UNITED NATIONS


STATISTICAL COMMISSION and ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR EUROPE
CONFERENCE OF EUROPEAN STATISTICIANS
Forty-third plenary session
(Geneva, 12-15 June 1995)
CES/1995/R.22
31 March 1995

Inventory of International Statistics Cooperation in the ECE Region

Note prepared by the secretariat



1. In November 1994 the secretariat sent a letter to approximately twenty-five intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations engaged in statistically related activities in the ECE region, and requested them to fill in the inventory matrix for their organizations reflecting the ordinary situation concerning resources by types of activities for the 1995 calendar year period.

2. Responses were received from the following 12 organizations: Eurostat; OECD; Statistical Committee of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS STAT); FAO; ILO; Unesco, World Meteorological Organization; INSTRAW; World Bank; World Trade Organization; World Customs Organization; and the ISI. The responses are reproduced in this report together with similar types of information for the ECE's Conference of European Statisticians.

3. A description of the intended meaning of selected items in the inventory matrix is given below:

a) Conceptual/methodological improvement of statistics

Work designed to improve the international comparability of national statistics through the development of recommendations or guidelines on harmonized statistical concepts, definitions and classifications.

b) Collection/processing of data for internal analysis

Work servicing users of international statistics who are internal to the reporting institution, mainly for purposes of study and analysis in the framework of the overall work programme of the institution.

c) Collection of data for dissemination

All activities to obtain data for inclusion in statistical bulletins of any periodicity, statistical yearbooks or other statistical publication of the reporting institution.

d) Statistical development in transition countries

Work aiming at the conclusion of cooperation projects and programmes benefitting the statistical offices of transition countries in Central and Eastern Europe, or participation in such projects and programmes. Technical cooperation with other than transition countries in central and Eastern Europe is not broken down by subject-matter area, but is to be included in row 17 in connection with the different types of work distinguished in the matrix.

e) Approximate resources affected to subject area

The regular budgetary resources affected to each subject-matter area specified in row headings across all types of work distinguished in the matrix.

f) Organization and operation of statistical services

The item covers all activities in view of international cooperation that relate to questions of statistical policy or decision-making at the highest level in national and international statistical offices. Also included is the administrative work ('overheads') of the statistical service of the reporting institution.

g) Financial statistics

The term covers statistics of balance of payments, of government finance and of money and banking.

h) Other statistical fields and technical cooperation

Work relating to all statistical subject-matter fields that are not covered by the row items included in the matrix. Work related to cooperation with Central and Eastern European transition countries is shown in column 4 with the corresponding breakdown by subject-matter area.

i) Approximate resources by type of work

The regular budgetary resources affected to each activity specified in column headings across all subject-matters distinguished in the matrix.


INVENTORY OF INTERNATIONAL STATISTICAL COOPERATION IN THE ECE REGION

Responding institution: UN/ECE CONFERENCE OF EUROPEAN STATISTICIANS Date: March 1995

     Type of work     Conceptual/  Collection/  Collection of  Statistical  Approximate
     pursued          methodologic processing   data for       development  resources
                      al           of data for  dissemination  in           affected to
                      improvement  internal                    transition   subject
                      of           analysis                    countries    area (work
                      statistics                                            months)
     Subject area
1.   Organization     CES 1/                    CES 2/                      24
     and operation
     of statistical
     services
2.   Statistical      CES 3/                    CES 4/         CES 5/       51
     information
     technology
3.   National         CES 6/       CES 7/8/     CES 8/                      30a/
     accounting and
     international
     comparisons
4.   Financial                     CES 7/                                   1
     statistics
5.   Price            CES 9/       CES 7/8/                    CES 10/      19
     statistics
6.   Trade and                     CES 7/8/                                 27
     production
     statistics
7.   Agriculture and  CES 11                                   CES 12/      17
     forest, fishery  /
     statistics
8.   Service          CES 13/      CES 14/      CES 15/        CES 16/      43
     statistics
     (incl.
     transport,
     tourism, etc.)
9.   Population/      CES 17/                   CES 18/                     20
     housing
     censuses and
     statistics
10.  Gender                                     CES 19/                     1
     statistics
11.  Labour force     CES 20/       CES 7/8/     CES 21/                     17
     and migration
     statistics
12.  Social           CES 22/                                               4
     indicators;
     health
     education,
     culture
     statistics
13.  Other social     CES 23/                                               5a/
     and demographic
     statistics
14.  Energy           CES 24/      CES 25/      CES 26/                     34
     statistics
15.  Statistics of    CES 27/                   CES 28/        CES 29/      34
     the physical
     environment
16.  Statistics of    CES 30/                   CES 31/                     19
     environmental
     economics
17.  Other                                                     CES 32/      2a/
     statistical
     fields and
     technical
     cooperation
Approximate resources  150          73a/         68a/           57a/         348a/
by type of work
(work months)

Footnotes for the CES

1/ Consideration of issues of statistical policy; promotion of the co-ordination of international statistical work in the ECE region; and development of new and improvement of existing ECE statistical publications.

2/ Handbook of official statistics; Annual Statistical Yearbook of the UN/ECE.

3/ Study of electronic data processing problems of statistical offices, including methods and techniques for statistical EDP applications.

4/ EDP-support to produce statistical output for dissemination.

5/ To assist the transition project on applied statistical computing and to monitor progress of work.

6/ Participation in the revision and further development of the SNA and in the implementation of the 1993 SNA. Participation in the development of hidden economy/informal sector statistics. Participation in the implementation of the European Comparison Programme (ECP) of real values and purchasing power parities.

7/ EDP-support for collection and processing of electronically available information, and for the inter-divisional team on economic statistics.

8/ Collection and processing of data for purposes of the substantive studies undertaken by the Economic Commission for Europe and publications of the Economic Commission for Europe.

9/ Study of specific areas in price and quantity statistics.

10/ Assistance to transition countries in developing new Consumer Price Index methodologies.

11/ Further development and harmonization of agriculture statistics; development of statistics on environment-related agricultural problems. Contribution to the next revision of FAO recommendations for agricultural censuses.

12/ Assistance to transition countries in establishing new agriculture statistics.

13/ Contribution to the conceptual development of international service statistics (non-market services, household services including imputed rents, short-term statistics for service enterprises). Development of statistics of household income; preparation of regional guidelines on statistics of the distribution of income, consumption and accumulation of households. Improvement of concepts and classifications in the field of transport statistics.

14/ Collection and processing of transportation data for purposes of substantive studies undertaken by the Economic Commission for Europe.

15/ Statistical bulletins on transport statistics and on road traffic accidents.

16/ Assistance to transition countries in establishing new service statistics.

17/ Development of regional recommendations for the 2000 round of population and housing censuses.

18/ Statistical bulletin on housing and building statistics.

19/ Publication of the ad hoc publication on gender statistics, in cooperation with Statistics Sweden, Eurostat and INSTRAW.

20/ Cooperation with Eurostat and UNSTAT in the development and improvement of the UN recommendations of international migration statistics.

21/ Preparation of the annual matrices on international migration statistics. Publication of the ad hoc Handbook on international migration statistics for countries in the ECE region.

22/ Preparation of the ECE-Unesco joint meeting on education statistics.

23/ Preparation of the work session on fertility and family surveys; participation in the preparation of the ECE statistical yearbook.

24/ Preparation of the meetings of energy statistics; improvement of concepts used in international energy statistics.

25/ Collection and processing of energy statistics for purposes of substantive studies undertaken by the Economic Commission for Europe.

26/ Statistical bulletins on coal, electricity and gas statistics and on general energy balances.

27/ Development of concepts and classifications on air and water quality, water and land use, wastes and recycling, fauna, flora and habitats; consideration of related methodological issues.

28/ International Environmental Data Service, including the Compendium of ECE Environment Statistics and of statistical monographs on environmental issues.

29/ Monitoring of transition issues in the field of environment statistics.

30/ Development of concepts and classifications on economics of the environment and on chemicals from an environmental point of view; consideration of related methodological issues.

31/ International Environmental Data Service, including the Compendium of ECE Environment Statistics and of statistical monographs on environmental issues.

32/ Assistance to transition countries in the introduction of business registers.

a/ The resources shown are based on a resource base of 29 full-time posts (15 professional posts and 14 general service posts) in the ECE Statistical Division that are available to service the programme of work of the Conference of European Statisticians. This resource base amounts to a total of 348 work months, which excludes the following additional resources in the Statistical Division which are used for purposes not directly related to the programme of work of the Conference:


INVENTORY OF INTERNATIONAL STATISTICAL COOPERATION IN THE ECE REGION

Responding institution: EUROSTAT Date: 31 December 1994

       Type of work     Conceptual  Collection  Collection of  Statistical  Approximate
          pursued      methodologic processing     data for    development   resources
                            al        of data   dissemination       in      affected to
                       improvement      for                     transition    subject
                            of       internal                   countries    area (work
                        statistics   analysis                                 months)
       Subject area
1.   Organization and      E 1          E 2                         E 3              648
     operation of
     statistical
     services
2.   Statistical           E 4          E 4          E 5           E 3              2064
     information
     technology
3.   National              E 6          E 7          E 8            E 3              488
     accounting and
     international
     comparisons
4.   Financial             E 9         E 10          E 11           E 3              335
     statistics
5.   Price statistics      E 12        E 13          E 12           E 3              452
6.   Trade and             E 14        E 14          E 15           E 3              976
     production
     statistics
7.   Agriculture and       E 17        E 17          E 17          E 3               821
     forest, fishery
     statistics
8.   Service               E 18        E 19          E 20           E 3              440
     statistics
     (incl.
     transport,
     tourism, etc.)
9.   Population            E 18        E 18          E 18          E 3                44
     housing censuses
     and statistics
10.  Gender                E 19                      E 19          E 3                25
     statistics
11.  Labour force and      E 20        E 20          E 20           E 3              205
     migration
     statistics
12.  Social                E 21        E 21          E 21          E 3               529
     indicators;
     health
     education,
     culture
     statistics
13.  Other social and      E 22        E 22          E 22           E 3               37
     demographic
     statistics
14.  Energy                E 23        E 24          E 24           E 3              236
     statistics
15.  Statistics of         E 25        E 25          E 25           E 3              205
     the physical
     environment
16.  Statistics of         E 26        E 26          E 26           E 3               75
     environmental
     economics
17.  Other                 E 27        E 28          E 27           E 3               448
     statistical
     fields and
     technical
     cooperation
Appr oximate resources     2481        1629          3714           204               8028
by type of work (work
months)

Footnotes for Eurostat

E1 Administrative functions.

E2 Budget and financial services; Statistical programme and planning; Training of European statisticians; Public relations.

E3 Technical assistance in transition countries.

E4 Data security; General services; New EDP methods; Computer architecture; Sectoral applications.

E5 Publishing policy; Public relations; Digests; Datashop; Management of existing products; Introduction of new products.

E6 Gross national product; Nomenclatures; Statistical and accounting coordination; National accounts methodology.

E7 Studies and analyses of external trade, own resources of the Community.

E8 National accounts production.

E9 Financial and Monetary statistics, Production of statistics on the balance of payments and its components.

E10 European monetary integration.

E11 Financial and Monetary statistics, Production of statistics on the balance of payments and its components.

E12 Prices: data collection and calculation of parities; Prices: data collection and calculation of time indices.

E13 Salary weightings.

E14 External trade statistics: management and development; Trade in goods between Member States (INTRASTAT); Management of the external trade classifications. Adaptation of business statistics to the requirements of the single market; Industry: methodology and analyses.

E15 Production of external trade statistics; Tariff and trade statistics for the Community and third countries; Iron and Steel statistics.

E16 Agricultural and forestry structures; Agricultural prices and accounts;Agricultural models; Restructuring plans for agricultural statistics. Fisheries statistics.

E17 Services: methodology and analyses; Services: production and dissemination; Transport and tourism.

E18 Annual demographic statistics.

E19 Equal opportunities for men and women.

E20 Active population, employment, unemployment; migration.

E21 Health and safety; Income and consumption; Poverty; Population and migrations; Social digests.

E22 Demographic projections.

E23 Energy: methodology and surveys.

E24 Energy and raw materials: production and dissemination.

E25 Dobris Castle Compendium on panEuropean Statistics. Waste Classification.

E26 Classification of environmental expenditure. SERIEE, Green accounting.

E27 Statistics on research and development; Research and development in the field of statistics. Improvement of statistical infrastructure.

E28 Regional statistics and accounts; Local data.


INVENTORY OF INTERNATIONAL STATISTICAL COOPERATION IN THE ECE REGION

Responding institution: ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT Date: 10 February 1995

        Type of work    Conceptual/  Collection/   Collection   Statistical  Approximate
          pursued      methodologica  processing   of data for                resources
                             l       of data for  dissemination development  affected to
                        improvement    internal                      in     subject area
                            of         analysis                                 (work
                        statistics                              transition     months)
                                                                 countries
        Subject area
1.   Organization                                                                   84
      and
      operation of
      statistical
      services
 2.   Statistical                                                                   90 +
      information
      technology
 3.   National                                                                      201
      accounting
      and
      international
      comparisons
 4.   Financial                                                                     146
      statistics
 5.   Price                                                                           3
      statistics
 6.   Trade and                                                                     145
      production
      statistics
 7.   Agriculture and                                                               152 +
      forest, fishery
      statistics
 8.   Service                                                                        36
      statistics
      (incl.
      transport,
      tourism, etc.)
 9.   Population/                                                                     -
      housing
      censuses and
      statistics
 10.  Gender                                                                          -
      statistics
 11.  Labour force                                                                   25 +
      and migration
      statistics
 12.  Social                                                                         48
      indicators;
      health
      education,
      culture
      statistics
 13.  Other social                                                                    -
      and demographic
      statistics
 14.  Energy                                                                        148
      statistics
 15.  Statistics of
      the physical
      environment                                                        15. + 16. = 15
 16.  Statistics of
      environmental
      economics
 17.  Other                                                                         377 *
      statistical
      fields and
      technical
      cooperation
Appro ximate resources by							 1470 +
type of work (work months)

* "17. Other statistical fields and technical cooperation" includes data dissemination activities, short-term economic indicators, statistics on development cooperation, science and technology statistics and public sector statistics.


INVENTORY OF INTERNATIONAL STATISTICAL COOPERATION IN THE ECE REGION

Responding institution: Interstate Statistical Committee of the Commonwealth of Independent States Date: 22 December 1994

        Type of work    Conceptual/  Collection/   Collection   Statistical  Approximate
          pursued      methodologica  processing   of data for  development   resources
                             l       of data for  dissemination      in      affected to
                        improvement    internal                  transition    subject
                            of         analysis                  countries       area
                        statistics                                               (work
                                                                               months)
        Subject area
1.    Organization      CIS STAT 1/  CIS STAT 2/   CIS STAT 3/  CIS STAT 4/      300
      and
      operation of
      statistical
      services
2.    Statistical       CIS STAT 5/  CIS STAT 6/   CIS STAT 7/  CIS STAT 8/      264
      information
      technology
3.    National          CIS STAT 9/    CIS STAT   CIS STAT 10/  CIS STAT 11/     240
      accounting                         10/
      and
      international
      comparisons
4.    Financial        CIS STAT 12/    CIS STAT         -         CIS STAT        84
      statistics                         13/                        14/
5.    Price            CIS STAT 15/    CIS STAT   CIS STAT 16/       -            72
      statistics                         16/
6.    Trade and        CIS STAT 17/    CIS STAT    CIS STAT 18/   CIS STAT       216
      production                         18/                       11/
      statistics
7.    Agriculture and  CIS STAT 19/    CIS STAT   CIS STAT 20/       -           108
      forest, fishery                    20/
      statistics
8.    Service                -         CIS STAT   CIS STAT 21/       -            24
      statistics                         21/
      (incl.
      transport,
      tourism, etc.)
9.    Population/      CIS STAT 22/    CIS STAT    CIS STAT 23/   CIS STAT       120
      housing                            23/                       24/
      censuses and
      statistics
10.   Gender                 -         CIS STAT   CIS STAT 25/    CIS STAT        12
      statistics                         25/                       24/
11.   Labour force     CIS STAT 26/    CIS STAT   CIS STAT 27/    CIS STAT        84
      and migration                      27/                        24/
      statistics
12.   Social            CIS STAT 28    CIS STAT   CIS STAT 29/    CIS STAT       120
      indicators;            /           29/                        24/
      health
      education,
      culture
      statistics
13.   Other social     CIS STAT 30/    CIS STAT   CIS STAT 31/    CIS STAT        24
      and demographic                    31/                        24/
      statistics
14.   Energy                 -         CIS STAT   CIS STAT 32/       -            18
      statistics                         32/
15.   Statistics of     CIS STAT 33    CIS STAT   CIS STAT 34/       -            36
      the physical           /           34/
      environment
16.   Statistics of          -         CIS STAT   CIS STAT 35/       -            18
      environmental                      35/
      economics
17.   Other            CIS STAT 36/       -             -       CIS STAT 4/       60
      statistical
      fields and
      technical
      cooperation
Appro ximate resources by   984          516           300           -           1800
type of work (work months)

Notes for the CIS Interstate Statistical Committee

1/ Coordination and planning of methodological work.

2/ Coordination of data collection work.

3/ Collection and dissemination of statistical information, particularly in the form of statistical yearbooks: "Economy of the Commonwealth of Independent States" (concise yearbook), "CIS-member countries" (statistical yearbook), "Foreign economic relations of CIS-member countries", "Demographic yearbook", "Finances of CIS-member countries", "National accounts and economic balances of CIS-member countries" and other; publication of current information in press, publication of the Statistical bulletin (weekly) and of the Information bulletin of the CIS Statistical Committee (6 times a year).

4/ Working group on statistical standards and methods.

5/ Development of main principles of the CIS common technical policy (preparation and transfer of data, data control and database maintenance, data processing and analysis, data presentation, remote and local access to databases).

6/ Data collection and transfer by means of electronic mail and other means of communication.

7/ Exchange of data from databases with other organizations.

8/ Working group on computerization of statistics.

9/ Development of methodology of SNA, GDP estimates, balance of payments, international comparisons (consistent with international recommendations).

10/ Regular collection and publication of data on national accounts and database maintenance.

11/ Working group on interstate comparisons.

12/ Improvement of statistics on state finances (consistent with international recommendations).

13/ Collection, processing and publication of data on social security payments and other transfers, incomes and expenditures of the state budget; financial results of work of economic branches.

14/ Working group on financial statistics.

15 Methodology of price statistics, CPI and inflation.

16/ Collection, processing and publication of data on prices, aggregate retail and wholesale price indices.

17/ Methodology of interstate trade statistics, monitoring of retail and wholesale prices, statistics of trade and services, production statistics (structure, prices, accounts).

18/ Collection and publication of data on statistics on trade, statistics on production and interstate trade; maintenance of databases.

19/ Improvement of agricultural statistics methodology (structure, agricultural prices, accounts).

20/ Collection, processing and publication of data on agricultural statistics; maintenance of databases.

21/ Collection, processing and publication of data on statistics of transport and tourism.

22/ Improvement of methodology of population statistics (number, age structure, migration, birth and death rates), development of recommendations for socio-demographic surveys; 1999 census.

23/ Collection, processing, forecasting and publication of data of population statistics; maintenance of databases.

24/ Working group on socio-demographic statistics.

25/ Collection, processing and publication of data on statistics of women.

26/ Improvement of methodology of labour statistics (number of employed persons, wages and salaries by professions and grades, unemployment, professional training, implementation of the Standard international classification of the status in employment.

27/ Collection, processing and publication of data on labour statistics; maintenance of databases.

28/ Improvement of methodology of social statistics, including statistics of various population groups and habitats.

29/ Collection and publication of data on social statistics (including health care and labour protection, incomes and consumption, housing, criminality, education, culture, arts); maintenace of databases.

30/ Improvement of methodology of population migration statistics.

31/ Collection and publication of data on statistics of population migration; demographic forecasts.

32/ Collection and publication of data of energy statistics; maintenace of databases.

33/ Improvement of methodology of environment statistics.

34/ Collection and publicaton of data on environment statistics.

35/ Collection and publication of data on economic aspects of environment (environment protection expenditures, results of the environment protection control); maintenance of databases.

36/ Methodological improvements of the system of national classifications on the basis of international standards.


INVENTORY OF INTERNATIONAL STATISTICAL COOPERATION IN THE ECE REGION

Responding institution: FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION Date: 10 February 1995

       Type of work   Conceptual/  Collection/   Collection    Statistical  Approximate
         pursued      methodologic  processing   of data for   development   resources
                           al      of data for  dissemination      in       affected to
                      improvement    internal                  transition     subject
                           of        analysis                   countries    area (work
                       statistics                                             months)
       Subject area
1.   Organization           FAO 1/       FAO 2/        FAO 3/        FAO 1/           24
     and operation
     of statistical
     services
2.   Statistical            FAO 4/       FAO 5/         FAO 6/                        15
     information
     technology
3.   National               FAO 7/       FAO 8/        FAO 9/       FAO 10/            8
     accounting and
     international
     comparisons
4.   Financial
     statistics
5.   Price                 FAO 10/      FAO 11/       FAO 12/                          8
     statistics
6.   Trade and             FAO 13/       FAO 14       FAO 15/       FAO 16/           47
     production                               /
     statistics
7.   Agriculture and       FAO 17/      FAO 18/       FAO 19/                         63
     forest, fishery
     statistics
8.   Service
     statistics
     (incl.
     transport,
     tourism, etc.)
9.   Population/                        FAO 20/                                        5
     housing
     censuses and
     statistics
10.  Gender                FAO 21/                                                     4
     statistics
11.  Labour force                       FAO 22/        FAO 23                          4
     and migration                                          /
     statistics
12.  Social                FAO 24/      FAO 24/       FAO 24/
     indicators;
     health
     education,
     culture
     statistics
13.  Other social          FAO 20/      FAO 20/                                        5
     and demographic
     statistics
14.  Energy                                           FAO 25/                          1
     statistics
15.  Statistics of         FAO 26/                                                     4
     the physical
     environment
16.  Statistics of         FAO 27/                                                     2
     environmental
     economics
17.  Other                  FAO 28      FAO 29/       FAO 30/                         10
     statistical                 /
     fields and
     technical
     cooperation
Appr ximate resources by         72           79            43             7          201
type of work (work months)

Footnotes for the FAO

1/ Establishment of internationally harmonized concepts, definitions and classifications, in relation to fisheries and fishery-based industries; international co-ordination of fishery statistical programmes.

2/ Development of methods for data analysis.

3/ Management and development of statistical publication programme.

4/ Classification and criteria for collection and dissemination of data on magnetic support.

5/ Exchange of databank with other organizations/institutions for internal analysis in view of creating special reports.

6/ Management and development of computerized database including exchange of national source data with other organizations to reduce burden on national institutions.

7/ Development of guidelines for economic accounts for agriculture.

8/ Collection/compilation of data on various components of economic accounts for agriculture including resource flow into and investment in agriculture, for internal economic analysis.

9/ Collection/processing of data for preparation of publication on agricultural accounts.

10/ Methodological improvement of statistics on prices paid and received by farmers and relevant index numbers.

11/ Construction of Agricultural Price Index Numbers.

12/ Prices received and prices paid by farmers for agricultural/forest products and inputs.

13/ Classification of food and agricultural commodities.

14/ Calculation of production and trade index numbers.

15/ Collection and compilation of agricultural production and international trade statistics for dissemination.

16/ Cooperation with national offices of the countries for improving the quality of reported statistics.

17/ Methodological improvement for the collection of food, agricultural, forestry and fishery statistics.

18/ Adjustment of catch, aquaculture, fishing fleet and forestry data. Derivation of apparent consumption statistics from fish and fishery products, derivation of supply utilization accounts and food balance sheets.

19/ Collection and processing of data on: production, trade and utilization of agricultural commodities, aquaculture, fishing fleet data; forest areas and social forestry, for dissemination.

20/ Estimation and projections of agricultural population and labour force.

21/ Improvement of statistics on women in agricultural development, disaggregation by gender of employment statistics of fishery primary sector.

22/ Analysis of agricultural labour force.

23/ Collection of agricultural labour force statistics for publication.

24/ Analysis of food consumption data from household income/expenditure survey for assessing nutritional status.

25/ Collection and processing of data on fuelwood.

26/ Improvement of statistics on environment related to agriculture, forestry and fisheries subsectors.

27/ Collaboration with other International Organizations.

28/ Methodological framework for the World Census of Agriculture.

29/ Analysis of data from national censuses of agriculture.

30/ Publication of Census Bulletins summarizing and comparing national agricultural census results.


INVENTORY OF INTERNATIONAL STATISTICAL COOPERATION IN THE ECE REGION

Responding institution: INTERNATIONAL LABOUR OFFICE Date: 14 February 1995

       Type of work   Conceptual/  Collection/   Collection    Statistical  Approximate
         pursued      methodologic  processing   of data for   development   resources
                           al      of data for  dissemination      in       affected to
                      improvement    internal                  transition     subject
                           of        analysis                   countries    area (work
                       statistics                                             months)
                           **
       Subject area
1.   Organization                                                  12                 12
     and operation
     of statistical
     services
2.   Statistical                                     10                               10
     information
     technology
3.   National
     accounting and
     international
     comparisons
4.   Financial
     statistics
5.   Price                 3         ILO 1/ 6         8                               17
     statistics
6.   Trade and
     production
     statistics
7.   Agriculture and
     forest, fishery
     statistics
8.   Service
     statistics
     (incl.
     transport,
     tourism, etc.)
9.   Population/                                  ILO 2/  4                            6
     housing
     censuses and
     statistics
10.  Gender            ILO 8/ 10        2         ILO 12/ 4                           16
     statistics
11.  Labour force          3            1         ILO 2/ 11     ILO 9/ 15             30
     and migration
     statistics
12.  Social
     indicators;
     health
     education,
     culture
     statistics
13.  Other social         ILO                         3                                9
     and demographic      3/ 6
     statistics
14.  Energy
     statistics
15.  Statistics of
     the physical
     environment
16.  Statistics of
     environmental
     economics
17.  Other             ILO 4/ 12                  ILO 6/ 18    ILO 7/ 10/             57
     statistical       ILO 5/   1                                11/ 14
     fields and        ILO 13/ 12
     technical
     cooperation
Appr ximate resources by         49            9            58            41          157
type of work (work months)

** These activities are not limited to the ECE region.

Footnotes for the ILO

1/ Current monthly CPI data and compilation of related methodological information; food prices through ILO October Inquiry.

2/ Compilation of data and methodological information from ILO questionnaires, national publications and special letters.

3/ Estimates and projections.

4/ Statistics of the informal sector; statistics on income from employment; statistics of occupational injuries.

5/ Household income and expenditure statistics.

6/ Collection of data on income from employment, wages part of ILO October Inquiry, strikes and lockouts, occupational injuries, etc.

7/ Organization of seminars and workshops.

8/ Gender wage differentials and measuring job segregation.

9/ Technical missions, preparation and realisation of target-oriented projects, comments and suggestions on methodological documents on the revision of labour force statistics concepts, definitions and methods of data collection.

10/ Development of new national classifications of occupations.

11/ Technical assistance in the development of modern tools of data collection on labour cost and occupational wages.

12/ Special database on employment by sex and detailed occupational groups for 40 developed and developing countries.

13/ Revision of international definition of underemployment.


INVENTORY OF INTERNATIONAL STATISTICAL COOPERATION IN THE ECE REGION

Responding institution: UNESCO Date: 13 February 1995

      Type of work   Conceptual/  Collection/  Collection of   Statistical  Approximate
        pursued     methodologica  processing     data for     development   resources
                          l       of data for  dissemination       in       affected to
                     improvement    internal                   transition     subject
                         of         analysis                    countries    area (work
                     statistics                                               months)
      Subject area
1.   Organization
     and operation
     of
     statistical
     services
2.   Statistical
     information
     technology
3.   National
     accounting
     and
     international
     comparisons
4.   Financial
     statistics
5.   Price
     statistics
6.   Trade and
     production
     statistics
7.   Agriculture
     and forest,
     fishery
     statistics
8.   Service
     statistics
     (incl.
     transport,
     tourism,
     etc.)
9.   Population/
     housing
     censuses and
     statistics
10.  Gender
     statistics
11.  Labour force
     and migration
     statistics
12.  Social         UNESCO 1/                  UNESCO         UNESCO 3/
     indicators;                               2/
     health
     education,
     culture
     statistics
13.  Other social
     and
     demographic
     statistics
14.  Energy
     statistics
15.  Statistics of
     the physical
     environment
16.  Statistics of
     environmental
     economics
17.  Other
     statistical
     fields and
     technical
     cooperation
Appr ximate resources by
type of work (work months)

Footnotes for UNESCO

General Note: The information shown for Unesco refers to programmes/activities that are of particular relevance to countries in the European region, but also have a bearing on developing ones.

UNESCO 1 Continuation and finalization of work on the revision of the International Standard Classification of Education (ISC ED) in close collaboration with OECD and EUROSTAT who are members of a Steering Committee set up in this respect.

UNESCO 2 Application of revised joint UNESCO/OECD/EUROSTAT data collection instrument in the field of education using electronic media. The information thus collected is disseminated through UNESCO's Statistical Yearbook and other documents.

UNESCO 3 Follow-up of workshop on education statistics and indicators in 1995 for countries of the former USSR.


INVENTORY OF INTERNATIONAL STATISTICAL COOPERATION IN THE ECE REGION

Responding institution: WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION Date: 18 January 1995

       Type of work    Conceptual/  Collection/   Collection   Statistical  Approximate
          pursued      methodologic  processing   of data for  development   resources
                            al      of data for  dissemination      in      affected to
                       improvement    internal                  transition    subject
                            of        analysis                  countries    area (work
                        statistics                                            months)
       Subject area
1.   Organization and
     operation of
     statistical
     services
2.   Statistical
     information
     technology
3.   National
     accounting and
     international
     comparisons
4.   Financial
     statistics
5.   Price statistics
6.   Trade and
     production
     statistics
7.   Agriculture and
     forest, fishery
     statistics
8.   Service
     statistics
     (incl.
     transport,
     tourism, etc.)
9.   Population/
     housing censuses
     and statistics
10.  Gender
     statistics
11.  Labour force and
     migration
     statistics
12.  Social
     indicators;
     health
     education,
     culture
     statistics
13.  Other social and
     demographic
     statistics
14.  Energy
     statistics
15.  Statistics of                  WMO 1/       WMO 2/                     10
     the physical
     environment
16.  Statistics of
     environmental
     economics
17.  Other
     statistical
     fields and
     technical
     cooperation
Appr oximate resources by           2            8                          10
type of work (work months)

Footnotes for the WMO

1/ Meteorological, hydrological data and data on the chemical composition and related physical characteristics of the atmosphere and precipitation worldwide. Measurement procedures, protocols and statistical aspects are developed and considered.

2/ Meteorological, climatological, oceanographic and hydrological data are collected by national meteorological services and are archived at and disseminated by national, regional and global data centres: There are three World Meteorological Centres (in Melbourne, Australia; Moscow, Russia and Washington, USA), two World Data Centres (in Asheville, USA and Obninsk, Russia) and the Global Runoff Data Centre in Koblenz, Germany. Atmospheric composition data are collected at the World Data Centre for Greenhouse Gases in Tokyo, Japan, at the World Ozone Data Centre (ozone and UV-B), and at the World Radiation Centre (St. Petersburg, Russia. Global aerosol and precipitation chemistry data are collected in Italy and USA.


INVENTORY OF INTERNATIONAL STATISTICAL COOPERATION IN THE ECE REGION

Responding institution: INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH AND TRAINING INSTITUTE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF WOMEN (INSTRAW) Date: 11 January 1995

       Type of work   Conceptual/  Collection/  Collection of  Statistical  Approximate
         pursued      methodologic  processing     data for    development   resources
                           al      of data for  dissemination       in      affected to
                      improvement    internal                   transition    subject
                           of        analysis                   countries    area (work
                       statistics                                             months)
       Subject area
1.   Organization
     and operation
     of statistical
     services
2.   Statistical
     information
     technology
3.   National
     accounting and
     international
     comparisons
4.   Financial
     statistics
5.   Price
     statistics
6.   Trade and
     production
     statistics
7.   Agriculture and
     forest, fishery
     statistics
8.   Service
     statistics
     (incl.
     transport,
     tourism, etc.)
9.   Population/
     housing
     censuses and
     statistics
10.  Gender              3 W/M       3 W/M 2/                                  6 W/M
     statistics            1/
11.  Labour force       2 W/M 3/                                               2 W/M
     and migration
     statistics
12.  Social
     indicators;
     health
     education,
     culture
     statistics
13.  Other social
     and demographic
     statistics
14.  Energy
     statistics
15.  Statistics of
     the physical
     environment
16.  Statistics of
     environmental
     economics
17.  Other
     statistical
     fields and
     technical
     cooperation
Appr oximate resources by 5 W/M        3 W/M                                    8 W/M
type of work (work months)

Explanatory notes to INSTRAW's submission

1. This includes: (i) INSTRAW's contribution to the INSTRAW/ECE/STATISTICS SWEDEN publication on "Statistics on Women and Men"; and (ii) resources allocated for the INSTRAW/ECE Work Session on Gender statistics scheduled for 6-8 March 1995.

2. This covers the resources allocated for the case studies in Hungary and Finland on valuation of unpaid work through time-use which are being conducted as part of INSTRAW's global project on "Valuation and Measurement of Unpaid Contribution: Accounting Through Tine Use".

3. This involves contribution received from the International Organization for Migration (IOM) to conduct a research study on women and migration.


INVENTORY OF INTERNATIONAL STATISTICAL COOPERATION IN THE ECE REGION

Responding institution: WORLD BANK Date: January 3, 1995

       Type of work     Conceptual/  Collection/ Collection of  Statistical  Approximate
          pursued      methodologica                data for    development   resources
                             l       processing  dissemination       in      affected to
                        improvement    of data                   transition    subject
                            of           for                     countries       area
                        statistics    internal                                   (work
                                      analysis                                 months)
        Subject area
1.    Organization           X                         X            X 1/
      and
      operation of
      statistical
      services
2.    Statistical                                                    X
      information                                                    2/
      technology
3.    National               X            X            X             X
      accounting
      and
      international
      comparisons
4.    Financial            X 1/         X 1/          X 1/          X 1/
      statistics
5.    Price                               X            X
      statistics
6.    Trade and                         X 2/          X 2/
      production
      statistics
7.    Agriculture and                     X            X
      forest, fishery
      statistics
8.    Service                             X            X
      statistics
      (incl.
      transport,
      tourism, etc.)
9.    Population/                         X            X
      housing
      censuses and
      statistics
10.   Gender                             X             X             X
      statistics
11.   Labour force                      X 2/          X 2/
      and migration
      statistics
12.   Social                X             X            X
      indicators;           1/
      health
      education,
      culture
      statistics
13.   Other social                        X            X
      and demographic
      statistics
14.   Energy
      statistics
15.   Statistics of
      the physical
      environment
16.   Statistics of
      environmental
      economics
17.   Other              ICP X 2/
      statistical
      fields and
      technical
      cooperation
Approoximate resources by
type of work (work months)

Explanatory notes to World Bank's submission

The following codes used in conjunctions with an "X" indicates:

1/ Major role and very active

2/ Major role and moderately active

There are three areas where the World Bank has been most active:


INVENTORY OF INTERNATIONAL STATISTICAL COOPERATION IN THE ECE REGION

Responding institution: World Trade Organization Date: 10 January 1995

       Type of work     Conceptual/  Collection/ Collection of  Statistical  Approximate
          pursued      methodologica                data for    development   resources
                             l       processing  dissemination       in      affected to
                        improvement    of data                   transition    subject
                            of           for                     countries       area
                        statistics    internal                                   (work
                                      analysis                                 months)
        Subject area
1.    Organization        WTO 1/       WTO 2/        WTO 3/                       25
      and
      operation of
      statistical
      services
2.    Statistical         WTO 4/       WTO 4/        WTO 5/                       61
      information
      technology
3.    National            WTO 10/      WTO 6/        WTO 7                        2
      accounting                                       /
      and
      international
      comparisons
4.    Financial                        WTO 6/        WTO 7/                      1 ½
      statistics
5.    Price                            WTO 6/        WTO 7/                       1
      statistics
6.    Trade and           WTO 8/       WTO 9/        WTO 7/                       87
      production
      statistics
7.    Agriculture and
      forest, fishery
      statistics
8.    Service             WTO 10/       WTO 6        WTO 7/                      9 ½
      statistics                          /
      (incl.
      transport,
      tourism, etc.)
9.    Population/
      housing
      censuses and
      statistics
10.   Gender
      statistics
11.   Labour force
      and migration
      statistics
12.   Social
      indicators;
      health
      education,
      culture
      statistics
13.   Other social
      and demographic
      statistics
14.   Energy
      statistics
15.   Statistics of
      the physical
      environment
16.   Statistics of
      environmental
      economics
17.   Other               WTO 11/      WTO 12/      WTO 13/                       8
      statistical
      fields and
      technical
      cooperation
Appro ximate resources by   6           71           118                        195
type of work (work months)

Footnotes for World Trade Organization

1/ Management and planning of methodological work, improvement of statistical infrastructure.

2/ Management of data processing.

3/ Management of statistical data collection activities.

4/ Sectoral aplications, data security, new EDP methods, maintenance of statistical data bases and general service.

5/ Integrated Data Base: collection, checking, harmonization and dissemination of import statistics and tariffs.

6/ GATT Economic Time Series: collection, validation and updating of selected statistical series for internal use.

7/ Preparation of statistical tables for publication in the GATT Press Release on merchandise trade and International Trade.

8/ Background studies on concepts and definitions of merchandise trade, adjustments to reported trade data within the framework of the Task Force on International Trade Statistics.

9/ Merchandise trade data collection, checking, estimation of missing values, unit values and volume indices for total trade, trade by areas and commodity groups for internal use and for publication in the Press Release and International Trade.

10/ Methodological improvements in the field of commercial services statistics, including preparation of reports on concepts, definitions and classifications within the framework of the Group of Negotiations on Services.

11/ Methodological information for all fields of economic statistics based on ad hoc requests.

12/ General statistics compilation for internal use and dissemination.

13/ Support for technical cooperation, in particular fields of statistics provided as requested by GATT Contracting Parites. Dissemination of merchandise trade and trade in services statistics to other international organizations, national and private institutions based on ad hoc requests.


INVENTORY OF INTERNATIONAL STATISTICAL COOPERATION IN THE ECE REGION

Responding institution: WORLD CUSTOMS ORGANIZATION Date: 16 January 1995

        Type of work    Conceptual/  Collection/   Collection   Statistical  Approximate
          pursued      methodologica  processing   of data for  development   resources
                             l       of data for  dissemination      in      affected to
                        improvement    internal                  transition    subject
                            of         analysis                  countries       area
                        statistics                                               (work
                                                                               months)
        Subject area
1.    Organization
      and
      operation of
      statistical
      services
2.    Statistical
      information
      technology
3.    National
      accounting
      and
      international
      comparisons
4.    Financial
      statistics
5.    Price
      statistics
6.    Trade and                           X                                      0.5
      production
      statistics
7.    Agriculture and
      forest, fishery
      statistics
8.    Service
      statistics
      (incl.
      transport,
      tourism, etc.)
9.    Population/
      housing
      censuses and
      statistics
10.   Gender
      statistics
11.   Labour force
      and migration
      statistics
12.   Social
      indicators;
      health
      education,
      culture
      statistics
13.   Other social
      and demographic
      statistics
14.   Energy
      statistics
15.   Statistics of
      the physical
      environment
16.   Statistics of
      environmental
      economics
17.   Other                               X                                      0.5
      statistical
      fields and
      technical
      cooperation
Appro ximate resources by                 X                                      1.0
type of work (work months)

INVENTORY OF INTERNATIONAL STATISTICAL COOPERATION IN THE ECE REGION

Responding institution: INTERNATIONAL STATISTICAL INSTITUTE Date: January 9, 1995

       Type of work    Conceptual/  Collection/  Collection    Statistical  Approximate
         pursued      methodologica              of data for   development   resources
                            l       processing  dissemination      in       affected to
                       improvement    of data                  transition     subject
                           of           for                     countries    area (work
                       statistics    internal                                 months)
                                     analysis
       Subject area
1.   Organization                18           3             2             4           27
     and operation
     of statistical
     services
2.   Statistical                 15           7             1             4           27
     information
     technology
3.   National                     4                                                    4
     accounting and
     international
     comparisons
4.   Financial
     statistics
5.   Price
     statistics
6.   Trade and
     production
     statistics
7.   Agriculture and              3                                                    3
     forest, fishery
     statistics
8.   Service                      8                                                    8
     statistics
     (incl.
     transport,
     tourism, etc.)
9.   Population/                  3                         2                          5
     housing
     censuses and
     statistics
10.  Gender
     statistics
11.  Labour force
     and migration
     statistics
12.  Social                       5                         5                         10
     indicators;
     health
     education,
     culture
     statistics
13.  Other social                                                                      1
     and demographic
     statistics
14.  Energy
     statistics
15.  Statistics of                2                                                    2
     the physical
     environment
16.  Statistics of
     environmental
     economics
17.  Other                        7           6             5                         18
     statistical
     fields and
     technical
     cooperation
Appr ximate resources by          66          16            15             8          105
type of work (work months)

INVENTORY OF INTERNATIONAL STATISTICAL COOPERATION IN THE ECE REGION

Responding institution: NORDIC STATISTICAL SECRETARIAT Date: 30 March 1995

       Type of work    Conceptual/  Collection/  Collection    Statistical  Approximate
         pursued      methodologica              of data for   development   resources
                            l       processing  dissemination      in       affected to
                       improvement    of data                  transition     subject
                           of           for                     countries    area (work
                       statistics    internal                                 months)
                                     analysis
       Subject area
1.   Organization                 X           X             X                         50
     and operation
     of statistical
     services
2.   Statistical                  X                                                    3
     information
     technology
3.   National                     X                                                    1
     accounting and
     international
     comparisons
4.   Financial
     statistics
5.   Price
     statistics
6.   Trade and                                                                       0.5
     production
     statistics
7.   Agriculture and              X
     forest, fishery
     statistics
8.   Service                      X
     statistics
     (incl.
     transport,
     tourism, etc.)
9.   Population/                  X                                                  0.5
     housing
     censuses and
     statistics
10.  Gender                       X
     statistics
11.  Labour force                 X                         X                          1
     and migration
     statistics
12.  Social                       X                         X                          1
     indicators;
     health
     education,
     culture
     statistics
13.  Other social                 X
     and demographic
     statistics
14.  Energy
     statistics
15.  Statistics of                X
     the physical
     environment                                                                 _
                                                                                       2
16.  Statistics of                X
     environmental
     economics
17.  Other                        X                                                    1
     statistical
     fields and
     technical
     cooperation
Appr ximate resources by          20                        40                         60
work (work months)

Footnotes for Nordic Statistical Secretariat

- Subject area 1 includes Nordic Statistical Yearbook and an annual CD-ROM.

- 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 13, 14 are included in subject area 1.

- The resources affected to the subject areas 3-17 vary over time due to current projects.