Official Documents for the Committee on Statistics, Third Session

Report of the Committee on Statistics on its third session

1. Opening of the session

Annotated provisional agenda
Information for participants
List of Participants
Tentative programme

2. Strategic direction and functioning of the Committee on Statistics

(a) Proposal of the Bureau for future work

Proposed future work of the Committee on Statistics

(b) Review of the functioning of the Committee

Review of the functioning of the Committee on Statistics

(c) Monitoring framework for the work of the Committee on Statistics

A proposed approach to monitoring the work of the Committee on Statistics
Documents for the information of the Committee on Statistics on item 2 of the provisional agenda

3. Regional initiatives

(a) Economic statistics

Report of the Steering Group for the Regional Programme on Economic Statistics
Implementation plan for the Regional Programme for the Improvement of Economic Statistics in Asia and the Pacific

(b) Social statistics

The strategic approach and plan of work of the Technical Advisory Group on Social Statistics
Core set of population and social statistics for Asia and the Pacific

(c) Civil registration and vital statistics

Civil registration and vital statistics: Make every life count
Make every life count: Regional strategic plan for the improvement of civil registration and vital statistics in Asia and the Pacific

(d) Modernization of statistical information systems

Regional cooperation on the modernization of official statistics
Documents for the information of the Committee on Statistics on item 3 of the provisional agenda

4. Global initiatives

(a) Agricultural and rural statistics

Report of the Steering Group for Agricultural Statistics
Asia-Pacific Regional Action Plan to Improve Agricultural and Rural Statistics
Proposed composition of the Regional Steering Committee

(b) Environment statistics

Improvement of Environment Statistics in the Context of Sustainable Development and Green Economy Policy in Asia and the Pacific

(c) Monitoring the development agenda beyond 2015

Advancing the global development agenda beyond 2015: Potential contributions by national statistical systems
Work of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development on measuring well-being and fostering the progress of societies
Documents for the information of the Committee on Statistics on item 4 of the provisional agenda

5. Coordination of statistical capacity-building activities

(a) Statistical training

Report of the Working Group on the Coordination of Statistical Training
Documents for the information of the Committee on Statistics on item 5 of the provisional agenda.

(b) Regional partnership

Summary of the activities of the Partners for Statistics Development in Asia and the Pacific, 2010-2012
Document for the information of the Committee on Statistics on item 5 of the provisional agenda

6. Items for information

(a) International Comparison Programme

(b) Informal sector and informal employment statistics

(c) Gender statistics

(d) Disability statistics

(e) Tourism statistics

(f) Statistics of international trade in services

Documents for the information of the Committee on Statistics on item 6 of the provisional agenda
Documents for the information of the Committee on Statistics on item 6 of the provisional agenda

(g) Labour statistics

(h) Disaster statistics

Document for the information of the Committee on Statistics on item 6 of the provisional agenda

7. Reports brought to the attention of the Committee

(a) Bureau

Report on the activities of the Bureau since the second session of the Committee

(b) Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific

Report of the Governing Council of the Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific on its seventh session
Report of the Governing Council of the Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific on its interim session

8. Consideration of the future focus of the statistics subprogramme of the ESCAP secretariat

Intended outputs of the programme of work for 2014-2015 for the Statistics subprogramme