Countries of the Region Will Analyze the Statistical Framework for Follow-up to the 2030 Agenda

Representatives of national statistics institutes from the region’s countries will participate on October 3-4 in Santiago, Chile in the Seventeenth Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas (SCA), where the outcome of the process to prioritize indicators for developing a regional statistical framework for follow-up to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will be presented and progress on the activities scheduled for the 2018-2019 biennium will be reviewed.

The meeting will be inaugurated by Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC); Guillermo Pattillo, Director of the National Statistical Institute (INE) of Chile, in his capacity as President of the Executive Committee of the SCA; and Pascual Gerstenfeld, Chief of ECLAC’s Statistics Division.

Along with Chile in the Presidency, the Executive Committee of the SCA for the 2017-2018 period is made up of Canada, Costa Rica, Italy, Jamaica, Mexico and Peru, in accordance with what was agreed at the Ninth Meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas, held in the city of Aguascalientes, Mexico in November 2017.

The meeting of the SCA’s Executive Committee will be preceded on October 1-2 by a high-level seminar on integrating non-traditional data sources into National Statistical Systems, an event being jointly organized by ECLAC and the European Statistical Office (Eurostat). Experts from countries in Europe and Latin America will facilitate and lead the sessions.

The Statistical Conference of the Americas is a subsidiary body of ECLAC and the main forum for discussing the development of statistics in the region. Its main objectives are to promote the development and improvement of national statistics and their international comparability, along with international, regional and bilateral cooperation among national offices and international and regional agencies.