Transcript Paris 8 June 2010 - United Nations Economic Commission for Europe

United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
Statistical Division
Final Report of the StatCapCA
Project
Strengthening the Statistical Capacity of Central Asian Countries to
Monitor the Progress toward the Millennium Development Goals
Fifth SPECA PWG Meeting
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Main fields of activities
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Population and social conditions
Health status of the population
Economic development especially NonObserved Economy
Additionally
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Study visits on best practices to the
Conference of European Statisticians
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Partners and cooperation
Close collaboration with
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CISSTAT, Interstate Statistical Committee of the
Commonwealth of Independent States
UNESCAP, UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and
the Pacific
UNDESA, UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs
UNSD, UN Statistics Division
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Carrying out training activities with
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Population censuses: UNFPA, Eurostat and the US Census
Bureau, the Australian Bureau of Statistics and the Italian
Statistical Bureau
Health status statistics: The World Bank, WHO and Eurostat,
the Washington Group on Disability Statistics
Non-Observed Economy: OECD, Eurostat and ILO
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Population and social
conditions
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Training Workshops
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Baku 2006: Management of the Census process
• Dushanbe 2007: Census Questionnaire design
• Astana 2007: Census Technology
• Ashgabat 2007: Census Management and Questionnaire Design
(National Workshop)
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Advisory Missions
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Bishkek 2008, Dushanbe 2009
Notable progress was achieved
The 2010 round of Population and Housing Censuses
prepared to a large extent, according to the CES
Census Recommendations
At this stage, the date of the next population Census
has not yet been set by Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
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Measuring the Health Status of
the population
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Training Workshops
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Bishkek 2006: Disability Statistics
• Bangkok 2008: UNESCAP Workshop on promoting disability data
collection through the 2010 Population and Housing Censuses
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The goal to increase capacity in Health Statistics
achieved to a smaller extent
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The completely new activity explains the modest results
• New statistics demand time and resources and support
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Visible results obtained in a pilot study in Kazakhstan
Knowledge of concepts and methods acquired
Supports the process towards ratifying the UN
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
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Non-Observed Economy
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Training Workshops
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Advisory missions
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Dushanbe 2007, Baku 2008
Despite challenges, all countries now estimate NOE on
a regular basis and following international standards
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Bishkek 2007: International recommendations on NOE
Geneva 2008: NOE in National Accounts
Possibility to improve estimates of gross domestic product (GDP)
Countries have implemented new methods and initiated
new surveys
Data unreliable in most countries to include estimates of
illegal activities in GDP, except in Turkmenistan
Development of the exhaustiveness of National
Accounts continues
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Study visits on best practices
in Official statistics
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Conference of European Statisticians
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Paris 2006
 Geneva 2007
 Paris 2008
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Evaluation Meeting of this project, Istanbul 2009
Meetings of the SPECA Project Working Group
back-to-back to the Conference 2006 Continuation to fund these study visits with the
World Bank 2010 - 2011
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Lessons learned
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Important to engage in contacts with the beneficiary
countries in early stages of planning
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Piloting new areas in small scale
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To respond to real needs
Active country participation is fruitful
Disability statistics first piloted by Kazakhstan, others to follow
Where to get resources to implement new
recommendations?
National conditions need be considered to find the best
practical solutions
Technology and practical solutions need to be
addressed to achieve sustainable results
Continuous effort to coordinate training offered by
different organizations needed
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Continuation on the short-term
Group of Experts on Population and
Housing Censuses in Geneva 7-9
July 2010
All interested in developing
indicators of Health Status
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Further work based on the experiences of
Kazakhstan?
Workshop planned on Health and
Mortality Statistics 2010?
Cooperation with ESCAP in
technology for censuses
SPECA PWG at least until 2011
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Training materials available at:
http://www1.unece.org/stat/platform/display/TRAINSTATS
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