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REPORT OF THE OCTOBER 2002 UNECE WORK SESSION ON STATISTICAL OUTPUT FOR DISSEMINATION TO INFORMATION MEDIA : NOTE / PREPARED BY THE SECRETARIAT

Currently the Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO) relies upon traditional survey methods and index calculation methods (Jevons). (...) These include methods like direct price comparison; overlap; overlap mean imputation; class mean imputation and the matched models method. 15. (...) An attempt to overcome the problems of seasonality is by introducing annual and rolling year approaches. These methods have several advantages: they can be computed bases on a fixed basket if the products reappear in parallel months ECE/CES/GE.22/2010/2 8 GE.10-23544 each year; they can be executed using data usually at the disposal of the national statistical institutes; can use Fisher indices that reduce substitution bias of Laspeyres or Paasche indices; offer an objective and reproducible method for seasonally adjusted indices; are usually smoothed indices compared to the erratic month to month indices.

ECE/CES/SEM.54/6 (Summary) page 3 Application Teams Timantti Populus Paikkatiedot Eos Hipa Topso Yrtit Esikot Yrek Administrative Services IT- Methods Computers, Networks and Workstation Support 2 + 23 + 26=51 24 15 5 23 26 Information Technology and Statistical Methods (1998-2005) 1+128 Classification and Metadata Services 10 Statistical Methods 14 Prices and Wages Economic Statistics Business Trends Business Structures Population Statistics Social Statistics 9 Programming Support Figure 1: The organisation of IT-unit 1998-2005 Server, Network and Workstation Support 20 Administration 7 Information Technology and Statistical Methods 2006 - 1+127 Classification and Metadata Services 9 Statistical Research and Development 13 12 Data Collection 10 Data Dissemination 20+16 Statistical Information Systems 10 Project and System Development Support 10 Software Engineering Support Figure 2: The organisation of IT-unit 2006 - -------

E. Methods of work 10. The Steering Group will primarily work via email, wiki workspace and telephone conferences. (...) There is an urgent need to analyse the risks of data exchange and find the most efficient way to enable the necessary sharing of economic data (including information on business structures) in statistical production. 4. The Guide to Measuring Global Production, developed jointly by UNECE, Eurostat and OECD, identifies as a priority the need to develop new methods and sources for collecting and compiling statistics on the largest and most complex MNEs in a consistent and effective way. (...) This will include an analysis of the extent to which, and reasons why, these definitions differ from the CES Census Recommendations; (b) Review of the methods used by national statistical offices in measuring characteristics of institutional populations of older persons, including approaches to identification and sampling, access, and use of proxy respondents; (c) Description of good practices in measuring institutional populations of older persons by integrating them into samples and by treating them separately; (d) Experimental studies to assess the bias resulting from omission of institutional populations in estimates of socio-economic and health characteristics of older people; (e) Formulation of recommendations in the above areas. 10.

Although various quality adjustment methods are used, the ECE/CES/GE.22/2008/2 page 5 Annex method of overlapping pricing is considered as the best. (...) The statistical editing system is based on the Hidiroglou-Berthelot (HB) method and consists of two parts: Firstly, the HB method, where the potential errors are identified. (...) Kadi Aicha, Office National des Statistiques, Algérie. Method for price collection in the field. David Ghislain Dongmo Kemkeng, National Statistical Institute, Cameroon.

REPORT OF THE GROUP OF EXPERTS : ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR EUROPE, STATISTICAL COMMISSION, CONFERENCE OF EUROPEAN STATISTICIANS, GROUP OF EXPERTS ON CONSUMER PRICE INDICES, 8TH MEETING, GENEVA, 10-12 MAY 2006

The Steering Group has the following objectives: (a) Coordinate the CES work in the area of measuring quality of employment and guide the work of the Secretariat in this area; (b) Promote the Handbook on Measuring Quality of Employment, follow-up on the implementation of the recommendations of the Handbook and collect further feedback from countries on the use of the Handbook; (c) Review the list of indicators and context information based on country feedback and developments in methods and data sources and, where necessary, update the statistical framework to ensure its continued relevance and practical usability; (d) Follow-up on the research agenda from the Handbook: identify priority areas for further work and research to support countries in measuring quality of employment; (e) Organise biennial expert group meetings on measuring quality of employment to follow up on the research agenda and the implementation of the statistical framework; (f) Facilitate the sharing of experiences, methods, statistical techniques and other resources related to measuring quality of employment, e.g. trough wikis; (g) Ensure coordination and cooperation with other international organisations working in this area, in particular Eurostat, ILO and OECD. (...) V. Methods of work 8. The Steering Group will primarily work via email and audio conferences. (...) While many countries measure different aspects of social exclusion, very few surveys or statistical methods are specifically designed for this.

Clements Treatment of seasonal fresh fruit and vegetables in CPI ILO - Ralph Turvey What is the question? UNITED NATIONS Statistical Office Selected problems in CPI computations Central Statistical Office of POLAND Methods of correction computations of CPI in Poland INSEE France - A. (...) SWEDEN - Jörgen Dalén Revising the calculation methods for basic aggregates in the Swedish CPI Stat. (...) Barret Evaluation des micro-données et de l'IPC - cas des lave-vaisselle et des télévisions Federal Statistical Office of YUGOSLAVIA - Vidosava Lukic Review of food balance sheets in Yugoslavia Statistics Bureau of JAPAN - Masato Okamoto Study of variations of midpoint-year basket indices Statistics Bureau of JAPAN - Masato Okamoto Application of midpoint-period method to compilation of hedonic indices from scanner data 2001 Central Statistical Office POLAND - Teresa Smi'owska Introducing qualitative components into price surveys ECE/CES/GE.22/2008/6 page 18 National Statistical Office GREECE (not translated) - J.I.

The meeting considered different security solutions used by statistical organizations. One of the frequently used methods is the Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). (...) Coordination of the statistical office’s data collection activities with these programmes can help to achieve the acceptance of EDR methods among respondents. (...) EDR pushes statistical institutions to more centralized and uniform data collection methods.

REPORT PROVIDING INFORMATION ON THE STATUS OF OUTPUTS AND SERVICES CONTAINED IN THE WORK PROGRAMME OF UN STATISTICAL DIVISION FOR THE BIENNIUM 1992-1993