About the session:

To respond to evolving demands for timely statistics, national statistical agencies are now stepping out of their comfort zone, aiming to discover new modalities, and exploring all potential data sources.

Data integration pulls together data from different traditional sources such as censuses, surveys, and administrative data, as well as new sources of data. It can provide more frequent, timely and disaggregated statistics, at lower cost; compared to traditional approaches. While this is promising, there are challenges on the way, including access to data, quality, interoperability, privacy and confidentiality, and limited technical capacity.

This Stats Café brings together expert panelists with relevant experience, providing perspectives on different dimensions of data integration.

Agenda

• Welcome: Gemma Van Halderen
• UNECE’s work on Data Integration: A Journey to “Where?”, Steve Vale
• Data integration - a new statistical frontier for official statistics, Siu-Ming Tam
• Integrated Sector Accounts of Turkey, Aycan S. Özek
• Q/A and discussions: Moderated by Afsaneh Yazdani

Chair: Gemma Van Halderen, Director, Statistics Division, ESCAP

Speakers:

• Steve Vale, Regional Adviser in Statistics, UNECE

• Siu-Ming Tam, Honorary Professorial Fellow, University of Wollongong

• Aycan Sultan Özek, Head expert, Financial Reporting Department, CBRT

Q/A moderator: Afsaneh Yazdani, Statistician, Statistics Division, ESCAP

Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2020

Time: 13:00-14:00 hrs. (Bangkok Time)

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