Committee for the Coordination of Statistical Activities

CCSA Conferences on Data Quality for International Organizations

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Committee for the Coordination of Statistical Activities
Conference on Data Quality for International Organizations

Wiesbaden, Germany
27-28 May 2004

The Conference on Data Quality for International Organizations was held on 27 and 28 May 2004 in Wiesbaden, Germany, immediately following the Q2004 - European Conference on Quality and Methodology in Official Statistics (Mainz, Germany 24-26 May 2004). The Conference on Data Quality for International Organizations was held under the auspices of the Committee for the Coordination of Statistical Activities (CCSA).

The purpose of the conference was to provide statistical experts from international organizations with a forum to discuss specific data quality issues related to their work and exchange experiences regarding the various quality control mechanisms developed for the collection and dissemination of international data. A programme committee consisting of Ms. Carol Carson (IMF), Ms. Denise Lievesley (UIS-UNESCO), Mr. Enrico Giovannini (OECD), Mr. Sylvester Young (ILO), Mr. Heinrich Bruengger (UN-ECE), Mr. Andrew Flatt (UN-ESCAP), Mr. Werner Grunewald (Eurostat), Mr. Laurent Probst (Eurostat) and Mr. Thomas Koerner (German Statistical Office) had elaborated the programme.

Thursday, 27 May 2004

9:00 – 10.00

Welcome and introduction

Walter Radermacher (Germany)
Willem de Vries (UNSD)
Enrico Giovannini (OECD)

10:00 – 12.15

Session 1: Quality frameworks for assessing and improving statistical activities carried out by international organizations

Chair: Carol Carson (IMF)

Ivo Havinga, Gisele Kamanou, Stefan Schweinfest and Willem de Vries (UNSD), "Squaring the Quality Circle: Towards a Quality Framework for International Official Statistics", Paper, Presentation
Enrico Giovannini and Denis Ward (OECD), "Quality framework for OECD statistics: Getting our own house in order", Paper, Presentation
Haluk Kasnakoglu and Robert Mayo (FAO), "FAO Statistical Data Quality Framework: A multi-layered approach to monitoring and assessment", Paper, Presentation

Discussant: Gordon Brackstone (Statistics Canada)

12.15 – 13:30

Lunch break

13:30 – 15:30

Session 2: Coherence of data published by various international organizations on the same subject

Chair: Denise Lievesly (UIS)

Haishan Fu (UNDP), "Data inconsistency, statistical credibility and the Human Development Report", Paper, Presentation
Edilberto Loaiza (UNICEF), "Does data quality explain the difference in the current global estimates for mortality and education?", Paper, Presentation
Andreas Lindner and Richard McKenzie (OECD), "Co-ordination of data disseminated by international organizations", Paper, Presentation
Darryl Rhoades (ECE), "Towards a methodology for analyzing coherence between PPP and SNA based estimates of GDP", Paper, Presentation
Neil Fantom (World Bank), "Introducing a PARIS 21 study of the international statistical system in relation to MDG indicators: Monitoring the Millennium Development Goals: current weakness and possible improvements", Paper

Discussant: Michael Colledge (Australian Bureau of Statistics)

15:30 – 16:00

Coffee break

16:00 – 18:00

Session 3: Tools and policies for collecting, managing and disseminating data and metadata (1)

Chair: Sylvester Young (ILO)

Tetsuo Yamada (UNIDO), "Role of metadata in quality assurance of multi-country statistical data in the case of UNIDO industrial statistics", Paper
Sara Elder and Isabelle Guillet (ILO), "ILO tools for collecting, managing and disseminating data and metadata", Paper, Presentation
Brian Buffet, Alison Kennedy, and Ursula Itzlinger (UNESCO), "The Path towards Improving Quality in the International Education Database", Paper, Presentation

Discussant: Lucic Laliberte (IMF)

Friday, 28 May 2004

9:00 – 11:00

Session 3: Tools and policies for collecting, managing and disseminating data and metadata (2)

Chair: Stefan Schweinfest (UNSD)

Patrick Cornu (ILO), "ILO Labour Statistics Databases (LABORSTA): The issue of quality control procedures", Paper, Presentation
Lee Samuelson and Lars Thygesen (OECD), "Building OECD's New Statistical Information System", Paper, Presentation
Christos Androvitsaneas (ECB), "Contributing to quality in statistics through automated data and metadata exchange: the case of the European System of Central Banks", Paper, Presentation
Carol Carson (IMF), "Data and Metadata Collection and Dissemination in the IMF Statistical Information System", Paper, Presentation

Discussant: Deborah Griffin (USA, Census Bureau)

11:00 – 11:30

Coffee break

11:30 – 13:00

Panel discussion: Future directions for international cooperation to ensure data quality

Chair: Enrico Giovannini (OECD)
Panellists: Carol Carson (IMF), Denise Lievesly (UIS), Sylvester Young (ILO) and Stefan Schweinfest (UNSD)
Chart presented by Enrico Giovannini

Report of the meeting

List of participants