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Report of the Statistical Commission on Its 55th Session and Provisional Agenda and Dates of the 56th Session of the Commission

E/DEC/2024/312No PDF available

Who created this mandate?

A Decision of the Economic and Social Council, under agenda item 18cStatistics, published in 2024.

What other versions does this mandate have?

3 versions · 2023–2025
This is an older version — the most recent is E/DEC/2025/315
  • 2025E/DEC/2025/315Report of the Statistical Commission on its 56th session and provisional agenda and dates of the 57th session of the CommissionLatestCompare with previous version
  • 2024E/DEC/2024/312Report of the Statistical Commission on its 55th session and provisional agenda and dates of the 56th session of the CommissionCompare with previous version
  • 2023E/DEC/2023/325Report of the Statistical Commission on its 54th session and provisional agenda and dates of the 55th session of the Commission

iVersions are identified automatically by matching titles within the same organ (~97% accuracy on a manual audit).

What does this mandate say?

45 operative paragraphs
1
Election of officers.
2
Adoption of the annotated provisional agenda and other organizational matters.
Documentation
Provisional agenda and annotations
Note by the Secretariat on the provisional programme of the work and timetable
3
Demographic and social statistics:
a
Demographic statistics;
Documentation
Report of the Secretary-General
b
Migration statistics;
Documentation
Report of the Secretary-General
c
Work and employment statistics;
Documentation
Report of the International Labour Organization
d
Education statistics;
Documentation
Report of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
4
Economic statistics:
a
National accounts;
Documentation
Report of the Intersecretariat Working Group on National Accounts
b
Informal economy statistics;
Documentation
Report of the International Labour Organization
c
Finance statistics;
Documentation
Report of the International Monetary Fund
d
Environmental-economic accounting;
Documentation
Report of the Committee of Experts on Environmental-Economic Accounting
e
Industrial statistics;
Documentation
Report of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization
f
Energy statistics;
Documentation
Report of the Oslo Group on Energy Statistics
g
Business and trade statistics;
Documentation
Report of the Committee of Experts on Business and Trade Statistics
h
International Comparison Programme;
Report of the World Bank
i
Price statistics;
Documentation
Report of the Ottawa Group on Price Indices
5
Natural resource and environment statistics:
a
Environment statistics;
Documentation
Report of the Secretary-General
b
Disaster-related statistics;
Documentation
Report of the core group of the Inter-Agency and Expert Group on Disaster-related Statistics
6
Governance statistics:
Statistics on drugs and drug use;
Documentation
Report of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
7
Cross-cutting domains:
a
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 on the review of progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals
b
Statistics on human development;
Documentation
Report of the United Nations Development Programme
c
Food security and nutrition;
Documentation
Report of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children’s Fund
Statistical infrastructure and methodology:
a
Civil registration and vital statistics;
Documentation
Report of the Secretary-General
b
International statistical classifications;
Documentation
Report of the Committee of Experts on International Statistical Classifications
c
Population and housing censuses;
Documentation
Report of the Secretary-General
d
Household surveys;
Documentation
Report of the Intersecretariat Working Group on Household Surveys
e
Common open standards for the exchange and sharing of data and metadata;
Documentation
Report of the Statistical Data and Metadata Exchange sponsors
f
Data science;
Documentation
Report of the Committee of Experts on Big Data and Data Science for Official Statistics
g
Integration of statistical and geospatial information;
Documentation
Report of the Expert Group on the Integration of Statistical and Geospatial Information
9
Management and modernization of statistical systems:
a
Management and modernization of statistical systems;
Documentation
Report of the Secretary-General
b
Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics;
Documentation
Report of the Secretary-General
c
Data stewardship;
Documentation
Report of the Working Group on Data Stewardship
d
National quality assurance frameworks;
Documentation
Report of the Expert Group on National Quality Assurance Frameworks
e
Statistical capacity development;
Documentation
Report of the Secretary-General
10
Specific items of the Statistical Commission and the Statistics Division:
a
Follow-up to the policy decisions of the General Assembly and the Economic and Social Council;
Documentation
Report of the Secretary-General
b
Working methods of the Statistical Commission;
Documentation
Report of the Bureau of the Commission
c
Regional statistical development;
Documentation
Report of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
11
Programme questions (Statistics Division).
12
Provisional agenda and dates of the fifty-seventh session of the Commission.
Documentation
Note by the Secretariat containing the draft provisional agenda of the fifty-seventh session of the Commission
Note by the Secretariat on the draft multi-year programme of work of the Commission
13
Report of the Commission on its fifty-sixth session.

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