. This is the first time the training is being offered and it will focus on participants from the Europe and Central Asia region. It fits within the framework of the regional TransMonEE initiative. The course aims to increase participant knowledge on how to analyse and interpret data on children with disabilities obtained through the Child Functioning Module (CFM) and will provide participants with the opportunity to use their own country’s dataset to conduct the analysis. It is intended primarily for representatives of national statistical offices and other professionals whose primary work is to conduct data analysis.
Description: يعتبر توفر المعلومة الإحصائية مفتاح القرارات الذي ترتكز عليها الجهات الحكومية وكذا تستعملها مختلف الجهات ذات المصلحة من ابداء الرأي في القضايا التي تطرح عنها. ويشكل توفر المعطيات الإحصائية تحديا كبيرا للمنظومات الإحصائية الوطنية في مختلف القطاعات وفي كل الدول . ونظرا للمساهمات المختلفة للقطاع الزراعي في الدول العربية، اقتصاديا واجتماعيا وبيئيا، فان توفير المعلومة الإحصائية القطاعية له خصوصية كبيرة من حيث توفرها وجودتها واستعمالاتها خاصة مع التزامات الأطراف للتبليغ بمؤشرات وطنية في إطار خطط اممية وقارية وجهوية. ومن هذه المنطلقات والتحديات، برمجت هذه الورشة العلمية حول الاحصائيات الزراعية. تندرج هذه الورشة في اطار مواصلة المعهد العربي للتدريب والبحوث الإحصائية والمنظمة العربية للتنمية الزراعية في دعم قدرات العاملين في مجال الاحصائيات الزراعية من حيث توفرها ومعالجتها والابلاغ عنها، بالإضافة الى كيفية ضمان جودتها وشموليتها. وتعتبر الاحصائيات الزراعية من بين الأنشطة الإحصائية التي تتطلب تنسيقا كبيرا وتعاونا متواصلا بين الأجهزة الإحصائية ووزارات الزراعة لتوحيد المفاهيم والمصطلحات الإحصائية وطرق الاحتساب وكيفية نشرها، وذلك اعتبارا للاستعمالات المتعددة لهذه الاحصائيات في العديد من المجالات ومنها بالأساس الحسابات القومية.
Description: The UN Datathon (3-6 November) welcomes participants from around the globe of all ages and backgrounds, as long as you have a basic level of data science experience. If you are passionate about data-driven solutions at local and global levels, and eager to contribute to the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, this event is for you!
The European Statistical System (ESS) Active participation in ESS meetings
Planned for: Q3 2023
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 01 Nov 2022 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: The aim of the course is to: * provide an overview of the functioning of ESS, including ESS procedures and concepts; * create understanding of the requirements originating from the EU cooperation; * introduce in the relations of the European Statistical System with other EU institutions or fora, the legal basis of the ESS, the decision-making process, the cooperation among the different stakeholders, etc.; * prepare participants and enable them to tackle the day-to-day challenges of the ESS system for the purpose of strengthening efforts and thereby increasing their involvement; * train the participants in negotiating with colleagues from other European countries, including negotiation and presentation skills, effective oral communication and active participation in an ESS meeting.
Target Audience: Staff members wishing to understand the framework and functioning of the European Statistical System (ESS) as well as staff who participate or will be participating in the meetings of committees, European Union working groups and task forces.
Advanced earth observation processing for official statistics
Planned for: Q3 2023
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 01 Nov 2022 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: Contents of the course: * An introduction to Earth Observation; * Examples using EO for statistical reporting; * Processing and analyse of EO data; * Practical exercises on receiving EO data; * Advanced analytics; * Reporting statistical values; * Question and Answer Session.
Target Audience: NSIs and Other National Authorities (with lower priority), working in the field of Earth observation, geographic information systems and statistics. Participants are expected to have knowledge of Earth observations and Scripting.
Sampling issues in times of Covid-19: Applications at National Statistical Offices
Planned for: Q3 2023
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 01 Nov 2022 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: To learn state of the art techniques in survey sampling.
Target Audience: NSI statisticians dealing with surveys faced with the challenge to change data collection methods such as mixed mode strategies and adaptive survey designs. Additionally they face the use of administrative data and big data in the survey design and weighting stage.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, provides participants with an introduction to the compilation of monetary statistics covering the central bank (CB) and other depository corporations (ODCs) in accordance with international standards. Course materials are based on the Monetary and Financial Statistics Manual and Compilation Guide (MFSMCG). The course discusses the principles of residency and sectorization of institutional units, the characteristics and types of financial instruments, valuation principles, and other accounting issues that are relevant to the compilation of monetary statistics. Participants also become familiar with the defining characteristics of depository corporations (DCs), notably their role as money issuers, and with the main principles on which analysis of monetary and credit aggregates is based. The course consists of lectures, and exercises covering practical aspects of compiling monetary statistics, especially the use of financial statements for filling out standardized report forms (SRFs 1SR and 2SR) and the derivation of the respective surveys for the CB, ODCs, and the consolidated DCs sector. Participants should be prepared to ask questions and discuss challenges related to MFS compilation practices. This course is an abbreviated version of the longer, introductory MFS course traditionally offered by STA in-person.
Description: Registration: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1WSJMf-dl63QvGvfbxTphpC1u98_iFfcYaYAgutCYnYo/edit I. Background 1. The Regional Committee of United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management for Africa has been created to coordinate African geospatial development and to contribute to the larger global effort. The Regional Committee has made substantive progress in terms of gaining momentum and assuring the global community that Africa is serious about contributing. In order to pursue strong advocacy action towards policymakers in Africa, and strengthen the effort to turn geospatial information into a real sustainable development enabler, the Executive Board is organizing the ninth meeting of the Regional Committee as a back-to-back event with the 31st International Cartographic Conference (ICC 2023), from 14th to 18th August 2023 in Cape Town (South Africa). II. Objectives 2. The main aim of the meeting is to review progress achieved on the recommendations and actions of previous meetings of the Regional Committee. The meeting will again offer the opportunity to share knowledge and best practices in the development of geospatial information in Africa; raise awareness of the benefits to be derived through the utilization of geospatial information for sustainable development; and look at policies, measures and steps that African countries could take to ensure successful implementation of the United Nations Initiative on Global Geospatial Information Management in the region. III. Issues to be addressed 3. The issues to be examined at the meeting will include but are not limited to: (a) Activities relating to geospatial information undertaken by the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), Member States and the working groups; (b) Issues relating to geoinformation policy at the national and regional levels (e.g. geospatial strategies for modernising national mapping agencies) requiring a decision, resolution or recommendation by member States, ECA and partners, or other stakeholders; (c) Technical issues flagged by member States or stakeholders, or tabled by the secretariat of the Regional Committee (i.e. ECA); (d) New trends and developments in the field of geospatial information (e.g. ethical use of spatial data, hyperlocal data, geography and statistics); (e) A special topic such as the geospatial financial appropriation framework.
Description: This is a comprehensive training course that covers application of statistics in Monitoring and Evaluation fields. The course aims at equipping participants with skills and knowledge in data entry, management, analysis, interpretation and reporting.
Target Audience: Officials working in Planning Policy Making Project Planning Monitoring and Evaluation
Description: تعد صحافة البيانات أداة مهمة يستخدمها الصحفيون في تقاريرهم لأنها تتيح توفير السياق والرؤية وتعزيز المصداقية وتشجيع المساءلة وإشراك الجماهير. من خلال دمج تحليل وتصور البيانات في التقارير الصحفية، يمكن للصحفيين إنتاج محتوى أكثر تأثيرًا وغنيًا بالمعلومات يساعد على إعلام الجمهور وتمكينه. - يمكن أن توفر صحافة البيانات سياقًا مهمًا ورؤية ثاقبة للقضايا المعقدة من خلال السماح للصحفيين بتحليل كميات كبيرة من البيانات وتحديد الأنماط والاتجاهات التي قد لا تكون واضحة على الفور. باستخدام البيانات لدعم التقارير، يمكن للصحفيين تعزيز مصداقيتهم وإظهار دقة عملهم، حيث يمكن أن يساعد ذلك في بناء الثقة مع الجماهير وزيادة تأثير تقاريرهم. يمكن أن تساعد صحافة البيانات في مساءلة الأفراد والمؤسسات من خلال الكشف عن أنماط السلوك التي قد لا تظهر على الفور. يمكن أن يكون هذا مهمًا بشكل خاص في مجالات مثل الحكومة والتمويل، حيث يمكن أن توفر البيانات رؤى مهمة حول كيفية اتخاذ القرارات وكيفية تخصيص الموارد. كما يمكن أن تكون صحافة البيانات أداة قوية لإشراك الجماهير من خلال تقديم معلومات معقدة بطريقة سهلة الفهم ومقنعة بصريًا. باستخدام تصور البيانات والتقنيات الأخرى، يمكن للصحفيين مساعدة الجمهور على فهم القضايا المعقدة بشكل أفضل واتخاذ قرارات مستنيرة. من هذا المنطلق، تأتي هذه الورشة التدريبية لتطوير مهارات الصحفيين في هذا المجال وربطهم بالعاملين في الأجهزة الإحصائية العربية.
Description: The UN Expert Group on National Quality Assurance Frameworks (EG-NQAF) established a Subgroup on Administrative and Other Data Sources to provide practical and concise guidance and best practices for statistical agencies in assuring the quality of official statistics when administrative data sources and other (new) data sources are used for producing official statistics. At its sixth meeting the Subgroup discussed the progress in identifying relevant requirements for the use of administrative and other data sources based on the review of national practices and other available guidance. During the meeting, the secretariat presented a detailed analysis of the mapping of national practices to the UN National Quality Assurance Framework and the process of identifying relevant requirements. The Subgroup discussed the next steps of the work. In addition, the secretariat updated the Subgroup on the preparations for the upcoming Global Seminar on 14 November, which will present country examples on how the quality of the input data is affecting the quality of the statistical outputs. The meeting of the Subgroup was attended by 20 experts from national statistical offices and international organizations. The next meeting is scheduled for 29 November 2023.
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Third Meeting of the Friends of the Chair Group on Social and Demographic Statistics
Description: UNSD’s Demographic and Social Statistics Branch organized the third meeting of the Friends of the Chair (FoC) Group on Social and Demographic Statistics, a Group established by the UN Statistical Commission in 2023, to review social and demographic statistics at global, regional and national levels for improved data that better reflect society and its connections with the environment and the economy. The meeting was conducted virtually, moderated by the co-chair of the FoC Group, Ms. Gabriella Vukovich, Chair of the UN Statistical Commission. The members and observes of the Group include UN agencies, regional commissions and chief statisticians from 10 national statistical offices. The work of the FoC Group consists of three Workstreams operating in parallel. Workstream 1, led by DANE Colombia, is tasked with mapping and reviewing the collective global and regional work in the area of social and demographic statistics. Workstream 2, led by Statistics Canada, is entrusted with the review of national approaches and the identification of possible elements for an overarching conceptual framework for social and demographic statistics. Lastly, the task of Workstream 3, led by Statistics Poland, is to elevate the role of social and demographic statistics in the eyes of users and producers. The Workstream leaders reported progress on activities within each of their assigned areas, indicating that all tasks are currently proceeding well. The Group also discussed the road ahead in preparation for the next Statistical Commission, reflecting on the potential deliverables to be included in the Interim Report of the FoC, to be submitted to the Statistical Commission 2024. The UN Statistics Division serves as the Secretariat of the Friends of the Chair Group, that is expected to work for a period of three years and report back on deliverables at the fifty-seventh session of the Statistical Commission in 2026. By then, the Group aims to deliver practical recommendations for an agile and more responsive system of social and demographic statistics, guided by the central promise of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to leave no one behind, while also anticipating data needs beyond 2030.
Source: ESCAP SIAP (Data extracted on: 07 Dec 2023 )
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Organizer(s): ESCAP SIAP
Description: Disasters continue to have an ever-increasing impact on lifewell-being and sustainable development. Given these impactsthere is a high demand at the localnational and international levels for high qualityintegrated statistics to inform all phases of the disaster risk management cycle. Furthermoredisaster related statistics are not only relevant to those working to prepare and respond to disasters but also to the public at largeresearch institutions and policy analysts at the local and national levels. In response to the increased demands for disaster related statisticsthe disaster management and official statistics communities in Asia-Pacific have developed the Disaster-related Statistics Framework (DRSF).
Description: The Thirteenth Session of UN-GGIM will be held from 2 - 4 August 2023 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. There are several side events and meetings related to the substantive work of the Committee of Experts which will be convened on 31 July and 1 August 2023, and on the margins of the Thirteenth Session.
Description: The TWG was held its 23rd virtual meeting on Wednesday, 26 July 2023, 14:00 – 15:30 hours, Bangkok time (GMT+7). The objectives of the meeting are: To discuss the rationale as well as data and methodological considerations for DRSF tables (1) tables D2: Disruption of basic services from a disaster by hazard types/geographic region, and F: Summary of material impacts to agriculture by hazards types. To share initial results of the review of DRSF tables D2 and F by Maldives. To provide opportunities for TWG participants to reflect on and discuss the experiences from their national statistical systems. To get volunteers for the next DRSF table review on table G Summary tables of direct environmental impacts. , Home: TWG Confluence Previous TWG Meetings
Description: The main goal of the workshop is to assist the participants to gain better understanding of the concepts and definitions set out in the Frascati Manual 2015; Oslo Manual 2018, Guidelines for Collecting, Reporting and Using Data on Innovation, 4th Edition; and share best country and international practices, including STI indicators, statistics, and analyses.
Description: This course, presented by the IMF's Statistics Department, aims at providing a thorough understanding of the concepts, as well as practical advice on the data sources and compilation techniques of the international trade in goods and services statistics. The course will be largely based on the BPM6 Compilation Guide - the companion document of the BPM6 - and the Manual on Statistics of International Trade in Services 2010 Compilers Guide (MSITS 2010 CG). The course will consist of a series of lectures, workshops and plenary discussions on country practices covering concepts, sources, and compilation methods associated with international trade in goods and services statistics. Recognizing the challenges in the compilation of certain services categories, such as manufacturing and merchanting, insurance, financial services, construction, and digitalization, the course will emphasize specific aspects related to their treatment and recording in the balance of payments. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss problems encountered in their compilation work and gain insights into the analytical uses of international trade in goods and services statistics.
Title in Arabic: التصنيفات المتعلقة بإحصاءات التجارة الدولية وأدلة الربط بينها
Organizer(s): AITRS
Description: تشمل الورشة التدريبية المواضيع أدناه: * لمحة عام عن التصنيفات الاقتصادية. * التغيرات التي طرأت على تصنيف النظام المنسق HS حسب نسخة عام 2022. * التغيرات على نسخة عام 2022 من التصنيف الموحد للتجارة الدولية SITC4. * أبرز التعديلات التي طرأت على تصنيف ISIC. * تمارين عملية حول ربط بيانات التجارة الخارجية باستخدام HS, SITC, ISIC. تهدف الورشة الى: * التعريف بأهمية التصنيفات الاقتصادية لأغراض نشر البيانات الإحصائية والمقارنة على المستويات الدولية. * التعرف على التغيرات التي طرأت على النسخ الجديدة من أدلة التجارة الدولية عام 2022. * اكتساب وتعزيز مهارات الربط بين التصنيفات المختلفة.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) introduces participants to the underlying concepts, definitions, and methodology for the compilation of Financial Soundness Indicators (FSIs). FSIs were developed by the IMF in the late 1990s and currently, more than 140 countries compile and report FSIs to the IMF. These indicators are widely used by researchers, analysts, and policymakers around the world to monitor the soundness of the financial system as a whole from a macroprudential perspective, as well as by IMF staff in financial stability analysis and surveillance. This course covers the history of the FSIs and their application in surveillance and macroprudential analysis, the conceptual framework for the FSIs, the data collection process for FSI compilation and its underlying aggregation and consolidation methodologies as well as the application of core and additional FSIs in macroprudential analysis. An important reference throughout this course is the Financial Soundness Indicators Compilation Guide revised in 2019. The 2019 FSIs Guide is the ultimate authority on FSI concepts and methods and is the foundation of this course.
Description: The adoption of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and DevelopmentPDF (ICPD), held in Cairo, Egypt in 1994, cemented a people-centred approach to population and development policies, grounded in the respect for human rights and a strong emphasis on environmental sustainability. Subsequently, the Millennium Development Goals and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development integrated many goals and objectives of the ICPD Programme of Action. In 2014, the General Assembly extended the Programme of Action beyond 2014 with a view to fully meeting its goals and objectives (A/RES/65/234). In 2019, at the twenty-fifth anniversary of the adoption of the Programme of Action, the Secretary-General reported that while considerable progress had been made in implementing the Programme of Action since 1994, progress had been uneven both within and among countries, and the benefits of social and economic progress have not been shared equitably. The report also stated that attaining the goals and objectives of the Programme of Action and the 2030 Agenda was a shared responsibility that called for policies and programmes for sustainable development to be grounded in an understanding of population dynamics, including changes in population size or age structure and processes of migration or urbanization. The Commission on Population and Development, at its fifty-seventh session in 2024, will carry out a review and appraisal of the ICPD Programme of Action and its contribution to the follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda. The timing of this appraisal, 30 years after “Cairo”, is consistent with the five-year cycle of review of the status of implementation of the ICPD Programme of Action carried out by the Commission in 2004, 2009, 2014 and 2019, respectively. In support of this review and as part of the substantive preparations of the fifty-seventh session of the Commission on Population and Development, the Population Division of UN DESA will convene an expert group meeting on 19 and 20 July 2023. The meeting will examine progress and gaps in implementing the goals and objectives set out in the ICPD Programme of Action and take stock of the achievement of Sustainable Development goals (SDGs) which are of particular relevance to the global agenda on population and development. Participants will also assess the implications of demographic trends for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the 2024 Summit of the Future, showcasing global solidarity for future generations.
Description: Hosted by the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) and the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), the Voluntary National Review (VNR) lab will discuss and share experiences, at the UN High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) on how non-traditional data, particularly CGD is utilized to support SDG monitoring and the VNRs for evidence-based reporting and will present country experiences from Asia and the Pacific and beyond. It will explore initiatives to improve reporting frameworks and harness the power of citizens to capture and share more data on the SDGs for the VNRs. Interventions will be made by civil society, government, and national statistical office representatives.
Title in Arabic: أكاديمية إحصاءات وتحليل سوق العمل للمنطقة العربية
Organizer(s): ILO ITC
Description: لا يزال تطوير أنظمة إحصائية قوية لإنتاج وجمع ونشر معلومات موثوقة وشاملة وفي الوقت المناسب عن سوق العمل أمرًا بالغ الأهمية لصنع السياسات القائمة على الأدلة ولتعزيز "العمالة الكاملة والمنتجة والعمل اللائق للجميع". يعد الطلب على البيانات الإحصائية عالية الجودة أمرًا ملحًا بشكل خاص في البلدان التي لا تسمح فيها النظم الإحصائية الحالية بالإنتاج المنتظم لإحصاءات سوق العمل الموثوقة وذات الصلة في الوقت المناسب. علاوة على ذلك، أدت التغييرات السريعة في عالم العمل، التي تسارعت بسبب جائحة كوفيد 19 ، إلى زيادة الضغط على الأنظمة الإحصائية الحالية لابتكار وإنتاج مؤشرات جديدة وأفضل لقياس حقائق سوق العمل المتغيرة. تعتبر المعايير الإحصائية المبتكرة التي وضعها المؤتمران الدوليان التاسع عشر والعشرون لإحصاءات العمل فيما يتعلق بإحصاءات العمل وعلاقات العمل ضرورية للهدف الشامل المتمثل في تحقيق العمل اللائق للجميع. لقد ثبت بالفعل أهميتها في المراقبة الفعالة لأسواق العمل خلال الأوقات العادية وخلال أوقات الأزمات في العديد من البلدان في جميع أنحاء العالم. إن القرارات والمبادئ التوجيهية التي اعتمدها المؤتمر الدولي العشرون لخبراء إحصاءات العمل حول موضوعات مثل هجرة اليد العاملة وعلاقات العمل، وقياس الامتثال لحقوق العمال، وقياس وجود استراتيجيات التوظيف للشباب، وما إلى ذلك، سوف تساهم بشكل كبير في رصد التقدم المحرز نحو تحقيق أهداف التنمية المستدامة ، لأنها ترتبط ارتباطًا وثيقًا بالعديد من مؤشرات أهداف التنمية المستدامة. مع أخذ هذه التطورات الأخيرة في الاعتبار ، تفخر إدارة الإحصاء التابعة لمنظمة العمل الدولية ، المركز الدولي للتدريب التابع لمنظمة العمل الدولية (ITCILO) ، بالتعاون مع المكتب الإقليمي لمنظمة العمل الدولية للدول العربية ، بتنظيم الأكاديمية المصغرة لإحصاءات سوق العمل للمشاركين في المنطقة العربية. ستقام الأكاديمية عبر الإنترنت وتوفر فرصة رائعة للتعلم والتفكير في التحديات المستمرة التي تواجه النظم الإحصائية في العالم العربي والتعرف على أحدث المعايير الإحصائية الدولية التي تعتبر ضرورية لتعزيز العمل اللائق في البلاد العربية.
Target Audience: يشمل الجمهور المستهدف للأكاديمية: • إحصائيو العمل من المكاتب الإحصائية الوطنية. وزارات العمل والمؤسسات ذات الصلة (مثل مراصد المختبرات) ؛ الوزارات أو المؤسسات الحكومية الأخرى المسؤولة عن الرصد الإحصائي لأهداف التنمية المستدامة ، والشركاء الاجتماعيين لمنظمة العمل الدولية، • محللو سياسات التوظيف والتنمية من مكاتب الإحصاء الوطنية، والمؤسسات البحثية والأكاديمية، والمنظمات الدولية، والمنظمات المانحة، • الموظفون المسؤولون عن إدارة إنتاج ونشر إحصاءات سوق العمل، ولا سيما التقارير الوطنية الخاصة بأهداف التنمية المستدامة، • الموظفون المسؤولون عن تحليل إحصاءات سوق العمل وإصدار تقارير تحليلية للمساعدة في صنع السياسات القائمة على الأدلة.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, provides participants with an introduction to the compilation of monetary statistics covering the central bank (CB) and other depository corporations (ODCs) in accordance with international standards. Course materials are based on the Monetary and Financial Statistics Manual and Compilation Guide (MFSMCG). The course discusses the principles of residency and sectorization of institutional units, the characteristics and types of financial instruments, valuation principles, and other accounting issues that are relevant to the compilation of monetary statistics. Participants also become familiar with the defining characteristics of depository corporations (DCs), notably their role as money issuers, and with the main principles on which analysis of monetary and credit aggregates is based. The course consists of lectures, and exercises covering practical aspects of compiling monetary statistics, especially the use of financial statements for filling out standardized report forms (SRFs 1SR and 2SR) and the derivation of the respective surveys for the CB, ODCs, and the consolidated DCs sector. Participants should be prepared to ask questions and discuss challenges related to MFS compilation practices. This course is an abbreviated version of the longer, introductory MFS course traditionally offered by STA in-person.
Description: This is a comprehensive training course that covers application of SPSS in Data Management and Analysis in socio-economic fields. The course aims at equipping participants with skills and knowledge in design data capture, data entry, management, analysis and interpretation.
Target Audience: Planners; Policy Makers; Statisticians; Economists; Monitoring and Evaluation Officers; Researchers and the Academia.
Description: Context The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is the blueprint for member States to progress towards inclusivity and sustainability. At the midpoint of the 2030 Agenda, countries are urged to better assess the progress towards achieving the sustainable development goals (SDGs). Monitoring SDG implementation at the national level is challenging. Data availability and coordination across the entire statistical system, technical capacity, and access to IT infrastructure are key barriers for member States to measure their progress towards achieving the SDGs. In this regard, under the China-ESCAP Cooperation Programme (CECP), the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) and the government of China initiated a project to strengthen the capacity of national governments to follow up and review implementation of the 2030 Agenda. Specifically, the National SDG Tracker tool was introduced to help countries measure current and expected SDG progress achievement by 2030. Results of this assessment are also expected to complement the countries’ Voluntary National Review (VNR) narratives. The regional workshop was an opportunity for countries who implemented the National SDG Tracker to share their results and experiences on applying the SDG progress assessment methodology, emphasizing South-South cooperation, and exchange lessons learned from the use of SDG data. View / Download photos from the Workshop Concept note Objective and expected outcomes The regional workshop gathered statisticians, national planning experts, SDG coordinators and relevant stakeholders to: promote evidence-based assessment of SDG implementation in countries of the Asia-Pacific region; enable other countries of the region to use National SDG Tracker tool to measure current and expected SDG achievement; assess and understand the underlying challenges of monitoring SDG progress. These were expected to strengthen capacity for follow up and review of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The regional workshop took place in person at Amari Watergate Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand on 17-20 July 2023. It was conducted in English only. , National SDG Tracker Homepage Regional Workshop (July 2023) Countries: Indonesia (May 2024) Sri Lanka (May 2024)
Description: تمثل مسوح ميزانية الاسرة مصدرا هاما لتوفير العديد من البيانات والمؤشرات تساعد على فهم تطور أنماط الاستهلاك الاسري وانفاقها لمجابهة حاجياتها، بالإضافة الى مساهمتها في توفير بيانات ضرورية لاحتساب العديد من المؤشرات الحيوية في المجال الاجتماعي والاقتصادي على غرار نسب الفقر ومؤشر الأسعار وتركيب الحسابات القومية. كما تساهم نتائج مسوح ميزانية الاسرة في توفير العديد من المؤشرات لمجابهة الحاجيات المتزايدة لإعداد ومتابعة وتقييم اهداف التنمية المستدامة والخطط التنموية الوطنية والاجندات الإقليمية. وتندرج هذه الورشة في إطار مواصلة المعهد العربي للتدريب والبحوث الإحصائية دعم قدرات الأجهزة الإحصائية العربية في مجال تخطيط وإنجاز المسوح الاسرية والاجتماعية وكذلك معالجة وتحليل البيانات ذات الصلة
Title in Spanish: Infraestructura Colombiana de Datos Espaciales (ICDE): Ecosistema geoespacial sostenible
Organizer(s): ECLAC DANE Colombia
Description: En una visión del futuro de un “ecosistema geoespacial”, prácticamente todos los miembros de la comunidad mundial interactúan entre sí de forma ubicua, directa o indirectamente, aprovechando información de calidad basada en la localización que permita la realización de análisis geográficos.
Description: The UNSD Global Geospatial Information Management Section (GGIMS) was asked by UN-GGIM Americas, Caribbean Geospatial Development Initiative (CARIGEO) to coordinate and deliver a webinar on fostering effective participation at UN-GGIM meetings, on 17 July 2023 in advance of the thirteenth session of the UN Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM). The UNSD in collaboration with the UN-GGIM Americas Regional Committee, ECLAC and the Dag Hammarskjöld Library staged the webinar to an audience of over 35 participants from the Americas. The objective of the webinar was to raise awareness on the formality of participating in United Nations meetings and to strengthen the advocacy skills of geospatial experts to effectively represent and communicate their national positions and requirements specifically at UN-GGIM regional and global meetings. The webinar was moderated by the Vocal for North America, Gabriela Garcia Seco from INEGI, Mexico. Welcome remarks were delivered from the President of the UN-GGIM Americas Regional Committee, Ms. Sofía Alejandra Nilo Crisóstomo from Chile and Vocal for the Caribbean, Ms. Simone Lloyd from Jamaica. This was followed by testimonials on the benefits of participating in the regional and global inter-governmental processes, particularly on global geospatial information management, from Ms. Michelle St. Clair of Barbados and Ms. Artie Dubrie from ECLAC, Trinidad and Tobago. Ms. Ariel Lebowitz, Librarian at the Dag Hammarskjöld Library gave an overview on the UN, its main organs, the UN library resources delegates need to know, and how to access them. The main presentation on preparing for and participating in the annual session of the Committee of Experts delivered by GGIMS included the role and responsibilities of national representatives to the Committee of Experts, guidelines on preparing and delivering statements and interventions and the preparation of decisions and resolutions. This was followed by a panel discussion on what happens in countries in preparation for the session and actions post the session. The panelists were Ms. Pilar Garcia from Mexico and Mr. Paul Riley from the United States. The panel discussion was followed by an open discussion which was moderated by Ms. Valrie Grant of the UN-GGIM Private Sector. This webinar was an intervention that sought to strengthen the participation and engagement of Caribbean Member States and their technical representatives at UN-GGIM sessions at the regional and global levels. The presentations and recordings will be made available on the UN-GGIM Americas website.
Description: The ISI World Statistics Congresses (WSC) take place once every two years in different countries. Though organized by the ISI, we work closely with the country’s National Statistics Office and Society. The WSCs and their associated events are the highpoint of activities of the ISI where all our Associations, Committees, members and participants involved in statistics worldwide come together to participate in the many different activities and highlights of the WSC for an entire week and associated activities immediately before or after this week. Each WSC has a rich Scientific Programme that include invited paper sessions (IPS) and contributed paper/poster sessions (CPS). A full Administrative Programme includes meetings of the Executive Committees, Councils, General Assemblies and Committees of the ISI and the Associations, and special interest meetings relevant to the particular WSC. The Social Programme makes the WSC an event to remember and gives participants a flavour of the culture of the host country. The Social Programme also includes daytime activities for accompanying persons. Associated with the WSC are Satellite Meetings and Short Courses of the ISI and the Associations. These take place in or close to the host city before and after the main WSC week and combine with the WSC to provide an overall outstanding international statistical event which is memorable in every way.
Description: As one of the critical follow-up and review mechanisms for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Voluntary National Review (VNR) prepared by Member States and presented at the UN High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF), provides an opportunity for countries to share their experiences, successes, challenges, and lessons learned in implementing the SDGs
Description: The thirty-first meeting of the High-level Group for Partnership, Coordination and Capacity-Building for Statistics for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is a Virtual meeting scheduled for Thursday 13 July 2023 at 7:30 - 9:00am (EDT).
Description: In 2015, with the launch of the Sustainable Development Goals, the global community made a commitment to end all forms of violence against children by 2030. Although this draws much needed attention to the importance of preventing and responding to violence against children, the availability of comparable data remains limited, which was also confirmed by the recently adopted Guidance of the European Statisticians for the Improvement of Statistics on Children. In response, UNICEF has developed the international classification of violence against children (ICVAC) with inputs from more than 200 experts from national statistical offices, academia, and international organizations. The ICVAC was endorsed at the 54th session of the UN Statistical Commission as international statistical standard and was recommended for inclusion in the International Family of Classifications.
Description: On 12 July 2023 from 10 AM to 12 PM (New York Time), FAO and its co-publishing partners will be launching, for the fifth time, the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report at a Special...
Description: The first Expert Meeting on the Measurement of South-South cooperation, organized by UNCTAD and hosted by the Institute for Applied Economic Research (IPEA) from Brazil, in association with the Brazilian Cooperation Agency (ABC/MRE), is planned to be held in Brasília, Brazil, from 11 to 13 July 2023, as a hybrid event (in person and online).The UN Statistical Commission, at its 53rd session1 adopted SDG indicator 17.3.1, on “additional financial resources mobilized for developing countries from multiple sources”, and requested UNCTAD and OECD to act as co-custodians of the indicator. The Commission also welcomed the development of an initial framework to measure South-South cooperation to inform this indicator and “requested that further work on this, including on global reporting and capacity building, be enabled by UNCTAD's co-custodianship and led by countries from the global South, building on country-led mechanisms, and included under indicator 17.3.1 in the future” and “invited countries involved in South-South cooperation to work closely with UNCTAD”.UNCTAD is now launching these activities with a dedicated UN Development Account project, in collaboration with the UN Regional Commissions and the UN Statistics Division.This Expert Meeting is part of this project and will set the ground for the upcoming activities by sharing experience among interested countries and inviting them to test and validate, at the end of this process, the global, voluntary Conceptual Framework to measure South-South cooperation, developed thanks to the joint efforts of countries from the global South, with a view of refining it in accordance with countries’ needs and circumstances. The meeting will thus pave the way for the preparation of tools and guidance for all countries participating in South- South cooperation.1 The final decisions by the 53rd UN Statistical Commission are available on: https://unstats.un.org/unsd/statcom/53rd-session/documents/
Description: Background: In June 2021, the United Nations Development Coordination Office (DCO) hosted a Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Data deep-dive for Resident Coordinators (RCs), Resident Coordinators’ Offices (RCOs) and United Nations Country Teams (UNCTs) with the aim of identifying challenges and opportunities to support the national statistical system (NSS). The deep-dive report found that “UNCTs have to develop capacity to engage politically with governments on data, developing advocacy and partnerships to create a system which has political support, is underpinned by good law and regulation, produces high quality and independent data that is freely shared across government, and is used to inform decisions.” The report also noted that UNCTs should “… take advantage of Regional Collaborative Platforms support to strengthen national capabilities”. The RCP statistics working group was set up to address these issues. This group has organised a series of virtual SDG statistics clinics which started in late 2021 Participants: Day 1 and 2 focused on UN only participants from both the RCOs and UNCTs, and Days 3-5 included the SDG national focal points. Objective of the event: Internally focused regional data management officers retreat which will look at the role of a data management officer in terms of monitoring and reporting of UNCT results; and Externally focussed SDG data learning lab event aimed at enhancing the capacity of staff of UNCTs, including RCOs, so that they are enabled to effectively support the strengthening of the capacity of national statistical systems to meet the demand emanating from the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This will build on the SDG statistics clinics by providing an in-person opportunity to go into these issues in more depth and to build the knowledge sharing between data officers. Modality: The learning labs provided practical hands-on experience on a range of issues related to strengthening national statistical capacity to measure and achieve the SDGs. There was a strong focus on collaborative learning to allow for exchanges of experiences and to help each other close SDG data gaps at the country level. The agenda was designed to allow time during coffee breaks and lunches for delegates to interact with each other or to hold specific bilateral meetings. , RCP Data and Statistics Working Group SDG Data and Statistics Clinics SDG Learning Lab
Description: This is a comprehensive training course that covers application of SPSS in Data Management and Analysis in socio-economic fields. The course aims at equipping participants with skills and knowledge in design data capture, data entry, management, analysis and interpretation.
Target Audience: Planners; Policy Makers; Statisticians; Economists; Monitoring and Evaluation Officers; Researchers and the Academia.
Description: يهدف الاعتماد على الأساليب والأدوات الإحصائية على غرار استخدام التطبيقات الإحصائية إلى تيسير تحليل البيانات باختلاف حجمها، واختيار النماذج المناسبة لدراسة نواحي معينة لبعض الظواهر الاقتصادية والاجتماعية وكذلك لدراسة مشكلة معينة قائمة أو وقع التنبؤ بها وإيجاد الحلول الكفيلة لها. وتتنزل هذه الورشة في إطار دعم القدرات الإحصائية في مجال اكتساب الخبرة والتمكن من هذه الأليات التي تساعد على مواكبة التطورات السريعة فيما يتعلق بإنتاج واستخدام البيانات مع بروز جيل جديد من التخصصات في بعض المجالات الجديدة أهمها علوم البيانات (Data Science) والتي تعنى ببناء قاعدة البيانات وإيجاد طرق مبتكرة لتحليل وفهم معنى البيانات في سياق إقليمي ودولي شديد التغير. تهدف الورشة بالأساس إلى تمكين المشاركين على الاطلاع على تطبيقية Eviews 13 من خلال التعرف على أهم مكوناتها، ومختلف الأليات، والتعامل مع البيانات وانشاء قاعدة بيانات، واستخدام النماذج الإحصائية وتحليلها حسب أهداف المشروع ومجال التطبيق، إضافة إلى التطرق إلى تقنيات التنبؤ وتطبيقها على أمثلة ونماذج تطبيقية.
Description: During the webinar we will announce the survey on the 10-year review of the UNCEBD. The objective of the webinar is to raise awareness for the survey and generate interest by statistical agencies to complete the survey. We would like to take this opportunity to evaluate, if NSOs and other statistical agencies are familiar with the work of the UN Committee of Experts on Big Data and Data Science for Official Statistics (UNCEBD, previously also known as the Global Working Group on Big Data for Official Statistics).
Description: Statistical businesses processes are changing over time and various national statistical systems are adopting different technologies to produce economic statistics. Some of the innovations involve use of big data tools to compile critical statistical data in a timely manner. To be able to undertake such compilations, statistical systems must adopt new business processes that integrate use of big data technology to process huge volumes of data. These processes must be integrated in the normal statistical operations across various domains with a strong emphasis on application of advanced information technology tools. Similarly, trading systems are involving and there has been a growth in digital trade during the covid-19 pandemic This webinar was designed to highlight some of the strides some of the countries had made in the setting up of innovative processes to produce economic statistics. Specifically, the objectives of the webinar were: To showcase processes required in a national statistical system in setting up big data use; To demonstrate methods to estimate domestic tourism.
Description: Solid waste management is an important aspect of sustainable development of tourism at destination level. Inappropriate and inefficient use of resources, contamination problems are only some of the aspects that cause much larger negative impacts in destinations and underline the need for timely and regular monitoring of solid waste management. While waste audits show how much and what kind of waste there is, where it is generated and where it ends up (e.g., in landfills, composting plants, incinerators, etc.) they also allow to assess tourism's share in solid waste production. It also helps to stimulate circular economy processes by identifying where waste reduction at the source is most practicable and effective. There are several indicators that allow destinations to monitor, inter alia, trends in solid waste production and recycling, the development of waste services and the perception of the cleanliness of a destination. This sixth INSTO Insights webinar will discuss the experiences of selected experts and INSTO Members in measuring solid waste management at the destination level. Solid waste management is one of the 11 key issue areas INSTO Members have to monitor and manage. Experiences will be shared on used indicators and various methodologies in this regard. The implications of these monitoring efforts in terms of informing policies and strategies will also be discussed.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 03 Feb 2023 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: Participants will understand different quality concepts, European Statistical System (ESS) quality criteria, the European Statistics Code of Practice and its Common Quality Framework and know how to apply methods to measure quality concepts.
Target Audience: Employees of national statistical agencies involved in quality management, measurement and reporting.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 03 Feb 2023 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: Learn how to extract relevant information for statistical purposes from huge amounts of data.
Target Audience: IT professionals whose role is to support statisticians with big data infrastructure, either via local big data clusters or via cloud solutions, and the engineering of big data processing. Methodologists and statisticians with a strong IT background who are expected to handle big data infrastructures and unstructured data.
Source: ESCAP SIAP (Data extracted on: 07 Dec 2023 )
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Organizer(s): ESCAP SIAP
Description: This course is an advanced course in data visualizationconceived as an extension to SIAP’s facilitated course “Data Visualization for Official Statistics and SDG Indicators” conducted in 2021 and 2022 oralternativelyto the self-paced course “Principles of Data Visualization for Official Statistics and SDG Indicators” available on SIAP’s e-learning platform. This new course focuses on methods to produce high-quality graphics for monitoring and publishing official statistics and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) indicators. It also highlights advanced topics such as network visualizationhigh dimension data visualizationvisualizing uncertainty and address some important issues when communicating with graphics. In particularstorytelling and the construction of visual narratives for any type of audienceor inclusive data visualizationis emphasized and discussed.
Description: Information: A workshop designed to enhance understanding of internationally agreed methods for measuring illicit financial flows by national experts responsible for SDG 16. Report of the training workshop List of participants Concept note Programme Information note for participants The workshop’s objectives: Raise awareness of existing methodologies for estimating illicit financial flows in Central Asia Enhance the understanding of different methods for measuring illicit financial flows Build the capacity to identify and apply appropriate methods that best fits the estimation of illicit financial flows in their participants’ respective countries Share experiences of setting up systems to compile illicit financial flows data References: Methodological guidelines to measure tax and commercial illicit financial flows. Conceptual framework for the statistical measurement of illicit financial flows. Estimating illicit financial flows from trade mis-invoicing : introducing the ‘Grey Re-exports’ method (The case of Kyrgyzstan). Previous training workshops: Final Workshop of Project on Statistics and Data for Measuring Illicit Financial Flows in the Asia-Pacific Region, 7-8 December, 2022. Interregional training workshop on the statistical measurement of tax and commercial illicit financial flows (IFFs), 6-13 December 2021. Previous Stats Café: Progress on Estimating Illicit Financial Flows – Lessons from the Asia-Pacific Region, 26 September 2022. Estimating the size of illicit financial flows: Strengthening national capacity to monitor SDG target 16.4, 22 September 2020. Информация: Целью семинара является углубление понимания утвержденных на международном уровне методов измерения незаконных финансовых потоков национальными экспертами, ответственными за ЦУР 16. Программа Информационная записка Задачи семинара: Ознакомить участников с существующими методами оценки незаконных финансовых потоков. Углубить понимание различных методов измерения незаконных финансовых потоков. Нарастить потенциал выбора и применения соответствующих методов оценки незаконных финансовых потоков в странах участников. Поделиться опытом создания систем сбора данных о незаконных финансовых потоках. Использованная литература: Методические рекомендации по измерению налоговых и коммерческих незаконных финансовых потоков. Концептуальные основы статистического измерения незаконных финансовых потоков. Оценка незаконных финансовых потоков от торговли: внедрение метода «серого реэкспорта» (на примере Кыргызской Республики). Предыдущие обучающие семинары: Заключительный семинар проекта «Статистика и данные для измерения незаконных финансовых потоков в Азиатско-Тихоокеанском регионе», 7–8 декабря 2022 г. Межрегиональный обучающий семинар по статистическому измерению налоговых и коммерческих незаконных финансовых потоков (НФП), 6–13 декабря 2021 г. Статс-кафе: Прогресс в оценке незаконных финансовых потоков – уроки Азиатско-Тихоокеанского региона,, 26 сентября 2022 г. Оценка объёма незаконных финансовых потоков: укрепление национального потенциала для мониторинга задачи 16.4 ЦУР, 22 сентября 2020 г.
Title in Spanish: Taller sobre medición de la desigualdad de ingresos a partir del uso combinado de fuentes de información
Organizer(s): ECLAC BCCR Costa Rica
Description: Este taller tiene por objetivo presentar la metodología, los requerimientos de información y los resultados de una primera estimación de la desigualdad, a las instituciones públicas y académicas interesadas en el tema. Se discutirán los insumos de datos necesarios para la mejora de las estimaciones disponibles y los pasos a futuro para una colaboración más amplia entre las instituciones participantes, que permita mejorar y ampliar las estimaciones que se presentan.
Description: The Standard International Energy Product Classification (SIEC) is the first international classification for energy products built on a set of internationally harmonised definitions of energy products. It was endorsed by the United Nations Statistical Commission in 2011 as part of the International Recommendations for Energy Statistics. SIEC aims to cover all products necessary to provide a comprehensive picture of the production, transformation and consumption of energy throughout an economy. The United Nations Statistical Commission (UNSC) at its 53rd session (2022) endorsed the proposal from the Committee of Experts on International Statistical Classifications (CEISC) to revise SIEC, aiming to address definitional and content changes that have been identified by users. Given the ongoing revision of the Central Product Classification (CPC), the CEISC proposed a concomitant revision of SIEC to ensure better harmonization between the classifications. For this purpose, a task team on the revision of SIEC (TT-SIEC) has been established, being composed of experts responsible for energy statistics, statistical classifications, the SEEA and other related areas from countries and relevant international and regional organizations. The first meeting served as an introduction among the members, discussed the Terms of Reference of the TT-SIEC, and proposed an initial list of issues to be discussed. The meeting counted 25 participants representing countries and international organizations. Within UNSD, the work is coordinated with the relevant substantive sections, namely the Business Statistics Section, the Energy Statistics Section and the Environmental Accounts Section.
Description: After extensive consultations, the final draft of the Statistical Framework was submitted to the fifty-fourth session of the UN Statistical Commission in early 2023. The Commission welcomed it as a statistically robust framework to measure the phenomenon of corruption. It also encouraged UNODC to provide technical support to implement the framework, as necessary and subject to the availability of resources, and invited national statistical offices to take an active role and collaborate with other relevant national institutions, civil society and academia in the implementation of the statistical framework for measuring corruption. In this context, the Praia City Group, the National Institute of Statistics and Geography of Mexico (INEGI) and UNODC, supported by the UNODC-INEGI Center of Excellence in Statistical Information on Government, Crime, Victimization and Justice organizes this webinar to present the framework and discuss experiences and challenges to implement it.
Description: Established by the UN Statistical Commission in 2015, the Inter-Secretariat Working Group on Household Surveys (ISWGHS) aims to foster improvement in the scope and quality of social and economic statistics as delivered through national, regional and international household survey programmes. Three major objectives of ISWGHS are (a) fostering coordination; (b) promoting advancement and harmonization of survey methodologies; and (c) communicating the importance of household surveys. As a collaborative group, ISWGHS is a platform to support the exchange of knowledge and experience among international agencies, national statistical offices, academic experts, the private sector and other key players. Such exchange will improve the flow of knowledge and experience among countries and assist in the scaling up of innovative approaches in countries with lower statistical capacity.The webinar will provide an overview of: (a) the outputs produced by the ISWGHS and how they support countries in making their household survey systems more coordinated and innovative; (b) the platform provided to support countries in exchanging knowledge and experience; and (c) the future work program following the paper on "Positioning Household Surveys for the Next Decade" (Position Paper) produced by ISWGHS.The speaker would also welcome advice and guidance from IASS members on the future work program and collaboration opportunities.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 03 Feb 2023 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: The main objective of the courses is to enhance the theoretical and practical knowledge related to the treatment of unit non-response and item non-response. In particular, participants will gain knowledge on weighting techniques in order to deal with unit non-response and imputation techniques in order to deal with item non-response. For unit-nonresponse, participants will also learn about up to date monitoring of data collection and application of adaptive survey designs.
Target Audience: All NSIs staff dealing with data collection facing non-response, either unit non-response where entire units intended to be collected are missing or item non-response where some items of otherwise responding units are missing.
Description: In this Global Network Webinar, José Viera of the International Disability Alliance and Elizabeth Lockwood of CBM Global Disability Inclusion discussed the importance of disability data awareness and capacity building by sharing two disability data resources: the Disability Data Advocacy Toolkit and the Disability Data Advocacy Workshop for Organizations of Persons with Disabilities. The International Disability Alliance, Stakeholder Group of Persons with Disabilities, and CBM Global Disability Inclusion developed the Disability Data Advocacy Toolkit to contribute to the growing global dialogue on the importance of data on persons with disabilities. The toolkit provides some basic knowledge on data collection, analysis, and use of data for evidenced-based advocacy to influence policy and decision makers. An innovative partnership was also established to increase the quality of disability data in the Asia-Pacific region. This partnership was between UNFPA Asia Pacific and CBM Global Disability Inclusion, in close collaboration with the International Disability Alliance, Stakeholder Group of Persons with Disabilities and national and regional organizations of persons with disabilities, including the ASEAN Disability Forum and Pacific Disability Forum. A key outcome was a Disability Data Advocacy Workshop for Organizations of Persons with Disabilities (OPDs), a publicly available resource that was recently launched. The workshop aims to introduce the basic concepts and skills on disability data to OPDs and to support applying these in the local context.
Description: The event will take place virtually on on 27 June 2023: (New York: 6:00-7:30), (Santiago: 6:00-7:30), (Bangkok: 17:00-18:30), (Addis Ababa: 13:00-14:30), (Beirut: 13:00-14:30), (Geneva: 12:00-13:30), (Vienna: 12:00-13:30). The webinar is co-organized by ESCAP, ECA, ECLAC, ESCWA, UNODC and UNCTAD. Please register here Link to the Regional webinar once it's time: here Concept note It will showcase success stories in the measurement of IFFs and share key lessons that are critical to regularizing the production of data on SDG 16.4.1 and how they can be applied and used in national policies. It will also provide a forum that will raise awareness on the upcoming activities of the DA15 project on illicit financial flows that will officially kick off in September 2023 with a seminar in Geneva. The webinar's objectives: Raise awareness on the DA15 project, its expected objectives and impacts; Secure buy-in and collaboration agreement from national statisticians, policy makers and other relevant stakeholders; Share current lessons and experiences in measuring IFFs and how they can feed into the DA15 project; Inform national stakeholders about the upcoming Kick-off workshop in September and their potential representations. Inform national stakeholders about the upcoming Kick-off workshop in September and their potential representations.
Description: This course, presented by the IMF Statistics Department, acquaints participants with the fundamentals of compiling and using FSIs in support of macroprudential analysis. The course covers methodological and technical issues in the construction of FSIs, as discussed in the 2019 Financial Soundness Indicators Compilation Guide (2019 FSI Guide). The course takes an interactive approach using hands-on exercises in discussing the main topics as follows: Preparation of the sectoral financial statements and compilation of FSIs for deposit takers; Regulatory framework for deposit takers; Accounting principles and data consolidation for the compilation of FSIs for deposit takers; and Overview of key points and changes in the 2019 FSI Guide.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, acquaints participants with the fundamentals of compiling and using FSIs in support of macroprudential analysis. The course covers methodological and technical issues in the construction of FSIs, as discussed in the 2019 Financial Soundness Indicators Compilation Guide (2019 FSI Guide). The course takes an interactive approach using hands-on exercises in discussing the main topics as follows: Preparation of the sectoral financial statements and compilation of FSIs for deposit takers; Regulatory framework for deposit takers; Accounting principles and data consolidation for the compilation of FSIs for deposit takers; and Overview of key points and changes in the 2019 FSI Guide.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 25 Jan 2024 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat
Description: The ESC is a competition organized by Eurostat and volunteering National Statistical Institutes addressed to secondary education students with the purpose of encouraging students to get familiar with statistics and official statistical sources. The competition is structured in two phases: national and European. The winners or finalists of the national phase of each country are eligible to take part in the European phase. It is necessary to take part in the national phase to be eligible to participate in the European phase. The language of the national phase is the national language while the European phase is in English.
Description: The third meeting on “What is the role of Environmental, Social, and Governance data within Beyond GDP?” will look at progress made in the development of the standards to measure enterprises non-financial performance (Environment, Social and Governance - ESG). It will explore options to leverage existing data from other frameworks to fill in data gaps. The meeting is also an opportunity to discuss data users' needs, existing tools and research progress on the subject.
Description: Coordination of statistical activities is a broad and often discussed topic. Its importance is directly recognized in the UN Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics (UNFPOS) through principle 8 “Coordination among statistical agencies within countries is essential to achieve consistency and efficiency in the statistical system.” Recognizing this gap, the Inter-Secretariat Working Group on Household Surveys (ISWGHS) established a task force to review and share national practices for the coordination of household survey systems. The task force has sought to address this through a review of the practices of five countries, namely Canada, Costa Rica, Ghana, Ireland, and Samoa, as well as one sub-regional statistical office – Statistics of Development Division for the Pacific Community (SPC). The webinar will foster a discussion on key lessons learnt and good practices in making household survey systems more coordinated, harmonized and integrated, based on the experiences of the entities that were part of the ISWGHS’ task force on survey coordination.
Description: The aim of this debate organised by the IAOS Krakow Working Group is to exchange views on the ethical challenges arising from the evolving data environment under which Official statistics operate. It will cover two sets of issues: (i) how the increasing use of privately‐held data by official statistics is leading to new developments to reinforce the professional values and ethical principles underpinning official statistics; and (ii) how official statistics could engage with providers of data from outside Official statistics that contribute to public decision‐making and public debates and other stakeholders to foster strong ethical principles.
Title in Arabic: بيانات إحصاءات الهجرة وطرق تحليلها
Organizer(s): AITRS
Description: في ظل تنامي الهجرة من وإلى العديد من البلدان العربية وكون المنطقة العربية من أهم الدول المستقبلة والمرسلة للهجرة الدولية وكذلك وجود العديد من الدول العربية في منطقة جغرافية يكثر فيها الحراك البشري بوجه عام، فإنه من الواجب إيلاء المزيد من الاهتمام بقضايا الهجرة، بما في ذلك طرق تحليل بيانات الهجرة لإرشاد السياسات في هذا المجال. تهدف هذه الورشة التدريبية أساسا الى تعزيز قدرات العاملين في الأجهزة الاحصائية العربية في تحليل بيانات الهجرة والطرق المختلفة المتبعة في تحليل البيانات مع التركيز على الطرق المختلفة لتحليل بيانات الهجرة التي يتم جمعها من خلال التعداد ات السكانية وكذلك البيانات التي يتم جمعها من خلال المسوح الميدانية المتخصصة
Description: The UN Committee of Experts on Environmental-Economic Accounting (UNCEEA) functions as an umbrella body to provide overall vision, coordination, prioritization and direction in the field of environmental-economic accounting. The UNCEEA meets once a year and is governed by the Bureau of the UNCEEA. The eighteenth meeting of the UNCEEA will be held virtually, over two different days/sessions. A background note for each area of work will be made available in advance of the meeting, containing key questions for discussion during the meeting. All participants are asked to read the background notes in advance of the meeting and are encouraged to submit written responses in advance of the meeting. This will ensure that the sessions make use of the limited time through focused discussions.
Description: The FAO Sub-Commission of the International Forestry Students’ Association (IFSA), in collaboration with the FAO Forestry Division (NFO), has organized the “Forests and Climate Transparency” webinar series.
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Organizer(s): UNSD Indonesian Geospatial Information Agency
Description: DESA, UNSD, the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names (UNGEGN) in collaboration with the Indonesian Geospatial Information Agency (Badan Informasi Geospasial - BIG) designed, coordinated and conducted the international training on toponymy, featuring 'Geographical Names as Cultural Heritage' from 19-23 June 2023, at the Padma Resort in Bali, Indonesia. The course was attended by 78 participants (34 females and 44 males), seven trainers, and 15 teaching assistants. Course participants were from the following seven countries: - Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Oman, Saudi Arabia and Vietnam and represented a cross section of disciplines including education, surveying, cartography, information management, linguistics, land administration and geospatial information management. This 5-day training consisted of 32 hours of lectures, exercises and group discussions and 12 hours of field work (including travel time) and covered topics such as the principles and concepts of geographical naming and the standardization of a country's toponyms, national names agencies models and procedures, geographical names data collection using modern methods, geographical names as cultural heritage, and geographical names data processing and management. This training was done in fulfillment of one of the goals set out in the UNGEGN Asia South-East (ASE) Division Work Plan 2019-2022 to be achieved during Indonesia's chairmanship. Initially, the training should have been held in conjunction with the 8th Divisional Meeting of the UNGEGN ASE Division in 2020. Due to the outbreak of COVID-19, the training had to be postponed for safety reasons. Indonesia's chairmanship of the Asia South East Division ended in April 2022, however, they remained committed to convening the International Training on Toponymy in 2023. The training was opened by Prof. Muh. Aris Marfai, head of BIG, who leads Indonesia in actively participating in both UNGEGN and UN-GGIM. A major highlight of the course was the names collection field exercise at cultural heritage sites within Bali, they were: Pura Tirta Empul, Pura Goa Gajah, and Garuda Wisnu Kencana Cultural Park. The training ended with an assessment and evaluation exercise, followed by a closing ceremony with speeches from Mr. Peder Gammeltoft, convenor of the UNGEGN Working Group on training and Mr. Arif Syafii the deputy of Basic Geospatial Information-BIG.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 29 Dec 2022 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: The goal of this activity is to provide participants with basic knowledge about the syntax and basis of the R programming language and to provide an overview of the main packages which are important for the statistical production process. The activity will pay special attention to these packages devoted to management of large databases and the analysis of complex surveys.
Target Audience: Statistical production units and methodologist of NSIs.
Source: ESCAP SIAP (Data extracted on: 07 Dec 2023 )
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Organizer(s): ESCAP SIAP KOSTAT Korea
Description: The achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires the availability of high qualitytimely and reliable data to produce the relevant SDG indicators and other statisticsdisaggregated as relevant. In order to meet this needofficial statistics must modernize and incorporate new data sourcesincluding Big Data. At its 53rd session in 2022the Statistical Commission underscored the importance of mainstreaming the use of big data and data science into the work programmes of national statistical offices and the necessity to include training in big data and data science into the training curricula of national statistical offices. This course is a first response to this injunction by sharing experienceand providing the pedagogical activities required for understanding the process leading to the production and dissemination of official statistics with new data sources.
Description: This is a comprehensive training course that covers application of Excel in Data Management and Analysis in socio-economic fields. The course aims at equipping participants with skills and knowledge in design data capture, data entry, management, analysis and interpretation.
Target Audience: Planners policy Makers Statisticians Economist and Monitoring and Evaluation Officers Researchers and the Academia
Title in Arabic: ادارة الجودة الشاملة والتميز المؤسسي في العمل الإحصائي
Organizer(s): AITRS
Description: وانطلاقا مما سبق ذكره، أصبح محتما على أجهزة الإحصاء الوطنية العربية إرساء قواعد جديدة ومتجددة للتدبير العملي والإستراتيجي للعمل الإحصائي ينبني على المقاربات و المناهج التي طورها علماء واختصاصيو علم التدبير في مجال إدارة الجودة الشاملة و السعي الحثيث الى التميز المؤسسي عبر ضمان التحسين المستمر للعمليات والإنتاج موازاة مع انخراط كلي للموارد البشرية المتاحة لتحقيق الأهداف المحددة بطريقة ناجعة وفعالة مبنية على ضمان الجودة و الابتكار والإبداع على كل المستويات. ومن هذا المنطلق، تأتي هذه الورشة التدريبية لدعم قدرات الأجهزة الإحصائية العربية في مجال ادارة الجودة الشاملة والتميز المؤسسي في العمل الإحصائي. فتماشيا مع استراتيجية واهداف المعهد العربي للتدريب والبحوث الإحصائية في مجال تعزيز القدرات الإحصائية للدول العربية واستنادا على الحاجة الماسة والمعبر عنه على مستوى الدول لتكوين كوادرها على المناهج والأدوات المرتبطة بنشر ثقافة الجودة مؤسسيا وارساء اسس تدبيرها بشكل يتماشى والأساليب الحديثة "للتدبير اللين" LEAN MANAGEMENT المبني على التحسين المستمر والابتكار المنتج للقيمة والمؤديين الى التميز المؤسسي في غالب الأحيان.
Description: The Data Working Group, together with the GEOSS Platform and the GEO Knowledge Hub teams are organizing a two-day Open Data and Open Knowledge workshop that will take place in Geneva from 15-16 June 2023.
Description: The second meeting will discuss the themes that are important in the context of measuring and tracking well-being from the perspective of users. Please register for this and future meetings using the online registration form so that we can send you the connection details.
Description: A total of 29 participants attended the 31stmeeting of the Expert Group on National Quality Assurance Frameworks, including members of 14countries and 4 international and regional organizations. During the meeting, which was held online the Expert Group discussed the work plan and topics for 2023-2024. The meeting agreed to form two subgroups focusing on quality culture and quality assurance when administrative and other data sources are used to produce statistics. The Expert Group agreed on the launch of an online discussion forum on quality assurance for official statistics on UNSD’s Global Network of Data Officers and Statisticians after summer. Furthermore, the meeting reviewed materials submitted by countries as part of last year’s global survey on the issue of quality assurance when administrative and other data sources are used. On the same topic, the Expert Group listened to the presentation given by a consultant of the Collaborative Administrative Data (CAD) introducing a draft Toolkit for assessing the quality of administrative data sources to produce official statistics. The next meeting of the Expert Group is scheduled for 21 September 2023.
Source: ESCAP SIAP (Data extracted on: 07 Dec 2023 )
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Organizer(s): ESCAP SIAP Paris21
Description: With the increased and evolving demand for data from national development plansAgenda 2030 for sustainable development goalsthe current and post crisis affecting the Worldincluding COVID-19 and climate change; National statistical offices (NSOs) continue to be at the forefront of developing and coordinating national statistical systems (NSS) as well as engaging with the larger data ecosystem. National statistical systems (NSS) in low and middle-income countries need to innovate and adapt quickly not only in terms of data productionbut also in more effectively re-usinganalysingdisseminating and communicating other existing sources of development data. The development of strong leadership and management skills at both senior- and mid - levels is key to ensure NSOs are positioned to drive change and operate in modern and dynamic data ecosystems. In this contextenhancing leadership skills of leaders of NSO through targeted trainings is an important strategy to position the NSO/NSS to respond to emerging data needsstrengthen institutional reputationand build trust among citizens.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 03 Feb 2023 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: The content produced by a statistical organisation is essentially facts and figures. This course will explain how you can translate it to a more understandable and simple way and reach everybody outside the statistical world. Writing in a clear, concise and simple manner while avoiding statistical jargon.
Target Audience: Staff drafting /writing statistical texts and articles for publications, the web or any other type of product. Staff working in the communication/dissemination/press departments with the role of promoting the widest possible dissemination and use of official statistics.
Description: I intend to connect two topics: statistics disinformation (fake news phenomena) and critical education. For that, I will work on three papers which bring results of our research and were published recently. "Fake News Phenomenon: Formation of Beliefs under Pragmatic Optics and Mathematical Education"; “O raciocínio de professores de matemática sobre amostragem e argumentos persuasivos nas redes sociais [Mathematics teachers' reasoning about sampling and persuasive arguments on social media]”; and “Creative insubordination in statistics teaching: Possibilities to go beyond statistical literacy”. What connects the three investigations is the aim of understanding the role of mathematics and statistics education in the process of strengthening democracy. Examples of how Statistics education may assist students to develop their identities and engage in problems and social contexts that assist in empowering them to act politically in the future will be discussed.
Description: The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), in cooperation with the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) and the Arab Institute for Training and Research in Statistics (AITRS), is organizing a regional Thematic Conference that is part of a series of regional conferences to understand and prioritise the recent institutional, organizational and technical developments for the production of official statistics and indicators for the monitoring of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and related regional and national development plans. The regional approach to these conferences will put focus on practices and challenges common among members of each region. In particular, it will allow the organizers to collect additional information and examples to contribute to the updated Handbook of Statistical Organization, whose purpose is to support the needs of senior managers to adapt and develop their statistical organisations and systems as stressed in the Cape Town Global Action Plan (CTGAP) for Sustainable Development and as described in the final report of the series of conferences on a Transformative Agenda for Official Statistics.
Description: The United Nations Statistics Division, ESCWA and the Arab Institute for Training and Research in Statistics are organizing the "Arab regional statistical conference: Agility and resilience of national statistical systems”. The conference focuses on the priorities and emerging needs of statistical organizations to help them adapt and develop in times of crises. Relevant practices and challenges are documented to contribute to the extended knowledge base of the new Handbook of Statistical Organization.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 03 Feb 2023 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat
Description: The course will introduce the theoretical and practical knowledge of energy statistics in relation to the European Union legal framework (Regulation (EC) No 1099/2008 on energy statistics. Also the Regulation (EU) 2016/1952/EC) on European statistics on natural gas and electricity prices and its implementation). The main focus will be on concepts, definitions, methodology, improving quality aspects and data validation on monthly, annual and price questionnaires (including discussions on issues observed in practise). The course will focus also on facilitating the learning processes on the Annual Hydrogen questionnaire and the Annual questionnaire on energy consumptions in Households and in Industry (Commission Regulation (EU) No 431/2014 of 24 April 2014 amending Regulation (EC) No 1099/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on energy statistics, as regards the implementation of annual statistics on energy consumption in households).
Target Audience: Statisticians dealing with compilation of monthly, prices and annual energy statistics wishing to understand better the system and overall framework of energy statistics. Also for those who will deal with the new Hydrogen questionnaire.
Description: On Tuesday 13 June, FAO's 50x2030 team organized a webinar titled "Data production component of the 50x2030 Initiative: producing more and better data for policy making".
Description: For this Joint FAO and Global Network Webinar we had with us Carola Fabi, Marco Scarnò and Craig Steforn Matadeen from FAO who presented on Essence, an integrated framework for documents retrieving and analysis developed by FAO. “Essence” stands for Expert Search Semantic ENriChmEnt and is a web tool developed by the FAO Data Lab that automatizes searching for scientific articles and identifies the most relevant ones through the use of artificial intelligence (AI). The AI method learns and extends users’ previous selections by recognizing patterns in their texts. Essence offers a semantic search engine and interactive filters to navigate the stored data, plus data visualization functions or procedures to extract statistical values from unstructured texts.
Description: Improving the knowledge base in the area of labour statistics, particularly labour migration statistics, will contribute to a better understanding of the underlying causes of poverty and social exclusion. Accurate, robust and timely data collected in accordance with international standards is therefore necessary for devising effective labour migration policies, which are essential for improving the welfare of international migrant workers and addressing the challenges related to international labour migration, globally and at the national level. Finally, in order to assess the coherence of employment and labour-migration policies, and identify where current and potential challenges remain, there is a need to collect and analyse appropriate quantitative and qualitative information in a systematic way. The International Training Centre of the ILO (ITCILO), in partnership with the ILO Department of Statistics and the Labour Migration Branch of the International Labour Organization, is therefore proud to present the second edition of its E-Learning Course on Measuring and Analyzing Labour Migration. The aim of the course is "to equip national and international stakeholders with the necessary capacities to better measure and analye international labour migration and produce timely, high-quality, up-to-date international labour migration statistics, to report on the critical indicators of labour migration statistics based on the implementation of international statistical standards and guidelines for evidence-based policymaking.
Target Audience: National statistical offices (NSOs); ministries of labour and related Institutions (such as labour observatories); ministries of manpower and migration; ministries responsible for nationals living abroad; ministries of foreign and home affairs; governmental agencies responsible for labour-market data analysis and national SDG reporting; governmental agencies responsible for labour migration, and analysis of migrant workers; research and academic institutions; international organizations; regional economic communities (RECs); development agencies; non-governmental organizations.
Description: This is a comprehensive training course that covers application of Excel in Data Management and Analysis in socio-economic fields. The course aims at equipping participants with skills and knowledge in design data capture, data entry, management, analysis and interpretation.
Target Audience: Planners policy Makers Statisticians Economist and Monitoring and Evaluation Officers Researchers and the Academia
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 01 Nov 2022 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: To improve the theoretical and practical knowledge related to the collection, transmission, validation and aggregation of official water statistics. The main focus will be on different data sources and the complementarities of different direct and indirect methods such as measurements, surveys, models and estimations. The description of the respective strengths and weaknesses with special attention to data quality should thus result in an enhancement of the comparability between water statistics from countries using different methods. The courses shall also provide a platform and starting point for cooperation in method development among the countries. The aim of the courses is to explore possible ways of avoiding inconsistencies in the European water statistics and to obtain a more effective statistics production.
Target Audience: Staff involved in the production of official water statistics and other quantitative information under Union law on water.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 03 Feb 2023 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: To provide the participants with a basic understanding of the main concepts of seasonal and calendar adjustment, trend cycle, irregular components and related time-series issues To introduce the participants to the use of software JDEMETRA+ via the graphical interface and R.
Target Audience: Junior users of seasonal adjustment methods involved in regular/massive data production wishing to enhance their knowledge of the methods and to use the JDEMETRA+ tool in an efficient way. People currently using TRAMO/SEATS and/or X13 family product and/or old version of DEMETRA/JDEMETRA+ family products aiming at implementing the latest JDEMETRA+ version.
Description: Decision 12/102. UN-GGIM acknowledged that it was a timely and strategically important topic to consider, and there is need to reflect on and position the work in terms of the vision of the Committee and the geospatial community moving forward, and within the mandates provided by ECOSOC. Moreover, the Committee urged the need for understanding and clarity on how the future ecosystem would link to the work already carried out by the Committee, including the UN-IGIF, as a solid base for the future geospatial ecosystem. The question now arises "what is the role of UN-GGIM in advancing the future geospatial ecosystem?". This webinar aims to facilitate discussion on the "future geospatial ecosystem" and help respond to UN-GGIM Decision 12/102. The outcomes of this interactive and participatory discussion will be captured in a report that will be tabled at the upcoming thirteenth session of UN-GGIM on 2-4 August 2023. In discussing how geospatial data and technologies can help overcome global challenges and embrace the opportunities that arise from mainstreaming the rapidly evolving technological frontier in front of us, participants at the webinar will discuss and identify UN-GGIM's role in this "future geospatial ecosystem". This will complement other strands of work under UN-GGIM's purview, ultimately strengthening the interlinkages between UN-GGIM's current and future work programme and positioning the Committee of Experts for the future vís-à-vis the future geospatial ecosystem.
Description: UNSD participated in a webinar organized by ECA jointly with UNSD and the UK Office for National Statistics (ONS). This is part of a European Union-funded project Support to monitoring of SDGs and statistics in Africa, implemented by ECA, which aims to develop methodology to track member states' progress towards achieving SDG, reporting and dissemination of SDGs indicators through harnessing innovative tools and technologies. The six project countries participated in the webinar, which follows on previous online and inperson training events that develop the countries’ capacity in modeling their SDG indicators in accordance with the SDMX standard and use this standard to efficiently report and disseminate their data using standardized tools and platforms while reducing the reporting burden. ECA provided an overview of the project, progress achieved so far, and plans for the implementation into 2024. UNSD reviewed the reporting of SDG indicators through the SDMX standard as well as recent developments, in particular e-learning resources that have become available in the past year with UNSD’s active participation and which facilitate capacity development in both SDMX in general and its application in the SDGs in particular. The ONS provided introductory training to enable the countries to set up prototype SDG dashboards based on the Open SDG platform, which uses the global SDG Data Structure Definition to efficiently disseminate national SDG indicators and metadata. The two-session webinar will be followed by further events that build on progress achieved so far and enable the countries to enhance and standardize the dissemination of their SDG indicators.
Source: IMF Metac (Data extracted on: 23 Apr 2024 )
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Organizer(s): IMF METAC AITRS
Description: In collaboration with the Arab Institute for Training and Research in Statistics (AITRS), METAC conducted a five-day workshop on Compiling Supply and Use Tables. The workshop was attended by 23 participants from 12 Arab countries and covered topics such as data sources and practical compilation techniques, balancing methods, transforming SUTs into input-output tables, and compiling SUTs in volume terms. Participants benefitted from presentations by the IMF expert, doing exercises for self-learning, and peer-to-peer learning through discussions on country practices.
Description: The Group of Experts on Social Protection Reform (GESPR) in the Arab region is organizing its eighth meeting following the conclusion of the second Arab Forum on Equality and the 14th session of the Committee on Social Development. The meeting is aimed at addressing key policy reform options to extend social insurance coverage to the “missing middle”, i.e., those who are not eligible for social assistance benefits and are not in formal salaried employment. It is also an opportunity to familiarize GESPR members with the latest tools developed by ESCWA to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of social assistance programmes, as well as to present a forward-looking modality and scope of work to achieve more inclusive and integrated outcomes.
Description: The third CR8 meeting was jointly organized by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) and the UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia (UNICEF-ROSA), and hosted by the Office of the Registrar General, Local Government Division, Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh, from 6 to 8 June 2023 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The meeting brought together civil registrars in South Asia to discuss priority areas of common concern. The meeting was convened to review progress against the 2015-24 CRVS Decade and take stock of efforts to date to strengthen CRVS in South Asia, highlight the successes, good practices and lessons learned, and identify promising and effective initiatives and investments that need to be prioritized and/or resourced to scale up initiatives in the region. It also offered the opportunity to review the impact of COVID-19 on targets and identify areas for accelerated action. In particular, the meeting focused on: 1. Stocktaking of efforts, interventions, and investments to date to strengthen CRVS in South Asia, including regional and country-led initiatives and action plans. 2. Review of available data on birth, death and causes of death registration in South Asia, and the evidence base for effective programming, key research findings, gaps and priorities. 3. Identification of promising and innovative practices, success stories and lessons learned, as well as remaining gaps, challenges and unintended consequences of programming and policy level interventions. 4. Revisiting achievements in implementing the 2015-24 Asia Pacific CRVS Decade including the Regional Action Framework in South Asia and commitments in the Ministerial Declaration (2021) identifying priorities for future actions to align with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The meeting included group discussions on links to identity management and digitalization as well as update on the upcoming 2024 review of the CRVS Decade. Participants also benefited from a site visit to Bhakurta Union Pasishad, Savar, Dhaka to better understand the sub-district-level civil registration process at the local civil registration office and health clinic. Resources for the fourth CR8 meeting can be found here. MP4 files: Maldives presentation CR8 Nepal Birth Registration Video ESCAP_Nicola with video_CR8_Service linkages
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 29 Nov 2022 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: The course will provide participants with training on the compilation of SEEA-CF monetary environmental accounts as requested by Regulation 691/2011 on European environmental economic accounts (amended by Regulation 538/2014). Both a brief, overall introduction to the different accounts, including relevant definitions, classifications, and approaches to compilation will be covered. Introductions to each of the 3 main accounts, Environmental Taxes, EGSS, EPEA, plus some relevant extensions such as environmental subsidies and related transfers and ReMEA (resource management expenditure accounts) will be in focus. The course will make emphasis in putting together the practical difficulties that participants have in their offices to produce the monetary environmental accounts and discussing solutions and best practices.
Target Audience: * Junior statisticians of environmental statistics or environmental accounts departments involved in compiling data on Environmental Goods and Services Sector (EGSS) Accounts, Environmental protection expenditure accounts (EPEA), environmental taxes or environmental subsidies and other transfers. * Specialists in one of the areas listed above who need to improve their knowledge of the other areas listed above * Managers with responsibility on several or all the areas listed above.
Description: The aim of this debate organised by the IAOS Krakow Working Group is to exchange views on how Official statistics are currently engaging with users, how they address the issue of data and statistics misuse and whether they should take up new tasks to bring more value to users in the context of increased diversification of providers of data and statistics. The IAOS, as an independent association that is not bound by a specific institutional mandate, brings together a diversity of actors from the data ecosystem and is thus well placed to facilitate exchange of views, advance possible solutions and add specific value to make progress on these issues. This conversation is part of a series that will provide inputs for recommendations, in particular as regards trust, misuse and ethics, that the IAOS will present at a later stage. These recommendations should be for the benefit of all the actors in the data-ecosystem that aim to contribute to quality information for the common good.
Description: The Expert Forum was organized for statisticians, disaster management experts, geo-scientists, as well as policymakers and other decision-makers that rely on statistics to inform their decisions. We welcomed participants from governments, academia, NGOs, the private sector, international organizations, and champion experts participating in their personal capacity. The objectives of the 2023 Expert Forum were to: Share and discuss country experiences with the utilization of disaster-related statistics to monitor national and global disaster risk reduction commitments or guide risk-informed development Share and discuss country experiences with the production of disaster-related statistics with a view to identifying good practices and replication opportunities. Expected outcomes In pursuing the above objectives, it was expected that the 2023 Expert Forum would have: Identify priority needs of countries to inform capacity development and technical support Identify priority research topics to be pursued by the IAEG-DRS and other relevant groups Generate additional insights of use for the formulation of a common statistical framework on disaster-related statistics. , Full Week Programme Download the Full Week Programme (PDF). For more information, please click the Programme tab. Time (UTC +7) Session DRS Expert Forum (The Sukosol Hotel) Associate Events (UNCC, Meeting rooms C and D) Mon 5 Jun Tue 6 Jun Wed 7 Jun Thu 8 Jun Fri 9 Jun 09:00–10:00 Morning Session (In-person) Losses and Damages Tracking System Assessing Asia-Pacific challenges, needs and opportunities in advancing climate change and disaster-related statistics 10:00–11:00 11:00–12:00 12:00–13:00 Welcome cocktail lunch for all in-person participants (12:00-14:00h) Break Break 13:00–14:00 Building Resilience through Disaster-risk-related Statistics and Indicators: A Workshop on operationalizing the ESCAP DRSF Assessing Asia-Pacific challenges, needs and opportunities in advancing climate change and disaster-related statistics (cont. until 15:30h) 14:00–15:00 Afternoon Session (In-person) Introduction and warm-up Measuring Hazardous Events and Disasters: Task Force D Disaster Related Statistics Pilot Project Estimating economic losses from disasters: practices, challenges and way forward 15:00–16:00 16:00–17:00 17:00–19:00 Break Break Break 19:00-19:55 (UTC+7) 12:00-12:55 (UTC) Evening Session (Hybrid) 1. Setting the scene 4. Defining direct and indirect impacts of disasters 7. Estimating direct material impact and economic loss from disasters Meeting of the Inter-Agency and Expert Group on Disaster-Related Statistics (virtual meeting for members only) (19:00-21:00h, UTC+7) 20:00-20:55 (UTC+7) 13:00-13:55 (UTC) 2. Assessing and mapping risk exposure, vulnerability, and coping capacity 5. Measuring human impacts of disasters 8. Accounting for disaster risk reduction expenditures 21:05-22:00 (UTC+7) 14:05-15:00 (UTC) 3. Classifying and harmonizing hazards and disasters 6. Measuring disaster impacts on the environment and cultural heritage 9. Summary and conclusion , Contacts Forum host - ESCAP Mr. Hakan Yazıcıoğlu Associate Statistician Statistics Division Tel: + 66 2288-1521 E-mail: hakan.yazicioglu(at)un.org Ms. Piyapat Nakornchai Research Assistant Statistics Division Tel: + 66 2288-1519 E-mail: nakornchai(at)un.org Forum co-organizers UNECE Mr. Michael Nagy Statistician UNECE Statistical Division Tel: +41 22 917 3109 E-mail: michael.nagy(at)un.org UNDRR Mr. Rahul Sengupta Programme Management Officer UNDRR Office in Bonn Tel: +49 228 8150303 E-mail: sengupta(at)un.org UNESCWA Ms. Wafa Aboul Hosn Chief of Economic Statistics Statistics, Information Society and Technology Tel: +961 1 978 353 E-mail: aboulhosn(at)un.org UNECLAC Ms. Georgina Alcantar López Statistician Statistics Division E-mail: georgina.alcantarlopez(at)cepal.org Mr. Alberto Malmierca Associate Statistician Statistics Division Email: alberto.malmierca(at)cepal.org UNECA Mr. Andre Nonguierma Chief of the Geospatial Information Section E-mail: nonguierma(at)un.org Ms. Aster Denekew Geospatial Information Officer E-mail: denekewa(at)un.org UNSD Ms. Reena Shah Senior Statistician Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) Tel: +1 212 963-4586 E-mail: shahr(at)un.org Mr. Greg Scott Inter-Regional Advisor UN GGIM Tel: +1 212 963-8578 E-mail: scott12(at)un.org Mr. Emil Ivanov Statistician Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) Tel : +1 212 963-7989 E-mail: ivanove(at)un.org Mr. Mark Iliffe Statistician Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) Tel: +1 917 367-3475 E-mail: mark.iliffe(at)un.org
Description: The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) and the United Nations Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific (UNSIAP), in collaboration with the Philippines Statistics Authority (PSA) are organizing a Regional Training Workshop on the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting Ecosystem Accounting (SEEA EA) for the Asia Pacific region. The workshop will be held in Manila, Philippines from 5 to 8 June 2023 and will be conducted in English. The workshop is an opportunity for participants to increase their technical knowledge of the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting Ecosystem Accounting (SEEA EA) through exercises, country examples and discussions focusing on ecosystem extent, condition, and services accounts. Participants will learn about the policy relevance of ecosystem accounts and how SEEA EA can support measuring progress towards achieving the targets of national policies and international agreements including the Sustainable Development Goals, the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and the Paris Agreement. Institutional mechanisms, data sources and modelling tools will also be introduced. For additional information on the workshop, please see the concept note and provisional agenda.
Description: ESCWA and the United Nations Statistical Division (UNSD) are organizing the sixth workshop on the use of the Statistical Data and Metadata Exchange (SDMX) standards for Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) data reporting. The workshop aims to enhance countries’ capacities in relation to the exchange of national data. It also seeks to raise awareness of the latest developments in data exchange and promote the implementation of SDMX at the national level. Participants include statisticians and IT specialists from national statistical offices in the Arab region. The event offers exercises on data mapping and conversion using the SDMX standard tools as well examples of customizing a national Data Structure Definition. This event is part of the SDMX training series. 5-8 June 2023 Sixth training on using SDMX for SDG data reporting Workshop Amman
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 03 Feb 2023 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: Objectives of the course are: * Present the basics of scripting and programming in GIS and their benefits in ETL processes and automation; * Enable participants to employ scripting and programming in their daily work for GIS tasks.
Target Audience: NSIs and Other National Authorities (with lower priority), working in the field of statistics and intending to script processes in the domain of GI. Participants are expected to have knowledge of QGIS and spatial analysis. This course is not a beginner GIS course - The knowledge from the introductory courses on GIS from the ESTP should have been practiced.
Description: The annual expert forums are organized to advance the production and use of disaster-related statistics for risk-informed development in support of the aim of the Inter-Agency and Expert Group on Disaster-related Statistics (IAEG-DRS) of the United Nations Statistical Commission.
Title in Arabic: تطوير التشريعات وتطوير النظم الإحصائية
Organizer(s): AITRS
Description: يرتكز العمل الاحصائي على تشريعات إحصائية تنظم آليات جمع ومعالجة ونشر البيانات، وعلى ضوء تطور المنهجيات ووسائل العمل الاحصائي اعتمادا على التكنولوجيا الحديثة، فان تحديث التشريعات الإحصائية وتطويرها مواكبة لهذه المستجدات أصبح من أولويات الأجهزة الإحصائية. وعلى هذا الأساس وتماشيا مع خطة عمل المعهد العربي للتدريب لسنتي 2023-2024، ستنظم دورة تدريبية عن بعد حول تطوير التشريعات الإحصائية لتبادل التجارب بين المشاركين وأفضل الممارسات في مجال تحديث الأطر القانونية وتأطير التعاون المؤسسي بين القطاع العام والخاص واعتماد مصادر متجددة للبيانات على غرار البيانات الضخمة. تتمثل أهداف الورشة بالأساس في إعطاء المشاركين لمحة عن المبادئ الأساسية للإحصاءات الرسمية للأمم المتحدة التي وقع اعتمادها بقرار من الجمعية العامة سنة 2014 والتي تعتبر أساسا يعتمد عليه عند اعداد التشريعات الإحصائية وكذلك العناصر الأساسية للقانون العام للإحصاءات الرسمية مع عرض لبعض الممارسات الجيدة في الدول العربية.
Title in Spanish: Seminario regional sobre metodologías de estimación en áreas pequeñas y desagregación de datos
Organizer(s): ECLAC Centro Regional de Estudios para el Desarrollo de la Sociedad de la Información
Description: El énfasis de la Agenda 2030 para el desarrollo sostenible en no dejar a nadie atrás y atender particularmente a los más vulnerables hace necesario contar con indicadores suficientemente desagregados según diversas características de la población y escalas geográficas.
Description: The first meeting will trace the evolution of social and demographic statistics since the 1940s, and their scope and position in the 2025 SNA. Please register for this and future meetings using the online registration form so that we can send you the connection details.
Description: Classification tree algorithms are a convenient method to perform variable selection and obtain interpretable structures relating covariates and an outcome of interest. When fitting classification trees to survey data, it is common to ignore sampling weights as well other design characteristics such as stratification and clustering. However, unless the survey design is uninformative, there is a risk that the inference for the classification tree is incorrect. A particular application in which this is a concern is the construction of nonresponse adjustment cells, a key step in the development of survey weights. We propose an extension of the popular Chi-square Automatic Interaction Detector (CHAID) approach that accounts for the design by applying a Rao-Scott correction in its classification criterion. We discuss the statistical properties of the resulting algorithm under a design-based framework. We compare its performance to existing weighted and unweighted algorithms, and we illustrate the use of the method using data from the U.S. American Community Survey.
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Description: The TWG was held its 22nd virtual meeting on Wednesday, 31 May 2023, 14:00 – 15:30 hours, Bangkok time (GMT+7). The objectives of the meeting were: To discuss the rationale as well as data and methodological considerations for DRSF tables (1) tables D1b: Summary table of direct material impacts by hazards types and geographic regions, and E1b: Summary table of direct material impacts by hazards types and geographic regions. To share initial results of the review of DRSF tables D1b and E1b by Bangladesh and Malaysia. To provide opportunities for TWG participants to reflect on and discuss the experiences from their national statistical systems. To get volunteers for the next DRSF table review on table F Summary of material impacts to Agriculture by hazards types. , Home: TWG Confluence Previous TWG Meetings
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 01 Nov 2022 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: The course will provide participants with information on theory (methodological framework) and practical challenges in the context of the compilation of Physical Environmental Accounts (Eurostat questionnaires).
Target Audience: * Statisticians involved in compiling data on economy-wide material flow accounts (EW-MFA), air emission accounts (AEA) or physical energy flow accounts (PEFA) under Regulation (EU) 691/2011. * Specialists in one of the areas listed above who need to improve their knowledge of the other areas listed above. * Managers with responsibility on several or all the areas listed above.
Description: For this Joint FAO and Global Network Webinar, FAO and UNSD experts will talk about Caliper - Statistical Classifications as Public Goods: The FAO approach to disseminating statistical classifications as user-friendly and interoperable resources. WHEN | Tuesday, 30 May 2023: 14:30-15:30 Rome time (check your time) To join, register here. Statistical classifications are the vocabularies that provide the "meaning" of statistical data. As such, they inform all activities related to data collection, analysis, comparison, and dissemination and, ultimately, they affect our knowledge, science and policy. In their talk, Caterina Caracciolo and Carola Fabi from FAO, and Ilaria Di Matteo from UNSD, will argue that given such a crucial role, statistical classifications should be treated as public goods - made available to users in a user-friendly manner, and to computer applications in a way that allows for timely and sound exchange of information. The speakers will present Caliper, FAO's dissemination platform for statistical classifications. Caliper aims at being a user-friendly tool for users, who can explore entire classifications, look up definitions and translations, and compare related classifications. Caliper also addresses data interoperability, by making classifications available in formats such that can be effectively reused in information systems. Caliper approach is based on open-source technologies.
Organizer(s): ESCAP ECA Paris21 Open Data Watch Data2x
Description: The Stats Cafe aimed to provide an overview of the current state of gender statistics within the Asia-Pacific region. The session also showcased innovative strategies, opportunities, and relationships current members have built through participation in the Gender Data Network (GDN) activities, particularly in the Africa region, and discussed the value proposition of the expansion of such a network to the Asia-Pacific region. Attendees also learned more about and appreciated the: State of gender statistics in the Asia-Pacific region, including opportunities for improvement and collaboration; Importance of cross-country exchange in scaling innovative gender data collection, analysis, and dissemination strategies; Value of cohort experiences that facilitate continued professional and personal development; and Impact of the GDN and possibilities for potential expansion to the Asia-Pacific region. , Stats Café Home: Upcoming events Concluded events
Source: ESCAP SIAP (Data extracted on: 07 Dec 2023 )
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Organizer(s): ESCAP SIAP UN Women SPC
Description: Within the framework of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)gender equality is not only a standalone goal but also one of the crosscutting universal values that underpins the SDGsand a necessary precondition for achieving the goals of the 2030 development agenda. Good qualitytimelycomparableand disaggregated gender data provide the evidence needed to measure progress towards achieving the gender-related SDG goals and targets. The 2022 Sustainable Development Goals Progress Report produced by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) shows that while there has been notable improvements in overall data vailability in Asia and the Pacific since the first benchmark report in 2017there are still significant data gaps. Notablyat the subregional levelthe report highlights a lack of sufficient data for Goal 5 (Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls) and thus presents an incomplete picture of anticipated progress towards this goal for the Pacific. Strengthening capacities to produce and use gender statistics is central to closing the gender data gap.
Description: Within the framework of its Statistical Capacity Building (StatCaB) Programme and the UN-OIC Cooperation Matrix for 2022-2024, SESRIC will organise a Training Course on ‘Agriculture Statistics and Food Security Analysis’ for the benefit of National Statistical Offices (NSOs) of OIC countries on 29-30 May 2023 through an online video conferencing platform. Ms. Octavia Rizky Prasetyo and Ms. Ratna Rizki Amalia, Statisticians at the BPS-Statistics Indonesia, will conduct the course and cover the following topics: The Importance and Coverage of Agricultural Statistics Data Sources, Statistical Units, and Data Collection Method Indonesia’s Experience for Crop Estimation Agricultural Census (Importance, Methodological Consideration, and Items Recommended) Integrated and Sustainable Agricultural Data Collection (Importance and Framework Consideration) Food Security Measurements and Analysis In line with the joint activities agreed upon during the 15th Session of UN-OIC General Meeting on Cooperation held in Geneva, Switzerland on 18-20 July 2022; the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Islamic Organization for Food Security (IOFS) will contribute to this training course on the following topics: Measurement of the Food and Agriculture-related SDG Indicators in OIC countries (FAO) Network Analysis and Visualization Methods for Food Security and Trade (IOFS) The SESRIC StatCaB Programme was initiated in early 2007. It is the flagship capacity development programme of SESRIC. Within the framework of StatCaB Programme, the Centre collects information from the NSOs of OIC member countries through the biennial StatCaB Questionnaire, assesses their statistical training needs and capacities, matches these needs and capacities, and organizes statistical capacity development activities between the beneficiary and provider countries. For more information on SESRIC Statistical Capacity Building (StatCaB) Programme, please visit: http://www.oicstatcom.org/statcab.php
Description: Plastic pollution has emerged as a global crisis, threatening ecosystems, human health, and the planet's overall well-being. Plastics are omnipresent in national markets and in international trade. Global exports of plastics or goods made from plastic have reached nearly $1.2 trillion in value and 369 million tonnes in 2021 and continues to grow. Trade, financial and investment measures can contribute to the reduction, reuse, substitution, recycling and better management of end-of-life waste. This side-event, moderated by the World Economic Forum, will feature representatives from organizations working on trade-related aspects of the plastics challenge, shedding light on different facets of trade measures in relation to plastic pollution. The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) will present insights into plastics trade statistics and the role of plastic substitutes. Plastics trade database The World Trade Organization (WTO) will provide an update on the current state of the WTO Dialogue on Plastic Pollution and outline the Dialogue’s plans for concrete and effective outcomes at the upcoming WTO Ministerial Conference in February 2024, including the WTO Members efforts to address plastic pollution through trade-related mechanisms and measures. The Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) will delve into the intersection of specific trade provisions for the plastics treaty, exploring the reduction of plastics trade through the full lifecycle of plastics and its legal and policy implications vis-a-vis current trade rules. Lastly, the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) will share insights on trade-related aspects essential for improved end-of-life plastic management. The event will be a platform for participants to gain a deeper understanding of the challenges and opportunities associated with trade measures in the context of ending plastic pollution through the plastics treaty. Join us as we explore innovative solutions and forge partnerships to create a sustainable future for our planet. Programme Moderator:Mr. Soumya Jeet kar, World Economic Forum. Opening remarks: H.E. Ambassador Luis Vayas, Ecuador. Mr. Christoffer Vestli, European Commission. Speakers: UNCTAD: Plastics trade statistics and on the role of plastic substitutes. Speakers: Ms. Anu Peltola, Mr. David Vivas Eugui and Ms. Diana Barrowclough, UNCTAD. WTO: The current state of the WTO Dialogue on Plastic Pollution and plans for the upcoming Ministerial Conference in February 2024. Speaker: Mr. Daniel Ramos, WTO Secretariat. CIEL: The plastics treaty and the reduction of plastics trade through dedicated trade provisions Speaker: Ms. Helionor de Anzizu, CIEL. International Chamber of Commerce (ICC): Addressing trade measures for improved downstream plastic management. Speaker: Mr. Vikas Chhajer, ICC & Gemini Corporation. Q&A Summary and the way forward: Ms. Carolyn Deere Birkbeck, (TESS)
Description: The United Nations General Assembly adopted the indicator framework for the monitoring of progress towards SDGs with indicator 16.4.1 on the “total value of inward and outward illicit financial flows (in United States dollars)” selected as one of two indicators to measure progress towards target 16.4 to “significantly reduce illicit financial (and arms) flows by 2030, strengthen the recovery and return of stolen assets and combat all forms of organized crime”. UNCTAD and UNODC are custodian agencies of indicator 16.4.1 and their respective statistical sections jointly developed a Conceptual Framework for the Statistical Measurement of Illicit Financial Flows in 2020. The Framework was endorsed by the UN Statistical Commission in March 2022. To date, methodologies to measure IFFs have been tested by 22 countries on three continents in efforts coordinated by UN regional commissions and UNODC field Offices (on crime related IFFs), alongside UNCTAD and UNODC statistics. This includes 12 African countries, 4 Latin American and 6 Asian countries that have produced first estimates of commercial or crime-related IFFs. As lessons are learned and estimation methods are tested and refined, interest from countries to systematically and regularly measure IFFs is growing, and a global effort by all UN regional commissions and the custodian agencies starts in 2023. During the first quarter of the year, for SDG reporting, UNODC has provided the first ever data on crime-related IFFs for SDG indicator 16.4.1. On 7 December 2022, a resolution A/RES/77/154 by the 2nd Committee of the General Assembly on IFFs recognized the significant progress and availability of concepts and tested methods to measure IFFs and encouraged “all Member States to report on Sustainable Development Goal indicator 16.4.1, using the methodology adopted by the Statistical Commission, and called upon the United Nations system entities, international organizations and donors to work in coordination with the custodian agencies to train national statistical offices and other entities in charge of reporting on illicit financial flows on these agreed methods”. Building on this, further work is ongoing on designing appropriate policy actions to identify and address IFFs to achieve sustainable development for all. The side event, co-organized by UNCTAD, ECA and ESCAP will showcase success stories in the measurement of tax and commercial IFFs and share key lessons that are critical to regularizing the production of data on SDG 16.4.1 and how it can support policy actions. Conceptual and methodological work, both in measurement and policy formulation, will be presented by the UN, and the successes and lessons will be presented by two pioneering country experts.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 19 May 2023 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat
Description: Join us on 25 May to discover the “Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) - monitoring report – 2023 edition” that will be published on 24 May. Be among the first to learn about the European Union`s progress towards Sustainable Development goals and the recovery after COVID-19 pandemic. You will then have the possibility to see how EU policies and external action support the SDG implementation in third countries. The 17 SDGs, which are at the heart of the UN's 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, provide a comprehensive policy framework worldwide towards ending all forms of poverty, fighting inequalities and tackling climate change, while ensuring that no one is left behind.
Description: يعتبر برنامج R من البرامج الأكثر استخداما على المستوى العالمي في مجال علم البيانات، وقد تم تطوير حزم ومرفقات في هذا البرنامج تتعلق بمنهجيات المعاينة وحساب وتعديل الأوزان. كذلك فإن كون البرنامج مفتوح للباحثين والمطورين للمنهجيات الإحصائية، فإن سرعة التطور فيه ومرونته جعل العاملين في بعض أجهزة الإحصاء الرسمية يبدؤون باستخدامه في كثير من التطبيقات الإحصائية ومن ضمنها تصميم واختيار العينات ومعالجة أوزان المعاينة. وفي هذا السياق، ينظم المعهد العربي للتدريب والبحوث الإحصائية ورشة عمل إقليمية عن بعد للأجهزة الإحصائية في البلدان العربية والمنظمات الاقليمية حول المعاينة باستخدام R لتعريف المشاركين بهذا الموضوع الهام.
Description: The first Expert Group Meeting on the Revision of the Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses is organized by the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) in a virtual format. The Expert Group will thoroughly review the existing version of the Principles and Recommendations with a view to bringing it in line with good practices and contemporary approaches to conducting censuses. A multitude of changes have been documented in the current census round pertaining to the use of technologies, adoption of multi-modal data collection, and utilization of administrative data sources. Many countries had to innovate to overcome the challenges of conducting censuses during the global COVID-19 pandemic. As a reference publication, the revised Principles and Recommendations should reflect the innovations made and the experiences collected thus far and provide comprehensive guidance to national statistical authorities for planning, organizing, conducting, and utilizing 2030 round population and housing censuses.
Description: "Disclosure: Due to COVID 19, courses will be delivered in person, hybrid, or virtual, according to safety guidelines. As of today, this course is scheduled to be delivered in person in Vienna, but its delivery method may change. By submitting your application, you confirm your availability to participate in the course either in person or virtually. Up-to-date Covid-19 vaccination is likely to be required and related information may be requested from participants for in-person courses. " This course, presented by the Statistics Department, identifies the key uses of RPPIs; reviews data sources and methods for compiling RPPIs; and outlines strategic issues for country-specific application. Emphasis is given to the importance of evaluating alternative data sources for compiling RPPIs in terms of coverage, timeliness, richness in terms of supporting a quality-mix methodology, suitability of a price measure, and weighting. Trade-offs involved in selecting data sources are considered, as are strategies for longer-run development of data sources. The methodological component of the course emphasizes the quality-mix problem: a change in the mix of properties transacted each period can bias measures of change in average prices. Mix-adjustment by stratification and hedonic regression are the main methods used to deal with this issue and interactive workshops deal with these topics. The course also highlights how data source and methodological issues are intertwined and follows the principles of the 2013 Handbook on RPPIs published by Eurostat, International Labor Organization (ILO), IMF, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), and the World Bank. Practical advice on RPPI compilation will draw on the 2020 RPPI Practical Compilation Guide published by the IMF.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 29 Nov 2022 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat
Description: The aim of the course is: To improve the capacity of national statistical services to produce high quality ESA 2010 national accounts; To achieve an understanding of the theoretical basis and structure of ESA 2010 national accounts, together with sources and methodology; To provide a general overview and an understanding of the links of the different areas of the system of NA.
Target Audience: Staff working in National Statistical Institutes and Competent National Authorities (CNA) on the compilation of National Accounts (NA). The course is targeted at junior statisticians with at least one year’s experience in NA through to staff with several years' experience.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 03 Feb 2023 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: Objectives of this course: * Understand how to collect Web Data regarding Online Job Vacancies and store them; * Understand of data processing techniques; * Base understand of data classification techniques on standard taxonomies and base understand of advanced techniques on taxonomies improvement.
Target Audience: Official statisticians working on big data methodology, data science and in employment and education statistics, as well as other statistical domains which can profit from this data source.
Description: The workshop trained 19 officials from the six member countries on methodological and compilation issues covering PPI conceptual and development issues; data sources for weights development and sample selection; and index coverage and compilations. As most countries are preparing for the next round of GDP rebase, the regional national accounts workshop focused on review and assessment of data sources and strengthening knowledge on using the SUT framework as an integral compilation framework.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 29 Nov 2022 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat
Description: To provide the participants with advanced knowledge of the EGR system and its applications. To present the EGR business process, the functionalities of the applications, the EGR's role and good practices of integration into the production of official globalisation related statistics and quality checks.
Target Audience: Statisticians working on production of official statistics related to globalisation (FATS, FDI, GNI, BoP, etc.) in ESS or ESCB.
Description: The link between energy usage and tourism is significant, as the sector is dependent on both transport-related activities such as travel to, from and at the destination, and destination-related aspects such as accommodation, food services and tourist activities. Efforts to reduce its consumption can be beneficial for the sector through cost savings, and environmentally beneficial for the destination as a whole by reducing consumption of natural resources and lowering associated greenhouse gas emissions. However, measuring energy consumption in the tourism sector remains difficult and complex. This is partly because it is difficult to capture tourism´s indirect energy use through the construction of hotels, airports, cars and roads, as well as energy use in associated sectors, such as tour operators. Existing indicators focus on consumption, the use of alternative sources and the introduction of energy efficiency and saving programs. This fifth INSTO Insights webinar will discuss the experiences of selected experts and INSTO Members on measuring energy management at the destination level. Energy management is one of the 11 key issue areas INSTO Members have to monitor and manage. Experiences will be shared on used indicators and various methodologies in this regard. The implications of these monitoring efforts in terms of informing policies and strategies will also be discussed.
Organizer(s): FAO World Bank United States Department of Agriculture
Description: The International Conference on Agricultural Statistics (ICAS) focuses on fostering and leveraging best practices and research in response to the changing needs and opportunities for agricultural statistics. ICAS brings together experts from around the world to share research and operational accomplishments, and to explore the latest methodological innovations by countries and development pa...
Organizer(s): ESCAP UNSD New York University Abu Dhabi
Description: 17th May 2023, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM and 18th May 2023, 7:00 - 8:00 PM, Bangkok Time The Measuring Adult Mortality Community of Practice (MAM-CoP) is established in response to requests from countries as consolidated in an Expert Group Meeting (EGM) on Innovative methods to measure the Impact of COVID-19 on Mortality through Surveys and Censuses. The EGM meeting was organized under the guidance of the WHO-DESA Technical Advisory Group on COVID-19 Mortality Assessment (TAG). The objective of the kickoff meeting is to signify the start of the MAM-CoP that will bring together experts, researchers, and practitioners from different fields to share knowledge and best practices, collaborate on research and interventions, and ultimately contribute to reducing adult mortality rates and to agree upon the path forward and ways of working. The meeting is being organized by UNESCAP, UNSD and New York Abu Dhabi University.
Source: ESCAP SIAP (Data extracted on: 07 Dec 2023 )
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Organizer(s): ESCAP SIAP
Description: Water is essential to achieve sustainable development. At a fundamental levelthe availability of clean water in and of itself is necessary for our health and overall well-being. Water is also an important input to many economic activitiesfrom the production of food and energy to the manufacturing of computers and cars. High quality and timely statistics on water are need in order to manage our water assets and track water supply and use.This course will focus on water statistics and accountsas well as some important water aggregates and indicators (including SDGs). The water accounts are based on the System for Environmental-Economic Accounting-Water (SEEA-Water) and the International Recommendations for Water Statistics (IRWS). These two documents support analysis of the role of water within the economyunderstanding of the hydrological cycle and valuation of water assets. They are consistent with the SEEA Central Framework and follow a similar accounting structure to the System of National Accounts (SNA).
Source: ESCAP SIAP (Data extracted on: 07 Dec 2023 )
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Organizer(s): ESCAP SIAP UNICEF KOSTAT Korea
Description: The United Nations Statistical Institute for Asia and Pacific (UNSIAP)together with United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and Statistics Korea (KOSTAT) will organize a regional training on education data capacity building from 15 to 19 May 2023in DaejeonRepublic of Korea. The program will focus on understanding education indicators based on household survey dataas well as administrative sources with a focus on SDG4 and other relevant SDG targets related to education such as child labour. Most of the indicatorshoweverwill come from MICS 6 datawhich should be available for all participating countries. In addition to the trainingthe capacity building activity will also serve as an opportunity for participating countries to share their experiences in terms of data useincluding both Education Management Information Systems (EMIS) and household data.
Description: UNSD and other members of Committee for the Coordination of Statistical Activities (CCSA), namely UN Population Division, UN-Habitat, UNFPA, ITU and WHO held a first online meeting of new task team on the estimation of total numbers of households. The task team was created at the most recent CCSA session in October to review ongoing international data collection efforts on the total number of households, to explore methodologies and new data sources, and to outline the necessary resources and timelines to produce comparable time series data on the total number of households. The discussion focused on: stocktaking on the data availability for total number of households worldwide and respective sources; stocktaking of any existing methods used by countries for estimating the total number of households in intercensal periods and producing respective time series; needed research and resources to make it possible. As a first step the UN entities will provide a summary of their work in collecting data for total number of households, respective sources, and related research by mid-January 2024. Processes to bring this work to the UN Statistical Commission were also discussed.
Description: UNSD participated, as resource persons, in the “Webinar on Communication/Testing and early implementation of new recommendations of the update of the System of National Accounts, 2008”, which was organized by the African Union Institute for Statistics (Statafric). The webinar was one of a series of webinars organized by Statafric to inform its Member States on the progress of the work to update the System of National Accounts,2008 (2008 SNA) and to collect their proposals/contributions on the issues addressed. The webinar was attended by around 65 participants, mainly from Africa. The chair of the communication task team (one of priority areas in the update of the 2008SNA) gave an overview of the recommendations in the various guidance notes that the task team has prepared and the way forward. In addition, USND presented an overview of the processes underlying the guidance notes and experimentation and testing exercises which will be organized to test the recommendations in selected guidance notes.
Description: This Intergovernmental Group of Experts aims to strengthen the work of UNCTAD on information and communications technologies, e-commerce and the digital economy for development, so as to enhance its ability to support developing countries to engage in and benefit from the evolving digital economy, and reduce the digital divide, for the creation of more inclusive knowledge societies. The substantive agenda items for the session are as follows: How to make data work for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Working Group on Measuring E-commerce and the Digital Economy.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 29 Nov 2022 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: The course should provide participants with a better understanding of the underlying principles and concepts of European and international economic and social classifications, their content and use.
Target Audience: Any statistician of a National Statistical Institute (including newcomers) dealing with any statistical domain and wishing to understand better the system of classifications used.
Description: (Newsletter May 2023) The ninth meeting of the Regional Steering Group (RSG) for Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) in Asia and the Pacific was organized in-person from 10 to 12 May 2023 in Bangkok. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss progress to-date, prepare for the final review of the Asia Pacific CRVS Decade (2015-2024) and possible extension, and decide on future focus areas for the work of the RSG. During the meeting, participants reached a consensus on the need for extending the CRVS Decade beyond 2024. The meeting was organized in a hybrid modality with most participants attending in-person and online participants joining via Microsoft Teams platform. The modality of the meeting was a combination of presentations, interactive discussions and feedback sessions. The meeting included 42 participants, including 26 country participants and 16 development partner participants. The presentation material, and meeting agenda are provided below.
Description: Institutionalizing sound evidence-based sustainable development policies in the Caribbean requires quality, timely, and accessible climate change and disasters indicators that are harmonized and comparable across countries.
Description: The Global Webinar on Strengthening Climate Change and Disaster-Related Statistics: Needs, Priorities, and Action is part of a series of online webinars being held under the 14th tranche of the United Nations Development Account (DA14) Project “Resilient and agile National Statistical Systems to meet post-COVID-19 data needs to recover better”. The DA14 Project aims to help enhance the resilience and agility of the national statistical systems (NSS) of the 50 beneficiary countries to respond to emerging economic, social and environmental data needs in times of crises and disasters, through the use of innovative data sources, advanced data acquisition methods and modern technologies, while ensuring a path towards the achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This webinar is organized under Workstream 2.1 of the DA14 project, which aims to strengthen national capacities, and increase the availability and policy use of statistics and indicators on climate change and disaster-related statistics. The Workstream is co-facilitated by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in collaboration with the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), the Economic Commission for Europe (ECE), the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) and the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). The objectives of this webinar are to: Enhance awareness and understanding in the beneficiary countries of relevant international statistical frameworks and guidelines on climate change and disaster-related statistics; Share experiences, including good practices as well as technical and institutional challenges, on the production and use of climate change and disaster-related statistics between beneficiary countries; Discuss national priorities and plans for improving climate change and disaster-related statistics, and, Share and discuss how countries may further engage in the project. Before and after the webinar, each participant will be invited to complete a short survey on their level of awareness and knowledge relating to climate change and disaster-related statistics.
Description: From 8 March to 10 May 2023, FAO's Office of Chief Statistician organized a Webinar Series on Earth observation data for agricultural statistics. The webinar series raised awareness of the EOSTAT project and highlighted FAO's work in building countries' capacity on the use of Earth observation data for the production of agricultural statistics. The EOSTAT webinar series also discussed the main innovations introduced in the field of EO based crop statistics implemented by FAO through R&D and testing in countries in collaboration with the academia. These include: 1) Standardization of EO methods to produce annual land cover/use maps 2) Crop type mapping in the context of in-situ data scarcity 3) Coupling of EO data with physical based crop yield modelling Moreover, the series shed light on how the innovations brought by the EOSTAT offer a solution to overcome the challenges connected with the collection and predication of crop statistics (acreage and yield) using both traditional field survey-based methods and the EO based methods. Finally, the webinar series provided a platform to enhance collaboration and potentially mobilize resources. The FAO Webinar Series "Earth observation data for agricultural statistics" consisted of six webinar sessions. Simultaneous interpretation was provided in English and Spanish. Session 1 (8 March 2023, 15:30 – 17:00) Recording (Passcode: =Y9v=5WF) Presentation (Pietro Gennari) Presentation (Lorenzo de Simone) EOSTAT project overall presentation Organized jointly with the Global Network of Data Officers and Statisticians Speakers: Pietro Gennari, FAO & Lorenzo De Simone, FAO Session 2 (20 March 2023, 15:30 – 17:00) Recording (Passcode: 4L1vtay%) Presentation (Lorenzo de Simone) Presentation (Prof. Bruno Basso) Crop yield mapping and yield statistics Speaker: Lorenzo De Simone Guest: Prof. Bruno Basso, Michigan State University Session 3 (4 April 2023, 15:30 – 17:00) Recording (Passcode: f*v2Z^!n) Presentation (Sophie Bontemps) Crop type mapping and acreage Speaker: Lorenzo De Simone, FAO Guest: Sophie Bontemps, Université of Louvain Session 4 (13 April 2023, 15:30 – 17:00) Recording (Passcode: A2Y7&&Uu) Presentation (William Ouellette) Standardized land cover classification for land cover statistics Speaker: Lorenzo De Simone, FAO Guest: William Ouellette, CEO at SoilWatch Session 5 (27 April 2023, 15:30 – 17:00) Recording (Passcode: 4@c#56=D) Presentation (Sophie Bontemps) EO augmented survey design, in-situ data standards, and best practices in georeferencing Speaker: Lorenzo De Simone, FAO Guest: Sophie Bontemps, Université of Louvain Session 6 (10 May 2023, 15:30 – 17:00) Recording(Passcode: kf7Nh?QK) Presentation (Sherrie Wang) Crop field boundaries mapping using machine learning and very high-resolution data Speaker: Lorenzo De Simone, FAO Guests: Sherrie Wang, MIT Lisa Rebelo, Digital Earth Africa For more information, please visit the FAO-EOSTAT project page.
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Organizer(s): FAO University of Buenos Aires Argentina
Description: The virtual lecture with Arbab Asfandiyar Khan, co-coordinator of SDG indicator 2.4.1, FAO Statistics Division, will be held in English with simultaneous interpretation in Spanish. WHEN | Wednesday 10 May 2023 (15:00 - 17:00, Rome time)
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 03 Feb 2023 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: To provide participants with theory and practice of quality in Official Statistics, in particular process and product quality. To this purpose, a brief overview of the ESS quality framework is given. Then, the focus of the course shifts on process and product quality measurement. The statistical process is described and tools for preventing and reducing the errors are presented and discussed. Methods and tools to assess the effect of non-sampling errors such as coverage, measurement and nonresponse errors in statistical products are widely described.
Target Audience: Staff of national statistical institutes involved in statistical production processes and in quality management.
Description: IAOS Krakow Working Group first debate on interactions and collaborations between official statistics producers and non-official data owners The debate will deal with the interactions and collaborations between official statistics producers and non-official data owners (see attached a concept note). The Krakow Working Group was established by the IAOS in April 2021. Its mandate is to reflect on the burning challenges Official Statistics face in today’s datafied societies. The IAOS, as an independent association that is not bound by a specific institutional mandate, brings together a diversity of actors from the data ecosystem and is thus well placed to exchange views, advance possible solutions and add specific value to make progress on the issues at stake. Two additional debates will be held in June 2023. One will discuss how to increase the engagement with and meet the needs of users, and address data and statistics misuse; the other will discuss whether there is a need to review/adapt ethical principles for official statistics and how best to foster data ethics. The outcomes of the three debates will help prepare a set of recommendations that will be presented in preliminary form at the World Statistics Congress in Ottawa in July this year. These recommendations should be for the benefit of all the actors in the data ecosystem that aim to contribute to quality information for the common good.
Description: The main objective of the course is to enhance the understanding and capacities of ILO constituents and social partners in designing and implementing household surveys and in processing sample data in line with best methodological practices. The course will enhance participant's' knowledge of the different sampling and weighting techniques, highlighting their pros and cons. In addition, it will highlight the link between sampling techniques and survey design, with a particular focus on labour force surveys (LFS), the most common source of official labour statistics across the globe. More specifically, the aims of the course are to: - Enhance understanding on sample surveys and survey designs; - Provide insights into the principles and practices of sampling; - Enrich understanding of estimation theory, methods for probability sampling, and sampling frames; - Improve understanding of different weighting strategies and treatment of unit non-response; - Increase understanding of quality dimensions and calculation of sample size for complex multi-stage designs; - Provide practical case studies on the treatment of total non-response and on weighting, making use of different sets of benchmarks available for different population sub-groups and/or for different geographical domains.
Target Audience: Important note: This course requires a basic knowledge of statistics and probability. The target audience includes: - Statisticians and practitioners from national statistical offices who have a role in designing household surveys samples and weighting survey data; - Other Statisticians from national statistical offices; Ministries of labour and other institutions involved in the production of work, social and gender-related statistics; - Employment and development policy analysts from national statistical offices, research and academic institutions, international organizations and donor organizations.
Description: The demand for analyzing labour market data has risen, in line with the prioritization of countries to better understand the functioning of the labour market and the impact of policies and programmes on outcomes, including unemployment and employment. The adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development requires governments and other stakeholders to monitor progress towards the defined goals and targets, including SDG 8 on Decent Work and Economic Growth. At the same time, new measures of the labour market are evolving through the adoption of statistical standards by the International Conference of Labour Statisticians (ICLS). The 19th and 20th ICLS resolutions on work statistics are crucial for decent work related SDG indicators, particularly SDG 8 on promoting inclusive and sustainable growth, employment and decent work for all. The analysis of labour market data relies on the availability of data, which has expanded in recent years, and the use of appropriate methodologies to identify key factors and trends relevant to evidence-based policymaking. In this regard, analysts and statisticians depend on statistical software that provides a user-friendly approach to data management, description, graphics and analysis. STATA is such a tool, which is powerful but easy-touse, and is utilized across the world for analysing labour market data. Building on its long experience in delivering training on labour market statistics, the International Training Centre of the ILO in full collaboration with the ILO Department of Statistics is proud to offer the training Advanced STATA for labour market analysis. Harnessing the latest ground-breaking learning technologies, the ITCILO is proudly offering this course as face to face activity in Turin in full collaboration with the ILO Department of Statistics.
Target Audience: The course targets: - Labour Statisticians from national statistical offices; Ministries of labour and related institutions (such as labour observatories); Other Ministries or Government institutions in charge of SDG statistical monitoring; - Employment and development policy analysts from National Statistical Offices, Research and Academic institutions, International organizations and Donor organizations; and - Officials responsible for managing the production and dissemination of labour market statistics, particularly for the SDG national reporting.
Description: The aim of this course is to equip national and international stakeholders with the necessary skills for using STATA statistical software to analyse the labour market for the purposes of evidence-based policymaking, including SDGs and decent work indicators.
Target Audience: Statisticians and analysts from national statistical offices, ministries of labour and related institutions (such as labour observatories) and other government agencies responsible for labour-market data analysis and national SDG reporting; research and academic institutions; international organizations; development agencies; non-governmental organizations.
Course Language: English
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Joint UNSD and SACU Training Workshop on International Merchandise Trade Statistics (IMTS), Statistical Data and Metadata eXchange (SDMX), and Data Tools
Description: UNSD and the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) jointly organized a Workshop on International Merchandise Trade Statistics (IMTS), Statistical Data and Metadata eXchange (SDMX), Structured Query Language (SQL), and Trade Data Tools. The Workshop involved 31 participants from SACU Member States’ institutions (customs offices, national statistical offices, central banks, and Ministries of Finance), 13participants from international organizations(UNSD, UNCTAD, SACU, COMESA and Office of the Resident Coordinator, United Nations -South Africa) of which 6 participated virtually. Participants shared best practices regarding the implementation of the International Merchandise Trade Statistics: Concepts and Definitions 2010 (IMTS 2010), especially for scope and coverage, issues of bilateral asymmetries, quality and data comparability, data dissemination, analyses and uses. The meeting also discussed emerging issues in merchandise trade statistics, including Digital trade, Big data, Trade by Enterprise Characteristics (TEC), and the revision of the international standards for trade statistics. Furthermore, the participants were introduced to the Statistical Data and Metadata Exchange (SDMX), Structured Query Language (SQL), and the new UN Trade Data Tool (TDT). Participants acquired new knowledge and information that will be applied to improve their work and programs in international trade statistics. Furthermore, the new perspectives and information shared in this Workshop will be further reflected upon in the ongoing processes for revising the international standards for trade statistics.
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United Nations Regional Workshop for the Implementation of the Degree of Urbanization Methodology
Description: UNSD conducted a capacity building training workshop on the Degree of Urbanisation(DEGURBA) Methodology for national statistics offices and geospatial institutions of countries in Central Asia. The workshop was organized in cooperation with the European Commission Joint Research Center (EC-JRC) and UN-Habitat and included the participation of statisticians and geospatial specialists from Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, as well as experts from UNSD, ESCAP, EC-JRC and UN-Habitat. As national Statistical Offices use different national criteria to define cities, urban and rural areas, the Degree of Urbanisation methodology was developed by the European Commission, UN-Habitat, FAO and other partners as a way to harmonize these definitions and promote international and regional data comparability, particularly in the context of reporting on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and on the New Urban Agenda (NUA). DEGURBA was endorsed by the Statistical Commission at its 51stSession in 2020. Through theoretical and practical sessions the participants were trained on 1) the need for this methodology 2) theory and concepts 3) data inputs, data preparation and technical capacity 4) applying the methodology, reviewing and evaluating the results and5) its applications for reporting of data and SDG indicators by degree of urbanization. The participants also exchanged experiences/challenges and learned from each other. Finally, this capacity building workshop further emphasized and provided practical knowledge on the importance of integrating census data with geospatial information.
Description: The aim of this course is to develop institutional capacities for the operationalization of Labour Market Information Systems (LMIS). The focus is on building links with data sources that feed the system, produce and store selected indicators in a centralized repository, and make them available for generating reports on labour-market performance. Such systems are also powerful tools for labour-market matching and evidence-based policymaking.
Target Audience: Statisticians and analysts from national statistical offices, ministries of labour and related institutions (such as labour observatories) and other government agencies responsible for labour-market data analysis and national SDG reporting; research and academic institutions; international organizations; development agencies; non-governmental organizations.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 29 Nov 2022 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: The course aims at enhancing participants' theoretical and practical knowledge of National Accounts. They should become familiar with the system framework, the integration and balancing of source data and the presentation of national accounts data.
Target Audience: Junior statisticians of National Accounts (NA) departments or statisticians of other statistical departments dealing with NA statistics.
Title in Arabic: التقديرات والاسقاطات السكانية باستعمال البرامج الإحصائية
Organizer(s): AITRS
Description: تمثل الإسقاطات السكانية أهمية كبرى عند وضع الخطط التنموية والسكانية و الاجتماعية و الاقتصادية، ويتم الاعتماد عليها لتشخيص الوضع القائم وتحديد الاحتياجات المستقبلية لأي بلد. كما تعتبر الاسقاطات السكانية مادة هامة في مجالي البحث والتطوير في كل المجالات، بالإضافة الى دورها المحوري في كل عملية سياسية ومنها بالخصوص إجراء الانتخابات على كل المستويات الإدارية. ومن المعروف أن التعدادات السكانية عادة ما تنجز كل عشر سنوات مما يخلق حاجة اكيدة الى بيانات ومؤشرات سكانية وديمغرافية بين التعدادين المتتاليين. وتمثل الإسقاطات السكانية الحل الأمثل لسد هذه الفجوة وتوفير الحاجيات الضرورية من البيانات السكانية لمختلف المستخدمين، وتتضمن الاسقاطات الافتراض بأن اتجاهات السكان قد تتغير تدريجياً وليس فجأة شريطة عدم حدوث تطورات مفاجئة وغير محسوبة، كما انها تفترض في بعض الاحيان الاستمرار المستقبلي لقيم المؤشرات الديموغرافية السائدة، وستبقى مستمرة بنفس المستوى في المستقبل بغض النظر عن أي تأثير على هذه الاتجاهات. وقد طور المهتمون بعلم السكان والديمغرافيا العديد من البرامج الإحصائية المتكاملة لإنجاز الاسقاطات والقديرات السكانية في أحسن الظروف وبالجودة المطلوبة على غرار Spectrumو Fivsin و Mortpak و PAS ... وتندرج هذه الورشة في اطار مواصلة المعهد دعم قدرات العاملين في المجالات الديمغرافية والسكانية بالاجهزة الإحصائية العربية والمهتمين بالاحصائيات الاجتماعية بشكل عام من خلال التركيز على البعد العملي وتبيان كيفية استغلال البرامج الإحصائية المتوفرة في انجاز التقديرات والاسقاطات السكانية.
Description: The regional workshop for the Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) Inequality Assessment project in Asia and the Pacific will take place in Bangkok on 8 to 9 May 2023. The workshop provides an opportunity for countries which undertook an inequality assessment to share experiences and lessons learned with other countries, and to document best practices for other countries which may be interested in undertaking an inequality assessment in the future. The invitations have been sent to participants, and the concept note can be viewed from the file below.
Regional Workshop on Measuring Gross Capital Formation
07 May 2023 – 11 May 2023
Source: IMF Metac (Data extracted on: 29 May 2024 )
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Description: In collaboration with the IMF's Middle East Center for Economics and Finance (CEF), METAC conducted a five-day workshop on Measuring Gross Capital Formation. The workshop was attended by 34 participants from 16 Arab countries and covered concepts, data sources, and measurement methods to compile estimates of gross fixed capital formation, changes in inventories, consumption of fixed capital, and stocks of produced assets at current prices and in volume terms.
Description: Join the FAO Land and Water Division for a presentation on WaPOR 3.0 to discover the new database and its improvements, get introduced to the new portal and its features and learn about applications and user's experiences.
Source: World Bank (Data extracted on: 03 Feb 2023 )
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Organizer(s): World Bank
Description: Human activity has caused precipitous increases in greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions, resulting in a one degree warming of average global surface temperatures over the past century. As the planet responds to rising emissions, extreme weather events are expected to become more frequent, distressing both natural and human systems. Researchers and practitioners need innovative analytical tools and data sources to understand how to mitigate the risks and impact of climate change on welfare. COP27 ended with a compromise to create a fund sourced from developed countries to remedy climate change damages in low income and fragile contexts. This adds to the panoply of climate funds and financial tools geared toward broader action on climate change and the commitment of all development institutions to align their financing with the Paris Agreement. To make sure these investments maximize well-being and protect those who are most at risk, we need to assess not only what the damages would be and who would be most vulnerable, but also what mitigation and resilience strategies are most effective. To this end, the World Bank’s Development Impact Evaluation (DIME) department and Data Analytics and Tools (DECAT) unit, the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA), and the University of Chicago’s Development Innovation Lab (DIL) will host the ninth annual Measuring Development Conference (MeasureDev). The Mitigating the Risks and Impacts of Climate Change conference will convene researchers at the frontiers of physical and social sciences and decision-makers who influence humanity’s responses to the challenges of climate change. It will showcase innovative data sources and analytical techniques to better monitor emissions and appraise efforts to mitigate their consequences. MeasureDev will feature a series of presentations, panel discussions, and lightning talks on novel applications of mobile data, satellite imagery, remote sensing technologies, and the computational approaches to make sense of the data to provide more granular, frequent, and accurate insights regarding our changing climate and actions to respond. Participants will learn about the frontiers of measurement using these approaches and gain perspectives from leading academic and industry pioneers. Researchers, graduate students, practitioners, policymakers, and industry partners are all welcome to submit to our call for speakers using this form.
Description: The Statistical Commission, at its 51st session, “requested that a gender perspective be adopted and integrated into all the agenda items of the Commission, as is, for example, the current practice in the Statistical Conference of the Americas” (Decision 51/115, b). To respond to this mandate, the IAEG-GS has identified initial priority topics where a gender lens should be integrated. They are: (i) business and trade statistics, and (ii) environment and related climate change statistics. The IAEG established an Advisory Group to undertake this work. UNSD organized the first meeting of this Advisory Group to discuss work priorities for the Group with selected national statistical offices, represented by gender statisticians and experts working on business and trade statistics and climate change statistics, and with regional and international experts. It was decided that two guiding notes will be prepared, highlighting the importance of mainstreaming gender equality in the above topics as well as key principles to follow for producing related statistics that are gender sensitive. In this context, the Advisory Group will compile, in coordination with relevant groups of the Statistical Commission, national examples of past or ongoing related initiatives that will accompany the guiding notes. In addition, the Advisory Group will continue to collaborate with the Expert Group on Environment Statistics and the Committee of Experts on Business and Trade Statistics, as feasible, by providing feedback to their outputs when requested, by cross-participation in respective meetings and by exchanging relevant material and country practices.
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First Meeting of the Friends of the Chair Group on Social and Demographic Statistics
Description: UNSD’s Demographic and Social Statistics Branch organized the first meeting of the Friends of the Chair (FOC) Group on Social and Demographic Statistics, established by the UN Statistical Commission in 2023, to review social and demographic statistics at global, regional and national levels for improved data that better reflect society and its connections with the environment and the economy. The meeting was conducted virtually, moderated by the co-chairs of the FOC Group, Ms. Gabriella Vukovich, President of the Hungarian Central Statistical Office and Ms. Graciela Márquez, President of INEGI, Mexico. The members of the Group, including chief statisticians from 10 national statistical offices, UN agencies (WHO), and regional commissions, discussed the proposed work programme, working methods, resources, as well as next steps. In particular, the Group discussed selected areas of work, including mapping what is currently available in terms of data, methods and solutions to measure and monitor social and demographic phenomena; related national best practices; and the importance of communicating the value of social/demographic statistics to users and producers. The Group also reflected on how to deliver practical recommendations for an agile and more responsive system of social and demographic statistics, guided by the central promise of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to leave no one behind, while also anticipating data needs beyond 2030. The UN Statistics Division serves as the Secretariat of the Friends of the Chair Group, that is expected to work for a period of three years and report back on agreed deliverables at the fifty-seventh session of the Statistical Commission in 2026.
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[FAO x UNSD Brown Bag webinar] A Shiny Application to Track the Progress on Food and Agriculture-related SDG Indicators
Description: FAO, in collaboration with UNSD, hosted a webinar on Thursday 4 May 2023 to gather feedback on the newly released SDG Shiny app and proposed approach, and discuss possible extensions and future developments. FAO has recently launched the FAO SDG Progress Assessment App: a web-based tool designed to automatize the assessment of progress made at the national, regional, and global level towards the achievement of the SDGs. The developed tool allows measuring the current status and trend of SDG Indicators and Targets based on the FAO progress assessment methodology. FAO, in collaboration with UNSD, hosted a webinar on Thursday 4 May 2023 to gather feedback on the developed application and proposed approach, and discuss possible extensions and future developments, as well as opportunities for collaboration across UN system entities.About the speakers: Aida Khalil is a Statistician with the Office of the Chief Statistician of FAO. In this role, she conducts research and methodological work in the field of data disaggregation and progress assessment of SDG indicators under FAO custodianship. Her areas of expertise include household and agricultural surveys design and implementation, and small area estimation. Stefano di Candia is a Statistician with the Office of the Chief Statistician of FAO, where he contributes to the work on data disaggregation and progress assessment of SDG indicators. His areas of expertise include survey data analysis, R programming, and small area estimation. Access the video recording here. Related links FAO SDG Progress Assessment App Measuring progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals at indicator, target and goal level Contact Chief Statistician (chief-statistician@fao.org) Aida Khalil (ClaraAida.Khalil@fao.org)
Description: Within the framework of its Statistical Capacity Building (StatCaB) Programme, SESRIC will organise a Training Course on ‘Transport Statistics’ for the benefit of National Statistical Offices (NSOs) of OIC countries on 3-4 May 2023 through an online video conferencing platform. Ms. Rini Kusumastuti and Ms. Lia Ermayati, Statisticians at the from BPS-Statistics Indonesia, will conduct the course and cover the following topics: Introduction and Methodology Transport Statistics by Mode Quarterly Survey of Transport Business Data Dissemination Challenges and Future Enhancement The SESRIC StatCaB Programme was initiated in early 2007. It is the flagship capacity development programme of SESRIC. Within the framework of StatCaB Programme, the Centre collects information from the NSOs of OIC member countries through the biennial StatCaB Questionnaire, assesses their statistical training needs and capacities, matches these needs and capacities, and organizes statistical capacity development activities between the beneficiary and provider countries. For more information on SESRIC Statistical Capacity Building (StatCaB) Programme, please visit: http://www.oicstatcom.org/statcab.php
Description: The Global Webinar on Strengthening Climate Change and Disaster-Related Statistics: Needs, Priorities, and Action is part of a series of online webinars being held under the 14th tranche of the United Nations Development Account (DA14) Project “Resilient and agile National Statistical Systems to meet post-COVID-19 data needs to recover better”. The DA14 Project aims to help enhance the resilience and agility of the national statistical systems (NSS) of the 50 beneficiary countries to respond to emerging economic, social and environmental data needs in times of crises and disasters, through the use of innovative data sources, advanced data acquisition methods and modern technologies, while ensuring a path towards the achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This webinar is organized under Workstream 2.1 of the DA14 project, which aims to strengthen national capacities, and increase the availability and policy use of statistics and indicators on climate change and disaster-related statistics. The Workstream is co-facilitated by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in collaboration with the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), the Economic Commission for Europe (ECE), the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) and the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). The objectives of this webinar are to: Enhance awareness and understanding in the beneficiary countries of relevant international statistical frameworks and guidelines on climate change and disaster-related statistics; Share experiences, including good practices as well as technical and institutional challenges, on the production and use of climate change and disaster-related statistics between beneficiary countries; Discuss national priorities and plans for improving climate change and disaster-related statistics, and, Share and discuss how countries may further engage in the project. Before and after the webinar, each participant will be invited to complete a short survey on their level of awareness and knowledge relating to climate change and disaster-related statistics.
Description: This twenty-second meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas was held virtually on May 3 and 4, 2023. Agreements of the meeting are available on this page.
Description: Within the framework of its Statistical Capacity Building (StatCaB) Programme, SESRIC will organise a Training Course on ‘SDG 2 (Zero Hunger) Indicators’ for the benefit of National Statistical Offices (NSOs) of Arabic speaking OIC countries on 2-4 May 2023 through an online video conferencing platform. Mr. Tamer Sultan Al Rousan, Head of Planning Statistics Division at the Department of Statistics (DoS) of Jordan, will conduct the course and cover the following topics: Definitions and Concepts of SDG2 (Zero Hunger) Indicators; Resources of SDG 2 (Zero Hunger) Indicators; and Methodology for Calculating the SDG 2 (Zero Hunger) Indicators In line with the joint activities agreed upon during the 15th Session of UN-OIC General Meeting on Cooperation held in Geneva, Switzerland on 18-20 July 2022; the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) will contribute to this training course on the following topics: 2.1.1 Prevalence of undernourishment, and 2.1.2 Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurity in the population, based on the Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES). The StatCaB Programme was initiated in early 2007. It is the flagship capacity development programme of the SESRIC. Within its framework, the Centre collects information from the NSOs of OIC member countries through the biennial StatCaB questionnaire, assesses their needs and capacities, matches these needs and capacities, and organizes statistical capacity development activities between the beneficiary and provide countries. For more information on SESRIC Statistical Capacity Building (StatCaB) Programme, please visit: http://www.oicstatcom.org/statcab.php
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, covers the fundamentals needed to compile the international accounts. The course introduces the conceptual statistical framework for balance of payments and IIP-as presented in the Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Statistics Manual, sixth edition (BPM6), which is harmonized with other macroeconomic statistical frameworks. You will learn about the current, capital, and financial account balances, and how they reflect your economy's interaction with the rest of the world. Basic concepts, definitions, and classifications are covered, along with the principal accounting rules (including valuation and time of recording) that are relevant for compilation of the international accounts. The course also discusses the functional categories, including direct investment. The need for integration of the balance of payments with the IIP for compiling comprehensive, internationally comparable statistics will also be discussed.
Target Audience: This course is for those interested in learning the fundamentals of compiling international accounts that cover balance of payments and international investment position (IIP) statistics according to the internationally accepted standards. It is a basic-level course laying the foundation for the face-to-face intermediate balance of payments and IIP statistics course. It is open to those who compile, or plan to compile, balance of payments and IIP statistics and to the general public.
Description: This online course, presented by the Statistics Department, introduces participants to key CPI concepts and methods. The course provides an overview of key CPI concepts, definitions, and uses. It provides an overview of different index number formulas and the practical implications of choosing the index number formula at lower and higher levels of aggregation. The course also discusses the sources and methods for sampling areas, items, outlets, and varieties; treatment of temporarily and permanently missing prices; and updating and linking CPI data series. Linkages to the 2008 SNA are highlighted, including the related principles of scope, coverage, and valuation. The course covers the following topics: defining key concepts and uses of CPI data and how these influence the design of a CPI; meeting data users’ needs to ensure relevancy; calculating elementary and upper-level indexes; methods for sampling areas, items, outlets, and varieties; methods for handling temporarily and permanently missing prices, including adjusting prices for quality changes; and chaining and linking indexes with updated weighting structures. The course follows the principles and recommendations of the CPI Manual (2020).
Target Audience: Compilers of consumer price indexes (CPIs) and users of CPI data interested in understanding key concepts and compilation issues.
Description: This online course, presented by the Statistics Department, reviews the basic skills, concepts, and principles required to compile and disseminate macroeconomic and financial statistics. The course covers topics such as residence, institutional units, institutional sectors, accounting rules, financial instruments, stocks and flows, the IMF’s Data Standards Initiatives, and presents the basic macroeconomic linkages among these statistics.
Target Audience: Officials who compile macroeconomic and financial statistics in national statistical organizations, ministries of finance, economy, or planning, or in central banks.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, covers the fundamentals needed to compile and disseminate comprehensive public sector debt statistics (PSDS) that are useful for policy- and decision-makers, as well as other users. The course introduces the conceptual statistical framework for PSDS—as presented in the Public Sector Debt Statistics: Guide for Compilers and Users 2011 (PSDSG 2011) —in the context of the government finance statistics (GFS) framework, which is harmonized with other macroeconomic statistical frameworks. Basic concepts, definitions, and classifications are covered, along with the principal accounting rules (including valuation and consolidation) that are relevant for PSDS compilation. The course discusses the recommended instrument and institutional coverage for compiling comprehensive, internationally comparable PSDS, and how to record contingent liabilities such as government guarantees. It also deals with the impact on PSDS of some debt-related issues such as debt assumption, debt forgiveness, on-lending, financial leases, and financial bailouts. Important PSDS compilation considerations—including what PSDS to compile and disseminate—and the IMF’s guidelines and standards on disseminating PSDS are also covered. The course also presents possible uses of PSDS, including debt sustainability analyses (DSA), and fiscal risk and vulnerability analyses.
Target Audience: Officials whose main responsibility is compiling and disseminating public sector debt statistics.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, focuses on both the conceptual framework of government finance statistics (GFS) as presented in the IMF’s Government Finance Statistics Manual 2014 (GFSM 2014) and on practical aspects of data compilation. Basic concepts and definitions, accounting principles, and detailed classifications are dealt with in the context of the GFSM 2014 , which is harmonized with the System of National Accounts (SNA 2008) . The course examines the GFS framework, as well as its coverage and accounting rules (including accrual accounting), classifications, balance sheets and debt, and the sources and methods used for compiling GFS. Lastly, the course discusses the dissemination of GFS and its uses in fiscal policymaking and analyses.
Target Audience: Officials whose main responsibility is compiling and disseminating fiscal statistics.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, is intended to provide participants with a thorough understanding of the international standards for the compilation of EDS presented in the 2013 EDS: Guide for Compilers and Users (2013 EDS Guide). The course will cover basic concepts, definitions, and classifications, along with the principal accounting rules (including valuation and time of recording) that are relevant for compilation of the EDS. Finally, participants will be briefed on basic concepts of the debt sustainability analysis framework.
Target Audience: This course is for those interested in learning the fundamentals of compiling international accounts—specifically compilation of external debt statistics (EDS) and/or international investment position (IIP) statistics. It is a basic-level course laying the foundation for the face-to-face EDS course. It is open to those who compile, or plan to compile, EDS/IIP and to the general public.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, covers theoretical and practical aspects in the compilation of national accounts statistics based on the conceptual framework of the System of National Accounts 2008 (2008 SNA). The course consists of lectures covering methodological and compilation issues of the 2008 SNA and workshops consisting of practical exercises in compiling the accounts. The main aim of the course is to train participants in the compilation of annual gross domestic product both at current prices and in volume terms using the production and expenditure approaches, in support of better policy-making and surveillance. The course starts with an overview of the system of national accounts, presenting the sequence of accounts for transactions and other flows as well as balance sheets, with a focus on the framework of the 2008 SNA. It covers the main concepts involving transactions, other economic flows, stocks, institutional units, classifications, and main macroeconomic aggregates measured by the system. The main lectures and workshops include: sessions on the production account covering the definition and measurement of output, intermediate consumption, and value added; valuation issues; and the treatment of particular industries; source data and issues in the compilation of GDP by production and expenditure approaches; deflators and derivation of volume measures of GDP; and specific issues related to goods and services transactions, including supply and use framework, inventory valuation adjustment, consumption of fixed capital, non-observed and informal economy, global supply chains, and the digital economy.Emphasis is also placed on sharing country experiences among the participants.
Target Audience: Compilers of national accounts statistics employed by agencies responsible for official national accounts data.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, teaches you how to compile timely and high-quality Quarterly National Accounts (QNA) and High-Frequency Indicators of Economic Activity (HFIEAs). The course presents the concepts, data sources, and compilation techniques needed for producing QNA and HFIEAs, covering both theoretical and practical compilation issues. It introduces participants to benchmarking, seasonal adjustment techniques, as well as volume estimates; and explains the application of these techniques to time series data. The course also discussed how to identify and assess available data sources, use real-time series databases to assess the quality, and implement a suitable revisions policy for compiling QNA and HFIEAs.
Description: The 2023/third session of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names (UNGEGN) will be convened from 1 to 5 May 2023 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. There will be 10 meetings of the 2023 session and each meeting will be three hours: 10 -1 a.m. and 3-6 p.m. Objectives UNGEGN sessions provide a forum where experts from the interrelated fields of geography, cartography, geospatial information, linguistics and history, from across the world come together to learn and share best practices and norms, new developments in geographical names administration and standardization. The session also highlights the Group's role as an enabler in preserving cultural heritage and where appropriate support relevant aspects of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This session will address the theme "Strengthening relationships, links and connections in geographical names standardization and for sustainable development and pandemic recovery". This theme is not only aligned to the theme of the 2023 ECOSOC High-level Political Forum on sustainable development, but also to UNGEGN's Strategic Plan and Programme of Work 2021-2029, Strategy 2: Relationships, links and connections. Good relationships, links and connections are fundamental to all UNGEGN's strategies and are at the heart of the work of the United Nations. Therefore, it is beneficial to encourage focus on this topic and create a platform through the 2023 session to explore the various types of relationships (formal/informal, organizational/individual) employed by Member States to achieve their goals, and in turn support UNGEGNs vision. Work Programme The Group of Experts has a robust work programme anchored in its Strategic Plan and Programme of Work 2021-2029. The following are some major topics to be addressed during the session: - place names supporting sustainable development, toponymic data management and gazetteers, romanization systems, diversity and inclusion, capacity building in toponymy and geographical names as cultural heritage. Other Activities A series of side events consisting of working groups and divisional meetings, special workshops and an orientation session for new attendees will be held prior to and during the session. We are committed to keeping you, our national representatives, observers and special interest groups informed on the progress of session arrangements. Therefore, we encourage you to continue to monitor this website for updates and announcements.
Description: Click here to go to the event The African Centre of Statistics (ACS) of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) is launching the first of StatsTalk-Africa webinar series. The series will provide a space for dialogues about data, statistics, and innovative tools with data experts and users within ECA, Africa and rest of the world. The first of the monthly webinar series will focus on: Demystifying Big Data and Official Statistics in Africa and will take place on Friday, 28th April 2023 from 12:30 to 13:30 EAT via Microsoft Teams. The webinar will explain the link between Big Data and Official Statistics and how they can be used to inform better planning, policymaking towards achievement of Agenda 2030 and Agenda 2063, the Africa We Want. The event is expected to increase data literacy, understanding of the big data situation, needs and uses in Africa; and share innovative tools and methods for data production and management. This webinar specifically aims to: Serve as a knowledge-sharing and exchange platform. Demystify and promote greater understanding of key statistical concepts and alternative data sources that could be harnessed in the African context. Register in advance for this meeting here. Microsoft Teams meeting Join on your computer, mobile app or room device. Click here to join the meeting Meeting ID: 395 536 119 290 Passcode: Yuv6wN Download Teams | Join on the web Join with a video conferencing device. unitevc@m.webex.com Video Conference ID: 124 638 313 6 Alternate VTC instructions
Source: ESCAP SIAP (Data extracted on: 07 Dec 2023 )
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Organizer(s): ESCAP SIAP UNCEBTS UNSD
Description: Historically business statistics have focused very much in measuring the economic performance and competitiveness of businesses. Howeverbusinesses play a very important role toward sustainability and wellbeing. Task team on well-being and sustainability under the UN Committee of Experts on Business and Trade Statistics (UN CEBTS) identified a set of 17 reference indicators related to the measurement of the business sector’s impact on well-being and sustainability. These indicators were based on the review of the indicators of the Sustainable Development Goal indicators of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the core indicators for entity reporting on contribution towards implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals in order to provide a bridge between the information available at business level with business statistics and ultimately with relevant SDG indicators.This webinar series will focus on the set of indicators related to wellbeing and sustainability and is organized to (1) provide an overview of the importance of measuring impact of businesses on wellbeing and sustainability; (2) review data sources includingfor example non-financial reporting; and (3) share country experiences on challenges and opportunities in the compilation of these indicators. Participation to these webinars is free of charge.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 03 Feb 2023 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: To enable participants: * To have an understanding of the range of techniques which make up a cognitive interview; * To have increased their own ability to do cognitive interviewing; * To have insight into selecting and recruiting respondents; * To have insight into analysing cognitive interview data and creating better survey questions; * To have awareness of a broad range of uses for cognitive interviewing; * To have awareness of the contribution of cognitive interviewing in comparison to other testing methods; * To understand how cognitive interviewing can improve questionnaires on gender topics and thus the associated social statistics.
Target Audience: The course is targeted at NSI methodologists and social scientists whose work involves conducting surveys.
Organizer(s): UNSD Basque Centre for Climate Change South African National Biodiversity Institute European Space Agency GEO Secretariat
Description: “The System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA) Ecosystem Accounts as Enabler of Data and Model Integration to Improve Decision-Making” (TA1.39), a side event of the UN World Data Forum, took place virtually on Wednesday, 26 April 2023 at 14:45 – 15:45 (GMT+8). The event was organized by the United Nations Statistics Division in collaboration with the Basque Center for Climate Change (BC3), the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI), the European Space Agency (ESA) and the GEO Secretariat. It examined how Natural Capital Accounting (NCA), underpinned by the SEEA Ecosystem Accounting adopted in March 2021, facilitates effective decisions by providing an integrated statistical framework to go beyond GDP. The event also featured the ARIES for SEEA, an open-source technology that integrates data and models developed by the global and national research community to produce ecosystem extent, condition and services accounts. Using the web-based repositories discovered/connected through artificial intelligence, as well as Earth Observation data and technologies, it supports the calculation of ecosystem accounts. The South Africa National Biodiversity Institute shared its experience in developing ecosystem accounts combining in situ data, with earth observation and modelling approaches. For more information see the UNWDF website here.
Description: Availability of joint micro data on income, consumption and wealth is fundamental to measure poverty and living conditions of households, overcoming the measures used up to now based on the observation of a single dimension (mainly income or consumption). The production of official statistics on the joint distribution of income, consumption and wealth at the micro level is an up-to-date priority for National Statistical Institutes as well as a key objective at the European level. The webinar will summarise the ISTAT experience for the production of micro-data on household income, consumption and wealth in Italy. It will present the actions taken in order to fill the gaps in term of data requirements and address the major methodological challenges in using statistical matching (SM) techniques. Specifically, we applied SM to European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC), Household Budget Survey (HBS), both carried out by ISTAT, and to Survey on Household Income and Wealth (SHIW) of the Bank of Italy. The webinar will present the matching exercises to produce an integrated data set on household income and consumption and the deep process of an ex-ante harmonization of EU-SILC and HBS to fulfil those pre-conditions essential for data matching purposes. From the beginning, the work done was mainly directed on defining a sound methodological framework. We tested and applied the traditional statistical matching techniques (nonparametric imputation) and the more innovative methods based on the uncertainty analysis and on the matching of complex sample surveys (Renssen’s weights calibration approach). After the presentation of the main results of the consumption imputation, the problems associated with the imputation of household wealth collected in SHIW will be explained. This is an unprecedented and complex activity but that can benefit from the SM experience accumulated at ISTAT and from the cooperation project with the Bank of Italy to produce micro data on the joint distribution of income, consumption and wealth.
Description: During this Joint ISWGHS and Global Network Webinar Attila Hancioglu from UNICEF talked about the Launch of the 7th round of MICS (Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys), with a focus on new initiatives and innovations. UNICEF’s MICS is the largest source of statistically sound and internationally comparable data on children and women worldwide. With over 350 surveys conducted in 118 countries, MICS is an integral part of plans and policies of many governments around the world and the primary data source on the well-being of children. The 7th round aims to broaden the scope towards assessing emerging issues on the situation of children. The new round of MICS is featuring a new questionnaire architecture, expanded content, and new initiatives and innovations. The joint webinar covered: Main features of the 7th round of MICS, including the new questionnaire architecture and enhanced content, and plans for inclusion of new indicators during 2023-24; Ongoing roll-out of MICS7; and New initiatives and innovations. This event was co-organized with the ISWGHS.
Description: UNICEF’s Centre of Excellence on Data for Children with Disabilities will host an open house webinar on 25 April 2023. The Centre supports data analyses to promote the use of data and the generation of knowledge on the state of children with disabilities. During this open house, Jaclyn Yap will present her research project which is supported by the Centre and focuses on differing parenting practices among families of children with and without disabilities in low- and high-conflict affected areas. Updates about the Centre will also be shared during the open house.
Organizer(s): UNCTAD International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals UN CCDRR Esri PVBLIC Foundation
Description: At the mid-point of the time foreseen for enacting the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, there is an urgent need for more timely information for measuring the progress achieved so far and identifying the main bottlenecks and areas lagging behind. The COVID-19 crisis put in clear evidence the importance of timely and granular information for monitoring trends and for guiding the policy responses. However, many SDG indicators rely on official data that still suffer from long publication delays or that is only available incompletely or with insufficient coverage. In recent years, statistical methodologies, space technologies, and online data tools, including those based on machine learning methods, satellite remote sensing images, cloud-end big data platforms, and new data sources have been applied to comprehensively address those information gaps. UNCTAD co-organizes an event on ways for increasing timeliness and coverage of SDG indicators at the 4th UN World Data Forum (24-27 April, Hangzhou, China).The forum will bring together 1 500 in-person and nearly 20 000 virtual participants from national statistical offices, international organizations, the geospatial community, academic organizations, the private sector, and civil society organizations to showcase innovations and build impactful partnerships. The Forum is organized under the guidance of the UN Statistical Commission and the High-level Group for Partnership, Coordination, and Capacity-Building for Statistics for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, in close consultation with UN Member States and international partners. This session will highlight some recent examples of the works utilizing statistical methods and earth observation data in relation to specific SDG indicators. Rather than focusing on technical or computational details, the panelists will highlight the main challenges faced when applying their methods/utilities, as well as solutions and lessons learned that could help other actors to continue improving timeliness of SDG indicators at the national and international levels. Daniel Hopp, Statistician at UNCTAD, will present innovative methods of nowcasting using artificial intelligence. Daniel Hopp has a strongexperience in data ecosystems, machine learning, and programming to drive innovation in the domains of trade statistics, economic forecasting, and official statistics. Seakers: * Qunli Han, Executive Director, Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) International Programme Office * Huadong Guo, Academician & Director General, International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals * Yana Gevorgyan, Secretariat Director, Group on Earth Observations (GEO) * Jianhui LI, Professor, Vice-President, CODATA of the International Science Council * Gretchen Kalonji, School of Disaster Reconstruction and Management, Sichuan University - The Hong Kong Polytechnic University * Daniel Hopp, Statistician, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) * Charles Brigham, Geographer, Esri · Stephen Keppel, President, PVBLIC Foundation
Title in French: Cours d'apprentissage en ligne sur les statistiques du commerce international de marchandises
Organizer(s): UNSD UNCTAD WTO
Description: Les principaux objectifs sont de renforcer l’aptitude des statisticiens à appliquer les recommandations les plus récentes sur les SCIM, décidées au niveau international, à identifier les meilleures sources de données, à mettre en place des outils adaptés à la collecte des données et à améliorer les modalités d’élaboration des statistiques. De plus, le cours insiste sur la qualité, les métadonnées, la diffusion des statistiques ainsi que sur l’apport des SCIM à l’analyse économique et la formulation d’objectifs nationaux de politique économique.
Description: Main goals of the course are to enhance statisticians' ability to apply the most recent internationally agreed recommendations on IMTS, define best possible data sources, set up adequate (or enforce existing) collection systems, and enhance statistics compilation and production processes. The course focuses on the following topics: Conceptual Framework, Institutional Arrangement, Production and Compilation, Metadata and Quality, Dissemination and Analysis and New Areas of Work. Furthermore, the course emphasizes the importance of quality, metadata, timely dissemination, and links to economic analysis and national policy objectives.
Source: ESCAP SIAP (Data extracted on: 07 Dec 2023 )
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Organizer(s): ESCAP SIAP UNIDO
Description: Inclusive and sustainable industrial development (ISID) is a primary source of income generationallows for rapid and sustained increases in living standards of peopleand provides technological solutions for an environmentally sound development. ISID is an integral part of the SDGsparticularly SDG 9which focuses on industryinnovation and infrastructure. Promoting inclusive and sustainable industries and continuing to invest in physical infrastructureinnovation and research are vital to long-term economic development. Furthermoreindustrialization not only contributes to economic growth and infrastructure upgradingbut can also directly and indirectly support the achievement of the SDGs’ socio-economic and environmental objectives through the creation of jobsimprovements in working conditionsinnovationand the development of new and greener production technologies. In addition to SDG 9all other SDGs incorporate some industry-related aspects and targets.
Description: The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) and the National Institute of Statistics, Geography and Informatics (INEGI) held a study tour on measuring time use and valuing unpaid work in Mexico City from 24 to 28 April 2023. The study tour was organized with the support of the Development Account 12 Tranche Project on Time-use data for better policies in Africa, Western Asia, and Latin America as an opportunity to exchange knowledge and improve skills on the production of time-use data using standalone timeuse surveys; and the valuation of unpaid household production of services. Participants from Mexico, Morocco, and Argentina found this occasion useful to strengthen SouthSouth cooperation and international collaboration for the harmonization of time use statics. During the study tour, national statisticians presented their experiences and challenges encountered during the process of their timeuse surveys. Participants from Mexico and Morocco also reflected on the changes that their upcoming surveys will implement to improve the quality of the data and advance toward international harmonization. On the second day of the study tour, INEGI shared its methodology for the construction of the unpaid household work satellite account. During the remaining part of the study tour participants worked using data from their time-use surveys, labour force surveys and, information from their national accounts to calculate the monetary value of unpaid household work in their countries. Statisticians participating in the study tour provided feedback to their peers on methodological decisions at each stage of the valuation process, making the experience very enriching.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 03 Feb 2023 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: This course shall democratize the accessibility of privately held data and valorisation thereof. Get to know the techniques and tools to access privately held data. Understand the stages of data valorisation pipelines, including data storage and accessibility. Familiarize with the European Data Strategy and Digital Strategy. Experiment with web-crawling, web-scraping, web-automation and API interfacing techniques. Gain hands-on experience with diverse data mining techniques from privately held data sources.
Target Audience: Official Statisticians wishing to develop a toolbox for data acquisition with respect to privately held data at national level.
Description: UNSD and the African Energy Commission (AFREC, an organ of the African Union) organized a regional bioenergy workshop in Lomé, Togo, from 24 to 26 April 2023. The event followed up from the June 2021 “International Workshop on Improving Bioenergy Monitoring and Reporting in Africa” held virtually by UNSD, AFREC and the International Energy Agency. The 2021 workshop consolidated the Strategic Framework for the African Bioenergy Data Management (AFBIDM), whose roadmap/action plan called for this validation workshop. Over half of Africa’s energy demand is met by traditional bioenergy, and the percentage of solid fuel (charcoal and fuel wood) used in the region is the highest in the world. Production and consumption of bioenergy has direct impacts on health (indoor pollution), biodiversity, water and soil quality, as well as on a number of social and economic aspects of primary relevance for developing countries. Improving the measurement of bioenergy in Africa is an imperative to tracking SDG 7 and its inter linkages to other SDGs. Representatives from Statistical Offices and Energy Authorities of ten African countries participated in the workshop. Presentations focused on the motivation, importance and impacts of traditional bioenergy use in Africa; mitigation actions to reduce such impacts; best practices in data collection, including survey questionnaires; linkages to policy and advocacy to policymakers; as well as outreach. Participants shared national experiences on each topic. Collectively, participants seemed to be aware of national needs in order to set up a comprehensive bioenergy data collection system integrated with national policy priorities. The exchange helped them individually to fill knowledge gaps in this respect.
Description: Concept note Data integration approaches are becoming increasingly popular among official statisticians worldwide. This is due to the growing and evolving data requirements for monitoring national development plans and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the face of budget constraints and declining response rates on traditional data collection methods, i.e., censuses and surveys. Furthermore, technological advancements have made new data sources available and enabled official statisticians to produce statistics using more complex approaches. However, implementing data integration approaches requires a wide range of technical and institutional capabilities. Depending on its situation, each country may encounter different challenges needing tailored solutions. In 2022-3, the National Statistics Office of Nepal participated in a project on strengthening the capacity to implement data integration approaches for official statistics. The project involved a practical exercise of integrating multiple data sources and included capacity development activities. This Stats Café provided a brief overview of the project, its challenges and solutions, as well as shared the findings and lessons learned that may benefit other countries looking to develop similar data integration projects. During the session, the project report was also officially launched. Launch of the report: "Strengthening the national statistical capacity to implement data integration approaches: pilot project in Nepal 2022-23" , Stats Café Home: Upcoming events Concluded events
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, teaches you how to compile timely, high quality national accounts statistics based on the system of national accounts (SNA) framework. The course introduces the sequence of national accounts, the accounting rules, and the key macroeconomic indicators in the SNA framework. You will learn about gross domestic product (GDP) - the main aggregate of the system, and how to compile consistent and internationally comparable measures of GDP according to the production, income, and expenditure approaches. The course also discusses in detail, how the SNA can be used to track an economy's production, consumption, and income and how to estimate volume measures of GDP.
Organizer(s): UNSD UN-GGIM Ministry of Natural Resources China
Description: The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) in its resolution 2022/24 entitled 'Enhancing global geospatial information management arrangements' on 22 July 2022, recognized the sustained efforts of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM) to establish the United Nations Global Geospatial Knowledge and Innovation Centre (UN-GGKIC) in Deqing, China to provide opportunities to develop and expand global geospatial capacity, competence and capabilities, and to strengthen geospatial information management arrangements in countries, especially developing countries. Further, ECOSOC reiterated "the importance of strengthening and enhancing the effectiveness of the Committee of Experts, particularly for the achievement of its operations focused on the Sustainable Development Goals and the Integrated Geospatial Information Framework, to strengthen and ensure its continued effectiveness and benefits to all Member States." In making decision 12/101 at its twelfth session in August 2022, UN-GGIM noted the progress and efforts to finalize the modalities for the establishment of the UN-GGKIC in Deqing, China, and appreciated the involvement of the International Advisory Committees (IAC) throughout the setup process, and encouraged them to remain engaged and to regularly share progress with UN-GGIM as the Centre's operationalize their activities. The Agreement for the establishment of the UN-GGKIC in Deqing, Zhejiang Province, China and a Memorandum of Understanding on the operationalization of the UN-GGKIC were signed by the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs and China"s Minister for Natural Resources in a virtual ceremony on 20 May 2022. The overarching goal of the UN-GGKIC is to work towards the ambitions of implementation of the United Nations Integrated Geospatial Information Framework (UN-IGIF) set by Member States to develop capacity, promote and support the required innovation, leadership, coordination and standards to develop, strengthen, integrate and deliver national geospatial information policy, data, systems, tools, services and capabilities into their national government development policies, strategies and arrangements. The objective of the UN-GGKIC is to strengthen and advance the geospatial information management capacity development capabilities of Member States, especially developing countries, and to strengthen knowledge sharing and innovative cooperation. The modalities for operationalizing the UN-GGKIC, as provided in the Memorandum of Understanding, include a Framework Plan and the formation of a Steering Committee and an International Advisory Committee. The UN-GGKIC will develop and implement its annual programme of work in accordance with the Framework Plan. The International Advisory Committee (IAC), comprised of international geospatial experts with balanced geographical representation and diversity from UN-GGIM, will provide the required guidance and advice on the development, implementation, and review of the substantive annual programme of work of the UN-GGKIC. The First Meeting, in-person, brings together all members of the UN-GGKIC: IAC at Deqing, China. Over the three days, the UN-GGKIC: IAC is expected to substantively guide and advice the UN-GGKIC in its development of a medium term and annual programme of work in accordance with the agreed Framework Plan.
Description: The Health Inequality Data Repository is the largest global collection of disaggregated data about health and determinants of health – with nearly 11 million data points across more than 2000 indicators. These data can be explored directly through the Health Equity Assessment Toolkit (HEAT), an interactive software which facilitates the examination of inequalities and the evaluation of relevant interventions to address them.
Organizer(s): ECLAC UN-GGIM: Americas Caribbean Geospatial Development Initiative CARICOM Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States
Description: The objective of this workshop is training in the use of the United Nations methodology for the development of a national action plan based on the nine strategic pathways of the Integrated Geospatial Information Framework (UN-IGIF).
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 31 Oct 2022 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: The course will enhance the theoretical and practical knowledge of waste statistics validation approaches. The main focus will be on validation routines, looking at strengths and weaknesses in the chosen approaches and possibilities for shared responsibilities between countries and Eurostat. The course will explore possible ways of avoiding duplication of validation routines and in waste statistics and means of obtaining more effective statistics.
Target Audience: Staff members involved in the production of official waste statistics, advanced level.
Description: The United Nations World Data Forum 2023 (UNWDF 2023) will take place from 24 to 27 April 2023 in Hangzhou, China. The Forum’s purpose is to create a space for those interested in data and statistics to exchange ideas, showcase innovations, identify solutions, discuss future strategies, and provide mutual learning opportunities on a wide variety of topics organized across the Programme. Virtual participants will have the opportunity to view and interact in more than 80 sessions online, including four high-level plenaries and a series of panel and short-talk style parallel sessions. In addition, this programme is supported by the online event platform to allow participants to easily follow and schedule what they wish to watch among these sessions; chat and ask questions of the numerous organisers and speakers; and connect and network with their fellow participants. The Forum welcomes participants interested in data from a diverse range of backgrounds: governments, civil society, the private sector, donor and philanthropic bodies, international and regional agencies, the geospatial community, the media, academia, and professional bodies. Lead by one of the Programme Committee co-chairs, Shaida Badiee and other members: represented by Babatunde Abidoye, Charles Lebon Mberi Kimpolo, Dilek Fraisl and Claudia Wells together with the Secretariat of the Forum represented by Francesca Perucci, will share further information on 19 April from 7am EST. The following key topics will be covered: What to expect as a virtual participant of UNWDF2023 Introduction to the online event platform Insights into how best engage in sessions as a remote participant, including network and connect with fellow attendees Speakers:
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 03 Feb 2023 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat
Description: The objective of this course is to provide the participants with an overview of Statistical disclosure theory and methods related to tabular data protection and microdata protection, as well as the respective software. Participants will be asked to bring case studies that will be discussed in the training.
Target Audience: Staff dealing with statistical confidentiality.
Description: This global webinar was organized as part of the activities of workstream 2.4 “Assessing the Impact of the Economy on the Environment” of the Statistics and Data Project “Resilient and agile National Statistical Systems to meet post-COVID-19 data needs to recover better” under the 14th tranche of the United Nations Development Account. It was co-organized by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). Countries from the Western Asia, and Asia-Pacific regions were in attendance. This webinar followed a March webinar with the same content presented where member states from Europe and Africa attended. Upon the invitation of UNEP, UNSD presented on “Country-owned official statistics as a source for water statistics”. Due to the US Eastern 1:00am-4:00am time window of the webinar, the presentation was delivered via video on delay. When presenting on the context of water statistics collected via the UNSD/UNEP Questionnaire on Environment Statistics for over 20 years, UNSD emphasized sources used by countries, especially whereby a national statistical office maintains inter-institutional relations at varying levels (municipal, provincial, federal) of government. Methodologies and sources specified in the Framework for the Development of Environment Statistics and the National Quality Assurance Frameworks Manual for Official Statistics were cited, as were existing work the section does whereby water statistics feed into policy frameworks such as the Sustainable Development Goals and the Global Set of Climate Change Statistics and Indicators. For interested countries that are not currently involved in the data collection, they were advised to contact UNSD for information sessions on the Questionnaire. Such sessions are usually organized in collaboration with (co-)custodian organizations including UNEP, WHO and UN-Habitat and discussions include but are not limited to metadata of the indicators, concepts and definitions, use of the data and dissemination process.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 03 Feb 2023 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: The course will enhance participants' methodological and technical knowledge of Quality reporting in the European Statistical System (ESS). Participants will understand and have practical experience on how to prepare detailed quality reports for the different types of statistical processes according to the Single Integrated Metadata Structure (SIMS) V.2.0 and its derived structures ESMS (Euro-SDMX Metadata Structure) and ESQRS (ESS Standard for Quality Report Structure), including how to calculate ESS Quality and Performance indicators. The ESS Metadata Handler, the web application used by Eurostat to collect metadata and quality report from National Statistical Institutes and Other National Authorities producing European statistics, will be presented.
Target Audience: Staff of National Statistical Institutes (NSIs) and Other National Authorities (ONAs) producing Official Statistics directly involved in the compilation of quality reports or working in quality management and/or quality reporting coordination units.
Description: Help us to showcase an impactful story on disability and illustrate the power of digital accessibility in data visualizations to create a more inclusive experience. We need visuals that are easy to understand but pack a punch. Something that will help us spread the word about disability and get people talking. So, get creative, don't be afraid to think outside the box, and slice and dice the data any way you like. Analyze the data from different perspectives - perhaps you will discover something that we haven’t seen! Don't miss your chance to use your creativity and contribute to the cause of accessible data visualization - start making an impact today.
Description: UNSD organized a virtual meeting on the revision of the Classification of the Functions of Government (COFOG). The meeting was organized in response the request by the United Nations Statistical Commission at its fifty-third session in 2022 to revise COFOG and make an assessment of whether changes are required in the other classifications of expenditure according to purpose. The objective of the meeting was to develop a draft work programme and terms of reference of a task team on the revision of COFOG which will submitted to the UN Statistical Commission through the UN Committee of Experts on International Statistical Classifications. The meeting gathered some 25 experts on classification, government finance statistics, national accounts and environmental accounts from several countries (namely, Canada, Netherlands, New Zealand, UK, US) and international organizations such as Eurostat, FAO, IMF and OECD. UNSD experts from classification, national accounts and environmental accounts participated in the meeting. The revision of COFOG was very welcomed. Some of the main drivers identified for the revision of COFOG included addressing emerging data needs for policy making such as climate change, environmental expenditures, and digitalization. Participants also welcomed the efforts to bring together experts from different statistical domains in the revision process.
Description: The United Nations General Assembly adopted the indicator framework for the monitoring of progress towards SDGs with indicator 16.4.1 on the “total value of inward and outward illicit financial flows (in United States dollars)” selected as one of two indicators to measure progress towards target 16.4 to “significantly reduce illicit financial (and arms) flows by 2030, strengthen the recovery and return of stolen assets and combat all forms of organized crime”. UNCTAD and UNODC are custodian agencies of indicator 16.4.1 and their respective statistical sections jointly developed a Conceptual Framework for the Statistical Measurement of Illicit Financial Flows in 2020. The Framework was endorsed by the UN Statistical Commission in March 2022. To date, methodologies to measure IFFs have been tested by 22 countries on three continents in efforts coordinated by UN regional commissions and UNODC field Offices (on crime related IFFs), alongside UNCTAD and UNODC statistics. This includes 12 African countries, 4 Latin American and 6 Asian countries that have produced first estimates of commercial or crime-related IFFs. As lessons are learned and estimation methods are tested and refined, interest from countries to systematically and regularly measure IFFs is growing, and a global effort by all UN regional commissions and the custodian agencies starts in 2023. During the first quarter of the year, for SDG reporting, UNODC has provided the first ever data on crime-related IFFs for SDG indicator 16.4.1. On 7 December 2022, a resolution A/RES/77/154 by the 2nd Committee of the General Assembly on IFFs recognized the significant progress and availability of concepts and tested methods to measure IFFs and encouraged “all Member States to report on Sustainable Development Goal indicator 16.4.1, using the methodology adopted by the Statistical Commission, and called upon the United Nations system entities, international organizations and donors to work in coordination with the custodian agencies to train national statistical offices and other entities in charge of reporting on illicit financial flows on these agreed methods”. Building on this, further work is ongoing on designing appropriate policy actions to identify and address IFFs to achieve sustainable development for all. The side event, co-organized by UNCTAD, ECA and ESCAP will showcase success stories in the measurement of tax and commercial IFFs and share key lessons that are critical to regularizing the production of data on SDG 16.4.1 and how it can support policy actions. Conceptual and methodological work, both in measurement and policy formulation, will be presented by the UN, and the successes and lessons will be presented by two pioneering country experts.
Description: At this meeting, methodology experts from Statistics Norway presented the findings from their expert appraisal of the draft questionnaire as well as some recommendations on how to address the weaknesses identified. Members were invited to join a small working group who will be meeting at least once a week in the next 3 weeks to revise the questionnaire based on the expert appraisal findings. We also discussed two methods – namely, standardized protocol-based verbal probing and semi-structured qualitative interviews – that NSOs could apply to help test the questionnaire across different electoral systems and diverse socio-cultural contexts. We also presented the support available to NSOs interested in testing the questionnaire in their national setting, including virtual training sessions and on-demand support from the core team.
Description: The World Health Organization (WHO), in collaboration with the Brisbane Accord Group, invites you to this webinar series. This series will introduce ICD-11 (International Classification of Diseases 11th Revision) and related resources available to Pacific Island countries and areas (PICs). The first webinar will be delivered by ICD experts from WHO headquarters and the Western Pacific Regional Office who will provide an overview of ICD-11, its implementation steps and discuss the implications of transitioning to ICD-11 based on PICs’ current ICD implementation. Dr Erwyn Ooi Chin Wei from the Ministry of Health, Malaysia will also share the experience and lessons learnt from implementing ICD-11 in Malaysia.
Description: UNSD participated in the 7th online meeting of the Technical Working Group on the International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO-08) that took place from 17- 18 April 2023. The Technical Working Group on ISCO-08 was established by the International Labour Organization (ILO) in May 2021 to revise ISCO-08, based on the recommendations of the 20th International Conference of Labour Statisticians (ICLS) to revise ISCO-08. The aim finalize the revised ISCO for the 22nd ICLS in 2028.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 03 Feb 2023 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: Main objectives of the course: to provide practical training in writing about statistics in clear and understandable language, with the aim to improve the attractiveness and efficiency of presenting statistics, while bearing in mind the principles of the Code of Practice.
Target Audience: Staff involved in/responsible for drafting/writing press releases, statistical texts and articles for NSI’s publications, for the web, for social media or other types of communication channels.
Description: The Asia-Pacific Stats Café Series on "Resilient and agile National Statistical Systems: A new global statistics development initiative" was held virtually on Monday, 17 April 2023, 12:00-13:00 hr (Bangkok time, UTC +7). Presentation , Stats Café Home: Upcoming events Concluded events
Description: The Status of Women in Agrifood Systems will be launched during an event that will highlight the relevance of the report’s findings for policy and decision makers, development actors, the...
Description: In the Asia-Pacific region, climate change is one of the most pressing policy issues given its wide-ranging impacts on well-being. High quality, consistent data on the environment-economy nexus is needed to inform effective pathways for addressing climate change and related issues. National statistical offices (NSOs) of countries in the region have responded to this need by compiling various environmental accounts in compliance with the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA) , including taking steps towards compiling energy and air emission accounts which are among the most relevant accounts for informing climate change. However, there is a need to strengthen the capacities of NSOs to produce and disseminate SEEA accounts, in particular energy, air emission and carbon accounts, to better meet the needs of users for high quality integrated data on climate change and the economy. The workshop, organized by the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) and the UN Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific (UNSIAP), with the support of the Office of the Director-General for Policy Planning on Statistical Policy, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications of the Government of Japan, aims to further build capacities in the region for the compilation of SEEA accounts relevant to climate change. The workshop will take place at the headquarters of the UNSIAP in Chiba, Japan.
Description: The aim of this course is to develop institutional capacities for the operationalization of Labour Market Information Systems (LMIS). The focus is on building links with data sources that feed the system, produce and store selected indicators in a centralized repository, and make them available for generating reports on labour-market performance. Such systems are also powerful tools for labour market matching and evidence-based policymaking.
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Description: A Population Commission was established by the Economic and Social Council in its resolution 3 (III) of 3 October 1946. In its resolution 49/128 of 19 December 1994, the General Assembly decided that the Commission should be renamed the Commission on Population and Development. In the same resolution, the Assembly decided that it, the Council and the Commission should constitute a three-tiered intergovernmental mechanism that would play the primary role in the follow-up to the implementation of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, and that the Commission, as a functional commission assisting the Council, would monitor, review and assess the implementation of the Programme of Action at the national, regional and international levels and advise the Council thereon.
Target Audience: The Commission is composed of 47 Member States elected by the Economic and Social Council for a period of four years on the basis of geographic distribution. Representatives should have a relevant background in population and development.
Description: Background In 2022, ESCAP developed a pilot project specifically targeted at supporting NSOs in Asia and the Pacific to address this complexity. The project aims to work with NSOs in the region to pilot the use of big data for producing a sample of the 46 environment-gender indicators. Cambodia and Mongolia submitted their expressions of interest in participating in the pilot to produce one indicator per country. For Cambodia, the indicator is the proportion of population with access to electricity by sex, while Mongolia focuses on measuring the proportion of population in Ulaanbaatar living in Gers by sex. More specifically, the project team utilized Google Earth Engine to derive nighttime light data for all communes in Cambodia and combined the results with average household size and female ratio to estimate the indicator. In the case of Mongolia, the team designed an object-based image analysis model on QGIS using the Orfeo Toolbox and a random forest classifier to detect Gers. In both cases, the team conducted sensitivity analyses and compared the results against indicators produced from censuses and/or surveys. The two pilots produced promising results and lessons learned. The project team recently conducted an Expert Group Meeting to present findings, lessons learned and challenges from implementing the pilots to experts in the field and seek their feedback on how the models can be improved. Insights from the meeting has been integrated into the guidance documents which record processes throughout the entire pilot and recommend next steps for the two NSOs to improve their usage of big data in official statistics production. This Stats Cafe session , Stats Café Home: Upcoming events Concluded events in 2022 2021 events 2020 events
Description: During this Global Network Webinar the World Data Forum Secretariat represented by Francesca Perucci, Ian Rutherford, Daniella Sussman, Florina Lepadatu, Paul Pacheco, and Jaspreet Doung, and the host country China, represented by Di Wei, Deputy Director-General of the Statistical Education and Training Center of the National Bureau of Statistics of China and member of the World Data Forum Programme Committee and by Ding Lei Program Director for Video Conference Events Assurance at Huawei Technologies, shared information on the 4th UN World Data Forum including its programme and the modalities for virtual participation. The United Nations World Data Forum 2023 (UNWDF 2023: https://unstats.un.org/unsd/undatafor... ) will take place from 24 to 27 April 2023 in Hangzhou, China. The Forum’s purpose is to create a space for those interested in data and statistics to exchange ideas, showcase innovations, identify solutions, discuss future strategies, and provide mutual learning opportunities on a wide variety of topics organized across the Programme (https://unstats.un.org/unsd/undatafor.... Participants will have the opportunity to view and interact in about 80 sessions online and more than 100 at the Hangzhou International Expo Center, including four high-level plenaries, parallel sessions, learning labs, demonstrations, and other types of exhibits. The Forum welcomes participants interested in data from a diverse range of backgrounds: governments, civil society, the private sector, donor and philanthropic bodies, international and regional agencies, the geospatial community, the media, academia, and professional bodies. The following key topics were covered during the webinar: • What to expect from the UNWDF2023. • Highlights from the programme, including high-level events. • Outreach and communications for the Forum. • Virtual participation in Forum events. • Integration with the Global Network to continue the conversation and share the Forum experience.
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: The course will provide participants with training on the compilation of SEEA-CF monetary environmental accounts as requested by Regulation 691/2011 on European environmental economic accounts (amended by Regulation 538/2014). It’s an overall introduction to the different accounts, including relevant definitions, classifications, and approaches to compilation will be covered.
Target Audience: * Junior statisticians of environmental statistics or environmental accounts departments involved in compiling data on Environmental Goods and Services Sector (EGSS) Accounts, Environmental protection expenditure accounts (EPEA), environmental taxes or environmental subsidies and other transfers. * Specialists in one of the areas listed above who need to improve their knowledge of the other areas listed above. * Managers with responsibility on several or all the areas listed above.
Description: This third edition of the ISI Regional Webinar Series will be held as part of the IAOS-ISI Conference in Zambia in April 2023. The theme of the conference is “Better Lives 2030: mobilising the power of data for Africa and the world”. Panellists will be drawn from conference participants, representing a diversity of countries (Zambia, Uganda, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana and Rwanda), professional affiliations (government agencies, NGOs and universities), seniority (early career statisticians to professors), gender (male and female) and areas of expertise (official statistics, statistical capacity building, legal support, research and education, and social science and public health).
Description: Bringing together statisticians and all those in government, universities and education who care about the value of statistics to society. Organised by the International Association for Official Statistics, International Statistical Institute and Republic of Zambia Central Statistical Office Topics: * Future of Statistics for Africa: statistics that leave no one behind; * Skills for Africa in the era of data; * Official statistics in society: they matter to all of us; * Big data. Opportunities arising from the new data ecosystem; * Statistics making a difference: public health, prevent and cure; * Statistics making a difference: environment and climate; * Statistics making a difference: from data to progress.
Course Language: English, French
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Description: ESCWA and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) are organizing a joint regional webinar to promote resilient and agile statistics that support countries in implementing decisions based on statistical evidence for an inclusive and sustainable post-COVID-19 recovery. The webinar aims at: Improving price statistics through the increased comparability of price indices Developing new outputs and indicators to assess economic performance and comparability of macroeconomic indicators Introducing innovative price data collection tools that complement traditional tools Increasing efficiency and facilitating collection at times of crisis. The webinar features a wide participation from different member countries of ESCWA, ECLAC and the Economic Commission for Europe (ECE), in addition to the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD).
Description: The draft version of the questionnaire is now ready for cognitive testing in multiple countries (and multiple languages). This is a vital step in ensuring that the questions are valid and reliable across different contexts. At this meeting, the Co-Chairs presented two possible methods – namely, semi-structured qualitative interviews and standardized protocol-based verbal probing – for NSOs interested in participating in the cognitive testing to choose from. The Co-Chairs also presented the support available to NSOs interested in applying either one of these two methods in their national setting, including virtual training sessions and on-demand support from the core team.
Description: The "Civil Registration Vital Statistics (CRVS) Inception Workshop for Assessing Inequalities in Registration in Samoa" was organized on 4 April 2023 in Tanoa Tusitala Hotel, Apia, Samoa. Agenda The inception workshop was a participatory workshop that introduced the project, further developed relationships among relevant stakeholders (data providers, data users, and policymakers), discussed challenges with conducting such an inequality assessment, and collaboratively developed a plan for the way forward. , Project: Implementing Inequality Assessments Resources Regional Events Project countries: Bangladesh Bhutan Fiji/ Indonesia Lao PDR Pakistan Philippines Samoa
Description: The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) will organized the first Asia-Pacific CRVS Research Forum from 3 to 4 April 2023 in Bangkok. The two-day online forum will focus on innovative methods and approaches contributing to achievement of the goals of the Asia-Pacific CRVS Decade (www.getinthepicture.org), as well as showcasing country-level success stories. Depending on the number of papers received, plenary and parallel sessions may be held simultaneously to accommodate papers that meet criteria set by the Forum Organisers. The primary target group is experienced CRVS practitioners (from National Statistics Offices, Ministries of Health, and Civil Registration/National Identity Authorities) from ESCAP Member States. Other welcomed participants include international organizations, academe, private institutions, and civil society. Authors from Asia and the Pacific will be given preference, but other submissions will be considered if they show relevance to the region.
Description: Making food systems resource efficient, environmentally sustainable, and resilient to shocks is an opportunity for agricultural transformation, sustainable economic diversification and to minimize greenhouse gas emissions. Sustainable food systems are cru
Description: At its Twelfth Session, in its decision 12/106, the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM) noted the Subcommittee on Geodesy desire to convene its Third Plenary Meeting at the UN-GGCE in Bonn once the Centre is established and further urged a greater contribution from relevant technical experts in Member States to the work of the Subcommittee. The last time the Subcommittee met in plenary was in November 2018 on the margins of the inaugural United Nations World Geospatial Information Congress. The Third plenary meeting of the Subcommittee on Geodesy (SCoG) was hosted by the Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy of Germany (BKG) at the United Nations campus in Bonn from 29 to 31 March 2023. The meeting was attended by 41 participants: 27 representatives from seventeen Member States that are members of the Subcommittee, three representatives from three participating Member States, ten participants from international and regional organizations, geodetic research institutions, and relevant stakeholders. One staff member from the United Nations Secretariat substantively facilitated the plenary meeting. Participants also attended the opening ceremony of the United Nations Global Geodetic Centre of Excellence (UN-GGCE) on 29 March 2023 at 1:00 p.m. Plenary meeting participants were joined by a further seventy plus invited guests at the opening ceremony. It was an impressive gathering, the invited guests came from every continent on planet Earth, except the Arctic and the Antarctic. There was someone from each of the five regional committees of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM). There was someone from each of the eight functional groups and the four thematic networks reporting into UN-GGIM. At the Third Plenary Meeting, the SCoG selected two from amongst its members as co-Chairs as well as a new bureau that enjoys geographic diversity. The Meeting decided to close the five working groups and establishes three new working groups, namely, (i) Global Geodesy Needs Assessment, (ii) State of Geodesy Report, and (iii) Capacity and Education.
Description: On 4 November 2022, an agreement "On the Operationalization of the United Nations Global Geodetic Centre of Excellence" between the United Nations and the Federal Republic of Germany was signed. The agreement formalizes the offer from Germany to host the United Nations Global Geodetic Centre of Excellence (UN-GGCE) at the UN Campus in Bonn to support the work of enhancing global cooperation and coordination across Member States and relevant geodetic stakeholders, strengthening geodetic infrastructure, as well as supporting Member States in improving their national contributions to the global geodetic infrastructure, as outlined in the Framework Plan of the UN-GGCE annexed to the agreement. UN-GGCE's overarching goal is to assist Member States and geodetic organizations to coordinate and collaborate to sustain, enhance, access and utilize an accurate, accessible and sustainable GGRF to support science, society and global development. The objective is to support, within available resources, the implementation of General Assembly Resolution 69/266 through strengthening and advancing: global geodetic cooperation and coordination; worldwide geodetic infrastructure; standards and policies; education, training and capacity development; and communication and awareness, while also coordinating measures and overseeing their implementation. The UN-GGCE will have a Steering Committee, comprising representatives designated by United Nations and the Federal Republic of Germany. The Steering Committee will provide strategic advice on the annual plan of work and overall implementation of the agreed framework plan. The UN-GGCE will also have an International Advisory Committee (IAC) comprising scientific and operational expertise that will provide the required guidance and advice on the development, implementation and review of the annual plan of work. UN-GGCE is convening the inaugural meetings of its Steering Committee and IAC in conjunction with the Opening Ceremony of the Centre at the UN Campus, Bonn. At its Twelfth Session, in its decision 12/106, the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM) noted the Subcommittee on Geodesy desire to convene its Third Plenary Meeting at the UN-GGCE in Bonn once the Centre is established and further urged a greater contribution from relevant technical experts in Member States to the work of the Subcommittee. The last time the Subcommittee met in plenary was in November 2018 on the margins of the inaugural United Nations World Geospatial Information Congress. Whilst the Opening Ceremony and the inaugural meeting of the UN-GGCE Steering Committee will be held on 29 March 2023, the inaugural meeting of the UN-GGCE International Advisory Committee and the Third Plenary Meeting of the Subcommittee on Geodesy will be held from 29 to 31 March 2023. The agendas for the inaugural meeting of the UN-GGCE International Advisory Committee and the Third Plenary Meeting of the Subcommittee will be jointly developed and coordinated to synergistically benefit from the knowledge, expertise and participation of scientific, operational and geospatial information experts during the three days at the UN Campus in Bonn.
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Description: Traditional surveys are not well-equipped to measure certain concepts of interest such as expenditures, time use or travel behavior due to high burden placed on participants. Facts or behaviors that are difficult to measure through self-report can be measured using new technologies: smartphone apps, sensors, and wearables. For example, accelerometers in smartphones and fitness bracelets can objectively measure physical activity, screen time apps can measure (social) media use. Another possibility is to augment surveys with administrative data or data from digital platforms such as Google, Youtube, Instagram that participants can provide to researchers through data donation, or consent to data linkage. However, to ensure representation, participants have to be willing and able to use their devices to perform such tasks. If participants differ from nonparticipants in key outcomes, research results can be biased. In this webinar, I will present the results of several randomized experiments on the mechanisms of willingness and consent to collect data using smartphone sensors, apps, and wearables in general population surveys, and the extent of nonparticipation bias assessed by linkage of survey data to sensor and administrative data. I will further focus on how these mechanisms translate to data donation of digital trace data, what opportunities and challenges such novel data collection methods hold for the social sciences and official statistics, and outline future research agenda.
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Description: The TWG held its 21st virtual meeting on Wednesday, 29 March 2023, 13:30 – 15:00 hours, Bangkok time (GMT+7). The objectives of the meeting were: To discuss the rationale as well as data and methodological considerations for DRSF tables (1) tables C2: Summary table of human impacts by hazard type and geographic regions and (2) C3: Summary table of affected population by demographic and social categories. To share initial results of the review of DRSF tables C2 and C3 by Sri Lanka and on Türkiye. To provide opportunities for TWG participants to reflect on and discuss the experiences from their national statistical systems. To get volunteers for the next DRSF table review on tables D: Summary tables of direct material impacts in physical terms. , Home: TWG Confluence Previous TWG Meetings
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 03 Feb 2023 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: Objectives of this course: * The course aims at enhancing the theoretical and practical knowledge related to the HICP, based on the HICP Methodological Manual and other HICP guidance material; * Describes the purpose, use and construction of HICP; * Participants become familiar with the standard methods, the specific HICP requirements, as well as with recent developments such as the use of scanner data.
Target Audience: Statisticians of CPI/HICP departments in National Statistical Institutes involved in the production of CPI/HICP with one to two years of experience on CPIs.
Description: Thirty-first session of the FAO-OEA/CIE-IICA working group on agricultural and livestock statistics for Latin America and the Caribbean, in Santiago (Chile).
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 19 May 2023 )
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Organizer(s): European Court of Auditors
Description: This event will explore the future of official statistics in achieving independence and accountability in the age of big data. High-quality official statistics are a critical part of evidence-based decision making by governments, businesses, researchers and citizens. They can also promote transparency and accountability. Following the publication of our special report on the quality of European statistics in November 2022, the European Court of Auditors (ECA) will hold an online conference on Tuesday 28 March 2023 to discuss the future of official statistics from the perspective of independence and accountability. We will also discuss how the statistical landscape will be reshaped by using new data sources such as big data that could lead to a paradigm shift in data collection and analysis. The conference will feature two panel discussions. Following the keynote address by Professor Enrico Giovannini, former chair of the European Statistical Governance Advisory Board (ESGAB), the first panel will focus on the future of governance, independence and accountability in official statistics. The second panel will move towards the future of statistical product development following the keynote address by Dr Sallie Ann Keller from the US Census Bureau. ECA reporting Member for the special report on European statistics, Ildikó Gáll-Pelcz, will deliver the opening address, which will be followed by a short presentation by Athanasios Koustoulidis, the head of task for the audit. In addition to the two keynote speakers, six senior executives from international organisations (Eurostat and the IMF) and national statistical offices (Sweden and Poland) will participate in the two panels.
Title in Spanish: Videoconferencia sobre el uso de servicios en la nube para estadísticas oficiales
Organizer(s): ECLAC IDB INE Chile
Description: En el marco de la Red de Transmisión del Conocimiento (RTC) de la Conferencia Estadística de las Américas esta reunión virtual, es organizada por el Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas de Chile y la División de Estadísticas de CEPAL.
Description: The aim of this course is to equip national and international stakeholders with the necessary skills for using STATA statistical software to analyse the labour market for the purposes of evidence-based policymaking, including SDGs and decent work indicators.
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Organizer(s): ESCAP SIAP UNSD
Description: Identifying and responding to the needs of users for data and statistics is at the heart of the mission of National Statistical Offices (NSOs) and national statistical systems. NSOs already undertake many activities interacting with different users such as preparing press releases to aid journalists and communicate with the public at large and organizing launch events/workshops to disseminate important results from surveys and censuses.
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: The aim of the course is to: * give an overview of the functioning of ESS, including ESS procedures and concepts; * create understanding of the requirements originating from the EU cooperation; * introduce in the relations of the European statistical world with EU institutions, the legal basis of the ESS, the decision-making process, the cooperation among the different stakeholders, etc.; * prepare participants and enable them to tackle the day-to-day challenges of the ESS system for the purpose of strengthening efforts and thereby increasing their involvement; * train the participants in negotiating with colleagues from other European countries, including negotiation and presentation skills, effective oral communication and active participation in an ESS meeting.
Target Audience: Staff members wishing to understand the framework and functioning of the European Statistical System (ESS) as well as staff who participate or will be participating in the meetings of committees, working groups and task forces.
Organizer(s): SPC ESCAP Pacific Civil Registrars Network Pacific Health Information Network
Description: The Brisbane Accord Group (BAG) is a consortium of agencies with a principal aim of coordinating partner support and maximizing investments made towards supporting the improvement of civil registration and vital statistics systems in Pacific Island countries and territories. Activities of BAG are guided by the Pacific Vital Statistics Action Plan (PVSAP), which sits under the Ten-Year Pacific Statistics Strategy (TYPSS) 2011 - 2020. This Plan has been recently succeeded by the Strategic Framework for Pacific Statistics 2022-2030 (TYPSS II). A regional meeting of the BAG members is being organised by the Pacific Community (SPC), in collaboration with the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), Pacific Civil Registrars Network (PCRN), Pacific Health Information Network (PHIN), and other partners. The meeting will be held in Suva, Fiji, on 23-24 March 2023. It will follow the meeting of the PCRN on 20-22 March 2023, also in Suva, and precede the meeting of the PHIN on 28-30 March 2023 in Nadi, Fiji. The main objectives of the BAG meeting are to: Provide an update on the activities undertaken by BAG partners to support Pacific Island countries and territories (PICTs) under the Pacific Vital Statistics Action Plan (PVSAP) Review and document progress against commitments made by PICTs towards the Regional Action Framework (RAF) for Civil Registration and Vital Statistics in Asia and the Pacific in line with the Asia and Pacific Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Decade (2015–2024) Identify needs and areas that require additional support Agree on the next phase of implementation of the PVSAP in line with the Strategic Framework for the Development of Pacific Statistics 2022-2030 (TYPSS II)
Description: Organised by the ISI Committee Women in Statistics (CW-ISI). Former ISI Director Ada van Krimpen is going to be the distinguished Invited Speaker of the webinar. She will discuss the proportion of women among ISI members and their role in governance. We then discuss which factors play a role in boosting the careers of female statisticians.
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Description: The Expert Group Meeting Big Data in Official Statistics in Asia and the Pacific will be held on 23 March 2023, 14:00–16:00 hours (Bangkok time). Register here: https://forms.office.com/e/3ejwKuu0CE Join the meeting via Teams Concept note and Agenda Aims of the workshop The purpose of this Expert Group Meeting is to present findings, lessons learned and challenges from implementing the pilots to experts in the field and seek their feedback on how the models can be improved. The project team and participants can learn from the experiences and comments of experts in the field of earth observation data and nighttime light data for statistics production. Insights from the meeting will be collated and integrated into the guidance document which records processes throughout the entire pilot and recommends next steps for the two NSOs to improve their usage of big data in official statistics production. , HOME - Project: measure the nexus between environment and gender Project countries: Cambodia Mongolia Resources Regional Events
Description: From 22 to 24 March 2023, FAO Statistics will gather in New York during the UN 2023 Water Conference, which is convened by the UN General Assembly and co-hosted by the...
Description: The Inter-agency and Expert Group on SDG Indicators (IAEG-SDGs) held its first membersonly virtual meeting of the year on Wednesday, 22 March 2023. A total of 19 member countries attended with Ms. Cara Williams of Canada chairing the meeting. Members first heard a presentation from UNCTAD to further discuss their proposal to update the metadata for SDG indicator 17.5.1. Members were then briefed by presenters from both Open Data Watch and the World Bank on the three proposed measures for indicator 17.18.1. UNSD then presented a draft of the IAEG-SDGs work plan for 2023- 2024 based on the outcomes and decisions of the 54th UN Statistical Commission (UNSC54)—which include preparing for the 2025 Comprehensive Review, commencing a stock-taking exercise on data availability at the national level, and developing a process for proxy indicators—and asked members to express their interest in contributing to different areas of work. Members were also reminded by UNSD about the upcoming member rotation for June 2023.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 03 Feb 2023 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat GOPA
Description: This Course aims at: * defining the reference framework of data generated by smart devices, technologies, networks and their relations with official statistics, also comparing NSIs’ different situations (different level of integration, etc.); * introducing the main concepts, frameworks and artefacts to carry out Enterprise Architecture for official statistics; * focussing on the Business Architecture Model/Activity model within NSIs, orientating it to ongoing modernisation changes and related mainly to innovative data sources, Big Data, new data; * explaining how to apply and map GAMSO to new business models for official statistics, innovative sources and Big Data; * explaining how to map GSBPM to the statistical processes related to innovative data sources; * providing an overview of the main statistical and technical guidelines, best practices, and standards as pre-requisites for the implementation of EA and BREAL; * focussing on the context of Big data REference Architecture and Layers – BREAL; * providing theoretical training to develop BREAL; * promoting group discussions on topics such as setting up a capability assessment and roadmaps for acquiring and benefiting from ESS shared investments.
Target Audience: Business architects; IT managers responsible for the design of new processes and innovative IT systems; Statistical survey managers; Statisticians and Technicians involved in statistical production processes.
Description: This global webinar was organised as part of the activities of workstream 2.4 “Assessing the Impact of the Economy on the Environment” of the Statistics and Data Project “Resilient and agile National Statistical Systems to meet post-COVID-19 data needs to recover better” under the 14th tranche of the United Nations Development Account. It was co-organized by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). Countries from the African, and Latin America and the Caribbean regions were in attendance. UNSD presented on “Country-owned official statistics as a source for water statistics”. UNSD emphasised sources used by countries, in particular that national statistical offices maintain inter-institutional relations at varying levels (municipal, provincial, federal) of government. Methodologies and sources specified in the Framework for the Development of Environment Statistics and the National Quality Assurance Frameworks Manual for Official Statistics were referenced, as was UNSD’s work on water statistics which feeds into policy frameworks such as the Sustainable Development Goals and the Global Set of Climate Change Statistics and Indicators. Interested countries that are not currently involved in the data collection, can reach out to UNSD for information sessions on the Questionnaire. Such sessions are usually organised in collaboration with (co-)custodian organisations including UNEP, WHO and UN-Habitat and discussions include but are not limited to metadata of the indicators, concepts and definitions, use of the data and dissemination process.
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: The objectives of the course are: * Validation and reporting results of machine learning methods. * Mathematical concepts of supervised and unsupervised machine and deep learning models, like PCA, SVM, trees, ensembles and neural networks. * Use of scikit-learn, matplotlib, pandas, tensorflow, keras to design models and perform machine learning experiments * Understanding of symbolic computation for backpropagation and gradient descent * Model selection, Hyper-parameter tuning and practical considerations * Understanding the lego bricks of neural networks (deep learning) and the numerical issues, in particular vanishing gradients. * Use pretrained models for text and vision applications with libraries like deeppavlov and detectron2.
Target Audience: Python programmers with ambitions to apply machine and deep learning in software engineering and research questions.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 03 Feb 2023 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat GOPA
Description: The course aims at enhancing participants' theoretical and practical knowledge of statistical business registers and their use in statistical production. They will become familiar with the European statistical business registers and its implementation at national level, both from a theoretical and a practical point of view. The course aims also to provide an overview of the importance of statistical business registers, as authoritative source for deriving high quality and harmonised statistical business register populations, for the production of European statistics and its use in the statistical production.
Target Audience: National Statistical Business Register (NSBR) staff. Statisticians working on production of business statistics making use of SBR (SBS, Business Demography, Entrepreneurship, STS, Trade by enterprise characteristics, etc.). Statisticians working on production of statistics related to globalisation (FATS, FDI, GNI, etc.) in NSIs and/or Central Banks.
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Organizer(s): Eurostat
Description: The course will introduce the theoretical and practical knowledge of energy statistics in relation to the European Union legal framework (Regulation (EC) No 1099/2008 on energy statistics and Regulation (EU) 2016/1952/EC) and its implementation. In addition, the course will introduce Commission Regulation (EU) No 844/2010 of 20 September 2010 amending Regulation (EC) No 1099/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on energy statistics, as regards the establishment of a set of annual nuclear statistics. The focus will be on concepts, definitions, methodology and data validation on annual questionnaires (including discussions on issues observed in practise).
Target Audience: Statisticians dealing with compilation and validation of annual energy statistics and wishing to understand better the system and overall framework of energy statistics.
Description: During this Global Network Webinar Abdulla Gozalov, Alexander Loschky (UNSD), Jonathan Challener (OECD), and Siddhesh Kaushik (World Bank) presented the new SDMX User Forum, https://sdmx.org/?sdmx_news=ask-find-... (hosted on the Global Network) and on SDMX Capacity Development Initiatives. The speakers introduced the new SDMX User Forum which is hosted on the Global Network of Data Officers and Statisticians, a platform for knowledge sharing, problem solving, and collaboration. On the Forum users of SDMX are invited to ask or answer questions, find solutions, and connect with experts and peers. It is designed as a space to generate ideas, receive feedback as well as to access information on case studies and implementation scenarios. The Forum is open to all users, irrespective of their level of experience and SDMX knowledge, starting at beginner level up to experienced SDMX users, such as data modelers and system developers. In addition, the speakers will presented ongoing SDMX capacity development initiatives (including the SDMX Foundation Course on ADB eLearn, the .Stat Academy, and others) and engaged with the audience to identify their capacity development needs to better serve the SDMX Users in the future. Finally, some first information about the next SDMX Conference was given which will take place during the second half of 2023.
Organizer(s): UNSD ABS Australia Australian National University
Description: As part of the Uinted Nations 2023 Water Conference. the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), the Australia National University's Fenner School of Environment and Society (ANU), and Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) are organizing a side event on Water Accounting to support the Sustainable Development Goals. The event will take place virtually on 21 March 2023 from 4 – 5:15 p.m. The 2023 Water Conference supports the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development that was adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015. The agenda has 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 targets that represent an ambitious plan for achieving sustainable development and serves as the basis for countries to shape their national policies and priorities. To achieve the SDGs, information is needed to: identify barriers to, and opportunities for, sustainable development; develop and implement policies and programs for sustainable development, and; monitor progress towards the SDGs. The System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA) can provide the integrated information to help achieve the SDGs. The SEEA is an international statistical standard that organizes data, turning raw data into to information that can be readily used by decision makers in the public and private sectors. The SEEA provides a standardized suite of accounts allowing for international comparisons, industry benchmarking and a holistic approach to achieving the SDGs. The SEEA directly supports six indicators for SDG 6 “Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all”. It also provides important information on water efficiency, water quality, water scarcity and the reliance on water-related ecosystem services. The SEEA supports SDGs beyond SDG 6, for example SDGs 8 and 12 on sustainable economic growth and responsible consumption and production. The side event will provide a general introduction to water accounting and examine how it can and may be used in decision making. The event will have three short presentations followed by a panel discussion chaired by Gemma van Halderen, Deputy Australian Statistician and Interim Chair of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Environment-Economic Accounting. There will be opportunities for event participants to ask questions on how water accounts can achieve their potential and help find sustainable development pathways.
Description: "Disclosure: Due to COVID 19, courses will be delivered in person, hybrid, or virtual, according to safety guidelines. As of today, this course is scheduled to be delivered in person in Vienna, but its delivery method may change. By submitting your application, you confirm your availability to participate in the course either in person or virtually. Up-to-date Covid-19 vaccination is likely to be required and related information may be requested from participants for in-person courses. " This course, presented by the IMF Statistics Department, is intended to provide participants with a thorough understanding of the international standards for the compilation of EDS presented in the 2013 EDS: Guide for Compilers and Users (2013 EDS Guide). It also offers practical compilation guidance on data sources and techniques for compiling EDS, as well as on analysis of these data, taking into account the relevant developments in the global financial market. It comprises a series of lectures, practical exercises, and case studies that cover: recent developments in the global financial market (e.g., process of disintermediation, moving away from traditional cross-border investment vehicles, etc.) and their effect on EDS compilation; implementation of the 2013 EDS Guide and ensuring consistency and comparability among external debt statistics and other macroeconomic statistics, namely balance of payments, IIP, government finance statistics, and national accounts; data dissemination and requirements of the World Bank's Quarterly External Debt Statistics (QEDS) database
Description: This course, presented by the IMF’s Statistics Department and delivered in collaboration with the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and the European Central Bank (ECB), familiarizes participants with the methodology recommended by the Handbook on Securities Statistics, a joint undertaking of the IMF, the BIS, and the ECB, published in May 2015. The course covers definition and features of securities, securitization, and related operation; valuation and recording of securities; classification schemes and presentation tables for securities; and security-by-security databases. A practical exercise on valuation and recording of different types of debt securities complements the lectures.
Description: This course, conducted by the IMF Statistics Department, presents a user-friendly tool developed by the department to automatically combine monetary, government, and balance of payment data reported to the Statistics Department to create a distribution of claims and liabilities on a from-whom-to-whom basis—an extremely useful tool for macro-financial analysis. Once the matrix is generated, country officials should be able to use the Balance Sheet Approach (BSA) analysis to focus on overall balance sheet linkages and identify specific exposures and vulnerabilities, such as excessive reliance on external funding, leverage buildup in the corporate sector, and overreliance on the banking sector for sovereign debt placement. This course is an abbreviated version of the longer, BSA course traditionally offered by STA in-person.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 03 Feb 2023 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: This course shall democratize the understanding and use of blockchain technology, showcasing how decentralized, asynchronous data economies leveraging micro-data, official statistics, verifiable credentials and the European blockchain, change the way we live and work – blockchains have so much more to offer than just cryptocurrencies. Understand the cryptographic principles behind blockchains. Understand the components of blockchains. Get to know impactful use cases of diverse blockchains. Get to know the ecosystems of available blockchains and tools. Develop an application and its smart contracts on the blockchain for Official Statistics.
Target Audience: Official statisticians/data scientists working on methodology.
Description: The Pacific Civil Registrars Network (PCRN) was created in 2014. Our vision is that by 2024 the Civil Registrars across the Pacific will work together in ways that are flexible to local needs, with a shared approach to legislative change, enabling technology and data exchange. We provide an opportunity to share information, lessons learned and good practice. This fosters coordination and integration of Civil Registrars’ input and ideas into the implementation of the Pacific Vital Statistics Action Plan and Asia Pacific Regional Action Framework for Civil Registration and Vital Statistics. Objectives of the 2023 meeting of PCRN A meeting of PCRN will be organized with support of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), the Pacific Community (SPC) and other partners on 20-22 March 2023 in Suva, Fiji. The objectives of the meeting are: 1. For civil registrars to share progress and challenges in CRVS improvement efforts and identify common challenges 2. To facilitate knowledge exchange and potential collaboration on issues of concern of civil registrars in the region 3. capacity building for sustainable institutional development leading to improved decisionmaking processes 4. To document existing practices in the region
Title in Spanish: Serie de seminarios web de la FAO: Datos de observación de la Tierra para estadísticas agrícolas SESIÓN 2: Mapeo de rendimiento de cultivos y estadísticas de rendimiento
Organizer(s): FAO
Description: El lunes 20 de marzo, nuestro invitado especial, el Dr. Bruno Basso, profesor del Departamento de Ciencias Ambientales y de la Tierra de la Michigan State University, hablará sobre el mapeo del rendimiento de cultivos y las estadísticas de rendimiento. El evento se realizará en inglés con interpretación simultánea a español y podrá seguirse exclusivamente de forma virtual. Enlace de registro: https://fao.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_3i2xcYuYS8qGEyKojo2-WA El propósito de esta serie de seminarios web es dar a conocer el proyecto EOSTAT y destacar el trabajo de la FAO en la creación de capacidad de los países en el uso de datos de observación de la Tierra para la producción de estadísticas agrícolas, contribuyendo así a la modernización de los sistemas y protocolos para las estadísticas nacionales. También discutirá las principales innovaciones introducidas en el campo de las estadísticas de cultivos basadas en observaciones de la tierra implementadas por la FAO a través de I+D y pruebas en países en colaboración con la academia. Éstas incluyen: 1) Estandarización de los métodos de observaciones de la tierra para producir mapas anuales de cobertura/uso de la tierra 2) Mapeo de tipos de cultivo en el contexto de escasez de datos in situ 3) Acoplamiento de datos de observaciones de la tierra con modelos físicos de rendimiento de cultivos Además, la serie arrojará luz sobre cómo las innovaciones aportadas por EOSTAT ofrecen una solución para superar los desafíos relacionados con la recopilación y pronóstico de estadísticas de cultivos (superficie en acres y rendimiento) utilizando métodos tradicionales basados en encuestas de campo y métodos basados en observaciones de la tierra. Finalmente, la serie de seminarios web proporcionará una plataforma para mejorar la colaboración y potencialmente movilizar recursos. El lunes 20 de marzo, nuestro invitado especial, el Dr. Bruno Basso, profesor del Departamento de Ciencias Ambientales y de la Tierra de la Michigan State University, hablará sobre el mapeo del rendimiento de cultivos y las estadísticas de rendimiento. El evento se realizará en inglés con interpretación simultánea a español y podrá seguirse exclusivamente de forma virtual. Para obtener más información sobre los seminarios web pasados y próximos planificados, visite la página dedicada aquí. Acerca de nuestro invitado: Bruno Basso es Profesor Distinguido John A. Hannah y Profesor de la Fundación MSU de Ciencias Ambientales y de la Tierra en la Michigan State University. Es científico de agroecosistemas y modelador de sistemas de cultivos con interés en la sostenibilidad a largo plazo de los sistemas agrícolas, agricultura digital, bioeconomía circular. Su investigación se centra en evaluar y modelar la variabilidad espacial y temporal del rendimiento de los cultivos, el carbono orgánico del suelo, las emisiones de GEI, el agua y los flujos de nutrientes en los paisajes agrícolas en los climas actuales y futuros. Posee patentes globales sobre IA, sensores remotos y sistemas de modelos de cultivos para evaluar la productividad de las tierras de cultivo y la sostenibilidad ambiental. Para obtener más información, visite la página del proyecto FAO-EOSTAT y el sitio web de estadísticas de la FAO.
Description: The United Nations World Data Forum aims to spur data innovation, nurture partnerships, mobilize high-level political and financial support for data, and build a pathway to better data for sustainable development. The 2023 Forum (WDF2023) will be taking place in the ESCAP region for the first time, from 24 to 27 April 2023 in Hangzhou, China. WDF2023 is taking place as a hybrid event, meaning that although in-person registration closes on 8 March 2023, it is still possible to actively participate in the forum remotely. The Forum welcomes participants interested in data from a diverse range of backgrounds: governments, civil society, the private sector, donor and philanthropic bodies, international and regional agencies, the geospatial community, the media, academia, and professional bodies. The Forum will create a space for exchanging ideas, identifying solutions and providing mutual learning opportunities across a wide variety of topics, set out in the Programme. Online participants will have the opportunity to view and interact in around 80 different sessions across the three main days of the Forum. This Stats Café shared with you further information on this year’s Forum from a range of speakers representing the host country, the Programme Committee, the Forum secretariat and allow you to ask them questions. The following topics were covered: Highlights from the programme, including high-level events Experiences from previous UNWDFs Logistics for virtual participation in the Forum
Description: Tourism is often a driver of development, triggering desired investments and employment opportunities in destinations. To contribute to the desired development objectives of destinations while fostering sustainability, it is important to regularly monitor and evaluate the economic benefits, among them the return on its investment, the direct and indirect employment effects, on taxes earned from tourism businesses, and any increase in asset value (land and infrastructure prices). In addition, tourism causes indirect economic benefits through the development of support services and increased opportunities in other industries ranging from food and agriculture to crafts and construction. Indicators of the economic effects of tourism activity in a destination range from measuring employment, business investments, tourism revenues, community expenditures to aspects of leakages. The measurement of many of these aspects is supported by the methodology of the Tourism Satellite Account, the statistical framework that is used as a standardised tool to measure the direct economic contributions of tourism consumption to a national economy.. This INSTO Insights webinar will discuss the experiences and insights of INSTO Members and experts on monitoring water management, which is one of the 11 mandatory key issue areas INSTO Members are committed to monitor. Experiences will be shared on used indicators and various methodologies in this regard. The implications of these monitoring efforts in terms of informing policies and strategies will also be discussed.
Organizer(s): UNWTO Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation and Nepal Tourism Board
Description: The Workshop aims to improve the statistical capacity in the field of tourism statistics for the participating countries in the region to be able to carry out the following: - promote the development of the System of Tourism Statistics as a necessary condition in order to make progress in the measurement and analysis of tourism; - begin the tasks contemplated in the different stages recommended by UNWTO for the development of a TSA; - make the necessary steps towards the piloting of Measuring the Sustainability of Tourism.
Target Audience: The High-level Discussion “Measuring Tourism for People, Planet and Prosperity” is geared towards high-level officials in National Tourism Administrations and National Statistical Offices. The technical trainings sessions target statistics professionals and managerial staff with responsibilities in the field of tourism statistics and/or Tourism Satellite Account, who work in different types of institutions, such as: - National Tourism Administrations; - National Tourism Organization; - National Statistical Offices; - Balance of Payments departments of Central Banks; - Entities in charge of border statistics (arrivals and departures of international travellers) such as Migration/Interior Departments; - Business Associations of Tourism Activities.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 03 Feb 2023 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: Participants will be able to (re)design statistical categories for the collection of equality data and actively participate in the review of indicators adequate for the relevant EU policy processes. They will also be able to disseminate equality data to diverse audiences.
Target Audience: Statistical production units and methodologists of NSIs, having an interest in data science tools and a basic understanding of development.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 29 Nov 2022 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: The course aims at providing a sound knowledge on the elaboration and use of statistics on : trade in goods, services, travel, financial flows, trade in value added, use of bop and IIP statistics
Target Audience: Staff members in the field of National Accounts (NA) and Balance of Payment (BoP) departments in National Statistical Offices and National Banks.
Description: Within the framework of its Statistical Capacity Building (StatCaB) Programme, SESRIC will organise a Training Course on ‘SDG 7 (Affordable and Clean Energy) Indicators’ for the benefit of National Statistical Offices (NSOs) of OIC countries on 14-15 March 2023 through an online video conferencing platform. Mrs. Roslawati Yahya, Director of Manpower and Social Statistics Division, Mrs. Fuziah Md Amin, Director of Agriculture and Environment Statistics Division, and Mrs. Fariza Kambut, Deputy Director of Agriculture and Environment Statistics Division at the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM), will conduct the course and cover the following topics: SDG Statistical Framework in Malaysia and Moving Forward to SDG 2030 Overview of SDG 7 Indicators (Concepts, Definitions, Methodology, and Data Sources) Availability of Malaysia’s SDG 7 Indicators The SESRIC StatCaB Programme was initiated in early 2007. It is the flagship capacity development programme of SESRIC. Within the framework of StatCaB Programme, the Centre collects information from the NSOs of OIC member countries through the biennial StatCaB Questionnaire, assesses their statistical training needs and capacities, matches these needs and capacities, and organizes statistical capacity development activities between the beneficiary and provider countries. For more information on SESRIC Statistical Capacity Building (StatCaB) Programme, please visit: http://www.oicstatcom.org/statcab.php
Description: This course on applied econometrics, has been prepared as an integration of mathematical economics and statistical methods with an objective of extracting the stochastic relationship among variables and their modelling.
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Description: Within the framework of the Programme of Action for 2021-2025 set under the OIC-StatCom Strategic Vision for 2030 and its Webinar Series on Statistical Experience Sharing, SESRIC will organise a Webinar on ‘Reporting Data on Islamic Financial Services Sector’ on 14 March 2023, in collaboration with Islamic Financial Services Board (IFSB), United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), and UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UNESCWA) with the participation of official statisticians working in National Statistical Offices (NSOs) of the OIC member countries. The main objective of this webinar is to provide a platform to exchange knowledge on how to utilize the Prudential and Structural Islamic Financial Indicators (PSIFIs) methodology as well as how to implement the recommendations of the joint task team on Islamic finance (IFTT) Guidance Note on the Statistical Treatment of Islamic Finance in the National Accounts and External Sector Statistics in national statistical systems of OIC member countries. The Webinar will cover: Prudential and Structural Islamic Financial Indicators (PSIFIs) Introduction Methodology Reporting practices Statistical treatment of Islamic finance in the national accounts and the external sector statistics in the update of the 2008 SNA and BPM6 Guidance note (GN) on Islamic Finance and the recommendations Pilot Countries Experimentation Document: Concept Note and Work Programme: (English)
Description: About This Session Everyone, everywhere must have a say in data design, collection and use. When people have their needs, priorities, and experiences captured in data, this creates equal power dynamics, establishes people’s agency and improves participation and inclusion in data processes. On March 14, 2023, join the Data Values movement for a thought-provoking and engaging virtual discussion that will delve into the pressing issues of data and its impact on power dynamics and agency. Using a Data Values lens, this session will explore the concept of agency–the ability of individuals and communities to shape the design, production, governance, and use of data–and how it can influence and support data systems. At the same time, this session will examine how lack of agency in data can perpetuate existing inequalities and further marginalize certain groups, including youth, women, and persons with disabilities. This insightful discussion will engage Data Values advocates, statisticians and national statistical offices within Asia and the Pacific to unpack critical questions such as: How can we create open, trustworthy, and inclusive data systems that support people's agency? How can we ensure that marginalized groups in Asia and the Pacific are heard and have a say in data collection, use, and management? What roles do National Statistical Offices (NSOs) play in rebalancing power dynamics within data? Agenda Welcome Remarks - Rachael Beaven, Director, Statistics Division, ESCAP Event Moderator and Presenter - Karen Bett, Global Partnership Co-Presenter - Mayuri Dhumal, Data Values Advocate, India Co-Presenter - Joon Baek, Data Values Advocate, South Korea & New York Panelist (Youth Leader) - Bipana Dhakal, Data Values Youth Leader and Activist, Nepal Panelist (NSO) - Keshab Kumar Gautam, Director, Population Section Central Bureau of Statistics Nepal , Stats Café Home: Upcoming events Concluded events in 2022 2021 events 2020 events
Source: ESCAP SIAP (Data extracted on: 07 Dec 2023 )
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Organizer(s): ESCAP SIAP UNSD EGRISS
Description: The numbers of refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) have increased rapidly in recent yearswith UNHCR estimating over 100 million forcibly displaced persons in 2022. With displacement’s growing prominencethere is increasing interest at nationalregional and international levels in statistics on refugees and IDPs including completeaccuratetimely and internationally comparable estimates of the numbers of people displacedtheir well-being and vulnerabilities. Good-quality statistics are a requirement for developingimplementing and monitoring nationalregional and international policies and agreements concerning refugees and IDPs.
Organizer(s): ILO ITC ILO OECD European Training Foundation European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training
Description: Skills mismatching is a common concern of policymakers, employers and workers. It is a recurring theme in vocational education and skills development, with many policy initiatives launched to address various forms of the phenomenon. Where evidence-based skills are concerned, policymaking statistics on various forms of skill mismatching are needed. Building on its long experience in delivering training on skills and labour-market analysis, the International Training Centre of the ILO, in full collaboration with the ILO Department of Statistics, offers the second edition of this online course that aims to equip national and international stakeholders with the necessary competencies to measure and analyse skills mismatches and imbalances for evidence-based policymaking. The course is designed to enhance capacities to identify, collect, analyse and disseminate labour-market information related to skills imbalances from both the demand and supply sides.
Target Audience: National statistical offices (NSOs); ministries of labour and related institutions (such as labour observatories); governmental institutions engaged in employment, skills development, skills matching and analysis; international organizations and donor agencies engaged in skills matching; skills councils; national TVET authorities; TVET centres; workers' and employers' organizations; research and academic institutions; international organizations; development agencies; non-governmental organizations.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 03 Feb 2023 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: This course will enable you to pick your next top data-science programming language Know the characteristics of R, Python, Julia Understand the advantages of each language for different use-cases Ability read and modify a small program in each language.
Target Audience: Statistical production units and methodologists of NSIs, having an interest in data science tools and a basic understanding of development.
Description: تعد الحسابات القومية الربع السنوية أداة مهمة لقياس وفهم الأداء الاقتصادي على المدى القصير، حيث تمكن من تحليل دورة الأعمال، وتحديد نقاط التحول، ودراسة العلاقات الديناميكية بين المتغيرات الاقتصادية، وللتنبؤ. وتساعد أيضًا الحكومات ومتخذي القرار على تحديد الأولويات الاقتصادية وتوجيه الاستثمارات وتحديد السياسات الاقتصادية الملائمة لتحسين الأداء الاقتصادي للبلد. تتنزل هذه الورشة في إطار دعم القدرات الإحصائية للمحاسبين القوميين في مجال الحسابات القومية ربع السنوية من حيث مصادر البيانات وطرق معالجة البيانات وتحليلها ونشرها وفق المنهجيات الدولية والتطورات المسجلة على مستوى جمع البيانات وتوفرها، ومنها بالأساس النسخة المحدثة من دليل الحسابات القومية ربع السنوية (طبعة 2017) الصادر عن صندوق النقد الدولي. كما تزداد الحاجة الى الاحصائيات والمؤشرات على المدى القصير في ضوء الازمات الاقتصادية المتواترة والصراعات في مختلف المناطق وخاصة على مستوى المنطقة العربية.
Title in Arabic: التحليل الاحصائي باستخدام برمجية SPSS
Organizer(s): AITRS
Description: يعد تحليل البيانات أحد أكثر المجالات ازدهاراً في الوقت الحالي وتكمن اهمية عملية التحليل في قدرتها على تحويل البيانات الاولية الى نتائج سهلة الفهم، حيث يقوم المحلل الاحصائي باتباع العديد من الأساليب والطرق اللازمة لعرض البيانات وتحليلها بالصورة المطلوبة باستخدام الأدوات والأساليب الاحصائية الممكنة للحصول على نتائج دقيقية ومفهومة. ونظراً لأهمية البرامج الخاصة بالتحليل الاحصائي في الدراسات والمسوح التي تعتمد على الجانب الاحصائي لايجاد مخرجاتها، يمكن القول بان برنامج التحليل الاحصائي (SPSS) هو أحد أهم وأكثر البرامج الاحصائية شيوعاً واستخداماً لتحليل البيانات الكمية، بالاضافة الى انه يمكن من خلال هذا البرنامج ترميز وتجهيز البيانات من أجل الوصول الى نتائج علمية صحيحة للاجابة عن تساؤلات وفرضيات الدراسة واختصار الوقت وتوفير الجهد على الباحثين. تندرج هذه الورشة في إطار مواصلة المعهد تعزيز قدرات العاملين في الأجهزة الاحصائية بموضوع التحليل الاحصائي باستخدام البرامج الإحصائية المتعارف عليها ومن بينها برنامج SPSS بصورة جيدة والقيام بإجراء عمليات التحليل الإحصائي على البيانات وفهم معناها ووصفها بطريقة إحصائية سليمة.
Title in Spanish: Demostración del uso datos de observación de la tierra en el desarrollo de estadísticas agrícolas “El caso de Ecuador"
Organizer(s): FAO
Description: Esta demostración tiene como objetivo proveer a los funcionarios gubernamentales responsables de la producción y análisis de información de estadísticas agrícolas, un espacio abierto para la solución de dudas sobre el uso de datos de observación de la tierra en la modernización y producción de estadísticas agrícolas. La FAO con el ánimo de desarrollar capacidad en los países en el uso de datos de observación de la tierra para la producción de estadísticas agrícolas ha venido promoviendo diferentes actividades en las cuales los países son actores fundamentales, este es el caso de Ecuador, quién ha trabajado fuertemente en mejorar y modernizar su sistema estadístico agrícola. En línea con este trabajo, la FAO busca apoyar ahora a más países de la región en el desarrollo y mejoramiento de estas capacidades en países como Chile, Colombia y Perú, y para ello, realizará una demostración de los resultados obtenidos en Ecuador. Expositor: Lorenzo De Simone, PhD.Technical Adviser Geospatial, Office of the Chief Statistician, FAO. Asesor de la FAO sobre el uso de Observaciones de la Tierra para el monitoreo de la Agricultura y los Recursos Naturales. También es experto en ciencia de datos, sistemas de información geográfica y teledetección (PhD), cuenta con conocimiento de geoestadística y ciencia ambiental, desarrollo de TI y gestión de calidad. Grabación (Código de acceso: x.Bh!Sf3)
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 10 Jan 2023 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat
Description: The use of innovative data sources in official statistics is a fact and has been well formulated in the foundations of Trusted Smart Statistics. One of the examples is to get information based on the content of the websites. Extracting data from enterprise websites to get characteristics is a part of the project currently done by the Web Intelligence Network. This Network consists of European countries with support from Eurostat. Everybody can join the Network by becoming a member of the WISER, which is a group. The course will cover a general overview of Web Intelligence Network and Web Intelligence Hub. Moreover, this course will demonstrate how the Web Intelligence Platform and Datalab can be used to acquire and process data from the web. All methodological issues of conducting surveys based on web data will be explained in dedicated sessions on data collection and data processing. From a practical point of view, the course will lead participants step by step on how to start the data acquisition with the Web Intelligence Platform and how to process them with the data lab. After completing this training course, participants should have basic knowledge of how to use Web Intelligence tools to conduct surveys on enterprise characteristics with respect to the methodological principles of the web-based survey. The detailed content of the course: * Introduction to Web Intelligence Hub and Web Intelligence Network; * Introduction to Online-Based Enterprise Characteristics; * The use of the Web Intelligence Platform; * Methodological aspects of web data collection for surveys on enterprise characteristics; * Web data processing step by step to get selected attributes of enterprises; * Discussion on challenges and country-related issues.
Description: During this Joint Global Network and FAO Webinar on Earth Observation Data for Agricultural Statistics Lorenzo De Simone and Pietro Gennari provided us with an overview of the EOSTAT project. This webinar was the first in a Webinar Series on Earth Observation (EO) Data for Agricultural Statistics organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) from March to May which will raise awareness of the EOSTAT project and will highlight FAO's work in building countries' capacity on the use of earth observation data for the production of agricultural statistics. The speakers gave some high-level insights of the main innovations introduced in the field of EO-based crop statistics implemented by FAO through R&D and testing in countries in collaboration with the academia, including the 1) Standardization of EO methods to produce annual land cover/use maps; 2) Crop type mapping in the context of in-situ data scarcity; and 3) Coupling of EO data with physical based crop yield modelling. Pietro and Lorenzo gave an overview of how the innovations brought by the EOSTAT offer a solution to overcome the challenges connected with the collection and predication of crop statistics (acreage and yield) using both traditional field survey-based methods and the EO-based methods. They also spoke about how the FAO webinar series will provide a platform to enhance collaboration and potentially mobilize resources.
Title in Arabic: تصميم استبيانات مسوح الهجرة الدولية
Organizer(s): AITRS
Description: إن المعلومات المتوفرة عن احصائيات الهجرة تعتبر شحيحة وقليلة مقارنة بأهمية الموضوع وضرورة دراسته وتحليله بعمق وتمحص لما له من تأثيرات كبيرة على المجالات الاقتصادية والاجتماعية وعلى التخطيط السليم للتنمية. وقد بين تقرير الأمانة العامة للأمم المتحدة E/CN.3/2021/11 حول احصائيات الهجرة خلال الدورة 52 للجنة الإحصائية للأمم المتحدة المنعقدة بنيويورك عام 2021 الحاجة الاكيدة الى احصائيات الهجرة لتقدير عدد السكان وفهم التغير الديمغرافي، بالإضافة الى ضرورة ضبط إطار مفاهيمي واضح ودقيق للاشتغال على مواضيع الهجرة لضمان مقارنتها واستغلالها في الدراسات السكانية والديمغرافية. واعتبارا للظروف الاقتصادية والسياسية والأمنية الصعبة التي تمر بها المنطقة العربية منذ سنوات، تطور عدد المهاجرين والمتنقلين والمهجرين بشكل لافت بين مختلف الدول والقارات مما تسبب في بروز العديد من الإشكاليات والتحديات المرتبطة بهذه الظاهرة. وقد برزت الحاجة الى ضرورة معرفة حجم الهجرة وخصائص المهاجرين بمختلف عناصرها وتجلياتها لرسم سياسات ملائمة لتأطيرها وتجاوز الإشكاليات القانونية والاجتماعية الممكن حصولها. ومن هذا المنطلق، تأتي هذه الورشة التدريبية لدعم قدرات الأجهزة الإحصائية العربية في مجال إعداد المسوح والدراسات الميدانية الخاصة بالهجرة وكيفية دعم الأجهزة الإحصائية العربية فيما يخص تصميم استبيانات الهجرة.
Description: ESCWA is organizing the fifth meeting of the technical advisory group on demographic and social statistics in Arab countries. This meeting aims to: Review and discuss the ESCWA work programme, “Supporting the Promotion and Modernization of Demographic and Social Statistics in Arab Countries” Present the available data for basic demographic and social indicators in the Arab countries, discuss tools for capturing data on these indicators and formulate solutions to bridge the data gap Discuss the availability of labour force statistics and sources of such data, national good practices in data collection and dissemination and existing challenges facing national statistical offices in providing such data Present a summary of the ESCWA initiative on collecting data on the middle class in the Arab region Review the regional strategic framework for civil registration and vital statistics.
Description: FAO, in collaboration with the Data Strategy, hosted a webinar on Tuesday, 7 March 2023 on the use of Earth Observation data for the production of official agricultural statistics and SDG...
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, prepares participants to compile QNA and/or HFIEA by providing them with a thorough understanding of the concepts, source data, and compilation techniques used for producing these datasets. The course covers both theoretical and practical compilation issues. It introduces participants to benchmarking, seasonal adjustment techniques, as well as volume estimates; and explains the application of these techniques to time series data. Participants will learn how to identify and assess available data sources for compiling QNA and HFIEAs; use related real-time series databases to assess the quality of QNA and HFIEAs; and implement a suitable revisions policy.
Description: This course, presented by the IMF Statistics Department, is intended to provide participants with a thorough understanding of the international standards for the compilation of EDS presented in the 2013 EDS: Guide for Compilers and Users (2013 EDS Guide). It also offers practical compilation guidance on data sources and techniques for compiling EDS, as well as on analysis of these data, taking into account the relevant developments in the global financial market. It comprises a series of lectures, practical exercises, and case studies that cover: Recent developments in the global financial market (e.g., process of disintermediation, moving away from traditional cross-border investment vehicles, etc.) and their effect on EDS compilation; Implementation of the 2013 EDS Guide and ensuring consistency and comparability among external debt statistics and other macroeconomic statistics, namely balance of payments, IIP, government finance statistics, and national accounts; Data dissemination and requirements of the World Bank 39;s Quarterly External Debt Statistics (QEDS) database.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 19 May 2023 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat
Description: The New Techniques and Technologies for Statistics (NTTS) is an international biennial scientific conference series, organised by Eurostat, on new techniques and methods for official statistics and the impact of new technologies on statistical collection, production and dissemination systems. The NTTS 2023, the 12th edition, will be a hybrid conference and will take place in March 2023. The purpose of the conference is both to allow the presentation of results from currently ongoing research and innovation projects in official statistics, and to stimulate and facilitate the preparation of new innovative projects (by encouraging the exchange of views and co-operation between researchers - including the possible building of research consortia) with the aim of enhancing the quality and usefulness of official statistics.
Target Audience: The conference brings together academics, statisticians and users of data to discuss, network and exchange ideas.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 29 Nov 2022 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat
Description: To enable participants to understand the scope, architecture, and features of SDMX, in particular those features that support more efficient processes for reporting, exchanging and disseminating statistical data and metadata, so that they can: * Assess how to take advantage of SDMX in their day-to-day work; * Understand what a DSD and MSD are and how they reflect requirements for data and metadata exchange; * Work together (statisticians and IT specialists) in the organization in planning for SDMX in their domain; * Understand the relationship between SDMX and the process of the production of statistics; * Understand the different roles of the organizations in the collection and production of statistics and the relationship with SDMX; * Understand (in broad terms) the different tools that Eurostat can provide, and the architecture that can be developed. * Understand that SDMX enables automated validation services.
Target Audience: Statisticians and IT professionals working in a statistical domain without SDMX knowledge.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 19 May 2023 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat
Description: Are you interested in human resources in science, technology and research? Would you like to know more about women’s participation in these sectors? Would you like to see how European countries compare in terms of gender balance? Let us have a look at Eurostat’s figures on science and technology in order to explore questions like: How do women fare compared to men in terms of educational background? What is their share in employment in science and technology? How are women represented among scientists and engineers in various economic sectors? How many women researchers do we have in the EU as compared to men?
Description: The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) will begin data collection for Physical Energy Flow Accounts (PEFA) and Air Emission Accounts (AEA) for the first time in 2023. This webinar, organized by UNSD and OECD, will review the scope of the questionnaires, how to fill in the questionnaires, the timeline for data collection and more. The webinar will take place on 2 March at 9:30 AM, New York time. The webinar will also be recorded and made available online for those who are not able to join. This data collection is meant for countries which already compile PEFA or AEA accounts, and UNSD’s data collection will complement existing PEFA and AEA data collection efforts by Eurostat for European Union (EU) countries and the soon to be launched data collection of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) for non-EU OECD countries. The questionnaires, developed under the auspices of the UNCEEA, are fully consistent with the SEEA and were developed on the basis of existing Eurostat PEFA and AEA questionnaires but tailored to fit the circumstances of countries with different levels of data availability. In particular, each questionnaire contains three different templates which correspond to different levels of data disaggregation. The templates were tested with a number of different countries to ensure that they are fit for purpose.
Description: On March 2nd, 2023, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) held a well-attended side event at UNICEF House to officially launch the 7th round of MICS. MICS has been an integral part of UNICEF's efforts to promote children's well-being worldwide for nearly three decades. The launch event featured several distinguished speakers who shared their experiences with MICS and discussed the program's contributions to global development efforts. Vidhya Ganesh, UNICEF's Director of the Division of Data, Analysis, Planning and Monitoring, opened the event with introductory remarks, followed by a Q&A session facilitated by Mark Hereward, UNICEF's Chief Data Officer. Invited speakers included Shahnaz Arefin, Secretary of Statistics and Informatics Division (SID) of the Planning Ministry in Bangladesh, Dr. Abdalla Allag, Chairman of the Bureau of Statistics for Libya, and Chief Statisticians from four UN agencies: Haishan Fu (World Bank), Rachel Snow (UNFPA), Stephen Mac Feely (WHO), and Tarek Abou Chabake (UNHCR). The event also marked the introduction of UNICEF's newly appointed Chief Statistician, Joao Pedro Azevedo. Attila Hancioglu (Global MICS Coordinator) presented an overview of MICS7, which features expanding content and several new initiatives, including MICS Plus, MICS Link, MICS Tabulator, MICS PRTI, and MICS GIS. MICS7 will run until the end of 2026 and constitutes the largest coverage of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicators of any global household survey program. With close to 200 indicators, MICS7 is equipped to provide crucial data on children, adolescents, and their families, crucial for informing policy, planning, and programming for children worldwide. The program's new questionnaire architecture will consist of short base questionnaires for households, women, men, under-5s, and children aged 5-17, populated with universally applicable standard modules, the majority of which produce data on SDG indicators. Complementary topics can also be added based on survey scope, objectives, priorities, content constraints, funding availability, and other concerns. MICS7 will therefore no longer rely on a single set of standard questionnaires. This flexible questionnaire architecture will enable survey customization to meet the needs of different countries and regions more efficiently. MICS7 is rolling out with Regional MICS Survey Design workshops starting in late March with the first workshop in Belgrade, Serbia, where 14 countries participated from the European and Central Asian region. Additional regional survey design workshops will be held in Amman, Dakar, Bangkok, Buenos Aires, and Nairobi from May to September 2023. The MICS7 website will be updated progressively with MICS7 documents as they become available, with major updates expected by mid April. Overall, MICS7 represents an important step forward in global development efforts, with its expanded content, new initiatives, and flexible questionnaire architecture. UNICEF and its partners are committed to ensuring that MICS7 continues to play a leading role in informing policies and programs that improve the lives of children and families around the world, and in monitoring progress towards the SDGs.
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Description: This side-event will update heads of National statistical offices (NSOs) and other participants of the 54th session of the United Nations Statistical Commission (UNSC) on progress and challenges regarding the measurement of South-South Cooperation (SSC), as part of the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) indicator 17.3.1 on ‘additional financial resources mobilized for developing countries from multiple sources’and its methodology adopted by the UNSC in March 2022. Thanks to the joint efforts of the South, now for the first time there is a global, voluntary Conceptual Framework to Measure South-South Cooperation. The framework supports national efforts of interested countries to measure both financial and in-kind South-South cooperation flows and inform the SDG indicator with comparable data. UNCTAD is organizing this side-event as part of its role to coordinate future testing and refinement of the framework, and global reporting and capacity building based on it. The work will be carried out under the leadership of Southern countries relying on country-owned mechanisms.
Description: Este es un evento paralelo de la octava sesión de la Plataforma Regional para la Reducción del Riesgo de Desastres en las Américas y el Caribe (PR23), que se llevó a cabo del 28 de febrero al 2 de marzo de 2023 en Punta del Este, Uruguay, contó con el auspicio del Gobierno de la República Oriental del Uruguay.
Description: This activity, organized by ECLAC, was carried out within the framework of the eighth session of the Regional Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in the Americas and the Caribbean (PR23), which took place from February 28 to March 2023 in Punta del Este, Uruguay, which was sponsored by the Government of the Eastern Republic of Uruguay.
Organizer(s): UNSD Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data Sustainable Development Solutions Network World Bank
Description: This side event, jointly organized by GPSDD, SDSN TReNDS, WB and UNSD, aims to bring together representatives from countries, international agencies, donors, civil society and private sector to 1. Take stock of the work done so far on innovative partnerships and solutions as part of the initiative. 2. Hear from countries on the challenges faced and their plans for sustainability in implementing innovative approaches. 3. Discuss upcoming plans, including expansion to involve more countries and partners.
Organizer(s): UNCTAD UN Women UNSD UNITAR Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data
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Citizens' contribution to data, broadly defined as the engagement of citizens in multiple processes in the data value chain, from specifying needs to use of the data to inform policy, is increasingly recognized for its unique ability to help overcome many data challenges of our times and in contributing to the inclusiveness of official statistics.
Citizens’ contribution to data could happen at different levels – global, regional, national, or local. The engagement of citizens can be organized by different stakeholders - scientists, community leaders, civil society organisations (CSOs), or individual citizens. Their engagement can contribute to various stages of the data value chain and serve different objectives and contribute to data and policy in many different ways.
When people—especially those who have been historically excluded from decision making— actively participate in decisions about data collection, design, analysis, and use, they gain greater access to the benefits of data. The official statistical community increasingly recognizes the importance of non-state actors in contributing to the inclusiveness of official statistics.
Organizer(s): ESCAP UNSD New York University Abu Dhabi
Description: The side events of 54th UNSC (United Nations Statistical Commission) will be held during 28 February - 3 March 2023 in New York. A side event to call for your attention is "Better measuring adult mortality: innovative approaches", to be organized by UNSD, NYU Abu Dhabi and UNESCAP on 1st March 2023 at 1:15-2:30 PM. The side event is the first of a webinar series on innovative methods to measure adult mortality and will be led by Technical Advisory Group on COVID-19 Mortality Assessment. The event will focus on the use of surveys and censuses to measure the completeness and gaps in death registration and health information systems. Discussion in the event will inform further work and guidance to countries on innovative and comprehensive measurement and collection of statistics on adult mortality. unstats.un.org | @UNStats | #UN54SC
Description: The 54th Session of the United Nations Statistical Commission will be held in person in New York from 28 February to 3 March 2023. Additional information can be found on the Statistical Commission website. There are several in-person side events taking place between 24 February and 3 March 2023. Visit the side events calendar to find out more.
Title in Arabic: تقنيات التواصل والإعلام ووسائل التواصل الاجتماعي في مجال نشر البيانات والمعلومات الاحصائية
Organizer(s): AITRS
Description: تساعد تقنيات التواصل والإعلام ووسائل التواصل الاجتماعي في تحقيق سهولة الوصول الي البيانات والمعلومات الضرورية للجمهور، حيث يجب أن تكون من الأدوات الأساسية التي تُستخدم في نشر البيانات والمعلومات لأنها تحقق الوصول السريع والمباشر إلى الجمهور المستهدف وتسهل التفاعل الفوري مع الجمهور وتحقيق التأثير الذي يرغب فيه الناشر. في عصرنا هذا، تشكل وسائل التواصل الاجتماعي وتقنياتها اضافة الى المنصات الإلكترونية مصدرًا هامًا للعديد من المهتمين للوصول إلى المعلومات والنشرات الأخبارية في حين أن الوصول إلى البيانات والموارد حول قضايا التنمية في المنطقة العربية لا يكون غالبًا بالعمل السهل. لذلك، يأتي اهمية الولوج إلى شبكة البيانات بسهولة ومن ثم تأمين استخدامها بفعالية عالية يمكّننا من الإضاءة على إخفاقات التنمية وكيفية إحداث التغيير إلى الأفضل، وبالتالي المساهمة في تحقيق التنمية المستدامة بشكل عام. من هذا المنطلق، تأتي هذه الورشة التدريبية لدعم قدرات الأجهزة الإحصائية العربية فيما يخص تقنيات التواصل والإعلام ووسائل التواصل الاجتماعي في مجال نشر البيانات والمعلومات.
Description: After multiple years of preparation and negotiation, the parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) adopted the “Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework” (GBF) at its 15th meeting in December 2022. The GBF is an inclusive and transformative agenda for protecting, restoring and sustainably using and managing biodiversity and ecosystems. The GBF includes a monitoring framework designed to ensure that implementation of the GBF is results-oriented and can be monitored in a transparent manner. The monitoring framework presents a clear recognition of the role of official statistics and national statistical offices in developing and implementing the framework, as well as the role of statistical standards such as the SEEA in providing high-quality, relevant and coherent data. An ad hoc technical expert group will be established to advise on further operationalization of the monitoring framework and presents a unique opportunity to ensure that nationally owned official statistics on the environment and economy can contribute to national and global monitoring efforts. This in-person high-level side event will provide an opportunity for official statisticians and policymakers to come together to discuss the critical role of national statistical offices in the success of the GBF.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 03 Feb 2023 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: The main objectives of the course are: * Introducing the participants to the Python language and ecosystem; * Make the participants able to read and write basic Python programs for common data processing tasks (data analysis, exploration and visualization).
Target Audience: Official statisticians (including managers) involved in Big Data and Data Science activities having no specific knowledge on this subject; Official statisticians (including managers) who, without being directly involved in Big Data and Data Science activities, need basic knowledge on the use of the Python language.
Description: There is clear demand from policy makers, governments, academics and the public to move the statistical measurement framework beyond gross domestic product (GDP), which primarily focuses on economic performance. While traditional measures of economic performance will always have a place, there is a gap between the information contained in GDP and what counts for people’s well-being. Responding to the beyond GDP agenda will require a combination of economic, environmental and social measures that go beyond measures of market activity and include measures centred on people’s well-being, and sustainability of the environment, making the contribution of nature to our well-being explicit. The aim would be to inform various policy goals, including the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and, in the context of accounting for people’s well-being, to address the call by the Secretary-General for new measures of progress to complement GDP. In addition, the Secretary General acknowledged the role of implementing the System of Environmental Economic Accounts (SEEA) and said: "This is a historic step towards transforming how we view and value nature. We will no longer be heedlessly allowing environmental destruction and degradation to be considered economic progress." Going beyond GDP is not to redefine the current sets of indicators, but to identify accounts and indicators so that countries can produce internationally comparable statistics that provide important information for policymakers that go beyond measures of economic performance. While the theme of "Beyond GDP" has a broad scope, this event will first present the need for broader measures of progress and will introduce measures such as a multidimensional vulnerability index (MVI) to assess the vulnerability of small island states as well as other countries; and measures that go beyond the narrow focus on economic growth towards what counts for people and the planet. The event is organized along two panels one representing the users needs for measures beyond GDP and the other presenting how national statistical offices have responded to these demands. In particular, the two panels will address the need for: Measures of social and demographic developments to complement measures of economic performance. Some countries have been pioneers and have done inspiring work in terms of the distribution of income and welfare measures, unpaid household service work, generational distribution of wealth and systems of quality of life statistics Measuring the contribution of nature to our wellbeing – The SEEA has been adopted as an international statistical standard and it is being used to supporting various policy frameworks being implemented in over 90 countries; In the context of updating the 2008 SNA the broadening of the national accounts’ framework to better account for elements affecting well-being and sustainability by describing where the national accounts can contribute to understanding well-being and sustainability, including where the framework can be extended, and where other frameworks such as those from SEEA and demographic and social statistics are required to provide a more comprehensive understanding of these issues.
Description: The Committee for the Coordination of Statistical Activities (CCSA) promotes interagency coordination and cooperation on statistical programmes and consistency in statistical practices and development. As a forum of committed members it fosters good practices in statistical activities of international organisations, in accordance with the Principles Governing International Statistical Activities, and within the constraints of their own governance arrangements and resource envelopes. The members of the CCSA are committed to contribute actively to the development of a coordinated global statistical system producing and disseminating high-quality statistics, e.g. by facilitating the development and well functioning of regional and national statistical systems.
Description: The Committee of the Chief Statisticians of the United Nations System promotes coherent and integrated system-wide United Nations actions to support statistics at the national, regional and international levels, following the principles governing international statistical activities, adopted by the Committee for the Coordination of Statistical Activities in 2005, and the Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics, adopted by the General Assembly in 2015. Taking into account the comparative advantages of each member, the Committee encourages coordinated efforts by United Nations agencies and programmes in strengthening national statistical capacity through the definition of common approaches and joint interventions. The Committee supports in particular the modernization of national statistical systems and the reinforcement of their capacity to respond to new data demands for underpinning evidence-based policymaking, including the monitoring of global, regional and national development goals. Recognizing that national needs and priorities should guide the United Nations system’s efforts to support national statistical systems, the Committee supports the development and full implementation of international statistical standards in member States for the production of high-quality and internationally comparable data. The Committee promotes the coordination of the statistical programmes of the United Nations system entities with the aim of “delivering as one”, by fostering synergies, avoiding duplication and overlap, and facilitating data exchange. It promotes the adoption of common quality criteria to drive the statistical production of all agencies of the United Nations system and supports the sharing of knowledge and good practices. It also defines common United Nations positions on statistical matters, to be reported at the Statistical Commission or at other coordination bodies, such as the Committee for the Coordination of Statistical Activities.
Description: In this UNCEBD Open House, we will review of activities of the task teams, the regional and sector hubs and the UN Global Platform, and discuss four proposals, namely (A) a more systematic collaboration between the task teams and the regional and sector hubs to improve the synergies of methodological development with project and training activities; (B) active collaboration between UNCEBD and the Expert Group on Integration of Statistical and Geospatial Information (EG-ISGI); (C) the terms of reference for the Data Science Leaders' Network; and (D) concrete and practical use of privacy-enhancing technologies for access to sensitive data. This meeting serves the purpose of providing information as well as gathering additional ideas and proposals, which UNCEBD could use in further developing its work programme.
Description: Session 1: The Role of Data Science in Official Statistics The availability of relevant, timely and usable statistics and indicators is essential for governments to set priorities, make informed decisions and implement better policies. The data science revolution is helping improve the production of those statistics and indicators through new methods, technologies and data sources, such as big data and machine learning. With many National Statistical Offices (NSOs) rapidly expanding their big data and data science capabilities and activities, there is an opportunity to step up international co-operation between NSOs to modernise global and national statistical systems. By sharing knowledge and identifying key priorities at leadership level, NSOs data science leaders can provide strategic vision and leadership to guide the many multilateral cooperation initiatives in this field. A new international and inclusive network for data science leaders can provide insight, strategic advice and secure buy-in to drive innovation, maximize efficiencies and accelerate the integration of statistical production through data science. The Data Science Leaders Network (DSLN) was initiated at the Statistical Commission in March 2022. The DSLN will advance the strategic discussion of key issues concerning the current and future role of NSOs in providing data science services for official statistics on the one hand and to other government agencies on the other. DSLN will also discuss the status of experimental data and indicators, ethical and legal considerations, data sharing and acquisition, the governance of data science research and capability building across government, the code of conduct for data scientists, and the quality framework for big data and data science. It will launch new initiatives and projects, while leaving the execution of those activities to existing groups. DSLN will further provide guidance on areas where capability gaps would justify proactive co-investment among statistical institutes. Session 2: Moving Towards Register-based Censuses: Opportunities and challenges This session of the Friday seminar on Innovation and Modernisation of Official Statistics will bring together Chief Statisticians to discuss the use of administrative data sources for producing population and housing census data. The current round of censuses has been witnessing a growing interest in the use of administrative data sources. The arrival of the Covid-19 pandemic, and the difficulties caused by it, has accelerated existing initiatives to utilize administrative data sources in a significant number of countries all over the world. There are many reasons for exploring administrative registers for producing census information, including : (a) the need to produce accurate, reliable and more frequent statistics (on a yearly basis); (b) high costs of conducting field enumeration and budgetary limitations for census taking; (c) reluctance of the population to participate in the census (for instance, during the COIVD-19 pandemic); and (d) availability of administrative registers for statistical purposes. On the other hand, there are certain challenges regarding the use of administrative registers, including the quality of existing administrative registers, lack of legal framework for the use of individual records for statistical production, and institutional capacity in establishing and maintaining statistical registers. Changing the design of census processes from the traditional method to one that is relying on administrative data sources is a core part of the strategy of many NSOs to develop a register-based statistical system. This will require a pragmatic shift in the way official statistics are produced. This seminar will discuss the process of transitioning and challenges in planning and managing this process, particularly those related to political and public support; legal framework; engagement of stakeholders; confidentiality issues; operational considerations and strengthening institutional capacity. The seminar will also provide an opportunity to learn from experiences of countries that are at different stages of this transition. Session 3: Towards a framework to harness data by citizens, for citizens and about citizens Citizens' contribution to data, broadly defined as the engagement of citizens in multiple processes in the data value chain, is increasingly recognized as critical to helping overcome many data challenges of our times. In particular, in the context of the 2030 Agenda's principle to ensure that nobody is left behind, citizen data helps fill critical data gaps for groups suffering from data marginalization and increase the extent to which their experiences are reflected in national statistics. In addition to filling data gaps, some citizen data initiatives provide insights into harmful customary practices as well as further advance important values such as fairness, inclusiveness, openness and transparency in statistics. Citizens' contribution to data could happen at different levels - global, regional, national, or local. The engagement of citizens can be organized by different stakeholders - scientists, community leaders, civil society organisations (CSOs), or individual citizens. Their engagement can contribute to various stages of the data value chain and serve different objectives and contribute to data and policy in many different ways. The official statistical community also increasingly recognizes the importance of non-state actors in contributing to the inclusiveness of official statistics. For data collection such as censuses and surveys, national statistical offices (NSOs) often partner with CSOs or representatives of marginalized population groups to ensure the inclusiveness of the data and methodology. Unleashing the full potential of citizens for data, however, faces many challenges. These, for example, include the lack of trust between the state and non-state actors, data quality, sustainability and statistical capacity of CSOs, etc. In this context, the United Nations Statistics Division organized an Expert Group Meeting on Harnessing data by citizens for public policy and SDG monitoring: a conceptual framework in November 2022. The meeting discussed different ways that citizens can contribute to data, as well as challenges and opportunities and mechanisms to harness citizens' contribution to fill data gaps and advance fairness, inclusiveness, openness and transparency in statistics. The meeting was attended by representatives from National Statistics Offices (NSOs), Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), academia and regional and international organisations. The meeting agreed that the development of a framework would be an important next step to help conceptualize the different ways citizens can contribute to data and support the formulation of action points for the community to move forward. The meeting also agreed to establish a Collaborative as a platform for collaboration and exchange of experiences and to advance the work in this area.
Description: The 54th Session of the United Nations Statistical Commission will be held in person in New York from 28 February to 3 March 2023. Additional information can be found on the Statistical Commission website. There are several in-person side events taking place between 24 February and 3 March 2023. Visit the side events calendar to find out more.
Description: Water is a key resource in tourism. Direct water use for services to tourists, such as showers, pool landscapes, water activities and culinary offers, can be significant. In this context, water consumption rates that indicate the total volume consumed and litres per tourist per day, are recommended indicators. They can be an important measure of physical carrying capacity, especially for water-scarce destinations, and can warn of potential limits or stress on the supply system. In addition, to relieve pressures on water supply and water systems conservation efforts can be measured, such as actions by the accommodation sector to reduce water consumption and to re-use recycled water (e.g. for irrigation purposes). Other indicators can include, inter alia, the measurement of water supply imported to the destination and total use by tourism as a percentage of all users. The drinking water quality in a destination, which is considered an important factor for the wellbeing of tourists, is an additional import dimension for monitoring. Indicators that look into the purity of drinking water supply, such as amount of tourism establishments with water treated to international potable standards, percentage of visitors reporting water-borne illnesses during their stay, and the perception of cleanliness of food and water are among some of the suggested indicators. However, monitoring water management at the destination level remains a major challenge, as collecting information on water is often difficult and costly, quality can be lacking, and the issue is complex as it is related to many aspects such as climate change, agriculture, infrastructure, and others. This is relevant because sustainable water management is seen as central to building the resilience of destinations, their societies and ecosystems. This INSTO Insights webinar discussed the experiences and insights of INSTO Members and experts on monitoring water management, which is one of the 11 mandatory key issue areas INSTO Members are committed to monitor. Experiences was shared on used indicators and various methodologies in this regard. The implications of these monitoring efforts in terms of informing policies and strategies was also discussed.
Methods of Processing and Analysis of Web Scraped Tourism Data
23 Feb 2023 – 23 Feb 2023
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 10 Jan 2023 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat
Description: This webinar will discuss the issues of data sources available in tourism statistics. We will present how to search for new data sources and how to analyse them. We will review and apply methods for merging and combining the web scraped data with other sources, using various programming environments. We will also look at different methods for removing any duplicates found in the merged dataset.
Source: ESCAP SIAP (Data extracted on: 07 Dec 2023 )
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Organizer(s): ESCAP SIAP
Description: The System of National Accounts is a statistical framework that provides a comprehensive,consistent and flexible set of macroeconomic accounts that can be used by governments,businessesand international organizations for policy makinganalysis and research purposes. The SNA is intended for use by all countrieshaving been designed to accommodate the needs of countries at different stages of economic development. It also provides an overarching framework for standards in other domains of economic statisticsfacilitating the integration of these statistical systems to achieve consistency with the national accounts.
Description: Each year the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) National Agriculture Statistics Service (NASS) conducts more than 100 surveys and produces more than 400 reports on all aspects of U.S. Agriculture, ranging from estimates of corn and cattle production to agricultural prices and expenses. For over a half century, sample surveys have been the foundation for producing these official statistics. In recent years, as is common with other National Statistical Agencies, response rates and the coverage of the NASS list frame (of all known U.S. farms) have continued to decline. Further, because U.S. agricultural production is increasingly concentrated in a few large farming operations, the quality of the official statistics produced relies heavily on obtaining responses from the producers of these large farms. Consequently, these producers may each receive more than 20 surveys each year, constituting a heavy reporting burden. At the same time, non-survey data, including administrative, remotely sensed, and weather data, have become increasing available. NASS is currently working to incorporate more non-survey data in the estimation process to improve the precision of the estimates while reducing reporting burden. Two approaches to integrating survey and non-survey data are (1) to combine survey estimates and non-survey information at some specified level of geography through modelling and (2) to link the survey and non-survey data at the farm level and then to produce estimates based on the linked data. To date, NASS has taken approach (1), using Bayesian models to combine survey and non-survey data at the county or regional levels in three major programs. These models incorporate the survey estimates, non-survey information, and known constraints on the estimates. This presentation focuses on the Bayesian models now being used to provide official statistics and describes the process of moving a new model into the production. Linking the survey and non-survey data at the farm level, i.e., approach (2), has been challenging because, while all non-survey data acquired thus far are georeferenced, the NASS list frame itself is not. Progress is being made and will be outlined. Current and future research directions will be highlighted.
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Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 19 May 2023 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat
Description: Are you interested in agriculture and fisheries statistics and in the wider farm to fork chain? Let us guide you through the latest edition of the Key figures on the European food chain publication. We start by presenting data about farms, farmers, farm production and prices, the economic performance of the agricultural sector and fisheries' activities. Moving along the chain, we then look at the processing, trade, distribution and consumption of food and beverages, their prices and some of the links between agriculture, food and the environment.
Description: Objectives of Event The side event will explore the policy tools available for countries to overcome barriers to fast electrification. Understanding the problems across countries require good-quality official statistics. Existing efforts to collect charging infrastructure statistics at the country and international levels will be shared. The need for harmonized connector design and communication protocols globally to ensure seamless and flawless EV recharge all over the world will be assessed. The importance of harmonized regulation to achieve safe and fast charging, enable grid balancing and appropriate grid and recharging capacity, as well as minimize the carbon footprint of EV recharge will be explored. Speakers Moderated by Ms Els de Wit, Chair, UNECE Working Party on Transport Trends and Economics; Programme Coordinator, Smart and Sustainable Mobility, Ministry of Water Management and Infrastructure, Netherlands. John Wilkins, Chair, UNECE Working Party on Transport Statistics; Deputy Director, Travel and Environment Data and Statistics; Department for Transport, United Kingdom. Philippe Vangeel, Secretary-General, AVERE. Alex Schroeder, Chief Technology Officer, Joint Office of Energy and Transportation, United States Jacques Warichet, Power systems transformation analyst, International Energy Agency. Saki Gerassis, Policy and Data Officer; DG MOVE, European Commission. Duncan Kay, Vice-Chair, UNECE Working Party on Pollution and Energy; Head of Vehicle Engineering; Department for Transport, United Kingdom. Potential Outcomes As part of the Inland Transport Committee Strategy to 2030, the ITC is uniquely placed to enable to develop globally harmonized regulatory provision that would apply all over the world, and will make sure EV use is safe, environmentally-friendly, interoperable, increasing their potential to decarbonise transport. The World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations is uniquely placed to develop such technical regulatory provisions and have them adopted globally by United Nations member States. The Working Party on Transport Statistics is in the process of assessing data availability for electric vehicle infrastructure and may initiate data collection in the near future, with any discussions during this event guiding work on this. The Working Party on Transport Trends decided at its 2022 session to establish a steady workflow on general trends and developments surrounding passenger EV and its charging infrastructure including aspects of accessibility to and affordability of charging at public EV charging equipment and its integration in the electricity grid. Discussions like this side event can guide WP.5’s workflow on this and promote dialogue on the best solutions.
Description: Within the framework of its Statistical Capacity Building (StatCaB) Programme, SESRIC will organise a Training Course on ‘SDG 1 (No Poverty) Indicators’ for the benefit of National Statistical Offices (NSOs) of French speaking OIC countries on 21-22 February 2023 through an online video conferencing platform. Mrs Souad Benneji, Chief Engineer, Deputy Director of Consumption and Standard of Living Statistics at the National Institute of Statistics (INS) of Republic of Tunisia, will conduct the course and cover the following topics: Presentation of the theoretical basis of the SDGs The matrix of indicators Tier classification of the UN Identification of production structures Global monitoring framework for the 2030 Agenda Status of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda in Africa related to SDG1 Measurement of SDG 1 Indicators Introduction to SDG1 Targets, indicators Identification of sources, periodicity Methodology for calculating SDG 1 indicators Monetary (one-dimensional) measures of poverty Targets 1-2 (Indicator 1.2.1) The multidimensional poverty approach Target 2 (Indicator 1.2.2) Indicator measurements (Administrative) Targets 3-5 and Targets A-B The StatCaB Programme was initiated in early 2007. It is the flagship capacity development programme of the SESRIC. Within its framework, the Centre collects information from the NSOs of OIC member countries through the biennial StatCaB questionnaire, assesses their needs and capacities, matches these needs and capacities, and organizes statistical capacity development activities between the beneficiary and provide countries. For more information on SESRIC Statistical Capacity Building (StatCaB) Programme, please visit: http://www.oicstatcom.org/statcab.php
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 29 Nov 2022 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: The main objective of this course is to offer theoretical overview of SHA Methodology, but also to give practical approach to build a health data questionnaire. The course will provide to the participants overview of current SHA requirements.
Target Audience: The course is targeted at statisticians working on health administrative data from National Statistical Institutes or Ministries of health/welfare.
Description: The International Committee on Census Coordination’s (ICCC) bi-monthly meeting was chaired by UNSD. The meeting received updates on the draft Guide Note on Covid-19 Questions being developed by UNFPA and the World Bank. The Guide Note provides guidance to countries on additional questions to be included in population and housing censuses with the objective of measuring the impact of Covid-19 in various domains, including economic status, education, health and mortality. After a substantive discussion it was concluded that countries are no longer measuring the impact of Covid-19 in censuses; however, it was concluded that the proposed questions in the Guide Note may be relevant for inclusion in household surveys. The meeting discussed country situations and support needs with regard to the implementation of population and housing censuses as well as upcoming events, conferences and other meetings. The ICCC was established to strengthen communication and coordination among international and regional organizations providing support for the successful implementation of population and housing censuses in developing countries. Through proactive engagement, the ICCC seeks to channel the various support provided by multilateral and bilateral donors with a view to enhancing the coherence of the support towards population and housing censuses. The current members of the ICCC consists of UNSD, UNFPA, the International Programs Center (U.S. Census Bureau) and the World Bank. The next ICCC meeting will be held in early April 2023.
Title in Arabic: مواضيع متقدمة في العينات وحساب الأوزان وتعديلها
Organizer(s): AITRS
Description: تعتبر الدورة التدريبية الحالية المتعلقة بمواضيع متقدمة في العينات وحساب الأوزان وتعديلها مواصلة لمجهودات المعهد في دعم قدرات الاجهزة الاحصائية العربية في مجال مهم في كل الانشطة الاحصائية، وهي الثالثة في سلسلة الدورات المنعقدة حول العينات والمواضيع الخاصة بها. وسيتم تناول هذه الدورة من خلال تقديم مواضيع متقدمة في علم العينات، وذلك لبناء قدرات المتدربين بشكل افضل وزيادة خبرتهم في تطبيقات تعتبر ضرورية في مجال تصميم العينات المتكررة وحساب الاوزان. وقد اصبحت هذه التطبيقات منتشرة اقليميا ودولياً في الفترة الاخيرة نتيجة زيادة كفاءة البرمجيات الحديثة، والتطور السريع في المجال الاحصائي.
Description: This course, presented by the IMF Statistics Department, covers theoretical and practical aspects in the compilation of national accounts statistics based on the conceptual framework of the System of National Accounts 2008 (2008 SNA). The course consists of lectures covering advanced methodological and compilation issues of the 2008 SNA and workshops consisting of practical exercises in compiling the accounts. The main aim of the course is to train participants in the compilation of more advanced parts of the accounting structure including supply and use tables, input-output tables, satellite accounts, labor and productivity statistics, and advanced price and volume topics. The course starts with review of the sequence of accounts with a focus on how these accounts can be extended to address specific user needs. The main lectures and workshops include: * Supply and use tables. * Input-Output Tables. * Trade in Value Added. * Satellite Accounts. * Labor and Productivity Statistics. * Advanced topics in price and volume measurement. * Emphasis is also placed on sharing country experiences among the participants.
Target Audience: Compilers of national accounts statistics employed by agencies responsible for official national accounts statistics.
Description: This course, presented by the IMF Statistics Department, acquaints participants with the fundamentals of compiling and using FSIs in support of macroprudential analysis. The course covers methodological and technical issues in the construction of FSIs, as discussed in the 2019 Financial Soundness Indicators Compilation Guide (2019 FSI Guide). The course takes an interactive approach using hands-on exercises in discussing the main topics as follows: Preparation of the sectoral financial statements and compilation of FSIs for deposit takers; Regulatory framework for deposit takers; Accounting principles and data consolidation for the compilation of FSIs for deposit takers; and Overview of key points and changes in the 2019 FSI Guide.
Description: The launch of the new eLearning course on Small Area Estimation (SAE) was an event to remember. UNSD, UN ECLAC Statistics Division, and UNFPA gathered a prestigious panel of experts to discuss how Small Area Estimation (SAE) methods can support SDGs and countries, and how the eLearning course is an essential tool for disseminating knowledge and making information more accessible. The panel discussion featured insights from internationally renowned professors, as well as experiences from countries and international organizations, all of which inspired the audience and highlighted how much still needs to be done. The launch of this eLearning course marks a milestone in the journey on SAE, which started with the launch of the Toolkit on SAE on the Wiki platform requested by IAEG-SDG one year ago. With over 220 people attending the online event, it's clear that the topic of SAE is highly popular. More information on the event page.
Description: The side-event was organized by UNODC. UNSD was asked to present on Modalities of data sharing arrangements around use of administrative data. The side event discussed how to harness administrative data for crime and criminal justice statistics. Law enforcement, courts, prosecution offices, prison administrations, customs authorities and other actors involved in the criminal justice sector all collect, or have the opportunity to collect, large swaths of administrative data that can assist in improving our understanding of the dynamics of (transnational) crime and the effectiveness of operations. For this administrative data to be suitable for statistical purposes, however, it is vital that statistical concepts and methodologies are applied consistently to ensure data comparability. The webinar also included presentations from countries on their experience in using administrative data for crime and criminal justice statistics as well as presentation from international agencies on some tools at the disposal of countries to facilitate its work. UNSD has added the webinar to the pages of the Collaborative on administrative data here.
Description: The UN-CEBD Task Team on Mobile Phone Data will be discussing the applications of mobile phone big data for official statistics in the following areas: Dynamic population and census, Tourism statistics, Migration statistics, Displacement and disaster statistics Information Society statistics, Transport statistics. The webinar will also take a look at various projects and case studies from around the world and provide an introduction to the new e-learning course developed by the task team.
Description: UNSD moderated the side event, which was organized by UN Women in collaboration with UNSD, FAO and UNHCR. Ms. Antra Bhatt, Statistics Specialist, Research and Data Section, UN Women, presented UN Women and UNSD’s joint publication Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The Gender Snapshot 2022 Report, emphasizing the data and indicators available and needed for monitoring the SDGs from a gender perspective as well as data gaps. The event also featured presentations by Aina Helen Saetre, Statistician, UNHCR and Sara Viviani, Statistician, FAO on the importance of disaggregating key statistics by sex and age using global datasets on gender and migration and food security, followed by a moderated Q&A. Between 60-65 participants attended the side event and discussion focused on identifying why there are continual gender data gaps in the SDGs, how to address these issues and encourage more monitoring by countries. In addition, while the data for achieving gender equality is not currently on track to be achieved by 2030, panelists noted that a positive in this area is an increase in partnerships and collaboration to increase the availability of gender data, which will hopefully lead to advances in achieving this Goal.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 19 May 2023 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat
Description: Did you know that the ten top regions account for 25% of all nights spent in the EU? And did you know that every single minute, 100 bookings are made via online accommodation platforms? This webinar on European tourism data and policy introduces you to European tourism statistics, including the recent innovative project on data sharing with Airbnb, Booking, Expedia Group and Tripadvisor. It also showcases how statistical data interact with policymaking.
Description: The growing impact of disasters, associated preventive, preparedness and response measures, and the COP27 decision on establishing a Loss and Damage fund, have all necessitated strengthening of the data ecosystem that underscores decision-making. Mandated by the UN Statistical Commission, the Inter-Agency Expert Group on Disaster-related Statistics (IAEG-DRS) is developing recommendations for a common disaster-related statistical framework for the Commission’s consideration in 2024. The framework will enhance rigour in statistical methods, define parameters for internationally comparable data, and help bridge the gap between national statistical offices (NSOs) and national disaster management offices (NDMOs). The side event will feature governments (especially NSOs and NDMOs) and expert organizations from across the world to share their enriching experience and initiatives on disaster-related statistics. Challenges and good practices will be shared, building on the previous IAEG-DRS meetings and Expert Forums on Producers and Users of Disaster-related statistics.
Description: The side event, co-organized by ESCAP UNODC UNCTAD and ECA will showcase success stories in the measurement of IFFs and share key lessons that are critical to regularizing the production of data on SDG 16.4.1. The successes and lessons will be presented by country experts. On 16 November 2022, a resolution by the 2nd Committee of the General Assembly on illicit financial flows recognized the significant progress and availability of concepts and tested methods to measure illicit financial flows and encouraged “all Member States to report on Sustainable Development Goal indicator 16.4.1, using the methodology adopted by the Statistical Commission, and called upon the United Nations system entities, international organizations and donors to work in coordination with the custodian agencies to train national statistical offices and other entities in charge of reporting on illicit financial flows on these agreed methods”.
Description: Co-organized by the United Nations Committee of Experts on Food Security, Agriculture and Rural Statistics (UN-CEAG) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) on the sidelines of the 54th Session of the United Nations Statistical Commission, the event took stock of the latest developments and progress in implementing the UN-CEAG's programme of wo...
Description: In preparation for the 54th session of the Statistical Commission, UNSD organized a highlevel webinar on the Future of Social and Demographic Statistics. The high-level panel discussion was conducted virtually and attracted around 280 participants, including officials from 60 national statistical offices, and representative from more than 20 international organizations, academia, and the UN system at large. The event was moderated by Ms. Gabriella Vukovich, Chair of the UN Statistical Commission and President of the Hungarian Central Statistical Office. The panelists, coming from national statistical offices (Statistics Canada and UK’s Office for National Statistics), as well UN agencies (WHO), provided insights into key concerns, challenges, and priorities identified by data users they serve, and highlighted how their statistical systems are evolving to respond to data requests. As this event was an opportunity to informally provide feedback on the report of the Secretary-General on Social Statistics, which will serve as the basis for launching the work on a review of social and demographic statistics through a Friends of the Chair Group (FoC Social), the panelists also reflected on how FoC Social could build on their country/organization experiences, highlighting some of the areas where the Group can realistically deliver practical recommendations for an agile and more responsive system of social and demographic statistics. The UN Statistics Division will serve as the Secretariat of the Friends of the Chair Group, and the outcomes of this high-level panel discussion will contribute to identifying a work programme for the Group to achieve strengthened social and demographic statistics that fulfil data requirements under the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and anticipate data needs beyond 2030. The Group will work for a period of three years and report back on agreed deliverables at the fifty-seventh session of the Statistical Commission in 2026.
Description: Over 50 delegates representing state members of the Regional Committee of United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management for the Arab States (UN-GGIM: Arab States): Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates and State of Palestine, together with a dozen invited observers from the UN system, international and regional organizations met inperson in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates from 14 – 16 February 2023. Prior to the three-day plenary meeting, a two-day regional workshop on enhancing national geospatial information management, from 12 – 13 February 2023, was convened where about 90 additional participants from the United Arab Emirates joined delegates and observers. The useful and productive two days had good and informative exchanges of views and perspectives, discussed challenges and opportunities in strengthening and enhancing nationally integrated geospatial information management leveraging the United Nations Integrated Geospatial Information Framework (UN-IGIF). The UNGGIM Secretariat substantively facilitated the plenary meeting as well as the regional workshop. At the regional workshop, participants heard efforts by some state members to reference and utilize UN-IGIF as a mechanism to develop and strengthen their institutional arrangements, inter-institutional cooperation, national spatial data infrastructure, and national geospatial strategy. UN-GGIM: Arab States was urged to consider a ‘subregional’ modality to raise awareness on the value and utility of geospatial information within national development frameworks and to develop UN-IGIF country-level Action Plans towards enhancing their national geospatial information management according to their respective national circumstances and priorities. At the tenth plenary meeting, delegates agreed the need to strengthen institutional collaboration and coordination, improve interoperability and integration across national data systems, collectively discussed and agreed to operationalize the UN-IGIF to strengthen geospatial capability and utilization in their countries. The meeting also agreed to continue their ongoing work items on regional geodetic reference frame, the integration of geospatial and statistical information and improved sharing of experiences and practices. The tenth plenary meeting discussed, for the first time, an agenda item on empowering women in the realm of geospatial information management, assisted by a series of presentations by lady delegates from Egypt, Morocco, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. The tenth plenary meeting agreed to defer the election for its chair, two vice-chairs and a secretary general by one year, to the eleventh plenary meeting, to be held in February 2023. The tenth plenary meeting and the regional workshop was held in a very comfortable and conducive venue, warmly and cordially hosted by the Federal Geographic Information Centre (FGIC), United Arab Emirates, and very well arranged by FGIC and the secretariat of UN-GGIM: Arab States (General Authority for Survey and Geospatial Information, Saudi Arabia).
Description: Voluntary National Reviews (VNR), led and prepared by Member States and presented at the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF), are a critical review mechanism for the 2030 Agenda and should be supported by high quality data and statistics to ensure that the review is evidence-based. This side event of the 54th session of the Statistical Commission provided country experiences, best practices and challenges in developing evidence-based VNRs. The event explored best tools, data sources and other methodologies/techniques for SDG monitoring and deepening the data analysis in VNRs. Canada, Rwanda and Chile shared their national experiences and UNSD also presented the Practical Guide for Evidencebased VNRs using a data roadmap approach. The event focused on the following topics: progress assessments, innovative data collection and analysis and challenges and limitations encountered when collecting and using data for the preparation of the VNR. Countries also explored their plans to innovate data collection and analysis for SDG monitoring and VNRs in the future. The virtual event was attended by over 150 participants and presentations are available on the event webpage. The event was also streamed live and can be viewed on Youtube.
Description: Within the framework of the Programme of Action for 2021-2025 set under the OIC-StatCom Strategic Vision for 2030 and its Webinar Series on Statistical Experience Sharing, SESRIC will organise a Webinar on ‘Transforming Administrative Registers for Statistical Data Production’ on 14 February 2023, in collaboration with the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) with the participation of official statisticians working in National Statistical Offices (NSOs) of the OIC member countries. The main objective of the webinar is to provide a platform to exchange knowledge on how to develop and deploy the required technology and the mechanisms to transform the administrative registers for statistical data production in national statistical systems of OIC member countries including discussions about the relevant initiatives, challenges faced and lessons learnt by all stakeholders. The Webinar will cover: Advantages of using administrative sources Frameworks for access to administrative sources Collaborative on the Use of Administrative Data for Statistics Assessment of the quality of administrative sources for use in population and housing censuses Good practices from the OIC region Document: Concept Note and Work Programme (English) Using Administrative and Secondary Sources for Official Statistics (English) Guidelines for assessing the quality of administrative sources for use in censuses (English)
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, teaches you how to compile timely and high-quality Quarterly National Accounts (QNA) and High-Frequency Indicators of Economic Activity (HFIEAs). The course presents the concepts, data sources, and compilation techniques needed for producing QNA and HFIEAs, covering both theoretical and practical compilation issues. It introduces participants to benchmarking, seasonal adjustment techniques, as well as volume estimates; and explains the application of these techniques to time series data. The course also discussed how to identify and assess available data sources, use real-time series databases to assess the quality, and implement a suitable revisions policy for compiling QNA and HFIEAs.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, introduces the fundamentals of compiling monetary statistics, with special attention to other financial corporations (OFCs). It also gives an overview of financial statistics and national accounts. The course material is based on the Monetary and Financial Statistics Manual and Compilation Guide (MFSMCG). Although the course summarizes the main principles underlying the compilation of monetary statistics, it assumes participants already understand these principles (e.g., having participated in the MFS-I course). The core of the course deals with characteristics of various OFCs (insurance corporations, pension funds, non-MMF investment funds, etc.), their typical balance sheet structure, and their role in the financial sector. The course also covers some aspects of financial statistics, dealing with financial flows and stocks of all sectors of the domestic economy and their interactions with the rest of the world; the balance sheet approach to vulnerability analysis; and the relationships between monetary, balance of payments, government finance, and national accounts statistics. The course consists of lectures and case studies to familiarize participants with practical aspects of compiling monetary statistics for OFCs and the basic principles underlying the compilation of national accounts. At the end of the course, participants are expected to make a short presentation on monetary statistics compilation issues in their own countries.
Description: A diverse panel of experts gathered to discuss how data integration and interoperability can help countries and international agencies tackle issues related to their mandate. Topics discussed included integrating Twitter and Demographic Health Survey data to understand online violence against women in India, integrating data sources to disaggregate SDG indicators, a pilot study in Sri Lanka to apply common statistical standards across survey types, combining administrative and survey data to estimate outof-school rates, a pilot project to link MICS to EMIS data in Eswatini and Fiji, supporting satellite-based crop type mapping and crop yield estimation through surveys, and the experience of Bangladesh in estimating poverty using Small Area Estimation and nonconventional data. The 54th UNSC side event marked the first in a series of webinars about household survey program priorities for the next decade. The series is based on the ISWGHS Position Paper published last year, which contains eight technical priorities. Organized by the ISWGHS with the support of its co-chairs from the World Bank and UN Women, the event was attended by more than 150 people. For more information, please visit our website.
Description: The United Nations Committee of Experts on Big Data and Data Science for Official Statistics (UNCEBD), Major Group for Children and Youth (MGCY) and Statistics Indonesia (BPS) hosted the "2022 UN Big Data Hackathon" in November 2022. It is jointly organized by the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), Global Platform Regional Hubs (Rwanda, UAE, Brazil & China), UN Global Pulse, Asian Development Bank (ADB), Islamic Development Bank (IsDB), UK ONS Data Science Campus, Statistics Canada, and United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), in consultation with the members of the Task Teams of UN Committee of Experts on Big Data and Data Science. Join us for the Closing Ceremony where we will be announcing and celebrating the winners of the Hackathon.
Description: In recent years, almost every government has been faced with very serious challenges, such as the global health pandemic, supply chain disruption, rising energy and food prices, and decreasing household budgets. To handle these crises in the right way, our leaders need the right data at the right time. National statistical offices are tasked to provide these trusted, relevant, timely and high-quality data. All of those data are very sensitive in terms of private information on persons or businesses. To gain access to the sensitive data while guaranteeing that privacy will be preserved, privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) are receiving increased attention. Whereas legal arrangements on data sharing can lead to unwanted breaches, the promise of PETs is that privacy is guaranteed. If you cannot see the original data at any time, you cannot by accident reveal any original information. In this webinar, experts of the task team on PETs will launch the "UN Guide on PETs for Official Statistics". The program is as follows.
Description: As part of the 54th session of the UN Statistical Commission, in this side event, the IAEG-SDGs would like to start the initial discussion on the review process. The IAEG-SDGs will brief countries, international agencies and stakeholders on the principles, criteria, and timeline of the 2025 Comprehensive Review. The event will also provide a platform for custodian agencies, Member States and civil society organisations to share experiences from the last comprehensive review and to outline their plans and strategies for developing successful proposals for this round.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 03 Feb 2023 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: Main objectives of the course are: * Introducing the participants to the concept of Big Data, the associated challenges and opportunities, and the statistical methods and IT tools needed to make the use of Big Data effective in official statistics. * Overviewing statistical methods and IT tools available for Big Data usage in Official Statistics.
Target Audience: Official statisticians (including managers) to be involved in big data activities and having no specific knowledge on this subject; Official statisticians (including managers) who, without being directly involved in big data activities, need basic knowledge on the use of big data in official statistics.
Organizer(s): ESCAP Vital Strategies Global Health Advocacy Incubator UNICEF UNFPA
Description: An initial meeting of the SEA registrars will be organized with support of the Philippines Statistics Authority on 7-9 February 2023 in Manila and will be part of the CRVS month in the Philippines. Multiple partners are supporting the event including ESCAP, Vital Strategies, Global Health Advocacy Incubator, UNICEF, UNFPA, and possible others. The objectives of the meeting are: 1. To explore and possibly initiate the establishment of a network for civil registrars in South-East Asia 2. To facilitate knowledge exchange and potential collaboration on issues of concern of civil registrars in the region 3. To document existing practices in the region and common challenges The meeting will provide a professional forum for civil registrars to discuss priority areas that are of common concern to the civil registrars in the region as well as the potential terms of references and organizational setup of a SEA civil registrars network. For each of the priority areas a draft background paper will be developed by ESCAP and UNICEF in preparation for the meeting. The papers will be shared with participants and inputs from the meeting will support finalization of the papers. The report: Civil Registration in South East Asia: Legislation, Digitization and Inequality (2023)
Source: World Bank (Data extracted on: 03 Feb 2023 )
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Organizer(s): World Bank
Description: Advancing the World Bank’s twin goals of ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity requires knowing who the poor are and where they live. By reaching the most granular levels of geographic aggregation, policymakers can significantly improve outcomes for the world’s poorest. However, survey data alone is not sufficient for targeting at the lowest levels. This is where small area estimation becomes necessary. The publication of Guidelines to Small Area Estimation for Poverty Mapping caps more than two decades of poverty mapping experience at the World Bank since the launch of an innovative method combining census and survey data to study the spatial dimensions of poverty. The guidelines build upon the lessons learned from experience and seek to guide readers on the best methods available for a variety of data landscapes.
Description: Classification of the Functions of Government (COFOG) is a classification defined by the United Nations Statistics Division and adapted to the IMF government finance statistics (GFS) reporting framework. COFOG enables trends in government expenditure by function (e.g., defense or education) or policy purposes to be examined over time. The value of this is that expenditure by functions of government of different countries can be compared. Participants will gain an understanding of how the ten functions of government as described in the GFSM 2014 are classified, how to categorize expenditure data to generate a functional split will be explained and how it should reconcile with the economic classification of expenditure data used in the GFS. Participants should feel comfortable to present and discuss relevant data of their own country. Practical exercises with participants working in random groups will feature throughout the course enabling them to be able to appropriately categorize expenditure data to the correct functional categories. Focus will be on the function environmental protection and how this can be used in conjunction with other government data on climate change to see how governments are addressing the issue. In addition, applications of COFOG for reporting select UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicators will be discussed.
Description: Objective To delve into the development of indicator frameworks for inclusive and sustainable policies. The workshop will provide a comprehensive overview of ESCAP’s framework for policy and data integration and focus on key aspects of statistical indicators development. Moreover, the workshop will offer an opportunity for participating countries to share practical experiences. Expected Outputs Increased capacity of relevant national officials in assuring policy inclusiveness and developing a comprehensive indicator framework. All participants are expected to be engaged in the discussions and contribute towards the workshop outputs with demonstrating their national experiences. Background In 2021, ESCAP launched a project on "integrating policy and data to leave no one behind in selected countries in Asia and the Pacific," with support from the Republic of Korea. The project aims to assist countries in reviewing and developing comprehensive policy monitoring indicator frameworks that are well integrated with the four dimensions of development to leave no one behind. The workshop, jointly organized by the Republic of Korea National Statistics Office (KOSTAT) and ESCAP, is designed to (a) expand on the importance of policy and data integration through user-producer dialogue; (b) guide the process of developing national indicators, describing the characteristics of well-defined indicators; (c) introducing the tool ‘Every Policy is Connected (EPIC)’; and (d) provide participating countries with an opportunity to share their experiences. The following countries from and Asia-Pacific region are invited: Bangladesh, Brunei Darussalam, Fiji, Kyrgyzstan, Maldives, Mongolia, Palau, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Timor-Leste, and Viet Nam. , EPiC tool: Overview Resources Workshops
Description: Following the announcement that China-bound travelers are no longer required to quarantine, the United Nations World Data Forum 2023 (UNWDF 2023) is reconfirmed to take place from 24 to 27 April 2023 in Hangzhou, China. The Forum’s purpose is to create a space for those interested in data and statistics to exchange ideas, showcase innovations, identify solutions, discuss future strategies, and provide mutual learning opportunities on a wide variety of topics organized across the Programme. Participants will have the opportunity to view and interact in about 80 sessions online and more than 100 at the Hangzhou International Expo Center, including high-level plenaries, parallel sessions, learning labs, demonstrations, and other types of exhibits. The Forum welcomes participants interested in data from a diverse range of backgrounds: governments, civil society, the private sector, donor and philanthropic bodies, international and regional agencies, the geospatial community, the media, academia, and professional bodies. This webinar will share with you further information on this year’s Forum from a range of speakers representing the host country, the Programme Committee, the Forum secretariat and allow you to ask them questions. The following key topics will be covered: Logistics for travelling and staying in Hangzhou, including registration and visa process Highlights from the programme, including high-level events Outreach and communications around the Forum Virtual participation in Forum events Participants can share their questions either through the webinar’s registration form or through the live chat feature during the webinar. To present and answer your questions, the following members of the Programme Committee, the host country and secretariat will feature:
Organizer(s): UNSD UN Foundation Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data Data2x
Description: In order to foster learning for the 2023 VNR countries, the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA), UN Statistics Division, UN Foundation, Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data and Data2X will host a virtual peer exchange on the 2nd of February 2023- 7-9am EST/7-9pm ICT. This exchange will provide a space for countries to learn from one another and to identify best practices in developing their VNRs.
Description: Objectives of the webinar: Practical conclusions derived from the history of the FPOS, based on 30 years of experiences of by different groups of stakeholders of official statistics, with special reference to statistical agencies and other producers of official statistics and to the governments and international organizations. Mission of the FPOS in XXI century – legal, methodological and ethical basis of protecting “clean” information for societies in knowledge-based economies amid conditions of globalization.
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Description: This Fourth Expert Meeting of the Working Group allows members of the Working Group together with invited experts to review, discuss and consider its activities and progress to-date; efforts to advance the UN-IGIF and its nine strategic pathways with UN-IGIF-Hydro; and the workplan for the period 2023 - 2024 to enhance the availability and accessibility of marine geospatial information for resilience and sustainable development. The Fourth Expert Meeting will be held in conjunction with the Fourteenth meeting of the Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure Working Group of the International Hydrographic Organization and the Annual meeting of the Marine Domain Working Group of the Open Geospatial Consortium. These meetings will be co-located within a week-long programme, with joint agenda items where appropriate, to deliver the objectives and desired outcomes for each of the three working groups. These joint meetings enhance peer-to-peer engagements, interactions, learning and exchange of knowledge, information and experience, promote coordination, collaboration and avoid duplication of efforts. UN-GGIM recognized the need to consider the marine environment, namely, inland waters and waterways, shorelines, coastal waters, seas and oceans, as a key component of any national geospatial information management arrangements essential for the effective administration, management and governance of land and marine spaces, and the national geospatial resources of Member States. At its Seventh Session in August 2017, UN-GGIM established the Working Group on Marine Geospatial Information and endorsed its terms of reference. Marine geospatial information encompasses inland water bodies and waterways, coastal zones, seas and oceans contributes to the availability and accessibility of comprehensive location-based information to support Governments in developing policies, priorities and programmes, make decisions, and measure and monitor progress and outcomes. The Working Group aims to play a leading role in marine geospatial information policies at the global level to support the wellbeing of billions of inhabitants reliant on sustainable inland water bodies and waterways, coastal zones, seas and oceans. The Working Group is to provide a forum for dialogue and coordination among Member States, and between Member States and the International Hydrographic Organization, United Nations system and relevant international organizations to enhance global cooperation, advocate and improve the availability and accessibility of marine geospatial information
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 03 Feb 2023 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: This course is an eye-opener, democratizing the ethical development and use of AI to empower every human to achieve more. Understand the working principles of Artificial Intelligences (AI). Get to know the processes and tools involved in creating an AI. Get to know impactful use cases of AI. Understand the risks and challenges related to AI. Unlock entirely new data sources for science by leveraging existing AIs (without coding). Training new custom AIs (with some coding).
Target Audience: Statistical production units and methodologist of NSIs.
Description: Building on an earlier workshop organized in by the Brisbane Accord Group (BAG) and more recently, the online data analysis and report writing course held in 2021 (supported by ESCAP, SPC and ABS), this course aims to further strengthen the capacity of countries in the analysis of administrative data generated from civil registration systems with an objective of providing evidence on the performance of civil registration systems and making this data available for policy and planning (where it meets a sufficient level of quality and completeness). Specifically, the course is designed to address these two objectives: Assist countries to complete a vital statistics report that illustrates current levels and trends of births and deaths over time, and that can be used for planning and policy review purposes. Assist participants to build proficiency in key analytical, interpretation and presentation skills required to meet regional, national and international reporting requirements. About 10 participants from five countries: Kiribati, Samoa, Tonga, Fiji and Vanuatu are invited to attend the course.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 31 Oct 2022 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat
Description: To raise general awareness about the peer reviews in the ESS. To make staff familiar with the methodology for peer reviews. To harmonise the way peer reviews are implemented in the EU MS and EFTA countries.
Target Audience: Staff in the EU/EFTA MS NSIs/ONAs involved in the implementation of the 3rd round of ESS peer reviews in their country.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 29 Nov 2022 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat
Description: To provide the participants with a basic understanding of the main concepts of seasonal and calendar adjustment, trend cycle, irregular components and related time-series issues To introduce the participants to the use of software JDEMETRA+ via the graphical interface and R.
Target Audience: Staff of national statistical institutes (including newcomers) involved in the production process who want to acquire a good understanding of Seasonal Adjustment (SA) methods and practices.
Description: Modelling spatio-temporal phenomena is a key issue in today’s research. However, the extension from pure spatial to a spatio-temporal kriging approach is not trivial. We will look into a set of different perceptions of spatio-temporal dependence and the resulting covariance models (separable, product-sum, metric, …). The practical part deals with the exploration of empirical variograms and the different variogram models applied to different data sets. Finally, some computational aspects regarding R environment and specific packages available for variogram fitting and prediction purposes will be illustrated.
Target Audience: Statisticians interested in applications involving earth sciences
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Description: UNSD conducted a workshop on automated data exchange for the SDG Custodian Agencies. Using the Statistical Data and Metadata eXchange (SDMX) standard to automate data exchange has proven to substantially reduce the reporting burden for both the sender and receiver of statistical data. With some of the largest reporters of the SDG indicators including IMF, ILO, UNEP, having fully implemented SDMX exchange, there is a strong interest among the custodian agencies to move to SDMX exchange for their respective indicators. Responding to the demand, UNSD conducted the first round of SDMX training for the custodian agencies between 25 January and 2 February 2023. Over 4 online sessions, training in the basics of data modeling, the SDMX Information Model, commonly used SDMX tools, and specifics of SDG data exchange, was delivered to over 30 participants from about 15 Custodian Agencies. Positive feedback was received, and the training is expected to lead to a reduction of effort on the part of UNSD and the reporters as well as improvement of data quality and timeliness. Additional virtual workshops will be scheduled later in the year.
Description: The Brazilian Labour Force Survey (BLFS) is a quarterly rotating panel survey with 80% sample overlap between two successive quarters. We will present time series models developed to produce model-based single month estimates at national level as well as small area (state-level) estimates, which are both at a higher frequency than those currently being published. In addition, multivariate time series models that integrate survey data and Google Trends series for nowcasting are considered. High dimensionality problems are solved using a dynamic state space model. In this case, we also discuss the choice of search terms and approaches for targeting predictors in the dimensionality reduction process. The models account for the autocorrelation due to sample overlap and the increased volatility in the labour force series in 2020. This is joint work with Luna Hidalgo (IBGE) e and Jan van den Brakel (Statistics Netherlands and Maastricht University).
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Description: The TWG will hold its 20th virtual meeting on Wednesday, 25 January 2023, 13:30 – 15:00 hours, Bangkok time (GMT+7). Objectives: The objectives of the meeting are: To discuss the rationale as well as data and methodological considerations for DRSF tables (1) B1b: Population Exposure by Social Groups and (2) B2a: Exposure of Land and Infrastructure by Hazard Type. To share initial results of the review of DRSF tables B1b and B2a by Bhutan and Mongolia. To provide opportunities for TWG participants to reflect on and discuss the experiences from their national statistical systems. To get volunteers for the next DRSF table review on (1) B3: Coping Capacity Background Statistics and (2) C1: Summary Table of Human Impacts by Hazards Types. , Home: TWG Confluence Previous TWG Meetings
Description: The 3rd International Forum on Migration Statistics (IFMS 2023) is organized by the United Nations Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) Statistics and Population Divisions, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
Calls to improve migration data to formulate evidence-based migration policies and inform public discourse have become increasingly strong. However, basic data on the stocks, flows, and characteristics of international migrants, as well as on the causes and impacts of international migration remain scarce or are not utilized to their full potential in many countries. The IFMS 2023 will provide a unique opportunity to discuss ways to improve the collection, analysis, and use of migration data worldwide, to fill existing migration data gaps and to better inform policy making.
As in the two previous fora, this event will mobilise expertise from a range of disciplines, such as statistics,economics, demography, sociology, geospatial science, and information technology. The IFMS 2023 will bring together producers and users of migration statistics from national and international statistical offices, other government agencies, international organizations, academia, civil society, and the private sector.
The Forum will be hosted by the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile, from 24 to 26 January 2023 as an in-person and hybrid event.
Description: For this Global Network Webinar we were excited to welcome Gabriel Gamez and Clarence Lio from the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) who presented on the Handbook on Management and Organization of National Statistical Systems - its features and how to keep it relevant. The Handbook on Management and Organization of National Statistical Systems, the 4th edition of a series of publications on the management of statistical organizations, was endorsed by the 52nd session of the United Nations Statistical Commission in March 2021 as a non-prescriptive compendium targeting chief statisticians, senior managers, and staff members of statistical organizations. The Handbook provides guidance on developing and maintaining national statistical capacity that is fit for purpose and apprises critical issues and topics, including integrating innovative data sources and technologies in the production of statistics and indicators. To remain relevant in a rapidly changing data ecosystem, the Handbook has been designed as a "living document" to be regularly updated and revised under the guidance of an Advisory Group composed of national and international chief and senior statisticians. Gabriel Gamez presented the genesis of the Handbook, its structure and content, while Clarence Lio provided a short demo of the mobile-device compatible format and the printer-friendly version, both available on the UNSD website. The webinar also reflected on the mechanisms to keep the compendium fit for purpose and concluded with proposals for alterations and revisions submitted to the upcoming UN Statistical Commission.
Enhancing the Quality of Statistical Business Registers with Scraped Data
24 Jan 2023 – 24 Jan 2023
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 10 Jan 2023 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat
Description: This webinar will aim to inspire and equip participants keen to use web-scraped information to enhance the quality of the Statistical Business Registers. The webinar will discuss some of the different approaches to web scraping business information and the automatic prediction of NACE codes via text mining.
Description: "Disclosure: Due to COVID 19, courses will be delivered in person, hybrid, or virtual, according to safety guidelines. As of today, this course is scheduled to be delivered in person in Vienna, but its delivery method may change. By submitting your application, you confirm your availability to participate in the course either in person or virtually. Up-to-date Covid-19 vaccination is likely to be required and related information may be requested from participants for in-person courses. " This course, presented by the Statistics Department, covers theoretical and practical aspects in the compilation of national accounts statistics based on the conceptual framework of the System of National Accounts 2008 (2008 SNA). The course consists of lectures covering advanced methodological and compilation issues of the 2008 SNA and workshops consisting of practical exercises in compiling the accounts. The main aim of the course is to train participants in developing and using more advanced compilation techniques in areas including supply and use tables (SUTs), input-output tables, price and volume measures, and thematic satellite accounts. The course starts with SNA framework and will discuss how these accounts can be extended to address specific user needs. The main lectures and workshops include: Conceptual framework of the SNA; Output of specific industries; SUTs and input-outputs tables; Price and volume measurement; Estimating consumption of fixed capital; and Thematic satellite accounts, with a focus on topics covered in the update of the 2008 SNA (e.g., informal economy, labor accounts).Emphasis is also placed on sharing country experiences among the participants.
Description: This course, presented by the IMF Statistics Department, identifies the key uses of RPPIs; reviews data sources and methods for compiling RPPIs; and outlines strategic issues for country-specific application. Emphasis is given to the importance of evaluating alternative data sources for compiling RPPIs in terms of coverage, timeliness, richness in terms of supporting a quality-mix methodology, suitability of a price measure, and weighting. Trade-offs involved in selecting data sources are considered, as are strategies for longer-run development of data sources. The methodological component of the course emphasizes the quality-mix problem: a change in the mix of properties transacted each period can bias measures of change in average prices. Mix-adjustment by stratification and hedonic regression are the main methods used to deal with this issue and interactive workshops deal with these topics. The course also highlights how data source and methodological issues are intertwined and follows the principles of the 2013 Handbook on RPPIs published by Eurostat, International Labor Organization (ILO), IMF, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), and the World Bank. Practical advice on RPPI compilation will draw on the 2020 RPPI Practical Compilation Guide published by the IMF.
Description: Introduction and Background Revision Selected count data distributions: Poisson, negative binomial (NB), zeta, logarithmic. Examples of heaped and seeped (digit preference) data in self-reported surveys. Other examples of inflated (spiked), truncated and deflated (dipped) count data. Generalized linear models (GLMs) and Vector GLMs (VGLMs). Underdispersion, equidispersion and overdispersion. The multinomial logit model (MLM). The VGAM R package. Using glm() and vglm() in R. GAITD Regression Theory Notation and the 7 special value types. Parametric versus nonparametric variants. Probability mass function of the full `combo’ model. Seven mode example. With covariates, what questions GA, GI, GD models can answer. Properties: moments, cumulative distribution function. The Generally-Truncation-Expansion (GTE) method for underdispersion. The GAITD-Poisson and GAITD-NB models. Overfitting. Two measures of AITD: Kullback-Leibler divergence and the Xi measure. Practical Tutorial Examples Basic use of spikeplot(), plotdgaitd() and dgaitdplot(). Sleep duration data (GTE + GI). Self-reported smoking data. Other Topics A selection from (time permitting): Choosing initial values and monitoring convergence. Advanced modelling, e.g., order of the linear predictors, extractor functions, vgam() and rrvglm() for additive modelling and reduced-rank regression. Joint effects of the 7 special value types on underdispersion and overdispersion. Hypothesis testing, model selection via AIC, Vuong’s test. Comments on special cases such as the zero-inflated Poisson (ZIP), zero-altered Poisson (ZAP; a hurdle model), zero-truncated (positive) Poisson (ZTP).
Target Audience: Statistical practitioners, especially of regression and those with count responses from self-reported survey data. Postgraduate and advanced undergraduate students in statistics would also very suitable.
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Description: Within the framework of its Statistical Capacity Building (StatCaB) Programme, SESRIC will organise a Training Course on ‘SDG 1 (No Poverty) Indicators’ for the benefit of National Statistical Offices (NSOs) of OIC countries on 17-18 January 2023 through an online video conferencing platform. Ms. Pazlina Waty Che Pah, Principal Assistant Director in Prices, Income and Expenditure Division at the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM), will conduct the course and cover the following topics: Statistical Framework in Malaysia and Moving Forward to SDG 2030 Overview of SDG 1 indicators Concepts and definitions Methodology Data sources Reporting Malaysia’s Indicators on SDG related to poverty eradication SDG 1 indicators of Malaysia Road Map for unavailable SDG 1 indicators The StatCaB Programme was initiated in early 2007. It is the flagship capacity development programme of the SESRIC. Within its framework, the Centre collects information from the NSOs of OIC member countries through the biennial StatCaB questionnaire, assesses their needs and capacities, matches these needs and capacities, and organizes statistical capacity development activities between the beneficiary and provide countries. For more information on SESRIC Statistical Capacity Building (StatCaB) Programme, please visit: http://www.oicstatcom.org/statcab.php
Description: In this Global Network Webinar, Yongyi Min and Heather Page from the SDG Monitoring Section of the United Nations Statistics Division presented on preparing evidence-based Voluntary National Reviews (VNRs). Data are being widely recognized as strategic assets in accelerating the implementation of the SDGs. Data and statistics are therefore a vital element of Voluntary National Reviews and SDG reporting to accurately demonstrate SDG commitment and progress. VNRs, presented by countries at the High-Level Political Forum in July, are meant to support governments in reviewing implementation of the Global Goals through the opportunity to share experiences among Member States. Several resources have been developed to support Member States in different aspects of the VNRs and UNSD has developed a Guide to serve as a complementary resource for Member States on how to use data and statistics to support evidence-based VNRs. The Practical Guide to Evidence-based Voluntary National Reviews takes a roadmap approach and good practice examples to suggest key stages in the national VNR process that can enhance the use of data. The publication provides recommendations for what should be reported, how to compile and present statistics, and what information to include in these reviews. In this webinar, Yongyi and Heather presented the Guide and data roadmap as well as additional resources for developing evidence-based VNRs.
Source: ESCAP SIAP (Data extracted on: 13 Feb 2023 )
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Organizer(s): ESCAP SIAP
Description: This course introduces concepts relevant to compiling indicators that inform climate change. The topics covered include among othersclimate change policies and indicators; energy and air emission accounts; and data sources. Weekly webinars will also be held as part of the course to provide an overview of the topics and allow participants to ask questions. Following the completion of the course and depending on resource availabilityin-kind support will be provided to countries interested in the compilation of climate change indicators that will be introduced and discussed during the course.
Description: "Disclosure: Due to COVID 19, courses will be delivered in person, hybrid, or virtual, according to safety guidelines. As of today, this course is scheduled to be delivered in person in Vienna, but its delivery method may change. By submitting your application, you confirm your availability to participate in the course either in person or virtually. Up-to-date Covid-19 vaccination is likely to be required and related information may be requested from participants for in-person courses. " This course, presented by the Statistics Department, acquaints participants with the fundamentals of compiling and using FSIs in support of macroprudential analysis. The course covers methodological and technical issues in the construction of FSIs, as discussed in the 2019 Financial Soundness Indicators Compilation Guide (2019 FSI Guide). The course takes an interactive approach using hands-on exercises in discussing the main topics as follows: Preparation of the sectoral financial statements and compilation of FSIs for deposit takers; Regulatory framework for deposit takers; Accounting principles and data consolidation for the compilation of FSIs for deposit takers; and Overview of key points and changes in the 2019 FSI Guide.
Description: This one-week course will be presented by experts from the International Monetary Fund's Statistics Department. The course will be based on the System of National Accounts 2008 (2008 SNA). The course will cover the following topics: national accounts concepts, methods, and framework; estimating Gross Domestic Product using the production, expenditure and income approach; Supply and Use tables and Input and Output tables; price and volume measures and Satellite accounts. The course will feature interactive lectures and hands-on exercises that enable participants to operationalize what they learn. The main lectures and workshops include: (i) Overview of the System of National Accounts, (ii) Gross Domestic Product by Production, Expenditure and Income approach (iii) Supply and use tables and Input and output tables (iv) Price and Volume measures (v) Satellite accounts.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 31 Oct 2022 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat GOPA
Description: Drawing from work done in the past few years in the context of Large Case Units and European Profiling, and to support the ongoing move to a more systematic and coordinated approach to globalisation-related activities in the ESS, this course should support managers/statisticians involved in business/macroeconomic and globalisation statistics growing need to understand well and interact successfully with multinational enterprise groups (MNEs) operating in Europe. The course will aim at providing the participants with an improved statistical skillset to tackle Multinational Enterprise Groups issues, including: * A better understanding of the MNEs structure, organization and activities; * A better understanding MNEs accounting and reporting concepts and standards; * Searching and using financial information on MNEs; * Role of profiling and practical implementation.
Target Audience: Managers and statisticians fully or partially involved in the domain of business statistics, macroeconomics and globalisation statistics.
Description: Nonresponse is one of the factors that affect the quality of survey data. The course will focus on modelling optimum response in longitudinal survey.
Target Audience: Postgraduate students, data producers and survey methodology experts
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Description: Within the framework of its Statistical Capacity Building (StatCaB) Programme, SESRIC will organise a Training Course on ‘Government Finance, Fiscal and Public Sector Statistics’ for the benefit of National Statistical Offices (NSOs) of Arabic speaking OIC countries on 10-12 January 2023 through an online video conferencing platform. Mr. Faed Rayyan, Director of Government Finance Statistics (GFS) Department as well as Compiler of the Balance of Payments and International Investment Position at the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), will conduct the course and cover the following topics: Overview of definitions, accounting rules, instruments and counterparties Coverage and sectorization Consolidation Debt data compilation issues Presentation and dissemination of GFS Challenges and recommendations The SESRIC StatCaB Programme was initiated in early 2007. It is the flagship capacity development programme of SESRIC. Within the framework of StatCaB Programme, the Centre collects information from the NSOs of OIC member countries through the biennial StatCaB Questionnaire, assesses their statistical training needs and capacities, matches these needs and capacities, and organizes statistical capacity development activities between the beneficiary and provider countries. For more information on SESRIC Statistical Capacity Building (StatCaB) Programme, please visit: http://www.oicstatcom.org/statcab.php
Description: Many failings in the application of statistics do not result from errors in calculations but from logical and conceptual misunderstandings. Selection of methods for data analysis, interpretation of data and testing results, and application of statistical information in decision-making, for example, all demand strong foundations in probabilistic thinking. This course supplies tools and best practices for teaching and communicating statistical thinking as a foundation for conducting, understanding, and applying statistics. While the statistical community has a wide variety of successful tools for teaching statistical calculations and tests, examples and resources for teaching statistical thinking are less common. We include examples from scientific studies, official statistics, working with decision-makers, and communicating to the general public. The first half of the course will focus on common errors in statistical thinking and how to avoid them. It includes methods for thinking in simulations; how a single statistical analysis fits into the larger supply-chain of knowledge; and what p-values are and how they are often misused. We will conduct hands-on activities that can be used in a wide variety of settings, including on-line workshops. A set of these activities have paired R-labs for those teaching statistics courses. The second half of the course focuses on statistical communication and the responsibilities of statisticians in communication of data and uncertainty. We cover some classic and fascinating examples of statistical miscommunication and work in groups on statistical communication challenges. Activities focus on communication of scientific results as well as official statistics and, in particular, on best practices for communicating uncertainty so that the uncertainty can be leveraged in decision-making. These activities will be enable anyone teaching statistics as well as anyone consulting or communicating in the field of statistics to more clearly articulate the interpretation of scientific studies as well as why there is uncertainty, what it means, and how that information can be applied in a decision-making context.
Target Audience: The target audience focuses on statisticians teaching statistics courses at the undergraduate and graduate level and will also be relevant to anyone conducting statistical consulting or communicating statistical work to those without a strong statistical background.
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Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, introduces the fundamentals of compiling monetary statistics, with special attention to other financial corporations (OFCs). It also gives an overview of financial statistics and national accounts. The course material is based on the Monetary and Financial Statistics Manual and Compilation Guide (MFSMCG). Although the course summarizes the main principles underlying the compilation of monetary statistics, it assumes participants already understand these principles (e.g., having participated in the MFS-I course). The core of the course deals with characteristics of various OFCs (insurance corporations, pension funds, non-MMF investment funds, etc.), their typical balance sheet structure, and their role in the financial sector. The course also covers some aspects of financial statistics, dealing with financial flows and stocks of all sectors of the domestic economy and their interactions with the rest of the world; the balance sheet approach to vulnerability analysis; and the relationships between monetary, balance of payments, government finance, and national accounts statistics. The course consists of lectures and case studies to familiarize participants with practical aspects of compiling monetary statistics for OFCs and the basic principles underlying the compilation of national accounts. At the end of the course, participants are expected to make a short presentation on monetary statistics compilation issues in their own countries.
Description: This series of webinar provides a general introduction to Bayesian modeling with a particular focus on regression and multilevel models. The use of the system R in Bayesian computation is described, including the programming of the Bayesian model and the use of different R tools to summarize the posterior. Special focus will be on the application of Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms and diagnostic methods to assess convergence of the algorithms. The LearnBayes and rethinking R packages are used to illustrate MCMC fitting by the use of Gibbs sampling and Metropolis algorithms. Larger Bayesian models will be fit using JAGS and Stan and the accompanying runjags and rstan packages.
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Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, is intended to provide participants with a thorough understanding of the international standards for the compilation of EDS presented in the 2013 EDS: Guide for Compilers and Users (2013 EDS Guide). The course covers basic concepts, definitions, and classifications, along with the principal accounting rules (including valuation and time of recording) that are relevant for compilation of the EDS. Finally, participants are briefed on basic concepts of the debt sustainability analysis framework.
Description: The consumer price index (CPI) is one of the most important macroeconomic indicators produced by a country. CPI data are essential inputs for policymakers who require reliable measures of price change to make sound policy decisions. In addition, wages, salaries, government payments, pensions, rent, and other payments are indexed to the CPI and require accurate estimates of inflation. Learn the key concepts and compilation methods required to compile reliable CPI data using the best available methods.
Description: This course is presented by the ISI Statistical Capacity Building (SCB) Committee. It is available for free to everyone. The course includes an introduction to (descriptive) statistics, and modules on sampling, probability, statistical inference, experimental design, categorical data, non-parametric methods, and linear regression. We thank Ann Maharaj (Australia), Delia North and her three collaborators (South Africa), and Edward Boone (United States) for their efforts in developing it. Capacity building is a strategic priority for ISI, and the SCB Committee has been very active in organising courses and favouring participation in events, sometimes in cooperation with other organisations. Now the SCB Committee is working to provide online courses and webinars, starting with this course. The Committee is also looking into providing sessions devoted to Questions and Answers. More information will be provided as soon as we have it available. Modules: (1) Introduction to Statistics and Descriptive Statistics; (2) Sampling; (3) Probability; (4) Statistical Inference for One Population; (5) Statistical Inference for Two Populations; (6) Experimental Design and Analysis of Variance; (7) Analysis of Categorical Data; (8) Non-Parametric Methods; (9) Simple Linear Regression; (10) Multiple Linear Regression
Description: The Measuring the Sustainability of Tourism (MST) programme—led by the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) in partnership with the UN Statistics Division and leading countries, and with the support of ILO and others—aims to provide a common framework to measure the impacts and dependencies of tourism on the economy, society and the environment, both at national and subnational levels. UNWTO is organizing a 3-day gathering consisting of: - a Workshop on Measuring the Sustainability of Tourism to exchange good practices among the pioneering pilot countries and clarify issues with leading experts worldwide, and - the Third Meeting of the Working Group of Experts on Measuring the Sustainability of Tourism to pick up on the development of the Statistical Framework for Measuring the Sustainability of Tourism (SF-MST) which is more necessary than ever as tourism recovers from its worst crisis in history because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Description: The Measuring the Sustainability of Tourism (MST) programme—led by the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) in partnership with the UN Statistics Division and leading countries, and with the support of ILO and others—aims to provide a common framework to measure the impacts and dependencies of tourism on the economy, society and the environment, both at national and subnational levels. UNWTO is organizing a 3-day gathering consisting of: - a Workshop on Measuring the Sustainability of Tourism to exchange good practices among the pioneering pilot countries and clarify issues with leading experts worldwide, and - the Third Meeting of the Working Group of Experts on Measuring the Sustainability of Tourism to pick up on the development of the Statistical Framework for Measuring the Sustainability of Tourism (SF-MST) which is more necessary than ever as tourism recovers from its worst crisis in history because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Description: High-level virtual side event on the 'Road to the Commission'. The Webinar will be held online on December 14 from 7:00 to 8:30 am (New York time). To participate, please register by clicking here.
The UN Statistics Division is organising a series of webinars on the UN Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics (FPOS or the Principles), which will pave the way to the 30th anniversary of the adoption of the Principles by the UN Statistical Commission, and the 10th anniversary of their endorsement by the UN General Assembly. This Webinar is also the first in a series of high-level side events convened under the auspices of the Statistical Commission on the 'Road to the Commission'.
The Webinar will be an interactive event with the participation of selected high-level panellists. It aims to recall the journey of the FPOS from their adoption by the Conference of European Statisticians in 1991 to their acknowledgement and endorsement at the global level. Panellists will reflect on how this set of essential standards has secured official statistics' trust, transparency, accountability and relevance. The Webinar will eventually discuss success stories and challenges in implementing the Principles. It will consider specific regional and national contexts and touch upon their possible extension to the entire national data ecosystem. It will conclude with an early reflection on possible global and regional mechanisms to monitor their implementation and follow up on non-compliance.
For this Webinar, the organisers have the pleasure of confirming the participation as panellist of:
Laura Ahtime, Chief Executive Officer, National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), Seychelles
Misha Belkindas, President of the International Association for Official Statistics (IAOS)
Pádraig Dalton, Director General of the Central Statistics Office (CSO), Ireland
Marco Lavagna, Director General of the National Institute of Statistics and Census (INDEC), Argentina
Stefan Schweinfest, Director of the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD)
Ola Awad Shakhshir, President of the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS)
Hallgrimur Snorrason, former Chief Statistician of Iceland and UNSD senior consultant
Gabriel Gamez, Inter-regional Advisor at UNSD, will moderate the Webinar
The event targets chief statisticians and managers of national and international statistical organisations. Still, it is open to the broader participation of producers and users of statistics and data at the country, regional and global levels.
Description: Beginning in 2024, the economic directorate of the U.S. Census Bureau will introduce the Annual Integrated Economic Survey (AIES), an economy wide survey that replaces a suite of six independently designed ongoing surveys. The AIES sample design requirements are informed by the user community’s longstanding data needs (e.g., national and sub-national tabulations), as well as by extensive respondent research on collection. This paper provides an end-to-end high-level overview of the AIES probability sampling design, including determination of the sampling unit, computation of unit-level inclusion probabilities for the implement probability proportional to size sampling, stratification, allocation, and sample selection and validation. Throughout, I selectively highlight specific challenges of developing a multi-purpose business survey whose collection covers a wide range of economic sectors.
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Description: Geospatial information methodologies and technologies are increasingly used for population and housing censuses, from planning and updating cartography, to enumeration, to dissemination of census information, including their visualization by geographic location on thematic/interactive/smart/story maps. The 3-hour course will demonstrate the importance and benefits of the use of geospatial information, and guide the participants, step-by-step, how to choose, appropriate with their national conditions and needs, the best advanced geospatial information technology in support of all stages of a Population & Housing Census process and beyond. All this illustrated by good practices and demos!
Target Audience: Main Target: Census Geographers/Cartographers Others: Census Managers, Statisticians.
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Description: "Disclosure: Due to COVID 19, courses will be delivered in person, hybrid, or virtual, according to safety guidelines. As of today, this course is scheduled to be delivered in person in Vienna, but its delivery method may change. By submitting your application, you confirm your availability to participate in the course either in person or virtually. Up-to-date Covid-19 vaccination is likely to be required and related information may be requested from participants for in-person courses. " This course, presented by the Statistics Department, familiarizes participants with the methodology recommended by the Handbook on Securities Statistics, a joint undertaking of the IMF, the Bank for International Settlements, and the European Central Bank, published in May 2015. The course covers definition and features of securities, securitization, and related operation; valuation and recording of securities; classification schemes and presentation tables for securities; and security-by-security databases. A practical exercise on valuation and recording of different types of debt securities complements the lectures.
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Description: The main objectives of the course are: * Introducing the participants to the Python language and ecosystem; * Make the participants able to read and write basic Python programs for common data processing tasks (data analysis, exploration and visualization).
Target Audience: Official statisticians (including managers) involved in Big Data and Data Science activities having no specific knowledge on this subject; Official statisticians (including managers) who, without being directly involved in Big Data and Data Science activities, need basic knowledge on the use of the Python language.
Description: The third Expert Group Meeting aims to continue monitoring the challenges in conducting population and housing censuses during the pandemic. In addition, on day two, the meeting will cover data quality issues that may have arisen due to conducting the census during a pandemic and potential methods to address data quality concerns. Day three of the meeting will provide an opportunity to take a broader approach and discuss lessons learned from conducting censuses during times of crisis and provide recommendations for improving the resilience of future censuses conducted. It is likely that future census operations will have to contend increasing uncertainty due to natural disasters, health emergencies, political instability, or other unforeseen disruptive events. None of these events can be predicted in advance, but contingency planning for the unexpected will be a vital component of delivering a successful census going forward into the 2030 round.
Description: The 16th Meeting of the Inter-Agency and Expert Group on Gender Statistics (IAEG-GS) was organized by the Statistics Division, virtually, on 12-14 December 2022. The meeting was attended by over 100 participants, including gender statisticians and experts in the areas of environment and trade statistics from national, regional and international statistical entities. The IAEG-GS (a) discussed on-going activities related to mainstreaming a gender perspective into climate change statistics, and into trade statistics, and developed a plan of work for an established IAEG-GS Advisory Group to carry out this mandate and ultimately report back to the Statistical Commission on mainstreaming a gender perspective into the work of the Commission; (b) discussed and provided feedback on preliminary results from the 2022 Global Survey on National Gender Statistics Programmes; (c) took stoke of national initiatives on closing data gaps for monitoring gender equality as well as of activities by the Regional Commissions and international agencies to strengthen gender statistics, in such areas as violence against women (including among elderly women and women with disabilities); and (e) discussed future work priorities for the IAEG-GS, as well as preparations for the 9th Global Forum on Gender Statistics that will be hosted by Statistics South Africa in 2023.
Description: The annual Global Health Expenditure Report will showcase health spending for over 190 countries from 2000-2020. The report will feature early analyses on COVID-19 spending as well as a look into social protection spending. The report launch will coincide with updated data on the Global Health Expenditure Database.
Description: In 2020, UNODC, ESCAP, UNCTAD, UNODC ROSEAP, inaugurated a new Development Account project called “Statistics and data for measuring illicit financial flows in the Asia-Pacific region”. The project aimed at consolidating existing and testing new methodological guidelines for the measurement of Indicator 16.4.1 “Total value of inward and outward illicit financial flows (IFFs)”, as well as to build and strengthen statistical capacity by providing technical assistance and guidance to pilot countries for the measurement of such indicator. An UNCTAD/UNODC Conceptual Framework for the Statistical Measurement of Illicit Financial Flows was published in October 2020, and in June 2021, UNCTAD published Methodological Guidelines to Measure Tax and Commercial IFFs for pilot testing, while UNODC is measuring crime related IFFs. Pilot testing has been ongoing in 2021-2022 of the UNCTAD Guidelines in two countries, namely, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, and crime related IFFs were tested in Viet Nam, Bangladesh, Maldives, Nepal by UNODC. A hybrid final workshop of the project is being organized to discuss the implementation of activities IFFs in the six Asian countries. The meeting objectives are: * Report on improved statistical capacity to measure illicit financial flows; * Report the estimates of the illicit financial flows; * Share experiences and best practices among the pilot countries within the region; * Facilitate continuation of measurement by national statistical offices and national agencies; * Disseminate testing guidelines (both crime-related and tax and commercial) which were updated as a result of this pilot testing round; * Discuss future work, interregional cooperation, and policy implications for measuring illicit financial flows
Description: Model-based small area estimation approaches are in great demand by institutions interested in reliable statistics at disaggregated levels. Such tools overcome estimation challenges using small or incomplete survey data, in part, by combining data from multiple sources. The course starts with an overview of important small area estimation concepts. Area-level models are the main focus of the course, as proven to be of great practical use. Hierarchical Bayes inference is adopted. Software programs are provided for the model fit, validation, prediction, and comparison, with model specification scrips in R STAN. Illustrations use public-use data from the U.S. Census Bureau, for state-level poverty rate estimation research. Learning outcomes to be covered Learn how to conduct area-level model-based small area estimation analyses using freely available software.
Target Audience: The course is intended for statisticians interested in hierarchical Bayes model-based small area estimation.
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Organizer(s): UNSD Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity European Commission European Space Agency IUCN
Description: This side event at the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP15) is organized by the Secretariat of Convention of Biological Diversity, European Commission, the European Space Agency, the United Nations Statistics Division and the International Union for Conservation of Nature Mainstreaming biodiversity is generally understood as ensuring that biodiversity and ecosystems are adequately factored into national policies and practices. Natural capital accounting is the umbrella term used to indicate the use of an accounting framework to provide a systematic way to measure and report on stocks and flows of natural capital. The underlying premise if that nature is important to society and the economy and should be recognized as an asset that must be maintained and managed and its contributions better integrated into the regular statistical production process. The System of Environmental Economic Accounting is the accepted international statistical standard for natural capital accounting, providing a framework for organizing and presenting statistics on nature and its relationship with the economy. It is essential for integrating biodiversity considerations into measures of national performance and policy appraisal and integral to inclusive wealth accounts. According to the 2021 global assessment on the SEEA implementation, approximately 90 countries compile the SEEA with 35 countries compiling ecosystem accounts. Scaling up the implementation in countries is an important goal of the statistical community, which adopted the SEEA implementation strategy in 2022 This side event will examine how the SEEA can help mainstreaming biodiversity into relevant strategies and plans, systematically integrate biodiversity into programmes, policies and projects, promote inter-ministerial coordination and setting time-bound targets, clear roles and responsibilities. Using the SEEA as the underlying statistical framework for some of the indicators in the monitoring framework will result in indicators that are consistent across domains comparable across countries and over time and permit monitoring progress towards achieving the goals and targets. The event will feature speakers from different communities and will highlight the importance of the SEEA to support integrated policies and decision making.
Description: This activity focuses on presenting the R library “Calidad”, a set of methodological tools to assess the quality of an estimate towards objective criteria of the estimate’s reliability in complex household surveys.
Description: Satisfaction of local residents is considered one of the key factors for sustainable tourism development. Many residents either work directly in the tourism value chain or benefit from it indirectly, while many others only passively experience the impacts of tourism, whether positive or negative. Therefore, monitoring local satisfaction is key to long-term sustainable development and helps tourism policy makers and planners to effectively use tourism resources and identify potential problems and conflicts in a timely manner. This INSTO Insights webinar will discuss the experiences and insights of INSTO members and experts on measuring the satisfaction level of local residents toward sustainable tourism development, especially from the residents´ perspective on socio-cultural, economic, and environmental developments. Experiences will be shared on various methodologies, such as the use of questionnaires and surveys, including the presentation of indicators such as the Tourism Intensity Index. The implications of these monitoring efforts in terms of informing policies and strategies will also be discussed in more details.
Description: The webinar is organized by the International Statistical Literacy Project (ISLP), a project that aims to advance statistical literacy worldwide. The webinar is based on the SJIAOS special stream on Statistical and Data Literacy in Policy-Making (Vol 38, No. 2, 2022). As the publication did, the webinar offers conceptual reflections on statistical and data literacy in policy-making. In their presentations, the contributing authors reflect on the relevance of the use of statistics and data in politics and highlight the impact of both on policy-making. They underline the need for statistical and data literacy in policy-making and identify key elements of it. They also elaborate on how statistical and data literacy in policy-making is specific. The individual contributions to the SJIAOS special stream originate from the ISI World Statistics Congress 2021 Invited Paper Session on ‘Statistical and Data Literacy in Policy-Making’.
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Description: The Workshop will train participants from national statistical offices on quality assurance and its implementation throughout the national statistical system and support the development of additional guidelines on quality assurance. The Workshop will provide an overview of the contents of the Manual and the UN National Quality Assurance Framework, review and discuss the implementation of quality assurance in participating countries and discuss quality assurance in the case when new and administrative data sources are being used. The sharing of experiences will also support the development of further implementation guidance.
Description: We are cordially inviting you to submit papers to and attend the International Conference The Use of R in Official Statistics – uRos2022 until 16th of September 2022. There will be two kind of presentations: “regular presentations” with roughly 15 minutes time slots and “lighting presentations” with 5 minutes time slots and automatic cycling through the slides. Please indicate your preference, but the scientific committee will finally assign the presentations into the two categories. The purpose of the conference is to provide a public forum for researchers from academia and institutes of official (government) statistics to present, exchange ideas and discuss developments in state-of-the-art statistical software commonly used in applied economics and statistics. The most focused debates are expected to be on the use of R in Official Statistics. In 2022, we are delighted to announce that the 10th uRos, the first non-European uRos, will be hosted by Statistics Canada, as a virtual event.
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Description: The adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development requires governments and stakeholders to monitor progress towards the defined goals and targets relating to decent work and economic growth. The 19th and 20th ICLS Resolutions on work statistics are crucial for the analysis of decent-work-related SDG indicators, particularly SDG 8 on promoting inclusive and sustainable growth, employment and decent work for all. A strong statistical system for producing, collecting and disseminating reliable, comprehensive and timely labour-market information is critical for evidence-based policymaking which promotes "full and productive employment and decent work for all". The ILO Department of Statistics, in close collaboration with the International Training Centre of the ILO, is proud to be organizing the 2021 Labour Market Statistics and Analysis Academy, with a particular focus on the outcomes of the 19th and 20th ICLS concerning emerging trends in the world of work and the SDG monitoring framework for measuring decent work and supporting evidence-based policymaking. The main objective of the Academy is to better equip and situate national and international stakeholders in the new SDG statistical monitoring system. The Academy is designed to enhance institutional capacity for identifying, collecting, analysing and disseminating labour-market information and other indicators related to decent work. Moreover, the Academy emphasizes the 20th ICLS Resolution on the statistics of work relationships as an important pillar for measuring progress towards the 2030 agenda, particularly Goal 8 on promoting inclusive and sustainable growth, employment and decent work for all.
Target Audience: National statistical offices (NSOs); ministries of labour and related Institutions (such as labour observatories); governmental agencies responsible for labour-market data analysis and national SDG reporting; ILO social partners (employers' and workers' organizations); research and academic institutions; international organizations; development agencies; non-governmental organizations.
Course Language: English
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Description: The United Nations Regional Workshop on the 2020 World Programme for Population and Housing Censuses for Arabic-speaking Countries is organized by UNSD in collaboration with the UNFPA Arab States Regional Office, the United Nations Economic Commission for Central and Western Asia (ESCWA), and the Arab Institute for Training and Research on Statistics (AITRS). The workshop aims to help Arabic-speaking countries in achieving a common and enhanced understanding of international recommendations and standards on quality assurance in population and housing censuses, the impact, and challenges of conducting a population and housing census during the COVID-19 pandemic and other crisis situations, and the necessary preconditions and the challenges of transitioning to a registers-based census. The workshop will also provide a platform to discuss the experience, challenges, and good practices available among Arabic-speaking countries in census-taking during the 2020 census round. The Workshop will bring together census managers and experts from national statistical offices, census agencies, international and regional organizations to exchange views and experience on the three interrelated themes of the workshop. The workshop will be held in English. Simultaneous interpretation in Arabic and vice-versa will be provided.
Description: This course, presented by the IMF Statistics Department, covers theoretical and practical aspects in the compilation of national accounts statistics based on the conceptual framework of the System of National Accounts 2008 (2008 SNA). The course consists of lectures covering advanced methodological and compilation issues of the 2008 SNA and workshops consisting of practical exercises in compiling the accounts. The main aim of the course is to train participants in the compilation of more advanced parts of the accounting structure including supply and use tables, input-output tables, satellite accounts, labor and productivity statistics, and advanced price and volume topics. The course starts with review of the sequence of accounts with a focus on how these accounts can be extended to address specific user needs. The main lectures and workshops include: * Supply and use tables. * Input-Output Tables. * Trade in Value Added. * Satellite Accounts. * Labor and Productivity Statistics. * Advanced topics in price and volume measurement. * Emphasis is also placed on sharing country experiences among the participants.
Target Audience: Compilers of national accounts statistics employed by agencies responsible for official national accounts statistics.
Description: On 2 December, the Statistics Technical Network will organize a webinar on the fundamentals of Deep Learning, where FAO colleagues from the Statistics Division will present the benefits of fast.ai. WHEN | Friday, 2 December 2022, 14:00-15:00 Rome time | REGISTER HERE Nowadays neural networks are widely used in a wide range of applications. In some areas, such as Computer Vision (CV) and Natural Language Processing (NLP), this new technology has outperformed previous state-of-the-art models. The FAO Data Lab is using neural networks to tackle real-world problems on daily data (such as classification of tweets and images) by exploiting fast.ai, a Python library built on top of PyTorch. fast.ai allows to build neural nets from scratch, tailored to the project's purposes, in a few hours with a perfect combination of model customization and speed (to create, train and deploy models). In this webinar, we will explore the potential of this library showing a couple of case scenarios, in the field of NLP and CV, that can be solved with fast.ai. The aim of this presentation is to share our approach to any potential user and provide suggestions about solving tasks that could be problematic with other standard methods by using this off-the-shelf and powerful tool. Introduction Carola Fabi, Senior Statistician, FAO Statistics Division Presenter Gianfausto Bottini, Data Scientist, FAO Data Lab For more information about the FAO Data Lab, please visit: https://www.fao.org/datalab/website/web/home
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Description: Nowcasting refers to the practice of using recently published data to update key economic indicators that are published with a significant lag, such as real GDP. The aim of this course is to familiarize participants with cutting-edge nowcasting tools that facilitate the use mixed-frequency data in regression models. The course begins by establishing the importance of nowcasting for more timely and appropriate policy formulation during crisis periods such as the GFC or COVID-19. It then reviews the standard nowcasting regression-based procedures available, including the BRIDGE, MIDAS, and U-MIDAS estimators, both with and without dynamic factors. The course also reviews the more general state-space/Kalman filter approach to formulating and estimating a nowcasting model with mixed-frequency data. Procedures for combining nowcasts from the distinct models are considered, along with statistical procedures for evaluating the accuracy of a sequence of nowcasts. Each topic is complemented by a hands-on workshops and assignment using country-specific data using the EViews econometric package. The workshops and assignments are an integral component of the course designed to illuminate the actual steps required to generate a nowcast.
Description: The United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management Section, Statistics Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs and the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, will jointly organize the expert meeting and regional workshop together with the United Nations Expert Group on the Integration of Statistical and Geospatial Information on the margins of the ninth session of the Regional Committee of United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management for the Americas (UN-GGIM: Americas). The meeting of the Expert Group is a closed meeting, by invitation only, allows members of the Expert Group together with invited experts to review, consider and discuss its progress to-date, follow through on the guidance and decisions of the UN Statistical Commission and UN-GGIM. This meeting will enable the Expert Group to review and deliberate its future direction, including identifying how to advance the Global Statistical Geospatial Framework (GSGF); agree on its next steps to assist Member States in strengthening statistical geospatial integration and coordination towards the full implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development; and establish coordination mechanisms to enable Member States to build resilient, agile, relevant, responsive and robust statistical and data systems adhering to the Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics that fully integrate geospatial information. The Regional Workshop on Integrating Statistical and Geospatial Information for Sustainable Development with the theme 'The GSGF and Beyond' will provide a forum for deliberating key considerations for the integration of statistical and geospatial information, including promoting and raising awareness of the GSGF and the GSGF Implementation Guide, and examining how the GSGF can be practically operationalised by Member States to strengthen geo-statistical integration. The Regional Workshop seeks to share and exchange knowledge, information and experience; facilitate peer-to-peer engagement and learning; interact and consider guidance, recommendations, standards and approaches towards geo-statistical integration for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and other national priorities and global development agendas
Description: The United Nations integrated SDGs Financing project for Egypt (INFF) aims to develop capacities and put in place simple systems to continuously measure, map and compare financing flows. An important element of this project is identifying financing opportunities, through the better availability and quality of data, in particular data on Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs). IFFs threaten countries’ ability to achieve the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by diverting resources from development. The meeting of Expert group on IFFs aims to: * Present and review the work in each of the workstreams on measurement of IFFs in Egypt: trade misinvoicing, profit shifting, and smuggling of drugs; * Discuss and plan further work on the methodologies to address IFFs in Egypt; and * Discuss further involvement and coverage of other aspects of IFFs by other members of Expert group on IFFs in Egypt. Targeted participants of the meeting are members of national Expert Group for statistical measurement of IFFs in Egypt.
Description: While the BigData-native statistical community is growing larger, sampling statisticians seem to grow divided between enthusiastic and worried. Is BigData also a big step ahead to extract trustful information and actual knowledge from data? Is BigData underplaying sampling theory? Supplanting it as a low-cost futuristic option? In this webinar I shall try and decipher the multifaceted relationship connecting BigData and Sampling methodology, starting with the blurry definition of BigData, discussing the non-probabilistic data generating mechanism, passing through different kind of data, of application contexts and goals, to end with some very personal considerations and views.
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Description: This webinar will discuss efforts by the UN system to develop complementary indicators to gauge dimensions of progress that are not sufficiently covered by the purely economic measurement of gross domestic product (GDP). As an introduction a brief history of GDP will be presented, showing why it has been a great success story of the United Nations as well as what GDP is and what it is not (and was never meant to be). This will be followed by a reflection on the uses of GDP and the need to develop measures “beyond” the purely economic sphere. The presentation will be completed by a description of what the UN Statistical Commission is doing in its current efforts to revise the System of National Accounts by 2025 and an explanation of how that work can and will solve some, but not all, of the current challenges. Further complementary measures are needed and, in a recent report, the UN system has presented some proposals on how such measures can be developed.
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Organizer(s): Eurostat
Description: To improve the capacity of national statistical services to produce high quality on GFS and EDP-statistics; To examine the theoretical basis and structure of the European System of Accounts (ESA 2010) based GFS and EDP-data.
Target Audience: Statisticians dealing with compilation of annual energy statistics – advanced users of energy statistics. Please note: All ESTP Courses are exclusively available to staff members of a European Statistical System (ESS) institution.
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: This course shall democratize the accessibility of privately held data and valorisation thereof Get to know the techniques and tools to access privately held data Understand the stages of data valorisation pipelines Familiarize with the European Data Strategy and Digital Strategy Experiment with webscraping and API interfacing techniques Gain hands-on experience with data mining techniques from privately held data sources
Target Audience: Official Statisticians wishing to develop a toolbox for data acquisition with respect to privately held data at national level.
Organizer(s): UNSD European Space Agency Earth Observations for Ecosystem Accounting initiative of the Group on Earth Observations
Description: The 2022 Workshop on Earth Observation for Ecosystem Accounting (EO4EA 2022) is organized by the European Space Agency in collaboration with the Environmental-Economic Account section of the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) and the Earth Observations for Ecosystem Accounting initiative of the Group on Earth Observations (GEO EO4EA). The objective of the 2022 Workshop on Earth Observation for Ecosystem Accounting is to bring together experts in Earth Observation and experts in Ecosystem Accounting to jointly discuss the key challenges that need to be addressed in order to use Earth Observation in compiling national ecosystem accounts to support national policies. The Workshop will introduce the SEEA Ecosystem Accounting framework to the EO community, present on-going efforts to harness the potential of Earth Observations in ecosystem accounting, showcase, through open sessions, practical examples of EO applications for Ecosystem Accounting, and review the main challenges lying ahead for an effective use of Earth Observation in compiling national ecosystem accounts. The workshop will address the use of Earth Observation for ecosystem accounts in all realms, from terrestrial, freshwater, coastal to marine ecosystems. The objective of the workshop is to reinforce the importance to join efforts to provide robust and cost-effective EO solutions that help countries develop and compile their ecosystem accounts. This workshop is organized the week prior to the seventh Forum of Experts on SEEA Ecosystem Accounting 2022 held by UNSD. The outcome of the workshop will be presented during the Forum of Experts on SEEA Ecosystem Accounting.
Description: The 11th Experts Meeting on Statistical Data and Metadata Exchange (SDMX) will take place at INEGI Aguascalientes, Mexico, during November 28-December 1, 2022. It wil be co-organized by the Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía of Mexico (INEGI) and the International Labour Organization (ILO), on behalf of the SDMX Sponsors. The Experts Meeting is a biannual event that brings together SDMX experts from national statistical offices, central banks, international agencies and the private sector, from around the world, to discuss and promote good practices, share lessons learned and advance the standard to adapt to new technologies and evolving requirements. We invite SDMX experts to submit their proposals to sdmx@inegi.org.mx no later than October 8, 2022. Presentations should be brief to introduce a topic and encourage discussion among participants. They should contain title, abstract (maximum 500 words), name of presenters and affiliation. The topics to be discussed on the Meeting are the followings: Implementation of SDMX 3.0 Data Modelling Data and Metadata Governance Capacity Building SDMX and other technologies, standards and models
Description: The Ninth Session of the United Nations Regional Committee for Global Geospatial Information Management for the Americas (UN-GGIM: Americas) was held in Santiago, from November 28 to 30, 2022.
Description: The Working Group aims to advance cooperation on measuring electronic commerce (e-commerce) and the digital economy and enhance the availability, quality, comparability, usability and relevance of statistics on e-commerce and the digital economy, with a view to supporting evidence-based policymaking, in particular in developing countries.
Description: Concept National Statistics Offices (NSOs) are facing ever-growing demands for timely and quality official data and statistics due to rapid technological developments and COVID-19. To meet these demands, NSOs are exploring other non-traditional sources of data, but at the same time, they need to maintain data quality, ethics, and privacy protection standards that align with the UN Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics. In pursuing this goal, they face several new challenges including building partnerships with private data holders, investing in new infrastructures and human resources, and updating data governance arrangements. The UN Statistical Commission recognized the needs to address these challenges and established the UN Committee of Experts on Big Data and Data Science for Official Statistics (UN-CEBD) at its 45th session to facilitate coordinated efforts and explore innovative solutions. UN-CEBD has eight Tasks Teams including the Task Team on Big Data which is responsible for investigating the benefits and challenges of using big data for monitoring and reporting on SDGs. UN-CEBD arranges annual International Conferences on Big Data and Data Science for Official Statistics and the latest Conference was held in Yogyakarta from 7th to 11th November 2022 with the theme of Global Challenges and the Importance of Relevant and Timely Data. Workshops on Earth Observation Data, AIS, Cell Phone Data, Data Scanner, Machine-Learning and Privacy-Preserving Techniques and UN Big Data and UN PET Lab hackathons also accompanied the main Conference. The Conference generated insightful discussions, and this ESCAP Stats Café aimed to share the key takeaways and ways forward with relevant stakeholders in Asia and the Pacific region. The session started with opening remarks from Ms Rachael Beaven—Director of Statistics Division, ESCAP—and Mr Ronald Jansen—Assistant Director of UN Statistics Division, DESA, UNSD. Following the showcase, a video highlights activities from the Conference. Speakers from NSOs and UNFCCC who attended the Conference and UN Big Data Hackathon also shared their experiences, lessons learned, and inputs on ways forward. Lastly, the ESCAP’s big data guide on "Using big data for official statistics: Key considerations when using mobile phone data" was disseminated. , Stats Café Home: Upcoming events Concluded events
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, is intended to broaden participants’ understanding of the concepts and methods of compiling CPIs. It provides an overview of the index number theory and its practical implications in terms of choosing the index number formula at lower and higher levels of aggregation. The course covers the sources and methods for developing weights and sampling areas, items, outlets, and varieties. New and emerging data sources as well as new collection technologies are discussed. Frontier issues including how to better measure the digital economy are included. Linkages to the 2008 SNA are highlighted, including the related principles of scope, coverage, and valuation. The course covers the following topics: * Calculating elementary and upper-level indexes. * Methods for handling temporarily and permanently missing prices. * Introducing new outlets, items, and varieties. * Adjusting prices for quality changes. * Chaining and linking indexes with updated weighting structures. * Meeting data users’ needs to ensure relevancy. The course follows the principles and recommendations of the CPI Manual (2020).
Target Audience: Compilers of consumer price indexes (CPIs).
Architecture, Methodology and Quality - an Overview
23 Nov 2022 – 23 Nov 2022
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Organizer(s): Eurostat
Description: The webinar took place on 23 November 2022 and provided the first insights into essential quality aspects of web data and methodological solutions for some quality issues. It looked at the architectural framework BREAL, with the main benefits and the challenges of analysing web data. The webinar also delivered an overview of the following: The web data pipeline and related official statistical standards Main architectural components of a modern data platform Web data-specific quality aspects Important methodological tasks
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: The training course will introduce the theoretical and practical know-how of TSA compilation and will position TSA vis-à-vis primary tourism statistics. The main compilation challenges for each TSA table (with a focus on core tables 1 to 7) will be discussed, with the aim of improving the international comparability through maximising the use of existing harmonised European statistics. The final goal of the course is to prepare participants to embark on the production of TSA at national level or to improve the existing TSA and to better align national TSA to the international recommendations.
Target Audience: Staff of national statistical authorities involved in the production process of tourism statistics, national accounts or (tourism) satellite accounts, who want to acquire a good understanding of the macro-economic measurement of the tourism sector, in particular the tourism satellite accounting framework (TSA), with the objective to develop or improve TSA in their country. The training is targeted at experienced as well as novice or future TSA compilers with the aim of spreading/exchanging the know-how and best practices within and between the different levels of expertise.
Description: The Statistics Division and the Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), in collaboration with United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat and the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Commission, have been working together over the past year and a half at the country level to strengthen institutional and statistical capacities of selected Caribbean countries to better produce, disseminate and use environment, climate change and disaster indicators. Work at the country level has helped in identifying coordination and data sharing as the most critical areas where exchange of knowledge and experiences and peer learning at the regional level bring the most value for countries. Therefore, as part of the Development Account 12th Tranche (DA12) project on Caribbean SIDS relevant climate change and disasters indicators for evidence-based policies, a regional workshop is being organized to facilitate exchange of ideas and peer learning among project beneficiary and non-beneficiary countries.
Description: Report of the 12th meeting of SGRPES Meeting objectives The meeting convened with the following objectives in mind: Share information on economic statistics development in the region and associated challenges; Review progress in implementing the SGRPES 2022 work plan and identify appropriate actions to improve delivery of the programme plan; Discuss the implications of the Committee decisions and agree on specific actions to reposition the Steering Group in its work. Expected outcome Identify solutions to challenges that have affected the work programme Agree on priorities for 2023 Agree on action points on how the Steering Group can reposition itself in a streamlined restructure in the light of CST8 decisions. Meeting materials Concept note Report of the 11th meeting of SGRPES Reference information Report of the ESCAP 8th session of the Committee of Statistics: 中文 | English | Français | Русский
Machine Learning for Official Statistics
and SDG Indicators
21 Nov 2022 – 15 Jan 2023
Source: ESCAP SIAP (Data extracted on: 31 Oct 2022 )
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Organizer(s): ESCAP SIAP ADB
Description: The course is designed for personnel working in the field of statisticswhose main responsibilities include data analysis of SDG indicators and related statistics with a specific target on data scientists from NSOs with an experience in both statistical modelling (regression analysispredictionclassification...) and with programming or algorithmic skills. Although no programming will be required to follow and succeed in the coursethe pedagogical materials include R codein the form of reproducible markdown notebooksas well as some Python resources and code.
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Labour statistics for data officers within the UN offices
Description: The aim of the course is to better equip data officers within the UN offices regarding the new SDG statistical monitoring system. The course is designed to enhance capacities for identifying, collecting, analysing and disseminating labour-market information and other indicators related to decent work. It also emphasizes the latest ICLS Resolutions on the statistics of work relationships as an important pillar for measuring progress towards the 2030 Global Agenda, particularly Goal 8 on promoting inclusive and sustainable growth, employment and decent work for all.
Target Audience: Data officers within the UN offices.
Course Language: English
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: This course shall democratize the accessibility of privately held data and valorisation thereof Get to know the techniques and tools to access privately held data Understand the stages of data valorisation pipelines Familiarize with the European Data Strategy and Digital Strategy Experiment with webscraping and API interfacing techniques Gain hands-on experience with data mining techniques from privately held data sources
Target Audience: Official Statisticians wishing to develop a toolbox for data acquisition with respect to privately held data at national level.
Description: It is standard practice in official statistics to seasonally adjust monthly and quarterly time series using the methods recommended in the ESS guidelines on seasonal adjustment. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated demand for official statistics time series data to be published at a higher frequency than the more usual monthly or quarterly periodicity of indicators. There are well developed software for the seasonal adjustment of monthly and quarterly data, such as JDemetra+ and X-13ARIMA-SEATS, but neither of these are currently designed to handle daily or weekly series. The aim of this short course is cover both the standard approach to monthly and quarterly seasonal adjustment but to also introduce participants to some of the experimental methods for seasonally adjusting higher frequency time series . We present examples of published experimental weekly and daily time series and discuss some of the challenges in seasonally adjusting these series. Participants will also be introduced to the concept of seasonal adjustment in official statistics and cover the challenges of seasonally adjusting not just monthly and quarterly data, but also a focus on recent techniques and methods for weekly and daily data, and examples of how this has been achieved in practice. Learning outcomes to be covered: What is seasonal adjustment and why do we do it? Seasonal adjustment standard practice in official statistics for monthly and quarterly time series Demonstration of applying methods and software techniques for higher frequency time series (weekly and daily data examples) Examples of experimental high frequency seasonally adjusted outputs at the Office for National Statistics
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Description: About the session The Asia-Pacific region is prone to various disasters every year and the aftermath of these disasters tend to be a huge cost to economies/ countries and individual households. It is quite common to hear of economic losses or financial losses because of these disasters. Similarly, crude estimates of loss to gross domestic product (GDP) are cited as some of the effects of disasters. National statistical agencies have not been on fore front of measuring losses from disasters in the Asia-Pacific though they have made strides to produce disaster related statistics. Other statistical systems are simply in the process of setting up systems to compile disaster related statistics. Disaster management agencies have been on the forefront to measure potential economic losses from disasters. This Stats Café will discuss issues relating to how economic losses from disasters. It will provide a forum to share experiences on how economic losses are measured. Furthermore, it will highlight specific case studies on measuring economic losses based on conceptual frameworks for economic losses from disasters. Speakers Lutfi Alfia, Statistician, BPS Indonesia: Disaster related statistics in Indonesia Daniel Clarke, Researcher, Statistics and Data Directorate, OECD: Concepts of measuring economic losses from disasters Alper Aras, Economic Affairs, United Nations Office of Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR): Concepts and case studies on economic losses from disasters , Stats Café Home: Upcoming events Concluded events in 2022 2021 events 2020 events
Description: This course on applied econometrics, has been prepared as an integration of mathematical economics and statistical methods with an objective of extracting the stochastic relationship among variables and their modelling. Learning outcomes to be covered The learning outcomes will be To get the knowledge of Linear and nonlinear modelling How to improve the estimation of regression coefficients by various restrictions. Knowledge of Restricted least squares estimation, Generalized and Weighted Least Squares Estimation. Knowledge about the difference between disturbances and measurement errors: Indicator variables versus quantitative explanatory variable Tests for Structural Change and Stability
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Description: The authors of the book 'Mixed-Mode Official Surveys - Design and analysis will present their analysis on this topic through both theoretical discussions and practical examples based on the Netherlands National Statistical Office (NSO), addressing the main concepts, the challenges, and future developments. Mr. Ferreira, from INE Uruguay, will share the NSO experience on implementing mixed-mode official surveys. Gathering different perspectives, speakers will highlight benefits, drawbacks, and trade-offs in different scenarios. The experience of countries implementing mixed-mode official surveys could benefit other countries willing to experiment with mixed-mode surveys. Mr. Solly Molayi, from Statistics South Africa, will be the main discussant of the session.
Description: The 10th Statistical Forum of the International Monetary Fund will take place virtually and in person in Washington, D.C. during November 16 to 17, 2022. The Forum is a platform for policymakers, researchers, the private sector, regulators, and compilers of economic and financial data to come together to discuss cutting edge issues in macroeconomic and financial statistics and to build support for statistical improvements. The theme of this year’s Statistical Forum is Measuring the Tangible Benefits of Intangible Capital. In our increasingly dematerialized world intangible assets are transforming economies and driving growth. As a result, an increasing share of output, jobs, income and wealth is associated with firms where traditional tangible assets have been crowded out by intangible assets, such as marketing assets, data, and organizational capital. Yet conventional business accounting and macroeconomic accounting methods have lagged behind in valuing these forms of capital. Furthermore, the mobility of intangible assets and firms’ strategies to take advantage of worldwide tax minimization while maximizing overall profits implies growing tension between the nature and location of economic activity and its measurement system. The aim of the 10th IMF Statistical Forum is to explore how we can better measure intangible capital to better support investment policy, taxation policy and macroeconomic analysis.
Description: The African Statistics Day (ASD) was adopted in May 1990 at the UNECA conference of African Ministers responsible for Planning and Economic Development. It is an annual event, celebrated on 18 November, to promote understanding about the importance of statistics in all dimensions of life, including society, the economy, and the environment. Each year, celebration of the African Statistics Day focuse on raising awareness amongst decision-makers, development partners, data producers and users, academia, researchers, and the public on the importance of statistics on a specific theme. The theme for 2022 is “Strengthening data systems by modernizing the production and use of agricultural statistics: informing policies with a view to improving resilience in agriculture, nutrition, and food security in Africa” - a call to modernize data systems for the production, dissemination, and use of agricultural statistics. This year’s theme is aligned with the African Union theme, “2022, the Year of Nutrition: strengthening resilience in nutrition and food security on the African continent”. At the regional level, the African Statistics Day 2022 will be held online on 16 November 2022 as part of the continent-wide celebrations. The event is organised by the African Centre for Statistics of the UNECA in collaboration with the African Union Commission, the African Development Bank and the Food and Agriculture organization of the United Nations. Register for this meeting HERE
Description: Trade in services is gaining importance globally and it is important for countries to be able to benefit from that growth. Services can provide the basis for a more sustainable and diversified economy offering employment to many. However, services are intangible and difficult to measure which weakens the information basis for trade policy and negotiations. On request by the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU, in French UEMOA), UNCTAD has developed a Trade in Services Statistics (TiSSTAT) information system to facilitate the collection and processing of statistics on international trade in services. The project has also developed survey methods and tools and WAEMU member states have collected data on trade in services with the support of the project. The new information system is now installed in the countries. To this end, UNCTAD is organizing in close collaboration with the WAEMU Commission, from 15 to 18 November 2022 in Cotonou, Benin, a regional training workshop on the TiSSTAT application for the WAEMU member states and the Commission. The workshop will discuss feedback and test the different functionalities of the system with countries’ experts.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 31 Jan 2022 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: Learn how to extract relevant information for statistical purposes from huge amounts of data.
Target Audience: IT professionals whose role is to support statisticians with big data infrastructure, either via local big data clusters or via cloud solutions, and the engineering of big data processing. Methodologists and statisticians with a strong IT background who are expected to handle big data infrastructures and unstructured data.
Description: This webinar will present a roadmap for national quality assurance framework (NQAF) implementation. In recent years many countries have developed and adopted a national quality assurance framework (NQAF) for their official statistics. In order to support countries in the implementation, the Expert Group on National Quality Assurance Frameworks developed a Roadmap for NQAF implementation. The "Roadmap" summarizes good implementation practices in the form of a step-by-step process. The webinar will provide a basic introduction to quality assurance for official statistics.
Description: This course aims to enhance national capacities to produce and collect data on informal employment and categories of informal workers as part of the diagnostic phase of the above intervention model. The course also aims to promote the collection of data on the number of entrepreneurs and economic units in the informal economy, and their characteristics, as an integral part of national labour statistics, following R.204 guidelines on promoting formalization at national level.
Target Audience: National statistical offices (NSOs); ministries of labour and related Institutions (such as labour observatories); ministries of manpower and migration; ministries responsible for nationals living abroad; ministries of foreign and home affairs; governmental agencies responsible for labour-market data analysis and national SDG reporting; governmental agencies responsible for labour migration, and analysis of migrant workers; research and academic institutions; international organizations; regional economic communities (RECs), development agencies; non-governmental organizations.
Target Audience: Administrative officers; Assistant record management officers; Record management officers and Implementers at all levels of record management.
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Expert Seminar on The Role of Official Statistics in Monitoring and Evaluation of the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals in the Black Sea Region in the Context of the COVID-19 Crisis
Description: Within the framework of its Statistical Capacity Building (StatCaB) Programme, SESRIC will organise an Online Training Course on ‘Banking, Insurance and Financial Statistics’ for the benefit of National Statistical Offices (NSOs) of French speaking OIC countries on 14-16 November 2022. Ms. Najet Abid, Deputy Director of Accounts of Financial Institutions (Banking and Insurance) at the National Institute of Statistics (INS) of Republic of Tunisia, will conduct the course and cover the following topics: Introduction to the financial sector in the National Accounting System, SNA 2008 Classification of the financial sector Introduction of the accounts of the different financial sub-sectors Central Bank account Financial intermediary services indirectly measured (FISIM) Method of calculation and distribution Introduction of the accounts of the different financial sub-sectors Insurance sector account Account of financial auxiliaries Financial accounts in the System of National Accounts 2008 Definition Nomenclature of institutional sectors. Introduction of the Financial Operations Table (FOT) Preparation of the financial account “From-whom-to-whom” matrices Synthesis Elaboration of the FOT The StatCaB Programme was initiated in early 2007. It is the flagship capacity development programme of the SESRIC. Within its framework, the Centre collects information from the NSOs of OIC member countries through the biennial StatCaB questionnaire, assesses their needs and capacities, matches these needs and capacities, and organizes statistical capacity development activities between the beneficiary and provide countries. For more information on SESRIC Statistical Capacity Building (StatCaB) Programme, please visit: http://www.oicstatcom.org/statcab.php
Description: This course will cover the tightly related topics of workspace organization in R and RStudio, writing dynamic reproducible reports, and version control of the entire project. The first half of the course will introduce RStudio projects for efficient organization and keeping track of project-related files. The main goal of this session is to introduce the functionality of RMarkdown and knitr for dynamic report generation. Participants will learn how to prepare reproducible statistical reports that can be easily updated as the input data change, adopting the practices of soft coding for efficient reusing of code in different projects. The second half of the course will cover the topic of version control using Git system collaboration on a project using GitHub, and contributing to a third-party project on GitHub. Participants will learn about efficient ways to keep track of their code and efficiently communicate or suggest changes to the code. Learning outcomes to be covered After taking this course, the participants will be able to 1. Organize project directories for efficient management of data, code, related outputs, and documentation. 2. Produce dynamic and reproducible reports by incorporating R code and outputs into text. 3. Implement the Git version control system for their projects and use related capabilities on GitHub.
Target Audience: All beginner and intermediate R programmers.
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Description: The UN Statistics Division is organizing an expert group meeting on ways to harnessing data generated by citizens to make an impact on public policy including the SDG monitoring.
Description: The Global conference, which will take place at the Palais d'Egmont in Brussels, is jointly organized by the United Nations Statistics Division and Eurostat with the aim to discuss the ongoing update of the 2008 SNA and BPM6, and its implementation in 2025. Priority areas of discussion will be: Sustainability and Beyond GDP, Digitalisation, Globalisation and Communication. The conference is expected to bring together around 250 high-profile participants from all the regions of the world, including politicians, public officials working in policy development, national accounts compilers and academics.
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Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 31 Jan 2022 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: The course aims at enhancing participants' theoretical and practical knowledge of National Accounts. They should become familiar with the system framework, the integration and balancing of source data and the presentation of national accounts data.
Target Audience: Junior statisticians of National Accounts (NA) departments or statisticians of other statistical departments dealing with NA statistics.
Description: The United Nations Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Lab, known as the PET Lab, will be running a third hackathon stream for the first time this year. The PET stream will take the form of a typical data science competition, such as those on the Kaggle or DrivenData platforms, but with one special new characteristic: participants will interact with training data only via privacy-enhancing technologies. For more information, check the UN PET Lab Hackathon page.
Description: During this short course, the participant will have an opportunity to learn the basics of cluster analysis, one of the most popular data mining methods for the discovery of patterns in different types of data. Besides this, the course will have a strong hands-on component, as the participants will learn how to conduct a cluster analysis using the R programming language. The course will first cover some aspects of statistical learning and position the unsupervised learning, to which clustering belongs. Afterwards, the basic outline of the principals of clustering with examples would be given. The following aspects covered are algorithms of hierarchical clustering (AGNES, DIANA) and partitional clustering (k-means, k-medoids, CLARA). Finally, advanced techniques used to identify certain practical challenges with cluster analysis, such as the selection of the optimal number of clusters and the validation of cluster analysis results will be elaborated upon. All algorithms and additional tests introduced will be performed in R programming language through case studies.
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Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 31 Jan 2022 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: To provide participants engaged in statistical, technical and other analytical training, presentations, consulting and facilitating group discussions with enhanced levels of competence and the expertise required to be effective in understanding and managing groups and individuals. It provides excellent insights into ‘statistical consulting’ which is frequently part of the statistical trainers’ role.
Target Audience: Designed for all those who are engaged in providing statistical, technical and analytical training, giving statistical, technical and analytical presentations, providing statistical, technical and analytical consulting and facilitating group sessions with statistical and non-statistical audiences.
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: Provide an overview of the key concepts of SEEA ecosystem accounting Provide an overview of how national ecosystem accounts are constructed, and how they relate to ‘mainstream’ environmental and national accounting Provide understanding the data and tools used to construct the component parts of the accounts (e.g. spatial and environmental data in GIS for ecosystem extent; ecosystem services evidence; monetary valuation techniques).
Target Audience: NSIs and Other National Authorities (with lower priority), working in the field of ecosystem accounting.
Description: This webinar will focus on traditional and emerging sources of data for transportation analysis. These include Household Travel Survey, Time Use Survey, Stated Preference Methods, and Bigdata from probe vehicle and GPS trajectories. The main transportation system performance indicators will be introduced and methods for large scale transportation models briefly described. A Statewide microsimulation model that combines land use, transportation choices, and agent-based transport simulation will be illustrated. Finally, these tools will be demonstrated in the context of transportation and equity, the case study evaluates the effects of complete streets on the willingness to walk and bike under different levels of traffic stress.
Description: Within the framework of its Webinar Series on Statistical Experience Sharing, SESRIC will organise a Webinar on ‘Implementation of National Quality Assurance Framework (NQAF) for Official Statistics’ on 8 November 2022, in collaboration with the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) with the participation of official statisticians working in National Statistical Offices (NSOs) of the OIC member countries. The main objective of this webinar is to provide a platform to exchange knowledge on how to implement NQAF and assess the data quality using Generic Statistical Business Process Model (GSBPM) in national statistical systems of OIC member countries including discussions about the challenges faced and lessons learnt by all stakeholders. The Webinar will cover: Quality assurance for official statistics Principles and requirements of UN NQAF Recommendations and guidance: UN NQAF Manual Development and implementation of a NQAF Using the GSBPM for data quality assessment and improvement Document: Concept Note and Work Programme (English)
Description: The adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development requires governments and stakeholders to monitor progress towards the defined goals and targets relating to decent work and economic growth. The 19th and 20th ICLS Resolutions on work statistics are crucial for the analysis of decent-work-related SDG indicators, particularly SDG 8 on promoting inclusive and sustainable growth, employment and decent work for all. A strong statistical system for producing, collecting and disseminating reliable, comprehensive and timely labour-market information is critical for evidence-based policymaking which promotes "full and productive employment and decent work for all". The ILO Department of Statistics, in close collaboration with the International Training Centre of the ILO, is proud to be organizing the 2021 Labour Market Statistics and Analysis Academy, with a particular focus on the outcomes of the 19th and 20th ICLS concerning emerging trends in the world of work and the SDG monitoring framework for measuring decent work and supporting evidence-based policymaking. The main objective of the Academy is to better equip and situate national and international stakeholders in the new SDG statistical monitoring system. The Academy is designed to enhance institutional capacity for identifying, collecting, analysing and disseminating labour-market information and other indicators related to decent work. Moreover, the Academy emphasizes the 20th ICLS Resolution on the statistics of work relationships as an important pillar for measuring progress towards the 2030 agenda, particularly Goal 8 on promoting inclusive and sustainable growth, employment and decent work for all.
Target Audience: National statistical offices (NSOs); ministries of labour and related Institutions (such as labour observatories); governmental agencies responsible for labour-market data analysis and national SDG reporting; ILO social partners (employers' and workers' organizations); research and academic institutions; international organizations; development agencies; non-governmental organizations.
Course Language: English
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Description: This two-week intermediate regional course on balance of payments and IIP statistics targets compilers with some experience in compilation of balance of payments and/or IIP. The course will focus on more complex methodological issues than the previous balance of payments/IIP standard courses. It aims at providing a deep understanding of the concepts, data sources, and compilation techniques for balance of payments and IIP statistics and their application for addressing complex methodological issues. The course does not cover the basic balance of payments and IIP concepts. The intermediate level of the course presupposes participants' familiarity with the basic concepts. Therefore, it is highly recommended to complete the balance of payments/IIP online course (OL21.139) to review or learn the balance of payments/IIP basic concepts. The course consists of a series of lectures and workshops analyzing country cases with a strong data component and to allow peer learning and sharing of experiences. Recognizing the challenges in compiling data in emerging areas of user interest, the course emphasizes specific topics, such as estimating informal cross border activities and the treatment of special purpose entities. The course examines themes and challenges emerging from developments in global economy, and participants can discuss how these impact compilation work. Specific exercises are geared to integrating data compilation with Fund surveillance and policy advice, and to demonstrate the analytical uses of ESS.
Description: This series of webinar provides a general introduction to Bayesian modeling with a particular focus on regression and multilevel models. The use of the system R in Bayesian computation is described, including the programming of the Bayesian model and the use of different R tools to summarize the posterior. Special focus will be on the application of Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms and diagnostic methods to assess convergence of the algorithms. The LearnBayes and rethinking R packages are used to illustrate MCMC fitting by the use of Gibbs sampling and Metropolis algorithms. Larger Bayesian models will be fit using JAGS and Stan and the accompanying runjags and rstan packages. Part 1 (2 hours): Introduction to Bayesian Inference. Basic tenets of Bayesian thinking including construction of priors, summarization of the posterior to perform inferences, and the use of prediction distributions for prediction and model checking. Part 2 (2 hours): Bayesian Regression. Implementation of Bayesian thinking for regression models for continuous and categorical response data. Part 3 (2 hours): Bayesian Multilevel Modeling. Introduction to multilevel models as a flexible way of modeling regressions over groups.
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Description: At this moment the world faces many global challenges related to environment, climate change, health, food insecurity, economic recovery or human displacement. To take appropriate action, governments have to understand and monitor the existing situation and therefore need relevant and timely data. The statistical community is tasked to deliver these data, in particular also data on the Sustainable Development Goals. Emerging issues require timely and flexible production of indicators often in collaboration with strategic partners from public and private sector as well as academia. The Big Data Conference, which will take place from 7 till 11 November 2022 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, will focus on the use of new data sources and use of data science in dialogues with decision makers and experts from all stakeholder communities. It will also include the 2022 Big Data Hackathon.
Description: This course, conducted by the IMF Statistics Department, presents a user-friendly tool developed by the department to automatically combine monetary, government, and balance of payment data reported to the Statistics Department to create a distribution of claims and liabilities on a from-whom-to-whom basis—an extremely useful tool for macro-financial analysis. Once the matrix is generated, country officials should be able to use the Balance Sheet Approach (BSA) analysis to focus on overall balance sheet linkages and identify specific exposures and vulnerabilities, such as excessive reliance on external funding, leverage buildup in the corporate sector, and overreliance on the banking sector for sovereign debt placement. This course is an abbreviated version of the longer, BSA course traditionally offered by STA in-person.
Target Audience: Officials at central banks, ministries of finance and other agencies in charge of compiling monetary and financial statistics, government finance/debt statistics, and external sector statistics; and/or overseeing macro-financial analysis.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 04 Jan 2022 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat CZSO Czechia
Description: To improve the capacity of national statistical services to produce high quality on GFS and EDP-statistics; To examine the theoretical basis and structure of the European System of Accounts (ESA 2010) based GFS and EDP-data.
Target Audience: Statisticians dealing with compilation of annual energy statistics – advanced users of energy statistics. Please note: All ESTP Courses are exclusively available to staff members of a European Statistical System (ESS) institution.
Target Audience: Administrative officers; Assistant record management officers; Record management officers and Implementers at all levels of record management.
Description: The thirteenth meeting of the Inter-agency and Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goal Indicators (IAEG-SDGs) will be held in person from 7 to 9 November 2022 at the UN Conference Centre (UNCC) in Bangkok, Thailand. This will be the first in-person meeting of the IAEG-SDGs since October 2019 in Addis Ababa.
Description: The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) subregional headquarters for the Caribbean will convene a virtual expert group meeting on Thursday 3rd November 2022 to examine the importance of time-use surveys in guiding social policies.
Description: Official statistics are based on a set of principles that ensure that they are impartial, relevant, and accurate and can be relied upon as a public good by all users. This 30th Anniversary provides an opportunity to discuss the past, present, and future of the Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics and their relevance in the context of a rapidly changing data landscape.
Description: This course, presented by the Statistics Department, is intended to provide participants with a thorough understanding of the international standards for the compilation of EDS presented in the 2013 EDS: Guide for Compilers and Users (2013 EDS Guide). The course covers basic concepts, definitions, and classifications, along with the principal accounting rules (including valuation and time of recording) that are relevant for compilation of the EDS. Finally, participants are briefed on basic concepts of the debt sustainability analysis framework.
Description: Measures of trade in value-added (TiVA) have transformed our ability to understand the scale and complexity of global value chains. However, to a large extent, the accuracy of these estimates is determined by the granularity of information used to construct them. Because exporting firms typically have higher shares of imports in their intermediate inputs than non-exporting firms in the same sector, input-output tables that do not account for firm heterogeneity provide lower-bound estimates of the importance of imports for exports, and therefore undermine the degree of a country or sector’s integration into global value chains (GVCs). Moreover, additional attention should also be devoted to firms themselves. Even within narrowly defined industries, firms exhibit distinctive characteristics in terms of size, ownership, productivity, and skilled-labour intensity, and therefore they are integrated into GVCs in different ways and to different extends. Since the OECD and some National Statistical Offices first began this research in 2014, studies haves been carried out using either aggregated business data (such as TEC, STEC, AMNE, and SDBS) or in collaboration with national statistical offices using micro-data. Tremendous progress has been made in the past few years, but the country’s coverage remains patchy. Therefore, the OECD Expert Group on Extended Supply and Use Tables (EGESUTs) is created to promote best practices and to encourage more countries to join these existing efforts. Established in 2014 and officially reporting to the OECD Working Party on National Accounts, the Expert Group is collaborating at an international level with experts from the National Statistical Offices. Its current mandate, which was endorsed in December 2020, is to provide: * Provide a methodological guide to compiling Extended Supply and Use Tables, which describes best practices (and alternatives) and proposes guidance in the creation of international standards; * Draft a final report with the results of discussion of Beyond Value Added topics, including jobs and compensations, CO2 and other emissions and income distribution; and * Facilitate further discussion on particular SUT estimation challenges, including difficulties in (1) the measurement of re-exports, merchanting and processing, (2) the generation of projections and nowcasting, and (3) the breakdowns of imports and exports by partner.
Description: The United Nations Statistics Division and the National Bureau of Statistics of China (NBS) are jointly organizing an international seminar on Measuring Shared Prosperity and Inclusion: Challenges and Innovative Approaches, 2-4 November 2022. The meeting aims to provide a platform for exchange of experiences in bringing innovations into the measurement of poverty and prosperity.
Source: Eurostat (Data extracted on: 31 Jan 2022 )
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Organizer(s): Eurostat Icon-Institut
Description: Provide an introduction to cartographic design principles for statistical map design. Introduce basic and advanced cartographic representation methods with practical examples on statistical data. Provide guidelines for creating maps for online publication and for printout.
Target Audience: Statisticians working in the field of Earth observation, geographic information systems and statistics, who would like to gain knowledge and practical skills on using cartographic representation methods to visualize statitiscal data.
Title in Spanish: Taller técnico del Proyecto Sistema Registros Estadísticos para la explotación de datos administrativos en los institutos nacionales de estadística (INE) de Bolivia, Chile, Colombia y Perú
Organizer(s): ECLAC DANE Colombia INE Bolivia INE Chile INEI Peru
Description: La agenda prevista para este taller aborda en primer lugar la socialización de los resultados obtenidos de la consultoría para la construcción metodológica de cada indicador de los ODS priorizado por los INE.
Source: World Bank (Data extracted on: 02 Nov 2022 )
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Organizer(s): World Bank UNSD
Description: 6th Policy Forum on Natural Capital Data for Better Decision Making: Financing for Nature The Policy Forum on Natural Capital is the signature annual event of the Global Program on Sustainability. Co-organized with the United Nations Statistics Division, the Forum aims to connect users—primarily the investment community and policy makers—with both data and analytics, and data providers, to share knowledge and experiences on incorporating natural capital accounting and approaches in decision making.
Description: The sixth Policy Forum on Natural Capital Accounting (NCA) for Better Policy will take place on 2-3 November 2022. It will convene virtually for two half-days. The Policy Forum is co-organized by the World Bank,’s Global Program on Sustainability (GPS) and United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), The 2022 Forum will focus on financing for nature with discussion on the role natural capital and ecosystem services data and analytics plays in investment and policy decisions. Emphasis will be on connecting users—primarily the investment community and policy makers—with the data and analytics, and the data producers, to share knowledge and experiences on incorporating natural capital accounting and approaches in decision making. Day one of the Forum (November 2) will focus on integrating natural capital into investment decisions, and day two (November 3) will focus on natural capital data for informing policy frameworks for finance.
Description: The UN Statistics Division and Statistics Korea (National Statistical Office of the Republic of Korea) have co-organized every year an international seminar regarding important issues on the global statistical agenda since 2010. The seminar has covered a variety of social and economic issues from the perspective of statistics. For example, we have discussed the role of data and statistics in understanding open data and data disaggregation for reaching Sustainable Development Goals; and using big data for official statistics. As we recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, the significance of timely data using new data sources and data linkage has increased and it has provided us with new opportunities to the international statistical community for discussing the data stewardship and the data security issues.
Description: Official statistics with a gender perspective play a fundamental role in raising awareness and disseminating the different expressions of gender inequality in various areas of society; they also constitute a powerful instrument for decision-making based on high-quality, reliable evidence Join us next November 02 at 10:00 a.m. (EDT) to our discussion about the progress, challenges and status of the production, analysis and dissemination of official statistics with a gender perspective at a global and regional level.
Description: In 2014, the UN Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics (UN FPOS) were endorsed by the UN General Assembly. The Fundamental Principles set the framework for the fundamental values and principles that govern statistical work and recognize that in order to be effective, the fundamental values and principles that govern statistical work have to be guaranteed by legal and institutional frameworks and respected at all political levels and by all stakeholders in national statistical systems. However, globally issues of Misuse and declining Trust in official statistics have become more pronounced in recent years. In response to this the IAOS has recently established the Krakow Group. This group’s mandate includes helping to identify the main issues to be tackled in relation to misuse, governance, trust and ethics. Each region has specific challenges. In the case of the Arab region, including North Africa; the challenges of enhancing trust in official statistics and successfully implementing the UN FPOS, are exacerbated by the ongoing instability in different parts of the region. The IAOS has organised this webinar to help official statisticians in the region discuss some of the regional specific challenges in implementing the UN FPOS, in particular how statistical institutions maintain their independency especially in the time of instability.
Course Language: English
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Original webpage was deleted, archived version from the Internet Archive (not a UN service): Link
Organizer(s): SESRIC DOSM Malaysia Economic Cooperation Organization
Description: Within the framework of its Statistical Capacity Building (StatCaB) Programme, SESRIC will organise an Online Training Course on ‘SDG 9 (Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure) Indicators’ in collaboration with the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) for the benefit of National Statistical Offices (NSOs) of OIC countries on 1-3 November 2022. Ms. Syafawati Abdul Refai and Ms. Nur Atikah Binti Abdul Aziz, statisticians at the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM), and Ms. Syuhada Asri, Director at the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC), will conduct the course and cover the following topics: Increase Access to Financial Services and Markets 9.3.1 – Proportion of small-scale industries in total industry value added 9.3.2 – Proportion of small-scale industries with a loan or line of credit Develop Sustainable, Resilient and Inclusive Infrastructures 9.1.1 – Proportion of the rural population who live within 2 km of an all-season road 9.1.2 – Passenger and freight volumes, by mode of transport Facilitate Sustainable Infrastructure Development for Developing Countries 9.a.1 – Total official international support Universal Access to Information and Communications Technology 9.c.1 – Proportion of population covered by a mobile network, by technology Enhance Research and Upgrade Industrial Technologies 9.5.1 – Research and development expenditure as a proportion of GDP Inclusive and Sustainable Industrialization 9.2.1 – Manufacturing value added as a proportion of GDP and per capita 9.2.2 – Manufacturing employment as a proportion of total employment The SESRIC StatCaB Programme was initiated in early 2007. It is the flagship capacity development programme of SESRIC. Within the framework of StatCaB Programme, the Centre collects information from the NSOs of OIC member countries through the biennial StatCaB Questionnaire, assesses their statistical training needs and capacities, matches these needs and capacities, and organizes statistical capacity development activities between the beneficiary and provider countries. For more information on SESRIC Statistical Capacity Building (StatCaB) Programme, please visit: http://www.oicstatcom.org/statcab.php
