Moreover, there are concerns regarding comparability of the national data and the need to harmonize relevant methodologies is becoming more and more apparent.

The Statistical Commission, recognizing the economic importance of distributive trade, acknowledging that the availability and quality of national data on distributive trade needs improvement and expressing concern regarding the international comparability of such data, may wish

Since geographical distribution of staff is fluid throughout the year, the progress in this area is recorded traditionally as of 30 June, thus allowing comparability of data.

As a result of the report submitted on this task, Plenary adopted an Administrative Decision that Participants should use Kimberley Process Certificate based data when submitting trade data, thereby improving the comparability of statistics provided by Participants.

There is little comparability with previous data, and income is used as an indicator of well being, rather than consumption which is, among others, a more reliable measurement of poverty.

Monitoring data on the presence in the environment of the POPs listed in annexes A, B and C of the Convention can be collected from existing national and international monitoring programs through a global network using applicable standards and guidelines to ensure comparability of data.

Links to other classifications have been considered in the revision process and have led to some changes in the classification and to recommendations for changes to other classifications to improve the comparability of data.

We recognize that some modification may be necessary to ensure international comparability, but if country level data has to be significantly modified, it could indicate a concern about capacity, methodological development and so forth.

The experts advised also that a review of the national methodologies on index numbers and constant price data estimation should be conducted and further efforts to harmonize those methodologies were necessary to improve international comparability.

The Expert Group agreed that this measurement should take several key areas into account, which would focus not only on the strict adaptation of the coding structure, but also on data comparability and use of the classification.

(a) To continue to broaden and improve the coverage, timeliness, reliability, quality and comparability of system wide financial data, definitions and classifications for the financial reporting of operational activities for development of the United Nations system, in a coherent way

16.14 The subprogramme will continue to improve the comparability of official statistics in the ECE region.

The objectives of the 2007 revision of the Central Product Classification were formulated in terms of relevance, comparability and continuity.

It is therefore particularly important to ensure methodological consistency and financial comparability between the initial calculation and the midterm recalculation.

The diversity of surveys conducted in developing countries affects the comparability between countries and makes it difficult to draw conclusions.

For full comparability, UNICEF would then need to include the portion of Cash Assistance to Governments used to procure goods.

The information provided in the CRF is aimed at enhancing the comparability and transparency of inventories by facilitating, inter alia, activity data and implied emission factor (IEF) or carbon stock change factor cross comparisons among Annex I Parties, and easy identification of possible mistakes, misunderstandings and omissions in the inventories.

The international comparability of databases maintained by international organizations is hampered because different revisions versions and levels of classification are applied.

However, the pursuit of current figures should not have a negative impact on the equally important considerations of comprehensiveness and comparability.

The degree of data comparability between the reporting cycles is restricted, as not all questions remained comparable, because of fine tuning of the questionnaire following the first reporting period and the fact that not all countries replying to the questionnaire for the first and second reporting periods did so for the third reporting period.

As a consequence, it was determined that changes should be made only where the benefits in terms of relevance or comparability outweighed the costs.

For the purposes of transparency and comparability, budgeted expenditure for the liaison offices will be presented with the Commissioner General's Office in Chapter 7.

The purpose of this review is (a) to examine the current situation and practices in industrial statistics (b) to identify the issues and challenges faced by the international industrial statistical system and (c) to formulate recommendations to improve the current coordination, data collection and dissemination practices for industrial statistics while ensuring international comparability and policy relevance.

19 For example, the Paris Club agreement for the Dominican Republic in April 2004 was made contingent on the implementation of the comparability of treatment.

Most importantly, it allowed the Global Office and the regional coordinators to identify areas where each region needed to make adjustments for comparability purposes across regions.

That achievement in comparability was realized through the discussion and evaluation of new concepts and their respective adoption in the ISIC, but also in the other classifications.

The purpose of the compendium is to standardize conference servicing procedures and practices across the duty stations with a view to promoting comparability and strengthening planning and coordination.

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We could talk about government data, enterprise data is really important, there's scientific data, there's personal data, there's weather data, there's data about events, there's data about talks, and there's news and there's all kinds of stuff.

They also should ensure the quality and the objectivity of the thorough and comprehensive technical assessments in the reviews and to provide for continuity, comparability and timeliness of the review.

Simultaneously, the need for enhanced comparability provided the impetus towards the convergence of the Australian New Zealand, European and North American industry classifications and other activity classifications used around the world.

This is from real data in California, looking at wind data and solar data.

How do we collect not just biological data but behavioral data, psychological data, relational data, in and on and around the home?

The workshop was organized to support statistical offices in this work, to take stock of work that is currently underway in OECD countries and to enhance the international comparability of productivity measures.

Data for 2003 are provisional data for 2004 are estimates data for 2005 are projections.

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Data availability Lack of adequate, reliable and consistent environmental and socioeconomic data Scattered, limited, discontinued and insufficient data Institutional constraints in accessing and sharing data

Improving current practice and international comparability are high priorities as reflected by the range of recent and current activity on this theme on services producer price indices. They pose both conceptual and practical challenges.

Section 3 Summary of Financial Data and Business Data

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Data compression algorithms can be classified in two categories those with data loss and those without data loss.

When presenting data, an attempt was made to distinguish between data provided by countries, and data sourced from elsewhere.

Section 3 Summary of Major Accounting Data and Business Data

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