Regional Seminar on International Trade Statistics

Bogota, Colombia, 11 – 14 December 2012

UNSD and the National Administrative Department of Statistics (DANE) organize jointly a training workshop on compilation issues of MSITS 2010 for Latin American and Caribbean countries from 11 to 14 December 2012 at DANE Headquarters in Bogota, Columbia.

The agenda of the workshop covers topics such as: the general framework of MSITS 2010, the main data collection and data processing issues with special attention to enterprise surveys and the use of ITRS, the compilation issues related to measuring Travel services and the Tourism-related international trade in services, and some cross-cutting issues such as quality management, meta-data and the use of information technology.

The main sessions of the Seminar

• Opening session
• Data Collection
• Data Compilation
• Data Dissemination
• Cross-cutting Issues

Documents for the meeting

• Provisional agenda (English, Spanish)
• Practical information (English, Spanish)
• List of participants (English)
• Report and Recommendations of the workshop (English)
  • Recommendations only (Spanish)
• Background documents
  • Meeting documents
  • Background reading

Tuesday, 11 December
08:00 - 09:00	Registration for participants:
09:00 - 12:30	Opening session
	1.	Opening of the meeting
	2.	Opening statement (English, Spanish)
	3.	Presentation of the MITS 2010 Compilers Guide and the planned drafting process (UNSD)
	4.	General Frameworks (Conceptual, Legal and Institutional)(UNSD)
	5.	Importance of TIS in the region, data availability and developments (ECLAC)
14:00 - 17:00	Data Collection
	6.	Data Collection:
		a. Overview of data sources
		b. Registers and survey frames for Enterprise and establishment surveys:
		presentation (DANE, Colombia), presentation (INE, Uruguay)
		c. International Transaction Reporting System
	7.	Data Collection: Comparing data sources, including administrative records or other data sources
	8.	Group discussion - Data Collection and Institutional arrangements
	9.	Conclusions
Wednesday 12 December
9:00 - 12:30	Data Compilation
	10.	Data Compilation:
		a. Overview of data compilation: presentation (DANE, Colombia), presentation (IBGE, Brazil)
		b. Compilation of resident/non-resident trade in services statistics
		i. Transportation services
		ii. Computer services, Call centres and Business Process Outsourcing(BPO) Services
		iii. Insurance and Financial services
		iv. Financial Intermediation Services
		v. Manufacturing services: presentation (Mexico) , presentation (Dominican Republic)
		vi. Country Presentation - Argentina: presentation 1, presentation 2
	11.	Group discussion - Data compilation
	12.	Conclusions
14:00 - 16:00	Data Collection
	13.	Data Compilation:
		a. Compilation of FATS (BEA, USA)
		b. Integration of data from different sources and linking trade and business    statistics
	14.	Group discussion - FATS and linking trade and business statistics
	15.	Conclusions
16:00 - 17:00	Presentations by Regional Organizations
	16.	Presentation (ALADI) , Presentation (IADB)
	17.	Conclusions
Thursday 13 December
9:00 - 12:30	Travel and Tourism Data Compilation (1)
	18.	Data Compilation: Travel and Tourism statistics, including surveys of persons and households
	a.	Theoretical background Travel vs. International Tourism
		i. Travellers vs. visitors; different coverage of flows
		ii. Different coverages of expenditure
		iii. Different breakdowns and treatments
	b.	Estimating resident/non-resident flows from national/foreign flows in airports (DANE)
	c.	Other measurement issues related with flows at borders: land borders, cruises, etc.(Mexico)
14:00 - 17:00	Travel and Tourism Data Compilation (2)
	d.	Travel and tourism consumption data compilation details
		i. Theoretical background
		ii. Country practices
		Travel The compilation of travel and tourism statistics in Trinidad and Tobago Movement and consumption of tourism by residents of Ecuador
	e.	Institutional arrangements between national agencies (Peru)
	f.	Macroeconomic indicatiors of international tourism (CEPAL)
	19.	Group discussion - How to reconcile travel and tourism statistics: how to collaborate among institutions (institutionalization: exchange of basic data: sharing the results)
	20.	Conclusions
Friday 14 December
9:00 - 12:30	Data Dissemination
	21.	Data Dissemination: presentation (Panama), presentation (Venezuela)
	22.	Cross-Cutting Issues
		a. Quality management: presentation (Mexico) , presentation (Chile)
		b. Metadata (IBGE, Brazil)
	23.	Group discussion - Data Dissemination, Metadata and Quality Management
	24.	Conclusions
14:00 - 17:00	Cross-Cutting issues
	25.	Cross-Cutting issues
		a. Use of Information and Communication Technology (BEA, USA)
		b. Classifications
	Round table discussion on the future developments of international trade statistics
	Conclusions and recommendations of the Regional Seminar