High-level seminar on integrating non-traditional data sources into National Statistical Systems (NSS)
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Teaser
This is an event related to the Seventeenth meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas was held at ECLAC headquarters. This high-level seminar was organised by EUROSTAT and ECLAC.
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The main aim of this seminar is to present and discuss different tools in the process of the innovative use of non-traditional data sources for official statistics.
Experts from Europe and from countries in Latin America will facilitate and lead the sessions.
Programme of work
Opening words
Presentation(s)
• Pascual Gerstenfeld, Director de la División de Estadísticas de la CEPAL / Chief of the Statistics Division of ECLAC
http://conferencias.cepal.org/Eurostat_Eclac2018/Lunes%201%20octubre/Audio%20editado/01%20ECLAC.mp3
• Rosemary Montgomery, Eurostat
• Mesa redonda para presentar a los participantes / Round table to introduce participants
Introduction and general context
Overview on the different types of non-traditional data sources and their usage on different statistical domains, types of entities that collect or produce them and their linkage to National Statistical Systems.
Open discussion
Presentation(s)
Descripción general de los diferentes tipos de fuentes de datos no tradicionales y su uso en diferentes dominios estadísticos, tipos de entidades que los recopilan o los producen y su vinculación con los Sistemas Estadísticos Nacionales. Discusión abierta
Panorama de los diferentes tipos de fuentes de datos no tradicionales y su uso en diferente dominios estadisticos, tipos de entidades que colectan y producen dichas fuentes de datos y su vinculacion con los Sistemas Estadisticos Nacionales
A. Experiences in the innovative use of non-traditional data sources for statistics
A.1 Environment and multidomain statistics
Presentation(s)
a) Fuentes de datos para el medio ambiente, el cambio climático y las estadísticas de desastres
a) Data sources for environment, climate change and disaster statistics
b) Clasificación, estadísticas e indicadores de cobertura/uso de la tierra y cobertura forestal
b) Land cover/use and forest cover classification, statistics and indicators
c) Elaboración de indicadores y cuentas ambientales: cobertura terrestre y forestal, emisiones/concentraciones de contaminación atmosférica, flujos de materiales y otros indicadores seleccionados
c) Producing environment indicators and accounts: land and forest cover, air pollution emissions/concentrations, material flows and other selected indicators
d) Uso de encuestas económicas para producir estadísticas sobre el Gasto Ambiental Privado
d) Use of economic surveys for producing statistics on Private Environmental Expenditure
e) Integración de fuentes de datos innovadoras para la compilación de los indicadores ODS sobre agua y cobertura verde de las montañas
e) Integrating innovative data sources for compiling SDG indicators on water and mountains green cover
f) Comentarios y discusión general / Comments and general discussion
A.2 Economic statistics
Presentation(s)
a) Registros administrativos económicos / Economic administrative records
b) Datos de Internet para índices de precios / Internet data for price indexes
c) Web scraping y factura electrónica / Web scraping and Electronic Invoice
d) Comentarios y discusión general / Comments and general discussion
A.3 Demographic and Social statistics
Presentation(s)
a) Fuentes de datos no tradicionales en Estadísticas Sociales / Non-traditional data sources in Social Statistics
b) Redes sociales, Twitter, otros big data / Social networks, Twitter, other big data
c) Uso innovador de los registros administrativos y otras fuentes para las estadísticas demográficas y sociales / Innovative use of administrative records and other sources for demographic and social statistics
d) C2G data partnerships: What can we learn from and recommend to those in the official statistics domain?
e) Proyecto de Opinión Pública de América Latina / Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP)
f) Comentarios y discusión general / Comments and general discussion
B. Institutional and legal elements and challenges
B.1 Political economy of statistical capacity: lessons for non-traditional data sources
Presentation(s)
¿A quién le importa saber? La economía política de la capacidad estadística en América Latina
B.2 Official statistics and National Statistical Systems: possibilities and challenges for non-traditional data sources
Presentation(s)
Official statistics and National Statistical Systems: Opportunities and challenges for non-traditional data sources
• Comentarios y preguntas / Comments and questions
B.3 Official statistics and National Statistical Systems: possibilities and challenges for non-traditional data sources - regional experiences
Presentation(s)
a) Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística (DANE) de Colombia
b) Oficina Nacional de Estadística e Información (ONEI) de Cuba
c) Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos (INEC) de Ecuador
Coordination and technical regulations of the National System of Statistical and Geographical Information of Mexico (SNIEG)
e) Comentarios y discusión general / Comments and general discussion
C. Challenges for quality assurance, data access, institutional coordination and capacity building
C.1 Challenges for quality assurance with non-traditional data sources
Presentation(s)
C.2 Modalities and constraints for data access and exchange for non-traditional data sources
Presentation(s)
• Hungría / Hungary
• Discusión / Discussion
C.3 Challenges in training and capacity building
Presentation(s)
C.4 Institutional coordination among producers: joint work between statistical and geospatial institutes
Presentation(s)
a) CEPAL / ECLAC
b) Instituto Geográfico Nacional (IGN) de Argentina
Aplicaciones prácticas del uso de datos estadísticos en documentos de divulgación geográfica: Experiencias del Instituto Geográfico Militar
d) Comentarios y discusión / Comments and discussion
Conclusiones y palabras de clausura / Conclusions and closing remarks
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