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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

It should encourage flexibility, which is the ability to evolve over time in order to respond to the needs of the Convention while maintaining comparability

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.

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.

In order to improve quality and comparability of such estimates it was agreed to standardize the estimation procedure using the new approach developed by the Statistics Division.

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.

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.

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.

Concealing data within encrypted data or within random data.

The summary of the analysis of data accuracy and data origin

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.

A data set (or dataset) is a collection of data.

You say, This photograph, it's about it depicts this person. Bing! That's data. Data, data, data.

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

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.

A data logger is a data acquisition system, but a data acquisition system is not necessarily a data logger.

On the other hand, a data dictionary is a data structure that stores metadata, i.e., (structured) data about data.

The objectives of the 2007 revision of the International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities were formulated in terms of improving and strengthening its relevance and comparability with other classifications, while considering its continuity.

Abstraction can apply to control or to data Control abstraction is the abstraction of actions while data abstraction is that of data structures.

Of the data that are marked C (country data), about one third had serious differences from our own sources either in the actual data or in the number of available data points.

This includes everything from actual data to how those data are represented, facilitating comparisons of data across organizations and across time.

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

Data control The Data Control Language (DCL) authorizes users to access and manipulate data.

(no country data), we do have data.

Data access, data availability and information extraction

Agreement on data collection and data sharing

And it's also true of other examples, like DNA data or brain data.