IDENTIFYING ISSUES THAT THE STATISTICAL COMMISSION MIGHT DISCUSS. Note by UNSD

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1 Inter-agency Meeting on Coordination of Statistical Activities SA/2002/14/Add.1 New York, September August 2002 Item 11(e) of the provisional agenda IDENTIFYING ISSUES THAT THE STATISTICAL COMMISSION MIGHT DISCUSS Note by UNSD 1. Attached is the multi-year programme of work for the Statistical Commission (E/CN.3/2002/L.4). The Commission considers that the international organizations are in a good position to identify emerging needs in statistics that should be addressed by the Commission. 2. At the thirty-fourth session of the former ACC Subcommittee on Statistical Activities (2000) Several suggestions were made concerning the multi-year work programme of the Statistical Commission, namely, the desirability of the Commission s considering aspects of the statistical work of specialized agencies, and the collection of disaggregated statistics by international organizations (including the uses of disaggregated statistics and the reporting burdens on countries). The Subcommittee agreed that the latter item should be discussed in a session of the Subcommittee prior to a decision to include it in the Commission s work programme; the Subcommittee considered that such an approach would be useful for a variety of topics in which both the Subcommittee an the Commission might have an interest. 3. At the thirty-fifth session (2001), two items were suggested by the Subcommittee to be added to the Commission s multi-year programme of work and they were added: 1. Information and communication technology statistics (2004) and 2. Definition and measurement of the so-called information society (2005) (document to be prepared by UNESCO) 4. The Coordination Meeting is invited to 1) consider whether the issue of disaggregated statistics as described in para. 2 above should be placed on the agenda of any future coordination meeting that may be held (possibly decided under agenda item 4 of the present meeting Treatment of any unfinished business of the former ACC Subcommittee on Statistical Activities ) and 2) to comment on and make proposals for the multi-year programme of work of the Commission including indicating possible responsibility for any required work in preparing items for Commission discussion.

2 E/CN.3/2002/L.4 Distr.: General 15 November 2001 Original: English Statistical Commission Thirty-third session 5 8 March 2002 Item 8 of the provisional agenda Provisional agenda and dates for the thirty-fourth session of the Commission Draft multi-year programme of work for the Statistical Commission Note by the Secretary-General In accordance with a request contained in Economic and Social Council resolution 1999/51, a proposed multi-year programme of work for the Statistical Commission is set out below. It is a revision of the programme of work for considered by the Commission at its thirty-second session (E/CN.3/2001/L.4), reflecting comments from members and observers of the Commission, review by the ACC Subcommittee on Statistical Activities at its thirty-fifth session (Vienna, September 2001) and a review by the United Nations Statistics Division of its work plans. E/CN.3/2002/1.

3 Proposed multi-year work programme for the Statistical Commission Agenda item CSSA Code Demographic and social statistics 031 (a) Population and housing censuses i & i (b) Human settlements statistics X X (c) Paris Group on Labour and Compensation (city group) X X (d) Health statistics X (e) Social statistics , 8-11 X X (f) Social statistics (Programme review) X (g) Rio Group on Poverty Statistics (city group) X X (h) Siena Group for Social Statistics (city group) X X X (i) Statistics of drugs and drug use X (j) Time -use statistics X X X (k) Washington Group on Disability Measurement (city group) X X X 2. Economic statistics 032 (a) National accounts X X X X X (b) Agricultural statistics X (c) Industrial statistics (Programme review) X (d) Roundtable on Business Survey Frames (city group) X X (e) Energy statistics X (f) International trade statistics i X (g) Statistics of international trade in services ii X X X (h) Statistics of services (Programme review) 032.6, ii, (i) Information and communications technology statistics X (j) Tourism statistics X (k) Finance statistics X (l) Public finance statistics X (m) International Comparison Programme X X X X X (n)ottawa Group on Price Indexes (city group) X X X X (o) Inter-secretariat Working Group on Price Statistics X X X X (p) Delhi Group on Informal Sector Statistics (city group) X X (q) Voorburg Group on Service Statistics (city group) X X 3. Natural resources and environment statistics 033 (a) Environment statistics and environmental accounting 033.1, X X X (b) London Group on Environmental Accounting 033.1, X X X 4. Activities not classified by field 034 (a) Coordination and integration of statistical programmes X X X X X X X X 1 The "CSSA Code" column contains cross references to the codes of the Classification of Statistics and Statistical Activities of the ACC Subcommittee on Statistical Activities (SA/2001/9 dated 16 August 2001); the cross references are subject to further discussion. 3

4 Agenda item CSSA Code (b) Programme questions (United Nations Statistics Division) (2-year work programme, 4-year medium-term plan) X X X X X (c) Handbook of Statistical Organization X X (d) Management issues in national statistical offices X X (e) Statistics of human development X X X (f) International economic and social classifications X X X X X (g) Common open standards for the exchange and sharing of data and metadata X (h) Definition and measurement of e-commerce X (i) Special Data Dissemination Standard/General Data Dissemination Standard and data quality X (j) Methodological development - integrated presentation X X X (k) Definition and measurement of the so called information society X (l) Statistical capacity building X X (m)dissemination of statistics by the United Nations Statistics Division X (n) Indicators X X X X X (o) Follow-up to Economic and Social Council policy decisions X X X X X Total number of items

5 Annex CLASSIFICATION OF STATISTICS AND STATISTICAL ACTIVITIES a/ 030 General statistics 031 Demographic and social statistics 1. Demographic statistics 2. Population statistics i. Population censuses ii. Statistics on population groups of special interest 3. Housing statistics i. Housing censuses ii. Other housing statistics 4. Labour statistics 5. Education and training statistics 6. Culture statistics including mass communication 7. Statistics of household income and expenditure and their distribution 8. Social security statistics 9. Health statistics 10. Gender statistics 11. Other social, demographic and related statistics 032 Economic statistics 1. National accounts 2. Agriculture statistics 3. Forestry and fishery statistics 4. Industrial statistics 5. Energy statistics 6. Distributive trade statistics 7. International trade statistics i. Trade in goods ii. Trade in services 8. Transport statistics 9. Communication statistics 10. Tourism statistics 11. Statistics of services not included elsewhere 12. Money, finance and insurance statistics 13. Fiscal statistics 14. Balance of payments statistics 15. Prices statistics 16. Statistics of science, technology and patents 17. Other economic statistics 5

6 033 Natural resources and environment statistics 1. Natural resources and environment statistics 2. Natural resources and environment accounting 3. Meteorology statistics 034 Activities not classified by field 1. Organization and operation of statistical services 2. Technical infrastructure and other cross-cutting issues 3. Dissemination and support for secretariat activities 4. Other activities not classified by field a/ This classification has been made to correspond to the greatest extent possible with the classification used in the integrated presentation of statistical programmes of the Economic Commission for Europe, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and the Statistical Office of the European Communities. 6