ACC SUBCOMMITTEE ON STATISTICAL ACTIVITIES
Thirty-fifth session
Vienna, 18-20 September 2001
Item 19(c) of the provisional agenda
SA/2001/17
16 August 2001
IDENTIFYING ISSUES THAT THE
STATISTICAL COMMISSION MIGHT DISCUSS
Note by UNSD
1.
Attached is an initial draft multi-year programme of work
for the Statistical Commission 2000-2005. It includes ideas of
the UNSD.
2.
At the thirty-fourth session of the Subcommittee "Several
suggestions were made concerning the multi-year work programme
of the Statistical Commission, namely, the desirability of the
Commission’s considering aspects of the statistical work of
specialized agencies, and the collection of disaggregated
statistics by international organizations (including the uses of
disaggregated statistics and the reporting burdens on
countries). The Subcommittee agreed that the latter item should
be discussed in a session of the Subcommittee prior to a
decision to include it in the Commission’s work programme; the
Subcommittee considered that such an approach would be useful
for a variety of topics in which both the Subcommittee and the
Commission might have an interest."
3.
The Subcommittee is invited to comment and make proposals
on the multi-year programme of work of the Commission including
indicating possible responsibility for any required work in
preparing items for Commission discussion. The Subcommittee
should also decide on steps to make the ideas in para. 2 above
operational.
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Proposed multi-year work programme for the Statistical Commission
Agenda item
1. Demographic and social statistics
(a) Population and housing censuses
(b) Human settlements statistics
(c) Paris Group on Labour and Compensation (city group)
(d) Social statistics
(e) Social statistics (Programme review)
(f) Rio Group on Poverty Statistics (city group)
(g) Siena Group for Social Statistics (city group)
(h) Statistics of drugs and drug use
(i) Time-use statistics
(j) Washington Group on Disability Measurement (city group)
2. Economic statistics
(a) National accounts
(b) Agricultural statistics
(c) Industrial statistics (Programme review)
(d) Roundtable on Business Survey Frames (city group)
(e) Energy statistics
(f) International trade statistics
(g) Statistics of international trade in services
(h) Statistics of services (Programme review)
CSSA Code a 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005
031
031.2.i & 031.3.i
031.3
X
X
X
031.4
X
X
031.4-6, 8-11
X
X
031.4-11
031.11
031.11
X
X
X
X
031.11
031.11
X
X
X
X
X
031.11
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
032
032.1
X
032.2
X
X
X
X
032.4
X
X
032.5
X
032.7.i
X
032.7.ii
X
X
X
032.7.ii, 032.11
X
(i) Tourism statistics
(j) Finance statistics
(k) Public finance and SNA
032.10
X
032.12
X
(l) International Comparison Programme
(m)Ottawa Group on Price Indexes (city group)
(n) Inter-secretariat Group on Price Statistics
032.15
X
X
X
032.15
X
X
X
X
032.15
X
X
X
X
032.12
X
X
(o) Delhi Group on Informal Sector Statistics (city group)
(p) Voorburg Group on Service Statistics (city group)
3. Natural resources and environment statistics
032.17
X
X
032.17
X
X
(a) Environment statistics and environmental accounting
(b) London Group on Environmental Accounting
4. Activities not classified by field
033.1, 033.2
X
033
033.1, 033.2
X
X
X
X
X
X
034
(a) Coordination and integration of statistical programmes
034.1
X
X
X
X
X
(b) Programme questions (United Nations Statis tics Division) (2-year
work programme, 4-year medium-term plan)
0.34.1
X
X
X
X
X
(c) Handbook of Statistical Organization
034.1
X
X
a
The "CSSA Code" column contains cross references to the codes of the Classification of Statistics and Statistical
Activities of the ACC Subcommittee on Statistical Activities; the cross references are subject to further discussion.
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Agenda item
CSSA Code a 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005
(d) Management issues in national statistical offices
034.1
(e) Statistics of human development
034.1
X
X
(f) International economic and social classifications
(g) Use of XML for transmitting statistics
034.2
X
X
(h) Special Data Dissemination Standard/General Data
Dissemination Standard and data quality
X
034.2
X
034.2
X
(i) Methodological development - integrated presentation
(j) Information technology (e-commerce) and statistics
034. 2
034. 2
X
(k) Statistical capacity building
(l) Dissemination of statistics by the United Nations Statistics Division
034.2
X
034.3
X
(m)Review of existing statistical programmes in relation to UN special
years/observances
(n) Indicators
(o)Follow-up to Economic and Social Council resolutions
Total number of items
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
034.4
X
034.4
X
X
X
X
X
034.4
X
X
X
X
X
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24
16
19
X
X
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Annex
CLASSIFICATION OF STATISTICS AND STATISTICAL ACTIVITIES 1/ 2/
030 General statistics
031 Demographic and social statistics
1. Demographic statistics
2. Population statistics
i. Population censuses
ii. Statistics on population groups of special interest
3. Housing statistics
i. Housing censuses
ii. Other housing statistics
4. Labour statistics
5. Education and training statistics
6. Culture statistics including mass communication
7. Statistics of household income and expenditure and their distribution
8. Social security statistics
9. Health statistics
10. Gender statistics
11. Other social, demographic and related statistics
032 Economic statistics
1. National accounts
2. Agriculture statistics
3. Forestry and fishery statistics
4. Industrial statistics
5. Energy statistics
6. Distributive trade statistics
7. International trade statistics
i. Trade in goods
ii. Trade in services
8. Transport statistics
9. Communication statistics
10. Tourism statistics
11. Statistics of services not included elsewhere
12. Money, finance and insurance statistics
13. Fiscal statistics
14. Balance of payments statistics
15. Prices statistics
16. Statistics of science, technology and patents
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17. Other economic statistics
033 Natural resources and environment statistics
1. Natural resources and environment statistics
2. Natural resources and environment accounting
3. Meteorology statistics
034 Activities not classified by field
1. Organization and operation of statistical services
2. Technical infrastructure and other cross-cutting issues
3. Dissemination and support for secretariat activities
4. Other activities not classified by field
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1/
This classification has been made to correspond to the greatest extent possible with the classification used
in the integrated presentation of statistical programmes of the Economic Commission for Europe, the Organization
for Economic Cooperation and Development and the Statistical Office of the European Communities.
2/
This classification will provide the basis of a revised statistics part of the ACC Programme Classification
when that Classification is next revised.
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