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Steering Groups
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Area of work
Contact person |
Objective |
Membership |
Terms of Reference |
Comments
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Migration Statistics
Mr. Enrico Bisogno
Tel.: +4122 917 1662
e-mail: enrico.bisogno@unece.org |
Set up in 2005 to
improve the quality of data on international migration . |
U.S. Census Bureau (Chair), Canada, Switzerland, Australia, World Bank, UNECE |
Work plan approved by the Bureau in October 2005 (ECE / CES/ BUR/ 2005/ 13) |
The Joint UNECE/ World Bank/ US Census Bureau meeting on the contribution of household surveys to measure migration and remittances held on 14-15 January 2008. Joint UNECE/Eurostat Work Session on Migration Statistics held on 3-5 March 2008. Next meeting planned on 11-13 November 2009. |
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Measuring health status
Ms. Linda Hooper
Tel.: +4122 917 3255
e-mail: linda.hooper@unece.org |
Set up in 2004 to
- oversee the work of the TF on measuring health status;
- plan future meetings of UNECE and WHO;
- liaise with Eurostat group on HIS, Washington Group and IWG on health statistics. |
USA (Chair), Canada, WHO, Eurostat, UNECE |
Approved by the Bureau in October 2004 (CES/ BUR.2005/12 Add.3 Rev.) |
Previous meeting on measurement of health status held on 4-8 December 2006 (see documents). Next meeting planned for second half of 2009. |
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Gender statistics
Mr. Enrico Bisogno
Tel.: +4122 917 1662
e-mail: enrico.bisogno@unece.org |
Set up in 2005 to
- coordinate the work of the TFs on gender statistics and provide advice
- plan future UNECE work on gender statistics |
Ireland , Serbia, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom, the United States, UNDP, and UNECE.
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Continuation of work approved by the Bureau in February 2008 (ECE/ CES/ BUR/ 2008/ FEB/ 16). |
Previous Work Session on gender statistics held on 11-13 September 2006 (see documents). Next meeting planned for 6-8 October 2008. |
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Impact of globalisation on national accounts
Ms. Lidia Bratanova
Tel.: +4122 917 1772
e-mail: lidia.bratanova@unece.org |
Set up in 2007 to:
- steer the work of the Joint UNECE/OECD/Eurostat Working Group;- report on the work to the Conference. |
Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, Netherlands, United Kingdom, USA, UNECE, OECD, Eurostat and IMF |
Leaderrship Group of the Joint UNECE/OECD/Eurostat Working Group on Impact of Globalisation on National Accounts (WGGNA). Approved by the Bureau in April 2007 (see Terms of Reference) |
The research agenda and work plan presented to the CES Bureau in February 2008. (ECE/ CES/ BUR/ 2008/ Feb/ 12). |
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Sustainable development Ms. Lidia Bratanova
Tel.: +4122 917 1772
e-mail: lidia.bratanova@unece.org |
Set up in 2006 to
- to assist the Chair in operational planning for the Working Group on Statistics for Sustainable Development (WGSSD);
- to propose a programme of work for the WGSSD;
- to periodically review the prog. of work;
- to oversee and contribute to the programme of work to ensure that the group is progressing effectively toward its objectives;
- to ensure support from countries and institutions to the WGSSD to complete its mandate. |
Canada, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, UNECE, Eurostat, OECD, UN Statistics Division, UN Division for Sustainable Development, World Bank |
Approved by the Bureau in February 2006 ( ECE/ CES/ BUR/ 2006/ 17 ) |
Final report presented to the CES plenary session in June 2008. |
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Statistical metadata
Mr. Juraj Riecan
Tel.: +4122 917 3328
e-mail: juraj.riecan@unece.org |
Set up in 2007 to
- Promote the implementation of metadata systems by developing advocacy targeting the senior management level and subject-matter staff of national statistical offices;
- Oversee the maintenance of the Common Metadata Framework |
Australia , Canada, New Zealand, Netherlands, Slovenia, Sweden, United States, UNECE, Eurostat, OECD. |
TOR approved by the Bureau in October 2007 (CES/ BUR/ 2007/ OCT/ 9 Rev.1) |
Previous meeting on statistical metadata held 9-11 April 2008. Next meeting to be held in April 2010. |
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Population and housing censuses
Mr. Paolo Valente
Tel.: +4122 917 3306
e-mail: paolo.valente@unece.org |
Set in May 2003. New objectives agreed in 2006:
- coordinate and oversee the implementation of of the CES recommendations for the 2010 round of population and housing censuses; facilitate exchange of experiences in census methodology, technology and content. |
Armenia, Canada (Chair), Finland, France, Georgia, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Russian Federation, Slovenia, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Eurostat, ECE. UNSD and CIS StatCom |
New TOR approved by the Bureau in October 2006
(CES/ BUR/ 2006/ OCT/ 5) |
CES seminar on Population Censuses held in June 2006. CES Recommendations for the 2010 round of population and housing censuses adopted in June 2006 ( CES/ AC.6/ 2005/ 2/ Add.1/ Rev.1). Previous meeting held on 13-15 May 2008. Next meeting planned for 27-29 May 2009. |
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Statistical dissemination and communication
Mr. Juraj Riecan
Tel.: +4122 917 3328
e-mail: juraj.riecan@unece.org |
Set up following the recommendation of the WS on Dissemination of Statistical Commentary (4-5 December 2003) to:
- provide a forum for the exchange of experience in statistical dissemination and communication;
- collect and publish best practices, guidelines and recommendations on this topic;
- to advise and steer the work of the ECE secretariat on strategic and management questions of statistical dissemination and communication. |
Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ireland, Israel, Russian Federation, United Kingdom, United States, UNECE, OECD, Eurostat. |
Approved by the Bureau in October 2004 (CES/ BUR.2005/ 12/ Add.4). Mandate reviewed in October 2007. |
Previous Work Session on statistical dissemination and communication held on 13-15 May 2008. Next meeting planned for 11-15 May 2009. |
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Management of statistical information systems
Mr. Juraj Riecan
Tel.: +4122 917 3328
e-mail: juraj.riecan@unece.org |
Set up in October to:
- exchange experience, collect good practices, encourage implementation of standards in statistical information management;
- advise the CES Bureau and the ECE secretariat on work related to statistical information systems;
- make recommendations on coordinating the activities of international organizations in this area; - update the 1999 Guidelines on Information Systems Architecture for National and International Statistical Offices. |
Canada, Latvia, Norway, Netherlands, US Bureau of the Census, Eurostat, OECD. |
Progress report and terms of reference revised in 2007 (CES/ BUR/ 2007/ FEB/ 14). The Bureau supported the continuation of the work. |
SG is coordinating the work in several areas (information systems, confidentiality, metadata, data editing, etc.). For more information, please see the report of the May 2004 meeting (CES/ AC.71/ 2004/ 2). Previous joint ECE/ Eurostat/ OECD meeting on MSIS held on 7-9 April 2008. Next meeting planned for March/ April 2009. |
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Task Forces
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PE |
Area of work
Contact person |
Objective |
Membership |
Terms of Reference |
Comments
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Measuring emigration
Mr. Enrico Bisogno
Tel.: +4122 917 1662
e-mail: enrico.bisogno@unece.org
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Set up in 2005 to
- design a set of tables to carry out pilot projects on the stock and flows of migrants by country of origin in host countries;
- coordinate the pilot projects,
- prepare a paper on the feasibility of estimating relevant stock and flows of emigrants based on available data on immigrants in host countries;
- prepare a framework for estimating emigrants |
Canada (Chair), Georgia, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Portugal, Russian Federation, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, United Kingdom, United States, Eurostat, UNECE |
Approved by the Bureau in October 2005 (ECE/ CES/ BUR/ 2005
/13/Add.1) |
Progress report presented to the CES Bureau in February 2006 (ECE /CES /BUR /2006 /21) |
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Measuring quality of employment
Ms. Vitalija Gaucaite-Wittich
Tel.: +4122 917 1462
e-mail: vitalija.gaucaite@unece.org |
- To refine and update the list of indicators developed by the TF on labour statistics;
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To develop criteria for testing and to test the indicators. |
Canada (chair), France, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, The European Commission, the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, WIGO, ILO and UNECE
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Approved by the CES Bureau in June 2007 (ECE/ CES/ BUR/ 2007/ JUNE/ 3) |
An interim report will be presented to the 18th International Conference of Labour Statisticians (end 2008). The work should be completed in 2009. |
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Measuring volunteer work
Mr. Paolo Valente
Tel.: +4122 917 3306
e-mail: paolo.valente@unece.org |
Set up in 2006 to investigate the practical and theoretical challenges in promoting comparability in social research across countries, using the volunteering concept as an example. The TF will:
- make an inventory of concepts of volunteering;
- analyse the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches;
- make recommendations for definitions and methods to measure volunteering as part of official statistics. |
Canada (Chair), Australia, Denmark, Italy, Untied States |
Approved by the CES Bureau in October 2006 (ECE/ CES/ BUR/ 2006/ OCT/ 25) |
The work of the TF is expected to be completed in 2008 |
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Measuring health status
Ms. Linda Hooper
Tel.: +4122 917 3255
e-mail: linda.hooper@unece.org |
Set up in 2004 to develop a common instrument to measure health status |
US (Chair), Belgium, Canada, Estonia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, UK, UNECE, Eurostat, WHO |
Approved by the Bureau in February 2005
(CES/ BUR.2005/ 12 Add.3 Rev.) |
Previous meeting held on 4-8 December 2006 (see documents). Next work session planned for 4-6 February 2009. |
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Business statistics
Mr. Carsten Hansen
Tel.: +4122 917 3370
e-mail: carsten.hansen@unece.org |
Set up in February 2008 to identify key strategic issues for sharing best practices and promoting international harmonization . Possible areas:
- conduct of economic censuses; - conduct of business surveys;
- reduction of respondent burden;
- new domains/user needs; |
Canada and Eurostat (co-Chairs), UNECE, OECD, IMF, UNCTAD |
Approved by the Bureau in February 2008 ( CES/ BUR.2008/ FEB/ 13) |
CES seminar on strategic issues in business statistics to be held in 2009. |
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Emerging issues in social statistics
Mr. Heinrich Bruengger
Tel.: +4122 917 1271
e-mail: heinrich.bruengger@unece.org |
Set up in October 2005 to:·
- identify and develop proposals to examine emerging issues in social statistics, including measurement concepts, common questions / modules and modalities to achieve them (including prototyping and/or testing strategies) |
Canada (Chair), Australia, Italy, United States, Eurostat Strategic Development Group, UNECE |
Approved by the Bureau in October 2005 (extract from ECE/ CES/ BUR/ 2005/ 20) |
Progress of work (ECE/ CES/ BUR/ 2006/ OCT/ 4) presented to the Bureau in October 2006. |
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Gender statistics training for statisticians
Mr. Enrico Bisogno
Tel.: +4122 917 1662
e-mail: enrico.bisogno@unece.org |
Set up in 2005 to
- collect and make available training materials
- develop a training module
- explore the possibility to conduct a training session |
UNECE (Chair), Republic of Belarus, Finland, Georgia, Ireland, FYROM, Serbia, Sweden, United States |
Continuation of work approved by the Bureau in February 2008 ( ECE/ CES/ BUR/ 2008/ FEB/ 17). |
Progress of work presented to the Bureau in October 2007. |
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UNECE gender database
Mr. Enrico Bisogno
Tel.: +4122 917 1662
e-mail: enrico.bisogno@unece.org |
Set up in 2007 to:
- guide on improving data accuracy and availability- suggest new indicators to be included- to develop a marketing strategy- to explore how to produce reports and publications |
UNECE (Chair), Canada, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Switzerland |
Approved by the Bureau in February 2007 (ECE/ CES/ BUR/ 2007/ 16) |
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Gender based violence
Mr. Enrico Bisogno
Tel.: +4122 917 1662
e-mail: enrico.bisogno@unece.org |
Set up in 2005 to
- exchange and promote methods for VAW surveys
- promote training in VAW
- define common concepts, develop a core set of indicators and identify a minimum set of questions that can be incorporated into on-going surveys |
UNECE (Chair), Canada, Italy, Serbia, United States, Coordination Action on Human Rights Violations (CAHRV), Lancaster University, London Metropolitan University, European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control (HEUNI), Office of the High Commission on Human Rights (OHCHR), United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women (UNDAW), UNFPA, UNIFEM, WHO. |
Continuation of work approved by the Bureau in February 2008
( ECE/ CES/ BUR/ 2008/ FEB/ 18). |
Progress report presented at the Work Session on gender statistics on 11-13 September 2006 in Geneva.
Progress of work presented to the Bureau in October 2007.
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Impact of globalisation on national accounts
Ms. Lidia Bratanova
Tel.: +4122 917 1772
e-mail: lidia.bratanova@unece.org |
Set up in 2007 to:
- review the main distortions in the compilation of national accounts and related source statistics, as caused by the growing globalisation of economies;
- put forward proposals to deal with these distortions and improve the quality of national accounts. |
Netherlands (Chair), UNECE, OECD, Eurostat, IMF, UNCTAD |
Approved by the Bureau in April 2007 (see Terms of Reference) |
The research agenda and work plan presented to the CES Bureau in February 2008. (ECE/ CES/ BUR/ 2008/ Feb/ 12). First meeting held on 23-24 April 2008. |
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Families and households
Mr. Paolo Valente
Tel.: +4122 917 3306
e-mail: paolo.valente@unece.org |
Set up in 2003 to improve the quality of statistics on families and households. New tasks agreed in 2006:
- define the concepts related to policy concerns including new forms of families and households (reconstituted families, same
- sex couples, living apart together, people with multiple residences, etc.);
- design common survey prototypes to measure new forms of families and households;
- study the feasibility of using administrative data to measure families and households. |
Armenia, Australia, Canada, Finland, Hungary, Italy (Chair), Norway, United States and ECE. |
Approved by the Bureau in October 2003 (CES/BUR.2004/12). New TOR approved in October 2006.
(ECE/ CES/ BUR/ 2006/ OCT/ 6) |
CES Recommendations for the 2010 Round of Censuses on Population and Housing approved by the 2006 CES plenary session (CES/ AC.6/ 2005/ 2/ Add.1/ Rev.1).
Work is expected to be completed in 2008. |
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Victim surveys
Mr. Paolo Valente
Tel.: +4122 917 3306
e-mail: paolo.valente@unece.org |
Set up in 2005 to survey, analyse and share experience in
- methods used in victimization surveys
- testing the methods
- organisation and requirements for victim surveys |
Australia (Chair), Canada, Hungary, Italy, Poland, UK, US, HEUNI, UNECE, UNODC |
Approved by the Bureau in February 2005
(CES/ BUR.2005/30) |
A first draft of the Manual on Victim Surveys is being prepared. It is expected that the draft manual will be discussed at a meeting planned in the second half of 2008. |
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Confidentiality and privacy aspects of statistical data integration
Mr. Juraj Riecan
Tel.: +4122 917 3328
e-mail: juraj.riecan@unece.org |
Set up in 2007 to produce a draft set of principles and annotated guidelines for addressing confidentiality and privacy aspects of statistical data integration projects. |
Australia (Chair), Canada, Finland, Netherlands, Poland, Slovenia, United States, UNECE, Eurostat |
Approved by the Bureau in February 2007
(ECE/ CES/ BUR/ 2007/11) |
Draft principles to be submitted to the CES plenary session in June 2009. |
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Organising Committees
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PE |
Area of work
Contact person |
Objective |
Membership |
Comments |
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Prices
Mr. Carsten Hansen
Tel: +4122 917 3370
e-mail: carsten.hansen@unece.org |
To assist in the preparation and follow-up of the joint UNECE/ILO CPI meetings (to decide on the agenda items and the time and frequency of meetings, and to propose experts that can contribute to the work on CPIs). |
5 member countries, UNECE, ILO, Eurostat, OECD and IMF |
TOR approved by the Bureau in October 2007. Previous meeting held on 8-9 May 2008. Next meetign planned in May 2010. |
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Business registers
Ms. Vitalija Gaucaite-Wittich
Tel.: +4122 917 1462
e-mail: vitalija.gaucaite@unece.org |
Set up in February 2008 to assist the UNECE, Eurostat and OECD in the preparation and follow-up of joint business registers meetings. |
Czech Republic, France, United Kingdom CIS-Stat.Comm.,
UNECE, Eurostat and OECD |
TOR approved by the Bureau in October 2007. Previous meeting held on 8-9 May 2008. Next meeting planned 15-16 June 2009. Bureau to review TOR in 2009. |
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Professional autonomy and accountability
Ms. Lidia Bratanova
Tel.: +4122 917 1772
e-mail: lidia.bratanova@unece.org |
To organise a seminar "Balancing principles of professional autonomy and accountability with the mandate to produce policy relevant data" at the CES 2009 plenary session. |
Seminar Organiser: Ireland; Session Organisers: Austria, France |
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Human resources development and training Mr. Carsten Hansen
Tel.: +4122 917 3370
e-mail: carsten.hansen@unece.org |
Set up in 2007 to provide a forum for the human resource managers in statistical agencies to exchange experiences:- prepare a draft concept for the first forum- prepare agenda and timetable for preparation of the meeting |
Canada (Co-chair), Czech Republic (Co-chair), Finland, IMF, CIS Statistical Commission
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Terms of reference were approved by the Bureau in February 2007 (ECE/CES/BUR/2007/FEB/9) . The first meeting will be organized on 3-5 September 2008 in Skopje, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. |
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