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  • Handbook on Management and Organization of National Statistical Systems
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1 - Introduction
    • 1.1 General Context
    • 1.2 Purpose, users and uses of the Handbook
    • 1.3 Main topics, key concepts, and terminologies
    • 1.4 Features and outline of the Handbook
  • Chapter 2 - Official Statistics - a general overview
    • 2.1 Official statistics
    • 2.2 The international dimension
    • 2.3 Basis of official statistics
    • 2.4 National statistical offices and national statistical systems
    • 2.5 The role of the chief statistician
    • 2.6 Statistical confidentiality
    • 2.7 Who are the users of official statistics?
    • 2.8 Maintaining close relations with users
    • 2.9 Data for official statistics
    • 2.10 Comparing modes of data acquisition
    • 2.11 Time and space dimensions of data
    • 2.12 Sustainable development indicators
    • 2.13 The statistical production processes
    • 2.14 Managing quality
    • 2.15 Disseminating and communicating the statistics
    • 2.16 International statistical cooperation
    • 2.17 The constant challenge of modernizing official statistics
    • 2.18 Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
    • 2.19 Infrastructure and resources
  • Chapter 3 - The Basis of Official Statistics
    • 3.1 Introduction
    • 3.2 UN Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics
    • 3.3 Other principles practices and guidelines
    • 3.4 Legislative frameworks
    • 3.5 Certification and branding of official statistics
  • Chapter 4 - The National Statistical System
    • 4.1 Introduction
    • 4.2 Structure of the national statistical system
    • 4.3 Organization of national statistical systems
    • 4.4 Annual and multi-annual planning and priority setting
    • 4.5 Involving users in the national statistical system
    • 4.6 Coordination of the national statistical system
  • Chapter 5 - National Data Ecosystems and Governance
    • 5.1 Introduction
    • 5.2 Working definitions
    • 5.3 Layers of national data ecosystems
    • 5.4 NSO strategies
    • 5.5 What do these strategies involve in practice?
    • 5.6 What’s in it for me?
    • 5.7 Possible ways forward
  • Chapter 6 - The National Statistical Office
    • 6.1 Introduction
    • 6.2 Characteristics of NSOs
    • 6.3 National statistical office as an organization
    • 6.4 Governance and leadership
    • 6.5 Statistical Business Architecture
    • 6.6 Change management
    • 6.7 Risk management
  • Chapter 7 - Users and their Needs
    • 7.1 Introduction
    • 7.2 Measuring and analysing user satisfaction and needs
    • 7.3 Organizing and setting up contacts
    • 7.4 Needs of Government and administration
    • 7.5 Needs of the Central Bank
    • 7.6 Needs of the public
    • 7.7 Needs of businesses
    • 7.8 Needs of education
    • 7.9 Needs of researchers and academia
    • 7.10 Needs of the media
    • 7.11 Needs of international institutions
    • 7.12 Needs associated with the Sustainable Development Goals
    • 7.13 Needs of other international policy frameworks
    • 7.14 Statistical communication
  • Chapter 8 - Quality Management
    • 8.1 Introduction
    • 8.2 Generic quality management systems and other relevant standards
    • 8.3 Quality assurance frameworks, guidelines, and tools
    • 8.4 National quality assurance frameworks, guidelines, and tools
    • 8.5 Designing and developing a quality management framework
    • 8.6 Evaluation of a statistical process and its outputs
    • 8.7 Quality evaluation and certification of NSOs
    • 8.8 Relationships with other organizational policies, strategies, and frameworks
    • 8.9 Implementing a quality management framework
    • 8.10 Relevance to other producers of official statistics
  • Chapter 9 - Data Sources, Collection and Processing
    • 9.1 Introduction
    • 9.2 Sample surveys and censuses
    • 9.3 Administrative sources
    • 9.4 Geospatial data
    • 9.5 Big Data
  • Chapter 10 - Analysis and Analytical Frameworks
    • 10.1 Introduction
    • 10.2 Supplementing data with analysis
    • 10.3 Methods and systems of analysis
    • 10.4 National accounts
    • 10.5 Balance of Payments
    • 10.6 Environmental accounts
    • 10.7 Labour statistics and labour accounts
    • 10.8 Tourism accounts
    • 10.9 Health accounts
    • 10.10 Gender Statistics
  • Chapter 11 - Dissemination of Official Statistics
    • 11.1 Introduction
    • 11.2 Release schedule
    • 11.3 Data accessibility
    • 11.4 Metadata - providing information on the properties of statistical data
    • 11.5 Types of statistics disseminated
    • 11.6 Dissemination strategy
    • 11.7 Dissemination methods
    • 11.8 Recovering dissemination costs
    • 11.9 Open data movement
    • 11.10 Moving to a modernised distributed digital system
    • 11.11 Statistical literacy
    • 11.12 Skills needed by an NSO for dissemination and communication
  • Chapter 12 - Common Statistical Infrastructure
    • 12.1 Introduction
    • 12.2 Register-based statistics
    • 12.3 Statistical Business Register
    • 12.4 Frames for informal sector surveys
    • 12.5 Statistical farm register and other frame sources for agricultural censuses and surveys
    • 12.6 Household address register
    • 12.7 Household master sample, civil registration and vital statistics and population registers
    • 12.8 Methodological services
    • 12.9 Statistical policies, standards and guidelines
  • Chapter 13 - Human Resources Management and Development
    • 13.1 Introduction
    • 13.2 Workforce (Staff composition) of an NSO
    • 13.3 Human resources (HR) policies
    • 13.4 Recruitment
    • 13.5 Learning and development (training)
    • 13.6 Job rotation
    • 13.7 Staff retention and exit
    • 13.8 Options available for a new chief statistician
    • 13.9 Human resources management: a policy package
  • Chapter 14 - Data, Information and Knowledge Management
    • 14.1 Introduction
    • 14.2 The relationship between data, information, and knowledge
    • 14.3 Managing statistical data and metadata
    • 14.4 Information and knowledge management systems
    • 14.5 Managing archives
    • 14.6 Policy on retention of data and related information
    • 14.7 Skills needed
  • Chapter 15 - Information Technology Management
    • 15.1 Introduction
    • 15.2 Review of changes since last edition and current trends
    • 15.3 IT management models
    • 15.4 Use of standards and generic models in an NSO
    • 15.5 Enterprise architecture
    • 15.6 Basic IT infrastructure needs and skill requirements
    • 15.7 Specialist statistical processing/analytical software
    • 15.8 Questionnaire design tools
    • 15.9 Dissemination tools
    • 15.10 Other current IT issues
  • Chapter 16 - Management of Buildings, Physical Space and Finance
    • 16.1 Managing environmental, mechanical, and electrical needs
    • 16.2 Managing office space
    • 16.3 Building security
    • 16.4 Critical statistical infrastructure protection
    • 16.5 Managing finance
  • Chapter 17 - The International Statistical System (ISS)
    • 17.1 Introduction and definitions
    • 17.2 The United Nations System in the ISS
    • 17.3 United Nations Statistical Commission (UNSC)
    • 17.4 United Nations Secretariat
    • 17.5 Statistical Programmes of UN Funds and Programmes and Other Entities
    • 17.6 Statistical Programmes of UN Specialized Agencies
    • 17.7 Statistical Programmes of Related Organizations
    • 17.8 Statistical Programmes of International Financial Institutions (IFIs)
    • 17.9 Regional and sub-regional organizations
    • 17.10 International non-governmental organizations
    • 17.11 Coordination of International Statistical Activities
    • 17.12 International Statistical Cooperation
    • 17.13 Statistical forums to facilitate international cooperation
    • 17.14 SDGs-related forums that facilitate cooperation
    • 17.15 The NSO and the international statistical system
  • Glossary
  • Annex 1 - The Handbook Series
  • Annex 2a - Illustrative Reading Roadmaps by User
  • Annex 2b - Illustrative Reading Roadmaps by Reading Objectives
  • Annex 3 - Evolution of Usage of Terms in the Handbook Series
  • Annex 4 - Mission - Vision - Values Statements
  • Annex 5 - Why Share Microdata? – A View from ODW
  • Annex 6 - The United Nations System
  • Annex 7 - International Statistical System and Links to Cards
  • Annex 8 - Statistical Applications and Models
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Annex 7 - International Statistical System and Links to Cards

Contents

  • United Nations System – Secretariat (including UN Regional Commissions)
  • United Nations System - Funds / Programmes / Other Entities
  • United Nations System - Specialized Agencies
  • United Nations System - Related Organizations
  • Regional Multilateral Development Banks, Bretton Woods Institutions,and other Financial Organizations
  • Regional and Sub-regional Organizations - Africa
  • Regional and Sub-regional Organizations - Americas
  • Regional and Sub-regional Organizations - Asia and the Pacific (including Arab Region but without Eurasian Organizations)
  • International Partnerships, Foundations and other Non-Governmental Organizations

Annex 7 - International Statistical System and Links to Cards#

Link to all cards: https://unstats.un.org/wiki/display/HSO/Organization+cards

United Nations System – Secretariat (including UN Regional Commissions)#

Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA)

Statistics Division (UNSD) (🔗)

Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA)

United Nations Population Division (UNPD) (🔗)

Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)

African Centre for Statistics (ACS) (🔗)

Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)

Statistical Division (🔗) (🔗)

Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)

Division of Statistics and Economic Projections (🔗)

Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)

Statistics Division (🔗)

Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA)

Statistics Division (🔗)

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)

Human Rights Indicators and Data Unit (🔗)

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

Development Statistics and Information Branch (🔗)

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

SDG and Environment Statistics Unit (🔗)

United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)

Global Urban Observatory Section (🔗)

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

Research and Trend Analysis Branch (🔗)

United Nations System - Funds / Programmes / Other Entities#

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Human Development Report Office (🔗)

United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)

Technical Division (🔗)

United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)

Data and Analytics Section (🔗)

United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women)

Research and Data Section (🔗)

International Trade Centre (ITC)

Trade and Market Intelligence Section (🔗)

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

Field Information and Coordination Section (🔗)

United Nations System - Specialized Agencies#

United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

Office of the chief statistician (🔗)

International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)

Aviation Data and Analysis (🔗)

International Labour Organization (ILO)

Department of Statistics (🔗)

International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

ICT Data and Analytics Division (🔗)

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

Institute for Statistics (🔗)

United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)

Statistics Unit (🔗)

World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)

Statistics Division (🔗)

Universal Postal Union (UPU)

Research and Strategy Programme (🔗)

World Health Organization (WHO)

Department of Health Statistics and Information Systems (🔗)

World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

IP Statistics, Department for Economics and Data Analytics (🔗)

World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

Data Management Applications (🔗)

United Nations System - Related Organizations#

International Organization for Migration (IOM)

Global Migration Data Analysis Centre (🔗)

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

Planning and Economic Studies Section (🔗)

World Trade Organization (WTO)

Economic Research and Statistics Division (🔗)

Regional Multilateral Development Banks, Bretton Woods Institutions,and other Financial Organizations#

World Bank (WB)

Development Data Group (🔗)

African Development Bank (AfDB)

Statistics Department (🔗)

Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Statistics and Data Innovation Unit (🔗)

Caribbean Development Bank (CDB)

Economics Department (🔗)

Inter-American Development Bank (IaDB)

Statistics Group, Institutional Capacity of the State Division (🔗)

Islamic Development Bank (IsDB)

Economic Policy and Statistics Department (🔗)

European Central Bank (ECB)

Statistics Directorate (🔗)

Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB)

Statistics Department (🔗)

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Statistics Department (🔗)

Bank for International Settlements (BIS)

Statistics and Research Support (🔗)

Regional and Sub-regional Organizations - Africa#

African Union Commission (AUC)

Statistics Division (AUSTAT)

Economic and Statistical Observatory of Sub-Saharan Africa (AFRISAT)
Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA)

Statistics Division (🔗)

East African Community (EAC)

Planning (🔗)

Economic Committee of Central African States (ECCAS)

Statistics and Economic Forecasts Directorate (🔗)

Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)

Statistics Division (🔗)

Intergovernmental Authority on Development in Eastern Africa (IGAD)

Statistics Unit at Planning, Coordination and Partnership Division (🔗)

Southern African Development Community (SADC)

Statistics Division (🔗)

Regional and Sub-regional Organizations - Americas#

Andean Community (CAN)

Statistical Unit (🔗)

Caribbean Community (CARICOM)

Regional Statistics (🔗)

Southern Common Market (Mercosur) (🔗)
Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS)

Statistical Services Unit (🔗)

Central American Integration System (SICA)

Statistical Commission (CENTROESTAD)

Regional and Sub-regional Organizations - Asia and the Pacific (including Arab Region but without Eurasian Organizations)#

Arab Institute for Training and Research in Statistics (AITRS)
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)

ASEANstats

Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO)

Project & Economic Research & Statistics (🔗)

Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)

Statistical Centre (GCC-Stat)

Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)

Statistical, Economic and Social Research and Training Centre for Islamic Countries (SESRIC) / Statistics and Information Department (🔗)

United Nations Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific (SIAP-ESCAP)
Pacific Community (SPC)

Statistics for Development Division (🔗)

Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)

Interstate Statistical Committee (CISSTAT)

Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC)

Statistics Department (🔗)

European Free Trade Association (EFTA)

Statistical Office (🔗)

Statistical Office of the European Union (Eurostat)
Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Statistics Directorate (🔗)

International Partnerships, Foundations and other Non-Governmental Organizations#

Partnership in Statistics for Development in the 21st Century (PARIS21 Secretariat) (🔗)
Open Data Watch (ODW)
Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data (GPSDD)
Sustainable Development Solutions Network, (SDSN)

Thematic Research Network on Data and Statistics (TReNDS)

Data2X
Development Initiatives (DI)
Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN)
International Statistical Institute (ISI)
International Association for Official Statistics (IAOS)
International Association for Research in Income and Wealth (IARIW)
Inter-American Statistical Institute (IASI)

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Contents
  • United Nations System – Secretariat (including UN Regional Commissions)
  • United Nations System - Funds / Programmes / Other Entities
  • United Nations System - Specialized Agencies
  • United Nations System - Related Organizations
  • Regional Multilateral Development Banks, Bretton Woods Institutions,and other Financial Organizations
  • Regional and Sub-regional Organizations - Africa
  • Regional and Sub-regional Organizations - Americas
  • Regional and Sub-regional Organizations - Asia and the Pacific (including Arab Region but without Eurasian Organizations)
  • International Partnerships, Foundations and other Non-Governmental Organizations

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