National statistical offices could benefit from the establishment and retention of gender statistics units.

The State Statistical Office is a producer of official statistics in the Republic of Macedonia.

It also cooperated with national, regional and international bodies on statistical matters.

The Division and other partner agencies fund the participation of national statisticians from developing countries to the regular meetings of the Group.

Its recommendations address both the national statistical agencies and international organizations.

This component also includes technical cooperation activities to build the capabilities of national statistical offices in industrial statistics.

Recommendations for national statistical agencies

Clearly, reporting mechanisms between national statistical systems and international agencies need to be improved, including much better coordination within national statistical systems than that which currently pertains.

Furthermore, the establishment, on a national or regional basis, of accreditation certification systems and national measurement institutions will ensure harmonization with international metrology systems and market surveillance institutions.

User involvement could be beneficial to national statistical offices in gathering support for collecting statistics in new areas.

Furthermore, the establishment, on a national or regional basis, of accreditation and or certification systems, and national measurement institutions will ensure harmonization with international metrology systems, and with market surveillance institutions.

DESCRIPTION OF THE AGENCY OR AGENCIES RESPONSIBLE FOR DATA COLLECTION 3. Does the country have any national public agency with the task of compiling and preparing statistics?

Furthermore, improvements are needed to the modalities that the international agencies use to consult with national statistical systems to verify estimated figures.

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1. Meeting statistics of United Nations organs

We are systematically passing on our information to those national and international bodies.

The Inter Agency and Expert Group on Millennium Development Goal Indicators coordinates the efforts of United Nations entities and national statistical services, as well as regional and international statistical bodies from outside the United Nations system.

In order to develop internationally comparable industrial statistics, national statistical agencies need

1. Does the country have statistics on crimes reported or detected by law enforcement agencies?

The national statistical offices responsible for industrial statistics look for advice and guidance from the Statistical Commission for the development and organization of their statistical system.

To make this distinction, an algorithm was developed by the Statistics Division based on whether an international agency considered a country policy relevant for its statistical work or not.

The Division has contributed to improvement in the quality of statistics and estimates and, through a more dynamic collaboration with national statistical offices and other local institutions, to refining and implementing statistical methodologies.

(b) Does this agency prepare its own statistics or does it collect statistics prepared by other agencies?

Only 28 per cent of the IPAs in developing countries have computerized systems with access to electronic databases abroad, while 53 per cent of the IPAs from developed countries do.

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It is a fact that the decision making bodies of the United Nations have not taken the shortcomings presented by statistical experts seriously enough.

At this initial stage, the Division will assist the International Household Survey Network in creating a database on household surveys that the international agencies plan to conduct.

(b) To formulate, on the basis of the assessment, specific recommendations for the rehabilitation of the various national bodies entrusted with the responsibility of producing statistical data, namely the National Statistical Office, the Central Bank of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the National Institute for Economic and Social Research.

Experience in international remuneration comparisons and or high level policy making positions in a national statistical office

Also, the following issues were recognized as the basis for good practices in statistics the coordination of data requests needs to be improved IT needs to be strengthened to improve transparency and to enhance communication international agencies should rely more heavily on official statistics produced by national statistical offices for their data needs and coordination by donors, bilateral and United Nations agencies in countries should be improved.

(a) National systems of innovation, science and technology institutions.

(ii) If the agency compiles statistics produced by other agencies

The State agencies have few statistics on this topic, and those which are available do not treat the variables by sex.

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(v) Ad hoc expert group meetings on environment statistics (1) inter agency and expert meeting on Millennium Development Goals indicators and development statistics (1) international migration statistics (1) international economic and social classifications (1) national accounts (1) poverty measurement social statistics (1) trade statistics (1) expert group meeting on population and housing censuses (1)

Innovative partnerships are also needed among national mechanisms for gender equality, other government bodies, including national statistical offices, the women's movement, the private sector, and regional and international organizations.

Therefore, it is recommended that international agencies strengthen their efforts and coordination in rendering technical assistance to developing countries in the area of economic statistics, including industrial statistics.

The industrial statistics component is intended to increase the use of industrial statistics in monitoring and analysing global and national industrial performances and trends by governments, the private sector and knowledge institutions, and to improve the capabilities in industrial statistics of national statistical offices.

However, many countries lack the resource base necessary to conduct regular industrial enquiries on short term indicators and structural business statistics, which limits the number of countries reporting industrial statistics to international agencies.

All Commonwealth agencies were audited by the Australian National Audit Office.

23. Several States indicated that national statistical agencies draw data from judicial proceedings, police reports and other sources, both official and unofficial.

Moreover, the agencies of the system continue to raise issues concerning their participation in the design and implementation of nationally executed projects.

. Austria has reported that its police agencies collect criminal statistics as the basis for a national security report.

UNIDO's regular contribution to the international statistical community in the development and promotion of international standards through the Organization's participation in meetings on inter agency coordination in statistics, statistical metadata development, data quality assurance of multinational databases and promotion of international standard practice among national statistical organizations held under the auspices of the United Nations Statistical Commission.