1. This is intended to be a fully integrated presentation of international work programme in the ECE region. It includes the statistical work of the Economic Commission for Europe (ECE), the Commission of the European Communities, OECD, the UN Statistical Division (UNSD), ILO, WHO, IMF, the World Trade Organization (ex GATT), the World Bank, The Statistical Committee of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS STAT) and many other agencies. The programmes are presented in six separate documents - one for each domain in the Conference's programme of work - as follows:
6. The "priority menu" summarizing the major types of activities the Conference plans to work on during the next two years in all projects in the sub-programme is given at the end of this addendum, together with a consolidated list of meetings that the ECE, Eurostat and the OECD plan to organize under this sub-programme in the next two years.
7. As the integrated presentation is being presented in six separate documents, this explanatory note on the new format of the presentation is being reproduced in each of the documents. A separate short document (CES/1995/R.15.
Sub-programme Programme element
Sub-programme 1: 1.1 Issues of statistical policy
Organization and 1.2 Transition countries
Operation of statistical 1.3 Promotion and coordination of
services (See document international statistical work
1.4 Technical assistance to
developing countries
Sub-programme 2: 2.1 Management of statistical
Technical infrastructure information technology
and other cross-cutting 2.2 Statistical data collection and
issues (See document processing
2.3 Dissemination and interchange of
statistical information
2.4 Industry, commodity and
occupation classifications
2.5 Statistical methodology
2.6 Geography
2.7 Regional statistics
2.8 Training
Sub-programme 3: 3.1 Implementation of the system of
Economic statistics (See national accounts
document 3.2 Money and banking, government
3.3 International trade in goods
3.4 Transport
3.5 Distributive trades
3.6 International trade in services
3.7 Tourism
3.8 Other marketed services, and non-
marketed services
3.9 Price statistics, including
purchasing power parities
3.10 Agricultural statistics
3.11 Industrial statistics
3.12 Energy statistics
3.13 Science and technology
statistics
3.14 Business registers and
administrative records in
support of economic statistics
3.XX Other work in the field of
economic statistics
Sub-programme 4: Social 4.1 Social indicators and frameworks
and demographic 4.2 Gender statistics
statistics (See document 4.3 Multi-purpose social surveys
4.4 Registers and administrative
records for social and
demographic statistics
4.5 Population and housing censuses
4.6 Health statistics
4.7 Crime and criminal justice
statistics
4.8 Education and training
statistics
4.9 Culture statistics
4.10 Labour statistics
4.11 Demographic statistics
(including projections,
migration and fertility)
4.12 Human settlements and housing
statistics
4.13 Statistics of household income
and expenditures, of the welfare
of the population, and of
poverty and income inequality
4.14 Statistics on population groups
of special interest
4.XX Other work in the field of
social and demographic
statistics
Sub-programme 5: Natural 5.1 Standards and frameworks for
resources and environmental data and
environment statistics indicators
(See document 5.2 Natural resources and
5.3 Environmental database
development and dissemination
Sub-programme 6: 6.1 Dissemination of statistical
Dissemination and data by the secretariats
support for secretariat 6.2 Statistical support for other
activities (See document activities of the secretariats
CES/1995/R.15/Add.6)
To make available in printed or electronic form, comparable statistical information about the countries of the region. The content and format of the products of this activity should be driven by client demand. The short term priority for the various international organizations should be to complete a market assessment of the current range of their products and services with a view to preparing a plan for the evolution of their product line to better serve user needs.
Issuance of statistical publications and products by all the organizations. For the ECE, review of the ECE Statistical Journal.
- The efforts being made by the ECE secretariat to improve the content of the Statistical Journal of the ECE.
- The first issue of the ECE Statistical Yearbook.
- The plans of the ECE secretariat to issue the Statistical Yearbook annually in future years.
- The plan of the ECE secretariat to publish the ECE-Eurostat- INSTRAW-Statistics Sweden joint publication on "Statistics of Women and Men in Europe and North America, 1995" in time for the Beijing World Conference on Women (Sept. 1995).
- To approve the ECE Statistical Division's 1995/96 publication programme referred to above.
- To approve the plan of the secretariat to include the ECE Statistical Yearbook in the Statistical Division's annual publication programme.
(Not applicable)
To collect data for and publish in printed or electronic form the ECE annual publications in the fields of energy statistics (3 bulletins), transport statistics (2 bulletins), housing and building statistics (1 bulletin) and the Statistical Yearbook (new annual publication).
To publish the Statistical Journal of the UN Economic Commission For Europe (4 issues per year).
Secretariat resources: Substantial
Other statistical publications issued annually by other ECE divisions cover steel statistics (2 bulletins), chemicals (1 bulletin), agriculture (2 bulletins, of which one in 4 volumes), and timber statistics (1 bulletin in 4 volumes).
The OECD produces a wide variety of publications in print, diskette, CD-ROM magnetic tape media. These are often listed in the integrated presentation under the programme elements concerned.
(Themes 15-19, 20: Dissemination policy; Public relations; Syntheses; Managing of existing products (part of); Implementation of new products)
Three lines of development have been selected for 1995: improving information products and services (Eurostat Yearbook, new edition of Europe in Figures, revision of CD-ROM products); extending the dissemination of statistics in the European Union (continuation and extension of dissemination of press releases, targeted promotion activities and search for specialised distributors); and promoting cooperation within the European statistical network (joint publications with the NSIs of the EU, revising price policy, distribution contracts with the NSIs).
These broad lines of development should lead to rationalisation of dissemination, improved services for the partners in the EU and, above all, a genuine enhancement of cooperation between the NSIs and Eurostat. To this end, the Working Party on Dissemination should meet more frequently and become the focus of a genuine collaboration process.
Many Eurostat publications in individual fields of statistics are referred to elsewhere in the integrated presentation under the programme elements concerned.
UN Statistical Division (UNSD): The various statistical products of the UNSD are referred to elsewhere in the integrated presentation under the programme elements concerned.
The ILO: The ILO continues its regular programme to collect and publish data on the economically active population, employment, unemployment, wages, hours of work, labour cost, consumer price indices, occupational injuries and strikes and lockouts. These are released in the Year Book of Labour Statistics. The results of the ILO October Inquiry are published each year in "Statistics on occupational wages and hours of work and on food prices", a special supplement to the Bulletin.
Internationally comparable estimates of employment and unemployment are updated each year and published in the Bulletin of Labour Statistics.
Statistics of household income and expenditure are collected and published periodically. The fourth edition of the series will be issued in 1995 (see under 4.13).
The regular programme for estimated and projections of the economically active population continues (see under 4.11).
Databases are also maintained for a number of other topics, including legal minimum wages, trade union membership, level of educational attainment, employment by occupation and gender, and employment in public administration.
Extracts from these and the main LABORSTA database are supplied to a wide range of users, in printed or machine-readable form.
A large number of the ILO's statistical publications and other statistical products are listed elsewhere in the integrated presentation under the programme elements concerned.
Statistical Committee of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS STAT): The Committee publishes a statistical yearbook, a monthly statistical bulletin and six issues of an information bulletin per year.
The Committee issues the following statistical yearbooks and compendiums: "Economy of the Commonwealth of Independent States"", "CIS-member countries", "Demographic yearbook", "Finances in CIS countries", "External economic activities of Commonwealth States", "Interstate barter trade in capital and consumer goods". In 1994 the yearbook "National accounts and economic balances of CIS-member countries for 1990-1993" was published. A similar yearbook with 1994 data will be issued in 1996.
For the first time a statistical compendium was prepared and issued jointly with OECD, using materials supplied by the statistical services of CIS countries, entitled "Short-term economic indicators - Commonwealth of Independent States" (English- French and Russian-English version), containing monthly data principally for the period 1980-1993 for 50 economic indicators, as well as the methodology used for calculating them.
Objectives over the next several years: To provide statistical services and support to the other sectors of the ECE, OECD and the EC. Development and implementation of international standards for electronic data interchange in statistics (as part of the work of the UN EDIFACT Western European Board - Group MD6). Details and priorities under this heading will be determined by the international organizations.
Expected collective output in the next two years: Database on macroeconomic data from market economy countries and countries in transition; Operational network for EDI collection of macroeconomic data from market economy and transition countries; Progress reports to the annual CES plenary sessions.
- The increased utilization of joint data collection mechanisms (joint questionnaires) by the ECE and OECD secretariats to collect data from transition countries.
- The assistance CIS STAT is providing to the secretariat in collecting data in some fields of statistics from countries of the former USSR.
- That the ECE, Eurostat and the OECD are all essential providers of statistics to clients in their respective geographical areas.
- To approve the planned activities of the Conference in this programme element.
(Not applicable)
To develop, in full coordination with all existing international macroeconomic data bases, a system for collecting macroeconomic data from transition and market economy countries for the preparation of the annual ECE publications "Economic Bulletin for Europe" and "Economic Survey on Europe" in a manner which avoids any duplication with other involved international organizations;
To develop and maintain an ECE statistical macroeconomic database on transition and market economy countries, and to make it available to ECE's internal and external users.
Secretariat resources: Substantial.
A major share of OECD's statistical activities are directed to meeting the internal needs of the Organisation and its bodies for analytical data on a wide variety of topics, predominantly economic in nature.
Eurostat consults with other services of the Commission concerning their statistical requirements through the CDIS (Management Committee on Statistical Information). In addition it has a satellite office in Brussels ("data shop") which provides a service of statistics to the Commission departments there.
Statistical Committee of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS STAT): The Committee established electronic mail to exchange statistical information with the following Commonwealth States: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia. The establishment of similar means is under way with Georgia, Tadjikistan and Turkmenistan. A twenty-four-hour access to the database "Statistics" (containing main monthly, quarterly and annual socio-economic indicators for CIS countries) has been organized for the coordinating bodies of the Commonwealth.
The work of the database "CIS STAT" was completed in 1994. The database contains data since 1980 on 17 branches and 3500 socio- economic indicators (more than 40000 series). Work on the database "Foreign economic activities" is under way.
a) 1995/96
WORK PROGRAMME
OF THE
CONFERENCE OF
EUROPEAN
STATISTICIANS
PRIORITY MENU
FOR 1995/96
Programme Substantive action Major Output for
element required by the ECE coordination the plenary
secretariat required session 1996
6.1 - Preparation of - Eurostat, - Annual
Dissemination annual publications OECD/IEA as publications
of statistical in the fields of required
data energy (3),
transport (2) and
housing (1) - - Annual
publication
- Preparation of the
ECE Statistical -
Yearbook - 4 issues
of
- Preparation of Statistical
Statistical Journal Journal per
year
6.2 - Preparation of - Eurostat, - Progress
Statistical statistical tables OECD, UNSD, report (to
support for ECE and analysis as CIS STAT, the CES
secretariat required other ECE Bureau)
activities PSBs
- Collection of - OECD, - Progress
macroeconomic data ILO, IMF, report (to
from transition UNIDO, UNSD, the CES
countries CIS STAT Bureau)
- Maintenance of -
the database on
macroeconomic
statistics for
transition countries
b) 1996/97
WORK PROGRAMME
OF THE
CONFERENCE OF
EUROPEAN
STATISTICIANS
PRIORITY MENU
FOR 1996/97
Programme Substantive action Major Output for
element required by the ECE coordination the plenary
secretariat required session 1997
6.1 - Preparation of - Eurostat, - Annual
Dissemination annual publications OECD/IEA as publications
of statistical in the fields of required
data energy (3),
transport (2) and
housing (1) - - Annual
publication
- Preparation of the
ECE Statistical -
Yearbook - 4 issues
of
- Preparation of Statistical
Statistical Journal Journal per
year
6.2 - Preparation of - Eurostat, - Progress
Statistical statistical tables OECD, UNSD, report (to
support for ECE and analysis as CIS STAT, the CES
secretariat required other ECE Bureau)
activities PSBs
- Collection of - OECD, - Progress
macroeconomic data ILO, IMF, report (to
from transition UNIDO, UNSD, the CES
countries CIS STAT Bureau)
- Maintenance of -
the database on
macroeconomic
statistics for
transition countries