Status of reporting of specific gender statistics

The Statistics Division should take the lead in developing the reporting system.

Review of country compilation and reporting practices. In 2006, the Statistics Division will conduct a comprehensive review of country practices in compilation and reporting of international merchandise trade statistics in order to assess their compliance with the current recommendations of the Statistical Commission.

The focus is on the reporting of statistics on women and men by countries to the international statistical system.

The overall reporting of gender statistics on various topics is strongest in Europe, followed by North and South America.

The assessment of progress for the most recent period was partly inconclusive owing to delays in national reporting of the requisite statistics.

However, many countries lack the resource base necessary to conduct regular industrial enquiries on short term indicators and structural business statistics, which limits the number of countries reporting industrial statistics to international agencies.

A review of three periods, 1975 1984, 1985 1994 and 1995 2003, indicates that progress in reporting of official national statistics was minimal.

Canada announced that it has initiated a new program to build Participants' capacity in the gathering and reporting of statistics required for the KPCS.

It resulted in a unanimous consensus to establish a Task Force on Collection and Reporting of Foreign Direct Investment Statistics in Africa among participants.

The performance of the international agencies in providing metadata varies considerably, with some reporting valuable statistics while others have definite plans to improve their metadata.

Africa was the region with the lowest number of countries, 23 out of 55, reporting statistics on population by sex and age at least once during this period.

At the 2004 Plenary, the Working Group on Statistics was tasked to undertake a study, in consultation with Participants, of aspects of national methodologies which constrain statistical reporting.

3bis.Upon request, the Council shall endeavour to enhance the technical capacity of member countries, in particular developing member countries, to meet the statistics and reporting requirements under this agreement.

Monthly bulletin of statistics, December, 2003, Federal Bureau of Statistics.

The tables produced by the Statistics Division show that the level of reporting for indicators is particularly bad for some subregions and tends to be worse for the smaller countries.

Peng uses reported deaths from the vital statistics of 14 provinces, adjusts 10 for under reporting, and expands the result to cover all of China assuming similar mortality rates in the other provinces.

(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.

(b) Reducing the reporting burden by harmonizing data collection, processing and dissemination, by limiting duplication and or by building links bridges between existing energy statistics questionnaires, concepts, methods and timetables

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As a result, the comparison and integration of agricultural statistics with other statistics was impaired.

Summary of tourism growth statistics

In cooperation with the Statistics Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, the Monitoring and Research Division mobilized a network of national statistics offices to collect urban statistics.

Annual industrial commodity production statistics are disseminated through the Industrial Commodity Statistics Yearbook with a time lag of about two years, while the monthly commodity production statistics are disseminated though the Monthly Bulletin of Statistics with a time lag of a quarter.

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Energy statistics

Social statistics

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Eurostat aims to put service statistics on a more equal footing with manufacturing statistics in both short term and structural statistics.

UNIDO disseminates general industrial statistics on manufacturing through its annual hard copy publication, The International Yearbook of Industrial Statistics, and CD ROM versions of the UNIDO industrial statistics database INDSTAT.

(d) Improving the coordination of energy statistics with social, economic and environmental statistics at the international level

We should not get carried away by statistics, but statistics are important.

(Source Table 18 Statistics Bulletin 5, 2003, Bosnia and Herzegovina Statistics Agency.