Relevant decisions of other functional commissions are reported to the Statistical Commission under the various substantive items related to demographic statistics, environment statistics, social and gender statistics.

Periodic review of statistical programmes to ensure their relevance

Design, relevance and positioning

Environmental economic accounting and related statistics are relatively new areas of statistics.

Report of the Director General for Policy Planning (Statistical Standards) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications of Japan on industrial statistics

Unlike the statistics in other areas, the data on sexual violence was not disaggregated by ethnicity.

(c) Developing and improving concepts and methods in gender statistics is essential for the improvement of gender statistics both in quality and quantity.

A number of countries prepared statistical publications and training manuals on gender statistics.

A further relevant statistical activity in this context is the publication at the end of 2005 by the Statistics Division of Progress of the World's Women 2005 Progress in Statistics.

The objective of the workshop was to develop and strengthen the capacity of specialists responsible for the production of statistics and data, with particular emphasis on agriculture and rural development, in order to integrate a gender perspective into the production of statistics.

8.7 The Statistics Division continued to serve as a global centre for the coordination of international statistical activities, including methodological work, technical cooperation, the international collection, standardization, analysis and dissemination of economic, social and related data.

Relevant operational and planned programmes and systems

Descriptive statistics on households (composition, gender of householder etc.)

The National Health Programme 2001 2006 seeks to establish a universal, equitable, solidary, plural, efficient, high quality, forward looking, decentralized, participative and development related health system.

The necessity for coordination extends to the broader context of economic statistics, including industrial and services statistics, as well as national accounts and related statistics.

It's connected to, what I call, the principle of computational equivalence, which tells us that even incredibly simple systems can do computations as sophisticated as anything.

Need for gender statistics

Bilateral and multilateral cooperation in statistics contributes to the professional growth of the statisticians involved and to the improvement of statistics in the organizations and in countries.

Official statistics have started to take notice of the casual job market, in accordance with gender indicators.

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The revisions of the existing international recommendations on industrial statistics, distributive trade and services statistics and related production indexes, being undertaken by the Statistics Division provide a unique opportunity to move towards an integrated approach to economic statistics.

The Statistics Division will continue its efforts to promote the adoption of the principles and related practices.

The vision of the Division is to establish a collective programme with agreed coordination mechanisms encompassing a broad field of economic statistics, including industrial and services statistics, national accounts and related statistics.

The Statistics Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs has specialized expertise in the following areas demographic statistics, national accounts, international trade statistics, social gender statistics, industry statistics, energy statistics, environment statistics and statistical classifications.

(a) Providing substantive servicing to the Commission, the Committee on Poverty Reduction and the Subcommittee on Statistics on issues relevant to statistical information and statistical development

We said, well instead of releasing the full text, we're going to release statistics about the books.

(f) Increasing need for statistics and related research reports and analysis

Statistics Division publications are available in print and on CD ROM, as is the case for commodity production statistics, or in print and online, as is the case for all statistics related to the Monthly Bulletin of Statistics, such as monthly commodity production statistics and monthly and quarterly index numbers of industrial production.

The Government machinery does not routinely collect statistics on sexual harassment at the workplace.

The law requires employers to collect statistical data concerning employment which are based on gender and which allow, if necessary, the relevant institution and the employers themselves to monitor and assess whether the principle of equal treatment is complied with in employment relationships.

(i) Supporting gender statistics units.

The statistics concerning customers of credit institutions by gender are not available.

However, particularly in the area of statistics, the compilation and quantitative and qualitative analysis of statistical information is undertaken with separate resources and seemingly separate objectives although such information is overlapping and not mutually exclusive.

Relevance

The purpose of this review is (a) to examine the current situation and practices in industrial statistics (b) to identify the issues and challenges faced by the international industrial statistical system and (c) to formulate recommendations to improve the current coordination, data collection and dissemination practices for industrial statistics while ensuring international comparability and policy relevance.

With reference to the recent report of the Board of Auditors, the importance of providing statistics disaggregated by gender and age was highlighted.

The work of the Convention on Biological Diversity on traditional biodiversity related knowledge and of the ad hoc open ended Working Group on Article 8 (j) and Related Provisions

On the areas covered by disability statistics, 58.4 per cent have statistics dealing with the prevalence and incidence of disability 72.6 per cent have statistics on the types of disabilities and 55.8 per cent have statistics broken down by gender, age, background, social and economic situation and geographical location.

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

As for secondment, no gender statistics are available, but it can be said that the secondment mechanisms indicate no gender based distinction.

The Committee is also concerned at the lack of a systematic plan to continue training and raising awareness among professional groups working for and with children.

IMIS related issues will be integrated, as appropriate, in the design of new programmes.

The Committee appreciates the relevant statistical information on the composition of the population provided by the State party.

Working systematically on the improvement of the timeliness of international statistics