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Report of the Statistical Commission on Its 48th Session and Provisional Agenda and Dates for Its 49th Session

E/DEC/2017/228View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Decision of the Economic and Social Council, under agenda item 18c Statistics, published in 2017.

What other versions does this mandate have?

3 versions · 2016–2018
This is an older version — the most recent is E/DEC/2018/227
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2018
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What’s in this document?

40 operative paragraphs
At its 31st plenary meeting, on 7 June 2017, the Economic and Social Council:
(a) Took note of the report of the Statistical Commission on its forty-eighth session;19
(b) Decided that the forty-ninth session of the Commission would be held in New York from 6 to 9 March 2018;
(c) Approved the provisional agenda and documentation for the forty-ninth session of the Commission as set out below:
1
Election of officers.
2
Adoption of the agenda and other organizational matters.
Documentation
Provisional agenda and annotations
Note by the Secretariat on the provisional programme of work and timetable for the session
3
Demographic and social statistics:
a
Demographic statistics;
Documentation
Report of the Secretary-General
b
Disability statistics;
Documentation
Report of the Secretary-General and the Washington Group on Disability Statistics
17 E/2017/10.
18 E/2017/51.
19 Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2017, Supplement No. 4 (E/2017/24).
c
Gender statistics;
Documentation
Report of the Secretary-General
d
Poverty statistics;
Documentation
Report of the World Bank
e
Crime statistics;
Documentation
Report of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
f
Refugee statistics;
Documentation
Report of the Expert Group on Refugee Statistics
g
Employment statistics;
Documentation
Report of the International Labour Organization
h
Civil registration and vital statistics;
Documentation
Report of the Secretary-General
i
Ageing and age-disaggregated data.
Documentation
Report of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
4
Economic statistics:
a
National accounts;
Documentation
Report of the Intersecretariat Working Group on National Accounts
b
Agricultural and rural statistics;
Documentation
Report of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
c
Energy statistics;
Documentation
Report of the Secretary-General
d
International trade and economic globalization statistics;
Documentation
Report of the Expert Group on International Trade and Economic Globalization Statistics
e
Service statistics;
Documentation
Report of the Voorburg Group on Service Statistics
f
Information and communications technology statistics;
Documentation
Report of the Partnership on Measuring Information and Communication Technology for Development
g
International Comparison Programme;
Documentation
Report of the World Bank
h
Statistics on science, technology and innovation;
Documentation
Report of the Institute for Statistics of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
i
Informal sector statistics.
Documentation
Report of the Delhi Group on Informal Sector Statistics
5
Natural resources and environment statistics:
a
Environment statistics;
Documentation
Report of the Secretary-General
b
Environmental-economic accounting;
Documentation
Report of the Committee of Experts on Environmental-Economic Accounting
c
Statistics for economies based on natural resources.
Documentation
Report of the Ulaanbaatar Group on Statistics for Economies Based on Natural Resources
6
Activities not classified by field:
a
Coordination of statistical programmes;
Documentation
Report of the Committee for the Coordination of Statistical Activities
Report of the Committee of the Chief Statisticians of the United Nations System
b
Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics;
Documentation
Report of the Friends of the Chair group
c
International statistical classifications;
Documentation
Report of the Expert Group on International Statistical Classifications
d
Data and indicators for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development;
Documentation
Report of the Inter-Agency and Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goal Indicators
Report of the High-level Group for Partnership, Coordination and Capacity-Building for Statistics for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Report of the Secretary-General on the work for the review of progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals
e
Follow-up to the policy decisions of the General Assembly and the Economic and Social Council;
Documentation
Report of the Secretary-General
f
Integration of statistical and geospatial information;
Documentation
Report of the Expert Group on the Integration of Statistical and Geospatial Information
g
Big data;
Documentation
Report of the Global Working Group on Big Data for Official Statistics
h
Regional statistical development;
Documentation
Report of the Economic Commission for Africa on regional statistical development in Africa
i
Governance, peace and security statistics;
Documentation
Report of the Praia Group on Governance Statistics
j
Open data.
Documentation
Report of the World Bank
7
Programme questions (Statistics Division).
8
Provisional agenda and dates for the fiftieth session of the Commission.
Documentation
Note by the Secretariat containing the draft provisional agenda for the fiftieth session of the Commission
Note by the Secretariat on the draft multi-year programme of work of the Commission
9
Report of the Commission on its forty-ninth session.

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