The fifty-second session of the Statistical Commission approved the recommendation of the Friends of the Chair Group on economic statistics to establish a new United Nations Network of Economic Statisticians (Network) to facilitate networking, coordination and communication on new innovations, experiments and best practices for the purpose of making progress on priorities to keep economic statistics relevant and measuring the multidimensional relationships between the economy, environment and society of the 2030 Agenda. The Network aims to develop an agile and more responsive system of economic statistics based on four thematic workstreams: (a) networking: collaboration and user consultation; (b) transforming and challenging the system: statistical infrastructure and operations, and data solutions; (c) enabling: institutional arrangements and governance; and (d) experimenting, integrating and documenting: statistical framework and methods.
The task teams of the Network will work agilely in sprints of short duration to complete a series of a set amount of work and deliverables for the thematic workstreams of its work program. The short and intense life cycle of these sprints ensures that momentum is sustained to meet clear objectives.
During the Network's first meeting, the members will review the progress to date of the Network Sprints and the proposed work programme for 2023. Moreover, the members will have the opportunity to discuss the draft Network report for the upcoming Statistical Commission session
Tuesday, 1 November 2022 | 7:00 am - 10:00 am
7:00 am - 7:10 am
Session 1| Opening remarks and objectives of the meeting
7:10 am - 7:30 am
Session 2| Tour de table for introduction of members
7:30 am - 9:30 am
Session 3| Progress report and 2023 work plan
This session will discuss the outcomes of the following completed and ongoing sprints, and how the outcomes can be incorporated into the 2023 work plan of the Network:
- Cover-note
- Data access sprint - Lianne Ippel, Statistics Netherlands
- Organizational sprint - user consultation - Ivo Havinga, Consultant
- Beyond GDP sprint - Richard Heys, Office for National Statistics UK
- • Delivering the UN Network of Economic Statisticians ' Beyond GDP Vision
- • A prospectus for an integrated statistical system for inclusive and sustainable wellbeing
- Measurement of Inflation of Owner-Occupied Housing in the CPI sprint - Heidi Ertl, Statistics Canada and Dragos Ifrim, Statistics Canada
9:30 am - 9:50 am
Session 4| Report to the 54th session of the Statistical Commission
This session will discuss the outline and elements of the report of the Network to the 54th session of the Statistical Commission.
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Session 5| Concluding remarks
Active City Groups
Completed Group
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Network Members
(As of 17 March 2025)
Countries
- • Argentina
- • Australia
- • Bhutan
- • Brazil
- • Canada
- • Colombia
- • Costa Rica
- • Côte d'Ivoire
- • Fiji
- • Indonesia
- • Italy
- • Lesotho
- • Maldives
- • Mexico
- • Mongolia
- • Morocco
- • Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
- • New Zealand
- • Oman
- • State of Palestine
- • Poland
- • Saudi Arabia
- • South Africa
- • Tunisia
- • United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- • United Arab Emirates
- • United States of America
Organizations
- • Asian Development Bank
- • European Commission
- • International Labour Organization
- • International Monetary Fund
- • Islamic Development Bank
- • Meikai University
- • Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
- • United Nations
- • United Nations Development Programme
- • United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
- • United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia
- • United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
- • United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
- • World Bank
- • World Health Organization