Statistical indicators are useful for measuring inequality.

Each target has one or more specific statistical indicators to be used to monitor progress.

(b) Other statistical data and specific indicators provided by members as requested by the Council and

(b) Other statistical data and specific indicators provided by members as requested by the Council and

(i) Parliamentary documentation report to the Statistical Committee on issues related to information and communication technology indicators

The results of the analysis can therefore be used as framework indicators of conditions in particular regions, but not as statistical indicators of the conditions in BiH.

The group proposes that the Statistical Commission focus on improving those indicators for which it has real expertise.

Official statistical data that follow up on these changes, as part of indicators of demographic changes, indicate the following

An important contribution to building national statistical capacity is the Organization's work in providing technical assistance to national statistical offices and training of national statisticians in the production and use of indicators.

One issue that has caused much contention at recent sessions of the Statistical Commission is the indicators associated with Goal 8.

Statistical indicators have been developed for the monitoring of the implementation of goals and targets set out in the Millennium Declaration.

Statistical indicators show that in decision making positions, starting with local and up to the republic level, gender Equality is totally violated.

The Inter Agency and Expert Group on Millennium Development Goal Indicators coordinates the efforts of United Nations entities and national statistical services, as well as regional and international statistical bodies from outside the United Nations system.

Unfortunately, the statistical datasets and systems at the national and regional level in Africa are still lacking in gender specific statistics and indicators.

PCBS (December 2004), Brief statistical indicators of social, economic and geographic conditions in the Palestinian territory by the end of 2004 (in Arabic).

Thus far, a statistical system has not been developed that would provide data for indicators related specifically to women migrants and their health status.

Mr. Riedel informed the meeting of work being undertaken by OHCHR to assist treaty bodies with regard to statistical information and human rights indicators.

Although many of the indicators associated with Goal 8 are completed quite well, the availability of data and measurement issues on several of the indicators (for example tariffs, subsidies, and official development assistance) are not really statistical issues.

This type of initiative should be applauded, but there is low awareness among national statistical offices of this and other programmes to improve MDG indicators.

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.

The classification, as it is, does not address many issues from the list of statistical data or identified in gender issues indicators. Some of the key omissions are

The use of common statistical indicators at Headquarters, UNOG, UNOV and UNON now allows for meaningful comparisons in the delivery of conference services by the four duty stations.

(d) The national statistical offices, which should be important providers of information on indicators as well as having a coordination role vis à vis the providers of statistics within countries.

Our third concern is that the tables do not distinguish between indicators based on surveys conducted by national statistical offices (perhaps with funding assistance) or those conducted by international agencies.

In assessing the capability of a country's statistical system to measure MDG indicators, one should examine quality as well as availability, a point which has been emphasized by several members of the Friends of the Chair group, who are concerned about the quality of the indicators.

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).

Building capacity for the production of comparable statistical indicators should contribute to the follow up and implementation of the WSIS Geneva Plan of Action and to monitoring progress in bridging the digital divide.

OECD, at its Sixth International Trade Statistics Expert Meeting, held in Paris from 12 to 14 September 2005, examined the linkages between the two statistical systems to derive new statistical products, such as indicators combining trade statistics with enterprise related criteria (for example, by size class) and estimates of intra firm trade.

(a) Favour those indicators that are closely related to existing data collection programmes, especially in developing countries ad hoc indicator demand should not interfere with building up a sound basic statistical system in a country

It is also of relevance that, despite strong briefings from several national statistical offices, the potentially misleading conclusions from having inadequate information on MDG indicators did not rate a mention at the 2005 World Summit.

Based on a compilation Economic indicators of enterprises 2001 by the Statistical Office of Estonia, there were 753 active agricultural and hunting enterprises in Estonia in 2001, which was 50 enterprises fewer than in 2000.

Designating one or more statistical units to implement statistical programmes, including one unit that coordinates the statistical work of the organization and represents the organization in international statistical meetings

(e) Improve and promote the collection, collation, dissemination and use of gender equality indicators and statistics that are disaggregated by sex, age, socio economic and other relevant indicators, including through partnership with research institutions and statistical offices, to enable the construction of appropriate tools for planning and programming purposes and the development of effective monitoring systems

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Concerning measurement of ICTs, a delegate referred to the fact that countries were at various levels of development and that their statistical capacities were uneven, thus rendering more difficult the compilation of a core list of ICT indicators.

Policies and measures to enhance the availability of comparable data on ICT from developing countries this will include the assistance to national statistical systems in the collection of ICT indicators, through appropriate capacity building activities and technical cooperation.

There is almost no statistical assessment nor the means to make statistical assessments.

Statistical data which would better show the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in most cases are not good indicators because they are not divided according to gender, and are not published, as such, for the needs of public use.

The availability of high quality statistical data and the capacity of Governments, donors and international organizations to systematically measure, monitor and report reliable indicators lies at the heart of development policy and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.

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