Report of the Statistical Commission on Its 49th Session and Provisional Agenda and Dates for Its 50th Session

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A Decision of the Economic and Social Council, under agenda item 18c Statistics, published in 2018.

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3 versions · 2016–2018

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2018	E/DEC/2018/227	Report of the Statistical Commission on its 49th session and provisional agenda and dates for its 50th session	703	57%Compare
2017	E/DEC/2017/228	Report of the Statistical Commission on its 48th session and provisional agenda and dates for its 49th session	703	57%Compare
2016	E/DEC/2016/220	Report of the Statistical Commission on its 47th session and provisional agenda and dates for its 48th session	658	–

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At its 34th plenary meeting, on 12 June 2018, the Economic and Social Council:

(a) Took note of the report of the Statistical Commission on its forty-ninth session;22

(b) Decided that the fiftieth session of the Commission would be held in New York from 5 to 8 March 2019;

21 See E/2018/52.

22 Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2018, Supplement No. 4 (E/2018/24).

Election of officers.

Adoption of the agenda and other organizational matters.

Documentation

Provisional agenda and annotations

Note by the Secretariat on the provisional programme of work and timetable for the session

Demographic and social statistics:

Demographic statistics;

Documentation

Report of the Secretary-General

Human settlements statistics;

Documentation

Report of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme

Health statistics;

Documentation

Report of the World Health Organization

Crime statistics;

Documentation

Report of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

International migration statistics;

Documentation

Report of the Secretary-General

Education statistics;

Documentation

Report of the Institute for Statistics of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

Civil registration and vital statistics;

Documentation

Report of the Secretary-General

Statistics on drugs and drug use.

Documentation

Joint report of Mexico and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

Economic statistics:

National accounts;

Documentation

Report of the Intersecretariat Working Group on National Accounts

Industrial statistics;

Documentation

Report of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization

Business registers;

Documentation

Report of the Wiesbaden Group on Business Registers

International trade and economic globalization statistics;

Documentation

Report of the Expert Group on International Trade and Economic Globalization Statistics

Finance statistics;

Documentation

Report of the International Monetary Fund

International Comparison Programme;

Documentation

Report of the World Bank

Price statistics.

Documentation

Report of the Ottawa Group on Price Indices

Report of the Intersecretariat Working Group on Price Statistics

Natural resources and environment statistics:

Environmental-economic accounting;

Documentation

Report of the Committee of Experts on Environmental-Economic Accounting

Agricultural and rural statistics;

Documentation

Report of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Disaster-related statistics.

Documentation

Joint report of the Secretary-General, the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, the Economic Commission for Europe and the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction

Activities not classified by field:

Coordination of statistical programmes;

Documentation

Report of the Committee for the Coordination of Statistical Activities

Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics;

Documentation

Report of the Friends of the Chair group

Common open standards for the exchange and sharing of data and metadata;

Documentation

Report of the Statistical Data and Metadata Exchange sponsors

Statistical capacity-building;

Documentation

Report of the Secretary-General

Data and indicators for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development;

Documentation

Report of the Inter-Agency and Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goal Indicators

Report of the High-level Group for Partnership, Coordination and Capacity-Building for Statistics for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

Report of the Secretary-General on the work for the review of progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals

Follow-up to the policy decisions of the General Assembly and the Economic and Social Council;

Documentation

Report of the Secretary-General

National quality assurance frameworks;

Documentation

Report of the Secretary-General

Integration of statistical and geospatial information;

Documentation

Report of the Expert Group on the Integration of Statistical and Geospatial Information

Big data;

Documentation

Report of the Global Working Group on Big Data for Official Statistics

Regional statistical development;

Documentation

Report of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific

Open data;

Documentation

Report of the Friends of the Chair group on the Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics

Working methods of the Statistical Commission.

Documentation

Report of the Bureau

Programme questions (Statistics Division).

Provisional agenda and dates for the fifty-first session of the Commission.

Documentation

Note by the Secretariat containing the draft provisional agenda for the fifty-first session of the Commission

Note by the Secretariat on the draft multi-year programme of work of the Commission

Report of the Commission on its fiftieth session.

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