The role of international organizations in statistical standards setting and outreach: An overview of the UNCTAD contribution

Peltola, Anu; Barnat, Nour; Chernova, É. A.; Cristallo, David; Hoffmeister, Onno; MacFeely, Steve

doi:10.3233/sji-210894

Cited by 4 publications

(3 citation statements)

References 8 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…In fact the UN is arguably the only organization that has the global legitimacy to undertake this work. This stems from the UN's ability to convene experts, and through impartial mediation, facilitate debate and discussion, so that a consensus can be reached [36]. The UN can bring together, not only the member states of the world together, but also businesses, civil society, academia and other international organizations to advance a GDC that will support sustainable development for a better future for people and the planet.…”

Section: Challenges Aheadmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards an international data governance framework

MacFeely

et al. 2022

SJI

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

And also requiring the use of evermore bizarre terminology to describe the volumes of data is existence. Megabytes (remember them?) quickly gave way to gigabytes, which in turn surrendered to terabytes, petabytes, exabytes, zettabytes and yottabytes. A yottabyte is 10 24 bytes i.e. 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes. Future dictionaries will include hellabytes (apparently derived from having 'a hell of a lot of bytes' [3], brontobytes and geopbytes.

show abstract

Section: Challenges Aheadmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards an international data governance framework

MacFeely

et al. 2022

SJI

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…They are both descriptive and only constitute guidance in the sense that they provide the components and a general structure within which individual country (NQAFs) -or agency (SQAFs) -specific can be developed. However, the quality principles contained in SQAF and NQAF have a prescriptive nature through the link to their respective governing principles, namely the Principles Governing International Statistical Activities 2 and the Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics [5].…”

Section: Building On Nqaf 2012mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Twenty-three of the 29 CCS-UN members responded (a response rate of 79 percent). An additional 8 institutions that are members of the wider Committee for the Coordination of Statistical Activities (CCSA) 5 also responded, although it should be noted that the SQAF was designed for UN agencies rather than international organisations more broadly.…”

Section: Adoption and Implementationmentioning

confidence: 99%

A statistical quality assurance framework for the United Nations

Reister

MacFeely

et al. 2022

SJI

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Standards as the backbone for official statistics, how well do they fit within national and international systems?12 or Does the obsession with cross-national comparisons blind us to the weakly implemented standards behind them?

Everaers¹

2022

SJI

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Standards, guidelines, and recommendations3 in statistics are undoubtedly important building blocks of modern global official statistics. They are main achievements of the harmonization work of the global community of official statisticians and are the backbone of the system, essential for maintaining high quality by using well-developed and documented methodologies and procedures, and for facilitating cross-national and cross-regional comparison of scores on indicators and trends. However, beyond such positive assessed achievements, the development, implementation, and use of ‘standards’ can also be characterized by a variety of negatively assessed characteristics. For example, in the development of standards, not every situation of a country or region can be or is sufficiently weighted or involved, countries and regions lack resources for full implementation, and the use of the standards according to the ‘required operational level’ is insufficient or the ‘standards’ do not fit the socio-economic, cultural, or political situation in a country resulting in a non-valid picture and unfit for use in policymaking. Therefore, though the ‘standards’ are the backbone of modern official statistics it is valid to question if the frequent use of cross-national comparisons unequally dismisses the cultural specificities of a country or region. It is also relevant to ask if the standards that are used to produce the indicators for cross-national comparisons are sufficiently implemented to allow for valid comparisons. And in general, one might question if there is a misfit between the emphasis on and practice of cross-national comparisons by international organizations and the attention to the level and awareness of the implementation of the standards used to produce the indicators on the country level.

show abstract

The role of international organizations in statistical standards setting and outreach: An overview of the UNCTAD contribution

Cited by 4 publications

References 8 publications

Towards an international data governance framework

Towards an international data governance framework

A statistical quality assurance framework for the United Nations

Standards as the backbone for official statistics, how well do they fit within national and international systems?12 or Does the obsession with cross-national comparisons blind us to the weakly implemented standards behind them?

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About