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Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics: Threats and Responses ________________________. UNSC High Level Forum on Official Statistics. Panelists. Jean-Louis Bodin Pali Lehola Brian Pink Walter Radermacher Eduardo Sojo Garza-Aldape. Threats and Responses.
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Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics:Threats and Responses________________________ UNSC High Level Forum on Official Statistics
Panelists • Jean-Louis Bodin • Pali Lehola • Brian Pink • Walter Radermacher • Eduardo Sojo Garza-Aldape
Threats and Responses • Threats to relevance, impartiality, and integrity (Principles 1, 2, 3) • Threats to quality, cost-effectiveness, misuse and coordination (Principles 4, 5) • Threats arising from data deluge: national coordination, confidentiality, legislation (Principles 6, 7,8) • What can we do: international coordination and cooperation (Principles 9, 10)
Structure of the Forum • Introduction 15 minutes • Panelist 1 • Presentation/Questions 15 minutes/5 minutes • Panelist 2 • Presentation/Questions 15 minutes/5 minutes • Panelist 3 • Presentation/Questions 15 minutes/5 minutes • Panelist 4 • Presentation/Questions 15 minutes/5 minutes • Panelist 5 • Presentation/Questions 15 minutes/5 minutes • General questions and summary 65 minutes
Principles • Relevance, impartiality and equal access • Professionalism • Accountability • Prevention of misuse • Cost-effectiveness • Confidentiality • Legislation • National coordination • International coordination • International statistical cooperation
Key objectives of the Forum • Understand why this is being discussed now • Timing • Consider why it matters so much • Importance • Establish what has happened • Evidence • Determine what can we do about it • Handling
Key messages • Timing…. why now? • Budgetary pressures • Political interventions
Key messages • Importance…. why do the fundamental principles matter so much? • Code of conduct for global official statistics community • Represent core values of official statistics profession • Ethical standards against which the work of official statisticians is judged
Key messages • Evidence…. what’s happened? • Budgets cherry-picked • Work programme powers taken away • Methods not keeping pace with economy/society • Official statistics being marginalised • Saturation of statistics from other sources • Increasing vulnerability in public domain • Open to attack/being undermined
Key messages • Handling…. what can we do? • Desirable for Principles to be redrafted to improve clarity? • Periodic reviews through national reports and peer reviews? • Commission to take specific action on national implementation of Principles? • Mechanisms to refine Principles and strengthen implementation? • Actions to commemorate 20th anniversary of Principles