United Nations Economic Commission for EuropeStatistical DivisionUnited Nations Economic Commission for EuropeStatistical Division

Final Report of the StatCapCA Project

Strengthening the Statistical Capacity of Central Asian Countries to Monitor the Progress toward the Millennium Development Goals

Fifth SPECA PWG MeetingParis 8 June 2010

UNECE Statistical Division

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Main fields of activities

Population and social conditions Health status of the population Economic development especially Non-

Observed Economy

Additionally• Study visits on best practices to the

Conference of European Statisticians

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Partners and cooperation

Close collaboration with • CISSTAT, Interstate Statistical Committee of the

Commonwealth of Independent States • UNESCAP, UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and

the Pacific• UNDESA, UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs• UNSD, UN Statistics Division

Carrying out training activities with • Population censuses: UNFPA, Eurostat and the US Census

Bureau, the Australian Bureau of Statistics and the Italian Statistical Bureau

• Health status statistics: The World Bank, WHO and Eurostat, the Washington Group on Disability Statistics

• Non-Observed Economy: OECD, Eurostat and ILO

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Population and social conditions Training Workshops

• Baku 2006: Management of the Census process• Dushanbe 2007: Census Questionnaire design• Astana 2007: Census Technology• Ashgabat 2007: Census Management and Questionnaire Design

(National Workshop) Advisory Missions

• Bishkek 2008, Dushanbe 2009 Notable progress was achieved The 2010 round of Population and Housing Censuses

prepared to a large extent, according to the CES Census Recommendations

At this stage, the date of the next population Census has not yet been set by Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.

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Measuring the Health Status of the population Training Workshops

• Bishkek 2006: Disability Statistics • Bangkok 2008: UNESCAP Workshop on promoting disability data

collection through the 2010 Population and Housing Censuses The goal to increase capacity in Health Statistics

achieved to a smaller extent• The completely new activity explains the modest results • New statistics demand time and resources and support

Visible results obtained in a pilot study in Kazakhstan Knowledge of concepts and methods acquired Supports the process towards ratifying the UN

Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

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Non-Observed Economy

Training Workshops• Bishkek 2007: International recommendations on NOE• Geneva 2008: NOE in National Accounts

Advisory missions• Dushanbe 2007, Baku 2008

Despite challenges, all countries now estimate NOE on a regular basis and following international standards

• Possibility to improve estimates of gross domestic product (GDP) Countries have implemented new methods and initiated

new surveys Data unreliable in most countries to include estimates of

illegal activities in GDP, except in Turkmenistan Development of the exhaustiveness of National

Accounts continues

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Study visits on best practices in Official statistics

Conference of European Statisticians Paris 2006 Geneva 2007 Paris 2008

Evaluation Meeting of this project, Istanbul 2009 Meetings of the SPECA Project Working Group

back-to-back to the Conference 2006 - Continuation to fund these study visits with the

World Bank 2010 - 2011

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Lessons learned Important to engage in contacts with the beneficiary countries

in early stages of planning • To respond to real needs • Active country participation is fruitful

Piloting new areas in small scale• Disability statistics first piloted by Kazakhstan, others to follow

Where to get resources to implement new recommendations? National conditions need be considered to find the best

practical solutions Technology and practical solutions need to be addressed to

achieve sustainable results Continuous effort to coordinate training offered by different

organizations needed

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Continuation on the short-term

Group of Experts on Population and Housing Censuses in Geneva 7-9 July 2010

All interested in developing indicators of Health Status

• Further work based on the experiences of Kazakhstan?

Workshop planned on Health and Mortality Statistics 2010?

Cooperation with ESCAP in technology for censuses

SPECA PWG at least until 2011Training materials available at:http://www1.unece.org/stat/platform/display/TRAINSTATS