UN Committee of Experts on Business and Trade Statistics
Fifth Meeting of the UN Committee of Experts on Business and Trade Statistics
- New York, USA
- 6 - 9 September 2022
Overview
The UN Committee of Experts on Business and Trade Statistics will hold its 5th meeting from 6 - 9 September 2022 in New York. Since its establishment in 2018, the Committee has completed the initial phase of its work with the completion of two manuals and the establishment of a Task Team on International Trade Statistics in 2021. With the development of the updated strategic view on business and trade statistics that is rooted in a horizontal and vertical integration across statistical domains, the Committee is redefining its future work programme for the next biennium, taking into account the priority areas of digitalization, productivity and innovation; wellbeing and social inclusion; and green economy. The 5th meeting of the UNCEBTS will review, therefore, the new work plans of the task teams, address follow-up actions from the United Nations Statistical Commission and take note of the progress of work of the task team on International Trade Statistics. In addition, the UNCEBTS will consider new developments and initiatives in business and trade statistics to ensure the relevance of its work and also to ensure synergies and coherence between the workstreams of the Committee and the work undertaken by other groups of experts, countries and organizations.
Programme
Day 1 - Tuesday, 6 September 2022, Conference Room F
Welcome, opening
- Stefan Schweinfest, Director UNSD
- Stefano Menghinello, Chair UNCEBTS
- Introduction of participants
Session 1: Follow up to the UNSC and objectives of the meeting
- Chair: Stefano Menghinello (UNCEBTS)
- - Follow up to the UN Statistical Commission (Ilaria Di Matteo and Markie Muryawan, UNSD)
- - Objectives of the meeting; Update of the strategic view and how to meet the new challenges (Stefano Menghinello, Chair UNCEBTS)
- - Open discussion
Session 2: Business dynamics, demography and entrepreneurship
- Chair: Gerardo Durand (INEGI-Mexico)
- - Harmonized Statistics on Scale-up enterprises in the Nordics (S∅ren Andersen, Statistics Denmark)
- - Considerations on Measuring Entrepreneurship (Nancy Snyder, UNSD)
- - Spanish experience confronting entrepreneurship statistics (Valentìn Llorente, INE-Spain)
- - Task Team on BDDE Workplan (Gerardo Durand, INEGI-Mexico) ⚬ Background note
- - Open discussion
Session 3: Well-being and sustainability
- Chair: S∅ren Andersen (Statistics Denmark)
- - New Task Team workplan (S∅ren Andersen, Statistics Denmark) ⚬ Background note
- - The SEEA and Business Accounting (Jessica Ying Chan, UNSD)
- - Open discussion
Session 4: Exhaustive business registers
- Chair: Hank Hermans (Statistics Netherlands)
- - Intro and new Task Team work plan (Hank Hermans, Statistics Netherlands)
- - Joint SIAP-ADB-UNSD E-Course on SBRs (Pinar Ucar, SIAP)
- - Developments in the Statistical Business Register of the UK (Andrew Allen, UK)
- - Open discussion
Session 5: Focus on the developments of global registers
- Chair: Hank Hermans (Statistics Netherlands)
- - The development of a joint global register building on ADIMA-GGR (Nancy Snyder, UNSD)
- - Developments on EGR (Eurostat, Petra Sneijers)
Day 2 - Wednesday, 7 September 2022, Conference Room 8 in the morning, Conference Room F in the afternoon
Session 6: Globalization and digitalization
- Chair: Mark Uhrbach (Statistics Canada)
- - New Task Team workplan and agenda on digitalization in Statistics Canada (Mark Uhrbach, Statistics Canada)
- - Evolution of electronic banking-monetics and e-trade activities in Morocco (Ouljour Houssein, Office des Changes Morocco)
- - Country priorities in Egypt (Mennat Allah Mohamed, CAPMAS)
- - Open discussion
Session 7: International Trade Statistics
- Chairs: Cristina Neves (Statistics Portugal) and Ouljour Houssein (Morocco)
- - Progress update on the revision of the manual (Cristina Neves and Ouljour Houssein)
- - Trade and wellbeing proposed indicators(Cody Hill, US Census Bureau)
- - Valuation of trade under long-term contracts (Houssaine Ouljour and Esmond McLean)
- - New TT workplan (Cristina Neves, Statistics Portugal)
- - Open discussion
Session 8: Capacity building
- Chair: Saleh Alkafri (Statistics Palestine)
- - New TT workplan (Saleh Alkafri, Statistics Palestine)
- - Developments on Trade Data Tools and E-Learning on Trade Statistics (Markie Muryawan, UNSD)
- - Strengthening the statistical use of economic administrative registers in Latin America and the Caribbean (Gerardo Durand, INEGI-Mexico)
- - Open discussion
Session 9: International guidance on the integration of business & trade statistics
- Chair: Markie Muryawan (UNSD)
- - Follow-up work on the Manual on principal indicators Volume 1 and criteria for prioritization of indicators (Nancy Snyder, UNSD)
- - Preparation of Volume 2 (Ouljour Houssein, Office des Changes Morocco)
- - Manual on Integration of Business & Trade Statistics (Gerardo Durand, INEGI-Mexico and Cristina Neves, Statistics Portugal)
- - Open discussion
Day 3 - Thursday, 8 September 2022, Conference Room F
Session 10: Access to new data sources
- Chair: Hank Hermans (Statistics Netherlands)
- - Introduction (Hank Hermans, Statistics Netherlands)
- - Evidence on new industry ecosystem research (Ivo Havinga, Network of Economic Statisticians)
- - Use cases on access to private data sources (Ronald Jansen, UNSD)
- - Open discussion
Session 11: Global initiative on unique identifiers
- Chair: Ilaria Di Matteo (UNSD)
- - Draft proposal for a Global initiative on unique identifiers (Ilaria Di Matteo, UNSD) ⚬ Background note
- - The Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) and GLEIF (Ricco Dun, GLEIF)
- - Unique identifiers for businesses in France (Olivier Aguer, INSEE, France)
- - Open discussion
Session 12: Development of an Integrated Data Infrastructure to link micro data on people and businesses
- Chair: S∅ren Andersen (Statistics Denmark)
- - Introduction (S∅ren Schi∅nning Andersen, Denmark)
- - Country presentation from Denmark (Ole Olsen, Statistics Denmark)
- - Data infrastructure for business statistics in Portugal (Cristina Neves, Statistics Portugal)
- - Links with population registers (Meryem Demirci, UNSD)
Session 13: Breakout session on selected cross-cutting topics
- - Integrating gender in business and trade statistics (led by: Gerardo Durand, Cristina Neves)
- - Digitalization, productivity and innovation (led by: Hank, Ouljour Houssein)
- - Business Statistics on the green economy (led by: S∅ren Andersen)
Day 4 - Friday, 9 September 2022, Conference Room F
Session 14: Report to the Committee on selected cross-cutting topics to further elaborate a common strategy
- Chair: Stefano Menghinello (UNCEBTS)
- - Integrating gender in business and trade statistics (summary by Gerardo, Cristina)
- - Digitalization, productivity and innovation (summary by Hank and Ouljour Houssein)
- - Business Statistics on the green economy (summary by S∅ren)
- - Open discussion
Session 15: Roundtable on the use of business and trade statistics
- Chair: Stefano Menghinello (UNCEBTS)
- - National accounts, Herman Smith (UNSD)
- - Environmental economic accounting, Alessandra Alfieri (UNSD)
- - Annabelle Mourougane (OECD)
- - Petra Sneijers (Eurostat)
- - Fernando Cantu (UNIDO)
Session 16: Conclusions and Way Forward
- Chair: Stefano Menghinello (UNCEBTS)
- - Priorities for the UNCEBTS
- - Reporting to the UN Statistical Commission