The Environment Statistics Section (ESS) of the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), convened its Tenth meeting of the Expert Group on Statistics during the 3, 4, 6 and 10 October 2024 (https://unstats.un.org/unsd/envstats/fdes/fdes_eges10.cshtml). During this meeting there was a recommendation to create a small group on climate change questions for censuses and surveys which will assist countries to collect and compile data on the Global Set of Climate Change Statistics and Indicators (Global Set) where relevant. The Global Set, following a global consultation in 2021, was adopted at the fifty-third session of the United Nations Statistical Commission in March 2022 as the framework for climate change statistics and indicators to be used by countries when preparing their own sets of climate change statistics and indicators according to their individual concerns, priorities and resources (decision 53/116, Climate Change Statistics, https://unstats.un.org/UNSDWebsite/statcom/session_53/documents/2022-41-FinalReport-E.pdf)
The purpose of the group is multifunctional. In addition to reviewing existing sections and questions from censuses and surveys that are used to collect data for statistics and indicators of the Global Set it will identify new and innovative questions that countries can include in censuses and surveys to collect data for the Global Set at the national level. It will also review and update metadata for the Global Set which require data from censuses and surveys especially those relating to mitigation, adaptation and vulnerability. Eventually, the work of this group will be extended to build a repository of core and non-core questions suitable for censuses and surveys to collect data on climate change issues.
In order to assist countries the ESS with the support of the EGES offers a hub via its website, featuring a compilation of surveys and censuses that can be queried under various themes on the environment and climate. To further support countries in the development/strengthening of Climate Change statistics programmes, the Section has developed supporting tools including the Implementation Guidelines and Climate Change Statistics and Indicators Assessment Tool (CISAT).
With the intention to cross fertilize efforts and leverage expertise, the group recently collaborated with the Inter Secretariat working group on household surveys (ISWHS) group. Initial work among the two groups includes an exchange of the scope, objectives, outputs and links to resources and in this regard a power point presentation was presented by UNSD at the Inaugural Meeting on Revision of the United Nations Handbooks related to Household Surveys in China from 22-24 Jan 2024: https://unstats.un.org/iswghs/EventDetails/inaugural-meeting-handbook-hs-Jan2024 on the work of this small group.
At its 55th session, the Statistical Commission, inter-alia, approved the renaming of the Expert Group on Environment Statistics to the Expert Group on Environment and Climate Change Statistics to cover both topics given their close interrelationship. Further, the Commission encouraged national statistical systems to invest in the development of climate change statistics by enhancing the use of administrative data, designing specialized surveys or other data collection tools, and including climate and environment-related questions in relevant censuses and sample surveys as appropriate. The work of this small group will be presented at the 11th meeting of the Expert Group on Environment and Climate Change Statistics.
Upcoming events
TOPIC - Your Voice Matters: Contributing to the Copenhagen Framework on Citizen Data and its implementation
WHEN - Thursday, 15 February 2024 | 9:00-10:30am EST (REMOTE)
REGISTRATION - To register: link
Here are the new/exciting updates from the Inter-Secretariat Working Group on Household Surveys:
You are invited to join the Asia-Pacific Stats Cafés on Data Governance across Asia and the Pacific for Pacific subregion, to be held on 22 January to 12 February 2024, Register for the event here.
The ESSnet Web Intelligence Network (WIN) project was launched by Eurostat in 2021 and aims to develop and nurture a network of like-minded individuals to have access to the Web Intelligence Hub, where they will be able to explore an array of non-traditional data sources to accelerate the modernisation of the European Statistical System (ESS).
Building on the successful WIN webinar series delivered in 2022-2023, WIN will continue to provide a series of free webinars 2023-2024 open to all to keep the community updated on the work being carried out across the several work strands.
The following webinars are now available to view:
The following webinars are now available to book on Eventbrite:
Measuring the quality of large-scale automated classification systems applied to online job advertisement data, 5 March 2024
For more information or to book your place, visit our Eventbrite page.
For additional information on WIN, please access the project’s work packages, blogs and training pages. They have also published a project overview on the Data Science Campus website. To find out more or to get involved, contact us at ESSnet.project@ons.gov.uk.
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IASS activities include:
The link to the registration page to become a new member is https://www.isiwebshop.org/index.php?view=registration, and the link for renewals is here: https://www.isiwebshop.org/.
See below the ISWGHS September updates by Haoyi Chen
Featured event and registration: Technical meeting on innovative approaches to improve sampling efficiency and coverage in collaboration with ECLAC Statistics Division
Other events: An Overview of Some Methods for Statistical Analysis with Missing Data
An open online session on "Digital Twin", on social survey collection processes to improve design decisions and workforce planning
Qualitative data: Qualitative research with statistically under-represented groups within the Office for National Statistics
Identifying Refugees and IDPs in Household Surveys: An EGRISS Methodological Paper
Training and capacity building Small area estimation:
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On the 14th of September 2023, the African Centre for Statistics (ACS) of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) successfully conducted a StatsTalk-Africa Webinar series, which focused on Machine Learning for Economic Research. The sixth of the monthly webinar series had 148 attendees, with participants noting the timeliness and comprehensiveness of the presentation and expressing the need to tackle similar topics that expound on the uses and application of Machine Learning for economics and other socio-demographic indicators related to Sustainable Development Goals in future webinars. The recording of the webinar can be accessed at https://youtu.be/nK-j5QB955c.
In its continuing commitment to provide a space for dialogues about data, statistics, and innovative tools with data experts and users, the ACS wishes to invite everyone to the next StatsTalk-Africa. Concept notes and relevant materials for the upcoming webinar will be shared in due course.
Want to know more or keep up with the Web Intelligence Hub (WIH)?
Don't hesitate to see the first edition of the Web Intelligence Hub Newsletter, which is an excellent information source about the WIH project.
Global Training on Disaggregated Estimates Using Small Area Estimation Methods in R is now available at https://learning.officialstatistics.org/enrol/index.php?id=103. The training was jointly developed by UNSD, ECLAC Statistics Division and UNFPA. You can register to take the course!
Also, two training handbooks on SAE have been added to the SAE4SDG platform in English and French.
UK Office for National Statistics has released following resources related to survey:
The ESSnet Web Intelligence Network (WIN) project was launched by Eurostat in 2021 and aims to develop and nurture a network of like-minded individuals to have access to the Web Intelligence Hub, where they will be able to explore an array of non-traditional data sources to accelerate the modernisation of the European Statistical System (ESS).
Building on the successful WIN webinar series delivered in 2022-2023, WIN will continue to provide a series of free webinars 2023-2024 open to all to keep the community updated on the work being carried out across the several work strands.
The following webinars are now available to view:
The following webinars are now available to book on Eventbrite:
Measuring Construction Activities using Data from the Web, 5 October 2023
New avenues with Web Intelligence: Gaining additional value from cash register data by combining different data sources, 23 November 2023
The webinar will explore Statistics Sweden’s experiences and the challenges faced when using Consumer Price Index (CPI) production as an illustration. It will emphasise the prospect of increasing the accuracy of measurements in the CPI production process.
For more information or to book your place visit the Eventbrite page.
For additional information on WIN, please access the project’s work packages, blogs and training pages. A project overview on the Data Science Campus website has also been published. To find out more or to get involved, contact at ESSnet.project@ons.gov.uk.
The event will be held through the Microsoft Teams, on Thursday, 6th July 2023, from 11:00 to 12:00hr, Bangkok time (UTC+7).
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