Remarks to the Committee for the Coordination of Statistical Activities Martine Durand Chief Statistician and Director Statistics Directorate Paris 29 September 2016 Commenced operations in 1961 ID: 790065
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The OECD and its Statistics
Remarks
to the Committee for the Co-ordination of Statistical Activities
Martine Durand
Chief Statistician and Director, Statistics Directorate
Paris, 29 September 2016
Slide2Commenced operations in 1961
35 member countries
Promotes policies to improve the economic and social well-being of people around the worldOperates by consensus
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Our Organisation
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Our processes
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Our governance structure
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The Committee on Statistics and Statistical Policy (CSSP)CSSPMembers : DGs of NSOs
Working Party on National Accounts
Working Party on Financial Statistics
Working Party on Trade in Goods and Services
Committee on Financial Markets
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The Statistics Directorate’s “bridge” functions
Statisticians
Policy-makers
CSSP
Other OECD Policy Committees
OECD
Other IOs involved in Statistics
OECD
Partner Countries
Provide evidence and new metrics
Advice, joint work, quality assurance
Co-operate and avoid overlap
Integrate data and build capacity
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The three layers of the Directorate’s workInnovating: New statistical measures and tools
Developing concepts and statistical s
tandards
Core
s
tatistical work
Slide8Key statistical products
Data-sharing
with
other international
organisations
Quality
Reviews of all OECD
datasets
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Core
S
tatistical Work
National Accounts
Economic-Environment Accounts
Productivity
Prices and PPPs
Trade/
TiVA
Business
Composite leading indicators
Entrepreneurship
Households income and wealth and their distribution
Labour/Employment
Gender
Improve
data quality/comparability
Reduce countries
’ reporting
burden
Improve
country
coverage
Slide9Updating methods and concepts for established
statistics
SNA 2008 System of Environmental-Economic Accounts International Programme on Purchasing Power Parities Extended Supply-Use Tables
House and property prices
Labour StatisticsDeveloping Statistical
Guidelines
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Developing concepts
and
standards (I)
Slide10First OECD legal instrument on statistics; adopted in November 2015
Contains 12 specific recommendations to ensure sound, ethical and forward-looking statistical systems and products
Country assessments and report to Council on implementation by end-2018Also for use in Accession Reviews, and in assistance to non-members
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Concepts and standards (
II): the OECD Council Recommendation on Good Statistical Practice
Slide11New concepts and measures for policy-maki
ng
Well-being
Health Inequalities
Green Growth
TiVA
Innovating I: New statistical measures
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Trust
Job
Quality
SMEs and GVCs
GDP
in a
digitalised
economy
Slide12Big/Smart Data for OECD statistics
Nowcasting
(e.g. income distribution; TiVA; subjective well-being)
Web-scraping (e.g. regional house prices)
Geospatial data (e.g. air pollution)
Innovative dissemination tools
Innovating II: New methods and tools
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Slide13Work with
Key Partners
to include their data in OECD databases and policy analysis; help them meet international statistical standardsWork with other non-Members together with other Directorates and partnerships, e.g. on:
Multi-dimensional country reviews (DEV)
Gender for development (DEV)
S
tatistical capacity building (PARIS21)
C
ountry and regional programmes (GRS)
Work with
regional partners to
extend
data on Trade in Value Added (TiVA)
to ‘rest of the world
’
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Global relations
Slide14OECD statistics and the SDGs (I)
28 April 2015: SG
Gurría says:
“The SDGs promise to change the way we look at the world.
OECD expertise…from statistics
to
governance…seems
particularly
useful…Measuring
progress is, after all, part of the OECD's
raison d'être
.”
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Slide15OECD statistics and the SDGs (I
I
)In July we produced a first pilot assessment of OECD countries’ “distance to travel” to reach the 2030 targets.Our SDG follow-up also includes:
issue partner in the UN High Level Group
contributing to the global indicator frameworkhelping UNECE develop a regional SDG Road Map
membership of the Global Partnership on Sustainable Development Data
and many other actions
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Slide16Thank you!16