- Virtual Meeting
- 2 February 2022
The Fourth Organizational Sprint Meeting of the United Nations Network of Economic Statisticians will be held from 7:00 am to 9:00 am on 2 February 2022 (New York time). The meeting will focus on determining the program of work for the Network for period 2022 and 2023.
Tuesday, 2 Febuary 2022: 7:00 am - 9:30 am
7:00 am - 7:10 am
Session 1: Introduction, welcome remarks, and confirmation of the summary of the third meeting
Summary report of the Third Session of the Organizational Sprint
7:10 am - 7:40 am
Session 2: User consultations
Chair: Mr. Stefan Schweinfest, United Nations Statistics Division
This session will continue the discussion on the modalities of user consultations and the preparation of a synthesis report based on the reports from various Statistical Committees and other groups to the Statistical Commission 2022 from an economic statistics perspective.
Oral introduction by Mr. Greg Peterson, Assistant Chief Statistician of Statistics Canada and Frantisek Bernadic, Director Macro-Economic Statistics, Eurostat
The outline of the synthesis report of the UN Network of the reports to the United Nations Statistical Commission, March 2022
Presenter: Mr. Ivo Havinga, independent expert
7:40 am - 8:10 am
Session 3: Membership and Co-Chairs of the UN Network of Economic Statisticians
Chair: Mr. Stefan Schweinfest, United Nations Statistics Division
This session will report on the consultative process for the identification of the membership of the UN Network and Co-Chairs, and the formalization of the Bureau of the Network
8:10 am - 9:00 am
Session 4: Work plan for the Network
Chair: Mr. Stefan Schweinfest, United Nations Statistics Division
This session will be kicked-off by a presentation on possible thematic sprints to be organized, as appropriate, with other statistical groups and committees. Following this background presentation there will be a tour de table seeking proposals and suggestions from the Network members for developing a two-year rolling workplan for thematic Sprints of the Network.
Presenter: Mr. Greg Peterson, Assistant Chief Statistician of Statistics Canada
9:00 am - 9:15 am
Session 5: Update on the Network Sprints
Chair: Mr. Stefan Schweinfest, United Nations Statistics Division
This session will provide an update on the preparations of the Beyond GDP and the initial findings of the ongoing Data Access Sprint
Beyond GDP Sprint
Data Access Sprint
Presenter: Mr. Richard Heys, UK ONS and Erich Strassner, US BEA
Mr. Barteld Braaksma, Statistics Netherlands
9:15 am - 9:30 am
Session 6: Next steps and closing remarks
Chair: Mr. Stefan Schweinfest, United Nations Statistics Division
This session will report on the next steps: modalities of user consultations, membership and co-chairs of the Network, work plan for the Network, launch of new thematic Sprints, continuation of ongoing Sprints on Beyond GDP and Data Access, and update the Statistical Commission through a background document.
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- • Argentina
- • Australia
- • Bhutan
- • Canada
- • Colombia
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- • Indonesia
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- • Mexico
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- • Morocco
- • Netherlands
- • New Zealand
- • Oman
- • Palestine
- • Poland
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- • South Africa
- • Tunisia
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