The national strategies for the development of statistics

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(ii) Three field projects on development of disability statistics in the ESCWA region development of national gender statistics programmes in Arab countries the International Comparison Programme.

Source Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Development Assistance Committee, International Development Statistics, online.

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(v) Ad hoc expert group meetings on environment statistics (1) inter agency and expert meeting on Millennium Development Goals indicators and development statistics (1) international migration statistics (1) international economic and social classifications (1) national accounts (1) poverty measurement social statistics (1) trade statistics (1) expert group meeting on population and housing censuses (1)

Topics for other papers to be produced include exploring the relationship between national strategies for the development of statistics and the poverty reduction strategy papers and between national strategies for the development of statistics and the Millennium Development Goals.

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Extrabudgetary resources of 609,700 will be used for implementation of three field projects on development of disability statistics in the ESCWA region development of national gender statistics programmes in Arab countries and the International Comparison Programme.

The major international organizations operating in the area of industrial statistics are the Statistics Division of the Secretariat, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and Eurostat.

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In recognition of the development community's reliance, in managing for results, on good, timely statistics, the Second International Roundtable issued the six part Marrakech Action Plan for Statistics, which encourages all developing countries to design and implement national strategies for the development of statistics so as to improve the evidence base by providing a strategic framework for developing relevant poverty focused statistics.

Development of national strategies for the development of statistics methodology the Partnership offers methodological advice and documentation, targeting different audiences and purposes.

Statistics are an important tool in the development policymaking processes of countries and regional organizations.

Setting cooperation projects within a balanced overall strategic framework for national development of official statistics

A noteworthy development along with the progress of the Common Data Set concerns Statistics Division databases.

b. Parliamentary documentation three reports to the Statistical Committee five year review of the Millennium Development Goals strategy of economic and sectoral statistics and strategy of social statistics in the ESCWA region

Sources UNCTAD, Handbook of Statistics, 2004 (exports and imports of merchandise) and World Bank, World Development Indicators 2005 (GDP).

With the increasing emphasis on managing for development results, national policymakers and the international development community have become increasingly aware of the importance of statistics in informing and designing development interventions.

(iii) Technical material development and maintenance of the ESCWA Statistical Information System modules maintenance of ESCWA home page on statistics

10. Urges Governments to cooperate with the Statistics Division of the Secretariat in the continued development of global statistics and indicators on disability, and encourages them to avail themselves of the technical assistance of the Division to build national capacities for national data collection systems, including the compilation and dissemination of data on disabled persons, as well as the development of methods for data collection and disability statistics, as appropriate

The pricing and valuation function of the module ensures that investments are accurately priced, supporting the development of accurate performance statistics.

In addition, more detailed tables should be developed for countries in more advanced stages of development of environment statistics and accounting.

7 Filling the data gap Gender sensitive statistics for agricultural development, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1999.

Sources World Bank, World Bank Development Indicators 2005 (GDP per capita) and UNCTAD, UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics, 2004 (inward FDI).

Systematically involving national statistical offices and other national organizations for official statistics in the development of international statistical programmes, including the development and promulgation of methods, standards and good practices

(b) Strengthen official energy statistics as part of the system of national statistics

Environmental economic accounting and related statistics are relatively new areas of statistics.

Sources OECD, statistical annex to 2004 Development Cooperation Report (net ODA receipts, ODA GNI) UNCTAD, Handbook of Statistics, 2004 (exports of merchandise) World Bank, World Development Indicators 2005 (external debt, GDP).

Strengthening the development of international merchandise trade statistics and e commerce in member countries of the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia

The present report accordingly summarizes the main developments in service statistics in various expert groups, describes progress with the creation of an intersecretariat working group on service statistics and incorporates a report on the Voorburg Group's development of its future agenda.

The objective of the workshop was to develop and strengthen the capacity of specialists responsible for the production of statistics and data, with particular emphasis on agriculture and rural development, in order to integrate a gender perspective into the production of statistics.

Progress in supporting country efforts towards designing, implementing and monitoring national strategies for the development of statistics and directions for future work

Source. Monthly bulletin of statistics, December, 2003, Federal Bureau of Statistics. Table 4.8 (modified).

It will increase the capacity of member countries to produce gender disaggregated statistics and indicators and monitor progress towards achieving the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals.

With the increasing international focus on results based management, national policymakers and the international development community have become increasingly aware that good statistics are part of the enabling environment for development.

Acknowledgements The contributions of the United Nations Statistics Division and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization in preparing the present report are acknowledged.

The Forum recommends that the United Nations Statistics Division mainstream statistical issues pertaining to indigenous peoples in the development of handbooks and guidelines.

The Forum recommends that the United Nations Statistics Division mainstream statistical issues pertaining to indigenous peoples in the development of handbooks and guidelines.

The improved capacity of ESCWA member countries for the production and utilization of international merchandise trade statistics is an important element of the region's development.

The Partnership supports country efforts to design, implement and monitor their national strategies for the development of statistics primarily through the following types of activities

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The Partnership has also produced a paper entitled Measuring up to the measurement problem the role of statistics in evidence based policy making (available from http sitesources.worldbank.org DATASTATISTICS Resources Measuring_Up_to_the_Measurement_Problem.pdf) (January 2005) which demonstrates how the availability and use of statistics have led to positive development results and how the absence or lack of statistics has led to bad policy decisions.

The Statistical Working Party of the Committee on Industry and Business Environment of OECD was originally created for the development of industry level statistics and indicators.

Action plans to prevent the commercial exploitation of children and the development of a civil registration and statistics system were in the final stages of preparation.