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Addressing Threats to Official Statistics: Key Principles and Responses

The UNSC High-Level Forum on Official Statistics gathered experts to address critical threats to the core principles of official statistics, including relevance, impartiality, integrity, and quality. Panelists discussed challenges posed by data overload, political intervention, budget constraints, and misuse of statistics. Emphasizing international cooperation and national coordination, they outlined actionable responses to reinforce ethical standards and accountability in statistical practice. Key objectives included understanding current challenges and promoting adherence to fundamental principles to safeguard the integrity of official statistics.

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Addressing Threats to Official Statistics: Key Principles and Responses

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  1. Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics:Threats and Responses________________________ UNSC High Level Forum on Official Statistics

  2. Panelists • Jean-Louis Bodin • Pali Lehola • Brian Pink • Walter Radermacher • Eduardo Sojo Garza-Aldape

  3. 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)

  4. 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

  5. Principles • Relevance, impartiality and equal access • Professionalism • Accountability • Prevention of misuse • Cost-effectiveness • Confidentiality • Legislation • National coordination • International coordination • International statistical cooperation

  6. 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

  7. Key messages • Timing…. why now? • Budgetary pressures • Political interventions

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

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