High-level seminar on the future of economic statistics in Latin America and the Caribbean

18 Nov 2019 | Event
<span>High-level seminar on the future of economic statistics in Latin America and the Caribbean</span>

Event information

This is an event related to the tenth meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas and will be held at ECLAC headquarters. Organized jointly by ECLAC, the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).

Date

18 - 19 Nov 2019, 06:00 - 10:00

Event type

Meetings and technical symposiums

Address

Sede de la CEPAL | Sala de conferencias Raúl Prebisch / Headquarters of ECLAC | Raúl Prebisch conference room
Av. Dag Hammarskjöld 3477.
Av. Alonso de Cordova 3170.
Santiago
Chile

Organized jointly by ECLAC, the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).

The purpose of this seminar is to discuss data needs for evidence-based policymaking, recent experiences in innovation in statistical production and the integration of data sources, and institutional mechanisms for developing economic statistics.

The results and recommendations of the seminar will be included in the report of the tenth meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas.

  • Session 1 and 2

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  • Session 3 and 4

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  • Session 5 and 6 (After of the opening session of the tenth meeting of the SCA)

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Programme of work

18 November 2019

  • Registration of participants and Welcome and opening remarks

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    Presentation(s)
    • • Rolando Ocampo, División de Estadísticas de la CEPAL / ECLAC Statistics Division

    • • José Antonio Mejía, Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID) / Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).

    • • Ivo Havinga, División de Estadísticas de Naciones Unidas (DENU) / United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD)

  • Introduction of the Friends of the Chair Group on Economic Statistics and the Future of Economic Statistics - Initiative on the update of the system of economic

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    Presentation(s)
  • Sustainable economic development and the need for statistics - a user and policy perspective

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    Presentation(s)
  • Session 1: Priorities and initiatives for institutional arrangements to advance the integration of economic statistics

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    » Moderator: ECLAC

    Presentation(s)
  • Session 2: Priorities and initiatives for the update of the statistical operations and statistical infrastructure of the system of economic statistics

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    Presentation(s)
  • Session 3: Priorities and Initiatives on the conceptual framework of the system of economic statistics to measure beyond traditional metrics

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    Presentation(s)
  • Session 4: Coordination and governance for the update of the system of economic statistics

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    Presentation(s)

19 November 2019

  • Session 5: Global and regional priorities and initiative to provide access to new technological infrastructure, methods and services

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    (Plenary of the Statistical Conference of the Americas)

    » Moderator: ECLAC

    Presentation(s)
  • Session 6: Conclusions and recommendations on the global and regional priorities and initiatives

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    » Moderator: ECLAC

    Presentation(s)
    • Resumen e informe del primer día del seminario

      Ivo Havinga, DENU / UNSD

    • - Debate plenario sobre conclusiones y recomendaciones / Plenary discussion on conclusions and recommendations

Organizing institution

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ECLAC

United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD)

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Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID)

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