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Enhancing International Collaboration for National Statistical Authorities

Explore challenges and solutions in collecting and exchanging national accounts data. Learn about UN data cooperation projects and the way forward in enhancing collaboration between international agencies and national statistical authorities.

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Enhancing International Collaboration for National Statistical Authorities

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  1. UNSC Side Event: A dialogue on how International Agencies can better collaborate with National Statistical Authorities New York, March 4, 2014 Ivo Havinga United Nations Statistics Division A focus on the shared collection and data exchange of annual national accounts from member countries and its challenges

  2. Outline of Presentation The UNSD national accounts data Data collection and dissemination Other UNSD data cooperation projects Way forward 2

  3. Data collection Excel NAQ UN National Accounts data SQL format OECD Eurostat Rest of the World 160 countries/areas UNECE CARICOM 3

  4. XLS National Accounts Data: MADT Validation MADT - September Print: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/nationalaccount/madt.asp Web: Undatahttp://data.un.org/ • Annual data officially submitted – not always timely • Local currency, CP & KP (country specific base year) • GDP by expenditure • GDP by production (Value added by industry) • Output, IC, VA and fixed assets by industry • Integrated Accounts for institutional sectors • From production account to the financial account • Less than half the non-EU/OECD countries National Accounts data 4

  5. National Accounts Data: AMA • Annual data 1970 – t-1 focus on comparability • US$ • Current & Constant • GDP by expenditure • Value added by industry • Derived analytical indicators • Shares of GDP by exp • Shares of GVA by industry • Growth rates • GDP implicit price deflators • GDP and GNI per capita AMA - December Print: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/nationalaccount/ama.asp Web: AMAdatahttp://unstats.un.org/unsd/snaama/Introduction.asp Undatahttp://data.un.org/ Secondarysources MADT 5

  6. National Accounts Data Users AMA Web site activity 2013 UN National Accounts Data Collaboration UNSD National Accounts Data requests Regional Commissions Various other users World Bank UNCTAD UNIDO UN policy departments 6

  7. UN Comtrade

  8. UN Comtrade

  9. http://data.un.org/ Quick facts 34Databases 216Country/area profiles 6Glossaries 60+Million records Brining Information to the World UNdata partners

  10. Undata usage Visits per month

  11. Undata API SDMX implementation in UNdata • Web Service: http://data.un.org/WS • Web Client: http://data.un.org/SdmxBrowser • 5 Datasets online • International MDG Database • CountryData • UIS database on education, literacy, science, culture, and communication • World Population Prospects • World Development Indicators

  12. Way forward • Upgrade UNdata Web Service – continuous • To support RESTful interface and SDMX 2.1 • Develop Data Structure Definitions for UNdata datasets and implement mappings • Implement SDMX Registry for UNdata • Lead the work on developing DSD for international trade data due end 2014 • Established a UNSD working group to • accommodate the 2008 SNA due end 2014 • accommodate the NA DSDs for SDMX • Dissemination June 2014 • Collection Dec 2014 • Liaise with RC to improve data cooperation

  13. http://unstats.un.org/unsd/nationalaccount/data.asp SNA@un.org

  14. Thank You 14

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