United Nations Statistical Commission
Overview 51st Session (2020) Documents
- Report on the fifty-first session
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Opening statement
- Mr. Liu Zhenmin, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs
- List of delegations (E/CN.3/2020/INF/1 and E/CN.3/2020/INF/1/Add.1)
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E/CN.3/2020/2
Report of the Inter-Agency and Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goal Indicators
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E/CN.3/2020/3
Report of the Secretary-General on work for the review of progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals
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E/CN.3/2020/4
Report of the High-level Group for Partnership, Coordination and Capacity-Building for Statistics for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
- Financing for data and statistics: enriched national statistical systems to support the 2030 agenda for sustainable development
- Review of Implementation of Data Revolution
- Second Report of the Interlinkages Workstream
Official documents
Background documents
Statements
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E/CN.3/2020/7
Report of the Friends of the Chair Group on Economic Statistics
Official documents
Background documents
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E/CN.3/2020/8
Report of the Intersecretariat Working Group on National Accounts
Official documents
Background documents
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E/CN.3/2020/9
Joint report of the Committee of Experts on Business and Trade Statistics and Inter-Agency Task Force on International Trade Statistics
Official documents
Background documents
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E/CN.3/2020/10
Report of the Intersecretariat Working Group on Price Statistics
Official documents
Background documents
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E/CN.3/2020/11
Report of the World Bank on the International Comparison Programme
Official documents
Statements
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E/CN.3/2020/12
Report of the Committee of Experts on Environmental-Economic Accounting
Official documents
Background documents
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E/CN.3/2020/14
Report of the Secretary-General on implementation of the 2020 World Population and Housing Census Programme and the Methodology for Delineation of Urban and Rural Areas for International Statistical Comparison Purposes
Official documents
Background documents
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E/CN.3/2020/15
Report of the Secretary-General on introduction of the UN Legal Identity Agenda – a Holistic Approach to Civil Registration, Vital Statistics and Identity Management
Official documents
Background documents
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E/CN.3/2020/16
Report of the World Health Organization on health statistics: Strengthening statistical systems to track health related SDGs
Official documents
Background documents
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E/CN.3/2020/17
Report of the Secretary-General on gender statistics
- Expert Group on Innovative and Effective Ways to Collect Time-Use Statistics (TUS): Terms of Reference
- Modernization of the production of time-use statistics: A placemat linking priority components of the conceptual framework
- Policy relevance: Making the case for time-use data collections in support of SDGs monitoring
- Concepts and Definitions
- Towards defining quality for data and statistics on time use
- Modernization of the production of time-use statistics
- Minimum Harmonized Instrument for the collection of time-use data
Official documents
Background documents
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E/CN.3/2020/18
Report of the Expert Group on Refugee and Internally Displaced Persons Statistics
Official documents
Background documents
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E/CN.3/2020/19
Report of the Praia Group on Governance Statistics
- Handbook on Governance Statistics (Draft for Global Consultation)
- Effective governance for sustainable development: putting principles into practice and reviewing outcomes - Arabic
- Effective governance for sustainable development: putting principles into practice and reviewing outcomes - Chinese
- Effective governance for sustainable development: putting principles into practice and reviewing outcomes -English
- Effective governance for sustainable development: putting principles into practice and reviewing outcomes - French
- Effective governance for sustainable development: putting principles into practice and reviewing outcomes - Russian
- Effective governance for sustainable development: putting principles into practice and reviewing outcomes - Spanish
Official documents
Background documents
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E/CN.3/2020/21
Report of the Friends of the Chair Group on the implementation of the Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics
- Supplementary chapter to the Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics Implementation Guidelines
- Supplementing the United Nations Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics: Mapping and Guidance for the United Nations Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics against non-conventional and non-traditional data sources
Official documents
Background documents
Statements
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E/CN.3/2020/22
Report of the Secretary-General on management and modernization of statistical systems
Official documents
Background documents
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E/CN.3/2020/24
Report of the Global Working Group on Big Data for Official Statistics
Official documents
Background documents
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E/CN.3/2020/25
Report of the Expert Group on the Integration of Statistical and Geospatial Information
Official documents
Background documents
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E/CN.3/2020/26
Report of the Working Group on Open Data
Official documents
Background documents
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E/CN.3/2020/27
Report of the Bureau on working methods: Towards more coordinated and coherent structure and functions of groups
- Groups under the Statistical Commission (as of 10 November 2019)
- Reference Framework for Groups under the Statistical Commission
- Groups under the Statistical Commission by pillar and type of groups
- Potential linkages identified by the chairs of groups under the Statistical Commission
- Typology of active Groups under the Statistical Commission, 2019
Official documents
Background documents
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E/CN.3/2020/30
Report of the Secretary-General on short-term economic statistics
Official documents
Background documents
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E/CN.3/2020/33
Report of the Secretary-General on Environment statistics
Official documents
Background documents
- Proposed programme budget for 2020
- [Advance] Supplementary information - Proposed programme budget for 2020
Background documents
Statements
Agenda item 1
Election of officers
Agenda item 2
Adoption of the agenda and other organizational matters
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E/CN.3/2020/1
Provisional agenda and annotations
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E/CN.3/2020/L.1
Provisional programme of work and timetable
Agenda item 3(a)
Items for discussion and decision: Data and indicators for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
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E/CN.3/2020/2
Report of the Inter-Agency and Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goal Indicators
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E/CN.3/2020/3
Report of the Secretary-General on work for the review of progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals
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E/CN.3/2020/4
Report of the High-level Group for Partnership, Coordination and Capacity-Building for Statistics for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Agenda item 3(b)
Items for discussion and decision: Coordination of statistical programmes
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E/CN.3/2020/5
Report of the Committee of the Chief Statisticians of the United Nations System on coordination within the United Nations statistical system
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E/CN.3/2020/6
Report of the Committee for the Coordination of Statistical Activities
Agenda item 3(c)
Items for discussion and decision: Future of economic statistics
Agenda item 3(d)
Items for discussion and decision: National accounts
Agenda item 3(e)
Items for discussion and decision: International trade and business statistics
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E/CN.3/2020/9
Joint report of the Committee of Experts on Business and Trade Statistics and Inter-Agency Task Force on International Trade Statistics
Agenda item 3(f)
Items for discussion and decision: Price indices
Agenda item 3(g)
Items for discussion and decision: International Comparison Programme
Agenda item 3(h)
Items for discussion and decision: Environmental-economic accounting
Agenda item 3(i)
Items for discussion and decision: Agricultural and rural statistics
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E/CN.3/2020/13
Report of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations on new developments in agricultural and rural statistics
Agenda item 3(j)
Items for discussion and decision: Demographic statistics
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E/CN.3/2020/14
Report of the Secretary-General on implementation of the 2020 World Population and Housing Census Programme and the Methodology for Delineation of Urban and Rural Areas for International Statistical Comparison Purposes
Agenda item 3(k)
Items for discussion and decision: Civil registration and vital statistics
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E/CN.3/2020/15
Report of the Secretary-General on introduction of the UN Legal Identity Agenda – a Holistic Approach to Civil Registration, Vital Statistics and Identity Management
Agenda item 3(l)
Items for discussion and decision: Health statistics
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E/CN.3/2020/16
Report of the World Health Organization on health statistics: Strengthening statistical systems to track health related SDGs
Agenda item 3(m)
Items for discussion and decision: Gender statistics
Agenda item 3(n)
Items for discussion and decision: Refugee statistics
Agenda item 3(o)
Items for discussion and decision: Governance, peace and security statistics
Agenda item 3(p)
Items for discussion and decision: Regional statistical development
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E/CN.3/2020/20
Report of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean on cooperation for regional statistical development
Agenda item 3(q)
Items for discussion and decision: Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics
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E/CN.3/2020/21
Report of the Friends of the Chair Group on the implementation of the Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics
Agenda item 3(r)
Items for discussion and decision: Management and modernization of statistical systems
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E/CN.3/2020/22
Report of the Secretary-General on management and modernization of statistical systems
Agenda item 3(s)
Items for discussion and decision: Information and communications technology statistics
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E/CN.3/2020/23
Report of the Partnership on Measuring Information and Communication Technology for Development
Agenda item 3(t)
Items for discussion and decision: Big data
Agenda item 3(u)
Items for discussion and decision: Integration of statistical and geospatial information
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E/CN.3/2020/25
Report of the Expert Group on the Integration of Statistical and Geospatial Information
Agenda item 3(v)
Items for discussion and decision: Open data
Agenda item 3(w)
Items for discussion and decision: Working methods of the Statistical Commission
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E/CN.3/2020/27
Report of the Bureau on working methods: Towards more coordinated and coherent structure and functions of groups
Agenda item 3(x)
Items for discussion and decision: World Statistics Day
Agenda item 4(a)
Items for information: Follow-up to the General Assembly and the Economic and Social Council policy decisions
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E/CN.3/2020/29
Report of the Secretary-General on policy decisions of the General Assembly and the Economic and Social Council that are relevant to the work of the Statistical Commission
Agenda item 4(b)
Items for information: Short-term economic statistics
Agenda item 4(c)
Items for information: Price statistics
Agenda item 4(d)
Items for information: Service statistics
Agenda item 4(e)
Items for information: Environment statistics
Agenda item 4(f)
Items for information: Disability statistics
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E/CN.3/2020/34
Joint report of the Secretary-General, the Washington Group on Disability Statistics and international agencies on disability statistics
Agenda item 4(g)
Items for information: Statistics of human development
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E/CN.3/2020/35
Report of the United Nations Development Programme on the statistics of human development
Agenda item 5
Programme questions (Statistics Division)
Agenda item 6
Provisional agenda and dates for the fifty-second session of the Commission
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E/CN.3/2020/L.2
Draft provisional agenda and documentation for the fifty-second session of the Commission
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E/CN.3/2020/36
Draft multi-year programme of work for the Statistical Commission 2020-2024
Agenda item 7
Report of the Commission on its fifty-first session
Agenda item 3(a)
Items for discussion and decision: Data and indicators for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Agenda item 3(c)
Items for discussion and decision: Future of economic statistics
Agenda item 3(d)
Items for discussion and decision: National accounts
Agenda item 3(e)
Items for discussion and decision: International trade and business statistics
Agenda item 3(f)
Items for discussion and decision: Price indices
Agenda item 3(h)
Items for discussion and decision: Environmental-economic accounting
Agenda item 3(j)
Items for discussion and decision: Demographic statistics
Agenda item 3(k)
Items for discussion and decision: Civil registration and vital statistics
Agenda item 3(l)
Items for discussion and decision: Health statistics
Agenda item 3(m)
Items for discussion and decision: Gender statistics
Agenda item 3(n)
Items for discussion and decision: Refugee statistics
Agenda item 3(o)
Items for discussion and decision: Governance, peace and security statistics
Agenda item 3(q)
Items for discussion and decision: Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics
Agenda item 3(r)
Items for discussion and decision: Management and modernization of statistical systems
Agenda item 3(t)
Items for discussion and decision: Big data
Agenda item 3(u)
Items for discussion and decision: Integration of statistical and geospatial information
Agenda item 3(v)
Items for discussion and decision: Open data
Agenda item 3(w)
Items for discussion and decision: Working methods of the Statistical Commission
Agenda item 4(b)
Items for information: Short-term economic statistics
Agenda item 4(e)
Items for information: Environment statistics
Agenda item 5
Programme questions (Statistics Division)
Agenda item 1
Election of officers
Agenda item 3(a)
Items for discussion and decision: Data and indicators for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Agenda item 3(g)
Items for discussion and decision: International Comparison Programme
Agenda item 3(q)
Items for discussion and decision: Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics
Agenda item 5
Programme questions (Statistics Division)
Agenda item 3(r)
Items for discussion and decision: Management and modernization of statistical systems
- Uzbekistan – Modernization of the National Statistical System of the Republic of Uzbekistan - Еffective Management of a Statistical Organization in Times of Change - English
- Uzbekistan – Modernization of the National Statistical System of the Republic of Uzbekistan - Еffective Management of a Statistical Organization in Times of Change - Russian