Challenges and perspectives of the production and dissemination of economic statistics under the situation of COVID-19

Event

Work area(s)

Statistics

Topic(s)

Economic statistics COVID-19

Teaser

The National Administrative Department of Statistics (DANE) organized this side event within the framework of the nineteenth meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC.

Event information

Date

26 Aug 2020, 12:15 - 13:00
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Event type

Meetings and technical symposiums
Nineteenth meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC

 

This event aims to discuss the challenges associated with the production and dissemination of official and experimental economic statistics under the conjuncture of COVID-19, as well as the main adaptation mechanisms developed by the National Statistics Institutes of the region.

The National Administrative Department of Statistics (DANE in Spanish) seeks to present two particular developments:

  1. The integration of administrative records from the Integrated Contribution Settlement Worksheet with data from the Large Integrated Survey of households in order to estimate the condition formal / informal employment;
  2. Early estimation model based on administrative data on electrical energy consumption to measure the behavior and evolution of the manufacturing sector in the country.

Schedule

 

 

Martha Tovar, ECLAC
Welcome and presentation of the event

Participants:
  • Juan Daniel Oviedo, General Director of DANE
  • Arturo Blancas, General Director of Economic Statistics of the INEGI
Panel discussion

Question for all panelists:   

¿What are the main measurement challenges in terms of economic statistics that your offices face in the context of the emergency associated with Covid-19?

Closing of the event

Subsidiary body(ies)

Statistical Conference of the Americas

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