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Strengthening gender statistics and indicators in Asia and the Pacific : a key foundation for the sustainable development agenda beyond 2015
(United Nations, 2014)
This Stats Brief outlines the need to enhance commitments and investments to strengthen gender statistics and indicators in the Asia-Pacific region in order to facilitate monitoring of the Sustainable Development Goals and ...
Population registers : a key resource for producing vital statistics
(United Nations, 2014)
Technological advances have increased the potential uses of population registers for producing statistics. At the same time, greater demand for timely and disaggregated data amplifies interest in population registers as a ...
Broken down by age and sex : why reliable and timely population statistics are more important than ever
(United Nations, 2014)
The current pandemic has highlighted the acute need for reliable and timely population statistics. This brief lays out the importance of sex and age disaggregated population data for addressing the Covid-19 crisis. Available ...
Data revolution : harnessing the power of statistics
(United Nations, 2014)
Modern societies are characterized by high-tech computers, the Internet and huge amounts of data generated by the digital footprint of modern lives. Despite all this data the world learned a very obvious but valuable lesson ...
Understanding poverty and poverty data in Indonesia
(United Nations, 2014)
The commitment and efforts of the government to reduce the scale of poverty are very strong. This can be shown by the many development programs to alleviate poverty. However, the decrease in the poverty rate remains very ...
Ocean accounts : the icing on the cake
(United Nations, 2014)
Environmental-Economic Accounts are increasingly a mainstream tool for measuring the condition of the environment, the contribution of the environment to the economy and the impact of the economy on the environment. Water ...
Big data = big ideas : Asia and the Pacific statistical community share their experiences in Malaysia at the 62nd International Statistics Institute World Statistics Congress
(United Nations, 2014)
The brief provides a summary of contributions from Thailand, Nepal, the Philippines, China and Australia, in collaboration
with partners, during a <a href="https://www.isi2019.org/symposium-on-data-science-and-official ...
Average growth rate : computation methods
(United Nations, 2015)
This issue of Stats Brief will aim to introduce some of the most common methods to compute average growth rates for time series data, and illustrate the impact of applying different methods for calculating average annual ...
Taking stock of capacity for producing economic statistics in Asia and the Pacific : capacity screening 2017
(United Nations, 2014)
With the adoption of Agenda 2030, countries in the region are facing increasing demands for producing and disseminating statistics for monitoring the Sustainable Development Goals. Related demands are heavy on economic ...
Post-2015 sustainable development agenda : challenges and opportunities for statistical development
(United Nations, 2014)
An official statistician reading the proposal of the Open Working Group (OWG) for Sustainable Development Goals might have two simultaneous reactions: doubt and excitement. The proposal that the UN General Assembly’s ...