
Background
In 2020, the Statistical Commission, in its decision 51/120, established the work on data stewardship within the High-level Group for Partnership, Coordination and Capacity-Building for Statistics for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (HLG-PCCB) and asked them to report back at its next session with a stocktaking exercise and specific recommendations on the way forward. As a result of the HLG-PCCB's work, the Commission through its decision 52/103 created a Working Group on Data Stewardship (WGDS) in 2021 to explore the development of guidance for national statistical offices on approaches to data stewardship.
The WGDS reported for the first time to the Commission the following year in 2022 and the Commission, 53/104, supported the five workstreams begun by the group covering: data governance (workstream 1), equity and inclusion (workstream 2), sharing and collaboration (workstream 3), links with the city data agenda (workstream 4) and development of an overall conceptual framework (workstream 5), requested outstanding work from the Working Group on Open Data was absorbed by the group and maintain links with similar work being done within different regional bodies, i.e. the UNECE taskforce on data stewardship.
Membership
The Working Group on Data Stewardship consists of countries represented by national statistical offices
Country representatives [workstream membership]
International agencies and organizations
Other partners
Terms of Reference
The proposed Terms of Reference of the Working Group are available here.
Links
High Level Forum on Official Statistics: Data stewardship: A solution for official statistics' predicament? 2 March 2020, New York
UN World Data Forum webinar 11: Data stewardship: A solution for official statistics' predicament? 31 March 2020, virtual
High level event: Data stewardship and the role of National Statistical Offices in the changing data landscape, 10 February 2021, virtual
Background document: Approaches to data stewardship, prepared by the HLG-PCCB and presented at the 52nd session of the United Nations Statistical Commission in March 2021
Report of the Working Group on Data Stewardship, discussed with reference E/CN.3/2022/5 at the 53rd session of the United Nations Statistical Commission in March 2022.
Background document: preliminary results from the Working Group on Data Stewardship, presented at the 53rd session of the United Nations Statistical Commission in March 2022.
Working Group on Data Stewardship wiki collaboration website [members only]
Events
- High Level Forum on Official Statistics: Data stewardship, 2 March 2020
- UN World Data Forum webinar 11: Data stewardship, 13 March 2020
- High level event: Data stewardship and the role of National Statistical Offices in the changing data landscape, 10 February 2021, virtual
Documents
- Background document: Approaches to data stewardship, prepared by the HLG-PCCB, March 2021
- Report of the Working Group on Data Stewardship, March 2022
- Background document: preliminary results from the Working Group on Data Stewardship, March 2022
- Working Group on Data Stewardship wiki collaboration website [members only]