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
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
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: 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: The objectives of the session are: To clarify practical aspects of MPD application To provide better understanding of technical aspects of work with big data To discuss benefits and areas of MPD application To provide an opportunity of a real-time consultation with MPD Task Team members from various parts of the Globe Link to the handbook (English) Цели сессии вопросов и ответов: Уточнить практические аспекты применения данных мобильных телефонов Обеспечить лучшее понимание технических аспектов работы с большими данными Обсудить преимущества и области применения данных мобильных телефонов Обеспечить возможность консультации в режиме реального времени с членами Целевой группы по данным мобильных телефонов со всего мира Link to the handbook (Russian) , Project Home News & Events Resources
Description: يأتي تنظيم هذه الورشة استجابة لمقترحات وردت على المعهد من المشاركين الذين حضروا الورشة التدريبية التي عقدت عن بعد حول التجارة الالكترونية خلال الفترة 11-13/08/2020، والتي تم خلالها التعرف على مفهوم التجارة الالكترونية وأبرز مؤشراتها، بالإضافة لفوائد التجارة الالكترونية واستعراض سريع لإطار دليل قياس التجارة الرقمية. تنظم هذه الورشة بالتعاون مع مؤتمر الأمم المتحدة للتجارة والتنميةUNCTAD بهدف مراجعة دليل إنتاج إحصاءات الاقتصاد الرقمي (التجارة الإلكترونية) بالإضافة لمعرفة احتساب مؤشرات قياس الداء للتجارة الإلكترونية تمهيداً للخروج بخارطة طريق ترسم معالم قياس التجارة الإلكترونية في الوطن العربي ومدى مساهمتها في التجارة الإلكترونية على مستوى العالم.
Description: The African Centre for Statistics (ACS) of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), in collaboration with SurveyCTO and other development partners will organize a follow-up e-training regional webinar on the use of telephone surveys to collect Consumer Price Index (CPI) data from 20 to 21 October 2021. The e-training regional webinar on the use of telephone surveys to collect CPI data is a follow-up to the reginal seminar on data collection for the compilation of CPI during COVID-19 which was virtually organized during the weeks of 18 to 28 May 2020 and the regional e-training webinar on the application of alternative methods for price data collection to compile CPI which was held from 25 January to 4 February 2021. The main objectives of the upcoming e-training webinar are to provide participants with a brief practical overview of the SurveyCTO software package, to develop the capacity of member States on the use of telephone surveys / Computer Assisted Telephone Interview (CATI) in the collection of price statistics, and to identify pilot countries which are currently interested in adopting telephone surveys / CATI in price data collection. Staff who work in the area of price and other related statistics of the national statistical offices of member States, as well as sub-regional and regional organizations will participate in the e-training webinar.
Description: About the session This Stats Café will present the experiences of the National Statistical Offices of Indonesia, Republic of Korea and Georgia in addressing challenges of using mobile phone data in population and tourism statistics. It will also discuss the supporting efforts of the UN Committee of Experts on Big Data and Data Science for Official Statistics and the Task Team on Mobile Phone Data. , Stats Café Home: Upcoming events Concluded events
Online Training of Training of Trainers on Telephone Surveys (Video learning) & (Remote training)
12 Jan 2021 – 28 Feb 2021
Source: ESCAP SIAP (Data extracted on: 15 Oct 2021 )
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Organizer(s): ESCAP SIAP Development Data Group World Bank
Description: Participants are expected to contribute to capacity building on telephone surveys in their countries, and also preferably in their neighboring countries in their region. This training course would help countries conduct high-quality telephone surveys during the current pandemic as well as afterwards, as National Statistical Offices increasingly adopt to new modes of data collection.
Description: Within its recently initiated Webinar Series on Statistical Experience Sharing, SESRIC will organise a webinar on “Survey on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Usage in Enterprises” on 17 December 2020 in collaboration with the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) with the participation of official statisticians working in National Statistical Offices of the OIC countries. This webinar will cover the following topics related to the survey on ICT usage in enterprises: Concepts and definitions; Methodological base; Classifications; Coverage and statistical units; Survey design; Data collection; Measurement and analysis; and Dissemination The webinar will be conducted through a video conferencing platform by following synchronous learning and instruction approaches designed in line with the virtual training solutions undertaken by SESRIC in order to better serve the Centre’s training activities and keep participants motivated and engaged during this time of global crisis due to COVID-19. Documents: Concept Note (English)
Description: Within its recently initiated Webinar Series on Statistical Experience Sharing, SESRIC will organise a webinar on “Survey on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Usage in Households and Individuals” on 10 December 2020 in collaboration with the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) with the participation of official statisticians working in National Statistical Offices of the OIC countries. This webinar will cover the following topics related to the survey on ICT usage in households and individuals: Concepts and definitions; Methodological base; Classifications; Coverage and statistical units; Data collection; Measurement and analysis; and Dissemination. The webinar will be conducted through a video conferencing platform by following synchronous learning and instruction approaches designed in line with the virtual training solutions undertaken by SESRIC in order to better serve the Centre’s training activities and keep participants motivated and engaged during this time of global crisis due to COVID-19. Documents: Concept Note (English)
Source: World Bank (Data extracted on: 14 Jan 2021 )
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Organizer(s): World Bank
Description: Attempts to limit the spread of COVID-19 have taken a considerable toll on the global economy. Our study provides an overview of the labor market impacts of the pandemic among individuals in Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria and Uganda. The analysis is based on the data from the first wave of World Bank-supported phone surveys, conducted during the period of May-June 2020. Our headline findings are as follows: First, the impact on the labor market has been heterogenous across countries and is related to the stringency and compliance with government’s containment policies. In Nigeria 38% reported having stopped working due to COVID-19, while in Malawi this number is 6%. Second in all four countries, urban jobs were lost in higher proportion than in rural areas. Third, the commerce and services sectors were most affected throughout the four countries. Fourth, households have experienced substantial economic shocks following the pandemic. Increases in the price of major food items consumed, closure of nonfarm businesses, increases in the price of farming/business inputs, and decrease in output prices were most widely experienced. Fifth, to cope with the considerable economic shocks, households not only draw down their savings but also reduce food consumption. Sixth, after initial checks, phone surveys appear to provide a valid proxy for understanding labor market and income dynamics in these four countries during the pandemic. Lastly, phone surveys could be used more to quickly learn about the immediate reach of government policies to address the labor market impacts of COVID-19. The webinar will discuss these findings as well as upcoming work to continue monitoring the crisis in Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, and Uganda.
Description: The COVID-19 crisis represents a unique moment in history, when there has never been greater unity of purpose across stakeholders, greater need for new ways of working, and greater opportunity to advance collective action on the Sustainable Development Goals and our development agenda. UN Global Pulse invites officers from National Statistical Offices (NSOs) in Africa to join a 10 session webinar series focused on the use of mobile data to inform the current COVID-19 pandemic with regard to immediate response, its socio-economic effects, and…
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Description: تعرف التجارة الالكترونية على أنها جميع المعاملات التجارية العابرة للحدود والتي يتم تنفيذها على شكل الكتروني وتشمل (بيع وشراء السلع والخدمات عبر الشبكات الحاسوبية)، أو التجارة التي يتم تسهيلها وتيسيرها رقمياً عبر المنصات مثل أمازون، أوبر، أو علي بابا وغيرهما من المنصات، وقد زاد الاهتمام بهذا النوع من التجارة خلال السنوات الأخيرة، حيث أصبحت تشكل نسبة عالية من التجارة العالمية. تتم التجارة الإلكترونيـة بــين الشـركات التجاريـة، والمنــازل، والأفــراد، والحكومــات والمنظمــات العامــة أو الخاصــة عـن طريـق الإنـترنت، وهي تمكن الأفراد من شراء وبيع المنتجات على نطاق عالمي وعلى مدار اليوم دون تكبد نفس النفقات العامة التي تتم من خلال التجارة العادية وتقوم التجارة الالكترونية على علاقة بين جهتين، ويختلف شكل كل علاقة وفقا لنوع التجارة بينهما.
