Transcript CSSP Chair to Council April 2016

THE OECD AND ITS STATISTICS
Remarks to the Committee for the Co-ordination of Statistical Activities
Martine Durand
Chief Statistician and Director, Statistics Directorate
Paris, 29 September 2016
Our Organisation
• Commenced operations in 1961
• 35 member countries
• Promotes policies to improve the economic and social
well-being of people around the world
• Operates by consensus
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Our processes
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Our governance structure
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The Committee on Statistics and
Statistical Policy (CSSP)
CSSP
Members : DGs of NSOs
Committee
on
Financial
Markets
Working Party
on National
Accounts
Working Party on
Trade in Goods
and Services
Working Party
on Financial
Statistics
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The Statistics Directorate’s “bridge” functions
Statisticians
Policy-makers
Provide evidence and new metrics
CSSP
Advice, joint work, quality assurance
Other OECD Policy
Committees
Co-operate and avoid overlap
Other IOs involved
in Statistics
OECD
OECD
Integrate data and build capacity
Partner Countries
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The three layers of the Directorate’s work
Innovating: New statistical
measures and tools
Developing concepts and statistical standards
Core statistical work
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Core Statistical Work
 Key statistical products
National Accounts
Economic-Environment Accounts
Productivity
Prices and PPPs
Trade/TiVA
Business
Composite leading indicators
Entrepreneurship
Households income and wealth
and their distribution
Labour/Employment
Gender
 Data-sharing with other international organisations
Improve data quality/comparability
Reduce countries’ reporting burden
Improve country coverage
 Quality Reviews of all OECD datasets
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Developing concepts and standards (I)
 Updating methods and concepts for established statistics
 SNA 2008
 System of Environmental-Economic Accounts
 International Programme on Purchasing Power Parities
 Extended Supply-Use Tables
 House and property prices
 Labour Statistics
 Developing Statistical Guidelines
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Concepts and standards (II): the OECD Council
Recommendation on Good Statistical Practice
• First OECD legal instrument on statistics; adopted in November 2015
• Contains 12 specific recommendations to ensure sound, ethical and
forward-looking statistical systems and products
• Country assessments and report to Council on implementation by
end-2018
• Also for use in Accession Reviews, and in assistance to non-members
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Innovating I: New statistical measures
 New concepts and measures for policy-making
 Well-being
 Trust
 Health Inequalities
 Job Quality
 Green Growth
 SMEs and GVCs
 TiVA
 GDP in a digitalised economy
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Innovating II: New methods and tools
 Big/Smart Data for OECD statistics
 Nowcasting (e.g. income distribution; TiVA; subjective well-being)
 Web-scraping (e.g. regional house prices)
 Geospatial data (e.g. air pollution)
 Innovative dissemination tools
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Global relations
 Work with Key Partners to include their data in OECD databases and
policy analysis; help them meet international statistical standards
 Work with other non-Members together with other Directorates and
partnerships, e.g. on:
 Multi-dimensional country reviews (DEV)
 Gender for development (DEV)
 Statistical capacity building (PARIS21)
 Country and regional programmes (GRS)
 Work with regional partners to extend data on Trade in Value Added
(TiVA) to ‘rest of the world’
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OECD statistics and the SDGs (I)
28 April 2015: SG Gurría says:
“The SDGs promise to change
the way we look at the world.
OECD expertise…from statistics
to governance…seems
particularly useful…Measuring
progress is, after all, part of the
OECD's raison d'être.”
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OECD statistics and the SDGs (II)
In July we produced a first pilot
assessment of OECD countries’
“distance to travel” to reach the
2030 targets.
Our SDG follow-up also includes:
- issue partner in the UN High
Level Group
- contributing to the global
indicator framework
- helping UNECE develop a
regional SDG Road Map
- membership of the Global
Partnership on Sustainable
Development Data
- and many other actions
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Thank you!
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