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Report of the Statistical Commission on Its 49th Session and Provisional Agenda and Dates for Its 50th Session

E/DEC/2018/227View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Decision of the Economic and Social Council, under agenda item 18c Statistics, published in 2018.

What other versions does this mandate have?

3 versions · 2016–2018
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2018
E/DEC/2018/227

Report of the Statistical Commission on its 49th session and provisional agenda and dates for its 50th session

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2017
E/DEC/2017/228

Report of the Statistical Commission on its 48th session and provisional agenda and dates for its 49th session

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2016
E/DEC/2016/220

Report of the Statistical Commission on its 47th session and provisional agenda and dates for its 48th session

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What’s in this document?

38 operative paragraphs
At its 34th plenary meeting, on 12 June 2018, the Economic and Social Council:
(a) Took note of the report of the Statistical Commission on its forty-ninth session;22
(b) Decided that the fiftieth session of the Commission would be held in New York from 5 to 8 March 2019;
21 See E/2018/52.
22 Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2018, Supplement No. 4 (E/2018/24).
(c) Approved the provisional agenda and documentation for the fiftieth 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
Human settlements statistics;
Documentation
Report of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme
c
Health statistics;
Documentation
Report of the World Health Organization
d
Crime statistics;
Documentation
Report of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
e
International migration statistics;
Documentation
Report of the Secretary-General
f
Education statistics;
Documentation
Report of the Institute for Statistics of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
g
Civil registration and vital statistics;
Documentation
Report of the Secretary-General
h
Statistics on drugs and drug use.
Documentation
Joint report of Mexico and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
4
Economic statistics:
a
National accounts;
Documentation
Report of the Intersecretariat Working Group on National Accounts
b
Industrial statistics;
Documentation
Report of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization
c
Business registers;
Documentation
Report of the Wiesbaden Group on Business Registers
d
International trade and economic globalization statistics;
Documentation
Report of the Expert Group on International Trade and Economic Globalization Statistics
e
Finance statistics;
Documentation
Report of the International Monetary Fund
f
International Comparison Programme;
Documentation
Report of the World Bank
g
Price statistics.
Documentation
Report of the Ottawa Group on Price Indices
Report of the Intersecretariat Working Group on Price Statistics
5
Natural resources and environment statistics:
a
Environmental-economic accounting;
Documentation
Report of the Committee of Experts on Environmental-Economic Accounting
b
Agricultural and rural statistics;
Documentation
Report of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
c
Disaster-related statistics.
Documentation
Joint report of the Secretary-General, the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, the Economic Commission for Europe and the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
6
Activities not classified by field:
a
Coordination of statistical programmes;
Documentation
Report of the Committee for the Coordination of Statistical Activities
b
Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics;
Documentation
Report of the Friends of the Chair group
c
Common open standards for the exchange and sharing of data and metadata;
Documentation
Report of the Statistical Data and Metadata Exchange sponsors
d
Statistical capacity-building;
Documentation
Report of the Secretary-General
e
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
f
Follow-up to the policy decisions of the General Assembly and the Economic and Social Council;
Documentation
Report of the Secretary-General
g
National quality assurance frameworks;
Documentation
Report of the Secretary-General
h
Integration of statistical and geospatial information;
Documentation
Report of the Expert Group on the Integration of Statistical and Geospatial Information
i
Big data;
Documentation
Report of the Global Working Group on Big Data for Official Statistics
j
Regional statistical development;
Documentation
Report of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
k
Open data;
Documentation
Report of the Friends of the Chair group on the Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics
l
Working methods of the Statistical Commission.
Documentation
Report of the Bureau
7
Programme questions (Statistics Division).
Provisional agenda and dates for the fifty-first session of the Commission.
Documentation
Note by the Secretariat containing the draft provisional agenda for the fifty-first 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 fiftieth session.

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