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The Oslo Group
UNCEEA June 22-23 2006, New York
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Olav Ljones, Statistics Norway
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Background
• Energy at the Statistical Commission, 2005 and 2006
• Energy has very wide influence on economic,
environmental, social and political situation
• What are the characteristics of energy statistics?
– Quality problems
– Official statistics a modest role
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City Group Terms of reference
• Objective:
To address issues related to energy statistics
and contribute to improved international standards and
improved methods for official energy statistics by pooling
expertise in the energy community.
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City Group
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Actions:
To identify users’ needs;
To define scope of official energy statistics;
To identify and collect national and international best practices;
To review and contribute to the updating of UNSD handbooks and
manuals on energy statistics;
To identify gaps in coverage (e.g. fuel types, flows) and to develop
methodology to cover gaps;
To adopt link or develop bridges to international standard concepts and
classifications in economic/ environment statistics to facilitate the
integration and interface of energy statistics with other statistical
systems;
To recommend a core set of tables as minimum requirement at national
and international level to satisfy major users’ needs.
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City Group
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Participants:
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Experts from international organizations engaged in energy statistics
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Experts from national statistical offices and/or energy
ministries/authorities
Experts from academia: energy sciences, energy economics, statistics
Energy experts from the private sector to be invited to participate as
advisers.
Time frame: 5 years, 2006 – 2010
Working method: Electronic discussions and annual meetings
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What is a City Group ?
• Information on UNSD homepage
• Decisions by Statistical Commission
• An important topic,
• International cooperation on statistical methods will
improve official statistics
• Dependent of active participation
• Duration will be flexible. The Voorburg group (service stat)
the first and still exist. Sienna (social stat) was closed down
this year
• Evaluation (Stat Comm)
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Present status Oslo Group
• First meeting Oslo 2006
• http://www.ssb.no/ocg/
• Next meeting – India
• Discussion groups
• Review teams
• Electronic Discussion Forum. Soon to be released
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Other activities on energy statistiscs
• Stat Com decided to establish an Inter Secretariat Group on
Energy Statistics.
• Host: IEA Paris
• ToR: Data streams int. org. Reduce reporting burden.
Improve coordination between int.org. Training. Promote
dialog with users. Raise profile of energy stat.
• Present situation: Meeting
hosted by IEA in ”InterEnerStat”,
Future?
• Eurostat
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What is official statistics ?
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UN fundamental principles
IMF – principles
Code of practice
Common features:
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High quality, best methods
Transparency about methods
Confidentiality
Professional independency
Datacapture reuse of data etc
Dissemination, consistence, comparability,
Standards
Official statistics can be produced by the National Statistical Office or
another govnm institution. The important is that the basic principles are
accepted and followed
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Coordination of official statistics
• The case of energy, environment and economic statisttics
• Reflections from the bottom – the NSI
• Success of international cooperation is easier to obtain if it
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is built on an understanding of how official statistics is coordinated at the NSI level
Coherence at national level
International comparability
Data capture strategy – reuse of data. Concern about
response burden. Legal base. Confidentiality
Use the best scientific methods
User orientation. Relevance and confidence. Independency
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Energy statistics
• Users, interested in energy markets
• Production of energy, energy industries
• Economic statistics for non-energy sector (but users of
energy)
• Households as energy users
• National accounts
• Emission statistics (computations)
• Other environment statistics
• National wealth
• Sustainable development indicators
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Elements to be discussed
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The production of energy (industrial classification, definitions of energy
production sector)
Use of energy as input, as energy and as "chemical" raw material
Business register, to design a survey design to secure full coverage and
avoid double counting
Export and import
Prices and costs
The national economic boundary and the territorial boundary
Technical characteristics of production process for energy production,
relevant for environment statistics
Technical characteristics for processes for use of energy as input
Energy efficiency in production and in private household
Energy saving concept
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National Accounts
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National Accounts give the full picture of the economic situation and
trends, covering all production sectors (incl. energy) and all uses of
goods and services.
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All kinds of energy products are covered.
This gives NA a possible coordinative functioning.
Supply and Use (input output) tables and energy blances
Prices – fixed price computations
Energy as product (output)
Energy as input in production
Use of energy in private households (consumption)
Export and import of energy
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Environment statistics, Emissions to air
• Physical data
• Need relevant technical data for environmental effects
• The relevant national boundary
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Sustainable development indicators
• Follow the SEEA
• National Wealth
• Water
• Risk, for damages (incl nuclear power pl)
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Thank you
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