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United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
Statistical Division
What’s New from the
High-Level Group?
Steven Vale
UNECE
[email protected]
HLG Background
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High-Level Group for the Modernisation of
Statistical Production and Services
Created by the Conference of European
Statisticians in 2010
10 heads of national and international
statistical organisations
New
competitors
& changing
expectations
Rapid changes in
the environment
Reducing
budget
Increasing
cost &
difficulty of
acquiring
data
Riding the
big data
wave
Competition
for skilled
resources
These challenges are too big
for statistical organisations to
tackle on their own
We need to work together
UNECE Statistics: Priorities
Population censuses, migration,
Millennium Development Goals
 Globalisation, National Accounts,
employment, business registers
 Sustainable development,
environmental accounts, climate change
 Modernisation
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A strategy for modernisation
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Transform vision to reality
New sources and products
Streamlined processes
Managing organisational change to support
modernisation and collaboration
A strategy for modernisation
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Transform vision to reality
New sources and products
Streamlined processes
Managing organisational change to support
modernisation and collaboration
Conference of European Statisticians, June 2012
Using common standards,
statistics can be produced
in a more efficient way
No domain is special!
Do new methods and tools
support this vision, or do they
reinforce a stove-pipe mentality?
Projects
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2012
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2013
Other HLG Activities
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Big data
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“What does Big data mean for official statistics?”
www1.unece.org/stat/platform/x/toeZB
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Coordinating role for HLG?
Legal / licensing issues
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Paper from Canada
HLG governance issues
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The work is growing
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Expectations are rising
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More efficient structure needed
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Re-organisation of UNECE expert groups
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Clearer focus on modernisation
B rea
ecretariat eam
HLG workshops
Communications
e t e
oar
odernisation
ommittee
Organisational
framework and
evaluation
HRMT
Legal issues
Licensing
Evaluation
Modernisation
Committee
Modernisation
Committee
Modernisation
Committee
Production
and methods
Products and
sources
Standards
MSIS
SAB
Data editing
Plug and play
Data collection
Confidentiality
Big data
Open data
Micro-data
Project
management
METIS
GSBPM / GSIM
DDI / SDMX
Geospatial standards
Metadata flows
Do you want to get involved?
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Modernisation committees
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Projects
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Sprints / virtual task teams / reviews
Other activities / project proposals?
Let us know
[email protected]
More information
HLG Wiki
www1.unece.org/stat/platform/display/hlgbas
Linked
Group
Business Architecture in Statistics