Ensuring that the Work in the Field of Statistics and Data Is Adaptive to the Changing Statistical and Data Ecosystem

E/RES/2022/3View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the Economic and Social Council, under agenda item 18c Statistics, published in 2022.

Who cites this mandate in the budget?

5 entities

(Sub-)Programme	Title	Total mandates cited
Subprogramme 4	Statistics	21
Subprogramme 3	Statistics	19
Programme 18	Economic and social development in latin america and the caribbean	234
Subprogramme 7	Statistics	18
Programme 10	Trade and development	74

Historical expenditure covers the complete programme or subprogramme, not this mandate. For an overview of all UN entities and programmes, see UN entities and programmes.

Who cites this mandate in the budget?

5 entities

(Sub-)Programme	Title	Total mandates cited	Expenditure
Subprogramme 4	Statistics	21	—
Subprogramme 3	Statistics	19	—
Programme 18	Economic and social development in latin america and the caribbean	234	—
Subprogramme 7	Statistics	18	—
Programme 10	Trade and development	74	—

Historical expenditure covers the complete programme or subprogramme, not this mandate. For an overview of all UN entities and programmes, see UN entities and programmes.

What subjects does this mandate have?

3 subjects

Statistical Services Statistics Technical Cooperation

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13 operative paragraphs

Reaffirms the Statistical Commission as the primary body for the coordination of the global statistical programmes in general and of the United Nations statistical and data-related system;

Recognizes the achievements of the Statistical Commission, and supports its current and future work, in promoting the development of the national and international statistical and data systems by means of adopting international statistical standards and the frameworks for monitoring social, economic and environmental progress;

Calls upon the United Nations statistical and data-related system to report on work on statistics and data within all domains to the Statistical Commission, to enable the Commission to fulfil its function as the primary body responsible for the management of statistical information and governance of statistics and data;

Calls upon Member States and the specialized agencies, funds and programmes, the regional economic commissions of the United Nations system and other relevant programmes of the Secretariat to observe and uphold the Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics;²

²General Assembly resolution 68/261.

Emphasizes the importance for Member States to build resilient, agile, relevant, responsive and robust statistical and data systems adhering to the Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics that fully integrate geospatial information and to seek improved coordination across national statistical and data systems through an expanded role of the national statistical offices in the changing data landscape, where they are increasingly assigned data stewardship responsibilities in the national statistical and data systems;

Also emphasizes the need for technological innovations to systematically modernize statistical offices and national statistical and data systems in response to the wide range of statistical and data sources, including, for example, administrative records, geospatial information, privately held data, and other data sets generated through new tools that can be integrated, after quality assurance, to produce statistics;

Further emphasizes the need to promote practices for the generation of information aligned with principles that ensure coherence, comparability, including comparability across time and space, data privacy and confidentiality, while balancing privacy, protection of information collected for statistical purposes with data use, transparency and accessibility;

Recognizes the importance for national statistical and data systems to build partnerships with other actors of the statistical and data system and other relevant actors outside of the official national data system and to integrate statistical and geospatial information to capture granular data to effectively leave no one behind;

Considers that the ultimate goal of the work of the Statistical Commission and that of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the Secretariat and the United Nations regional commissions in this respect should be the achievement of an integrated statistical and data system in the compilation, adhering to the Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics and Council resolution 2006/6, and effective presentation, visualization and dissemination of international statistics and data by the organs and agencies of the United Nations system with special regard to the requirements of reviewing and appraising progress towards sustainable development, particularly in the context of major United Nations development agendas, taking into account the needs of developing countries;

Requests the specialized agencies, funds and programmes, the regional commissions of the United Nations system and other relevant programmes of the Secretariat to continue to cooperate fully with the Statistical Commission in their efforts to carry out the tasks listed in paragraph 9 above and to regard them as being of central importance in coordinating their work programmes, especially long-term programmes, and to work in new directions;

Recognizes the need to strengthen the digital, technological and innovative capacities of the United Nations statistical system and of national statistical and data systems to address the needs and potential of the evolving statistical and data system;

Requests the Statistical Commission, with the support of the Statistics Division as its secretariat, to play the role as the apex forum for discussions, knowledge exchange and sharing of best practices on statistics and data across all domains, to develop and maintain international statistical standards and norms, tools and methodologies, to support and bolster the development of sustainable national statistical systems, to develop and build the capacity of national systems, to advocate for the professional community of official statistics, and to ensure continued innovations to adapt to the changing statistical and data system;

Requests the United Nations development system to support developing countries in strengthening their statistical and data systems adherent to the Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics as the basis for their development plans and the evaluation of their economic, social and environmental progress.

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