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United Nations Economic Commission for EuropeStatistical DivisionUnited Nations Economic Commission for EuropeStatistical Division
Data collection and themodernisation of official statistics
Steven ValeUNECE
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Contents
Introducing UNECE Modernisation and the High-level Group How does data collection fit in?
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Introducing UNECE Statistics
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Conference of European Statisticians
• Gathering of chief statisticians since 1947
Open to all 193 UN member countries
And international organisations
• Eurostat, OECD, IMF, World Bank, ILO etc.
Bureau – Chief Statisticians of Canada (chair), Austria, Finland, Turkey, UK, Ukraine, Australia and Mexico
How do we work?
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UNECE Statistics: Priorities
Population censuses, migration, Millennium Development Goals
Globalisation, National Accounts, employment, business registers
Sustainable development, environmental accounts, climate change
Modernisation
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Why is modernisation important?
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In the last 2 years more information was created than in the whole of the rest of human history!
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Making sense of the Data Deluge
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Statistics fights back!
High Level Group for the Modernisation of Statistical Production and Services (HLG)• Created by the Conference of European
Statisticians in 2010• 10 heads of national and international statistical
organisations
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The Challenges
Increasing cost & difficulty of
acquiring dataNew competitors &
changing expectations
Rapid changes in the environment
Competition for skilled
resources
Reducing budget
Riding the big data wave
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These challenges are too big for statistical organisations to
tackle on their own
We need to work together
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HLG Vision
Stay relevant by producing new and better products and services more tuned to the way the world operates today
Improved processes and methods to deliver products at minimal cost, with greater flexibility
Cooperation between organisations to improve efficiency and effectiveness
Establish a culture for change Statisticians with new skills and knowledge
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HLG strategy for modernisation Transform vision to reality New sources and products Streamlined processes Managing organisational change to support
modernisation and collaboration
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HLG strategy for modernisation Transform vision to reality New sources and products Streamlined processes Managing organisational change to support
modernisation and collaboration
Conference of European Statisticians, June 2012
Endorsed
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How the HLG works
Meeting / teleconference every 3-4 months Annual reports to Conference of European
Statisticians Annual workshops with around 30 expert groups
• Review progress• Agree priorities
Time-boxed projects• “Agile” methodology – “sprint” sessions, virtual task
teams, wikis, web conferences
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Impact on data collection
New sources• Admin data, Big Data, mixed sources
New methods• Web scraping, data mining, data integration
New modes• Web collection, mixed mode
New tools
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Governance:
A new structure to focus on delivering change
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Get involved!
Anyone is welcome to contribute!
More Information• HLG Wiki:
http://www1.unece.org/stat/platform/display/hlgbas
•LinkedIn group “Business architecture in statistics”