United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Statistical Division What’s New from the High-Level Group? Steven Vale UNECE

 High-Level Group for the Modernisation of Statistical Production and Services  Created by the Conference of European Statisticians in 2010  10 heads of national and international statistical organisations HLG Background

Increasing cost & difficulty of acquiring data New competitors & changing expectations Rapid changes in the environment Competition for skilled resources Reducing budget Riding the big data wave

These challenges are too big for statistical organisations to tackle on their own We need to work together

UNECE Statistics: Priorities  Population censuses, migration, Millennium Development Goals  Globalisation, National Accounts, employment, business registers  Sustainable development, environmental accounts, climate change  Modernisation

 Transform vision to reality  New sources and products  Streamlined processes  Managing organisational change to support modernisation and collaboration A strategy for modernisation

 Transform vision to reality  New sources and products  Streamlined processes  Managing organisational change to support modernisation and collaboration Conference of European Statisticians, June 2012 A strategy for modernisation Endorsed

Using common standards, statistics can be produced in a more efficient way No domain is special! Do new methods and tools support this vision, or do they reinforce a stove-pipe mentality?

Projects  2012  2013

Other HLG Activities  Big data “What does Big data mean for official statistics?” www1.unece.org/stat/platform/x/toeZB Coordinating role for HLG?  Legal / licensing issues Paper from Canada

HLG governance issues  The work is growing  Expectations are rising  More efficient structure needed Re-organisation of UNECE expert groups Clearer focus on modernisation

Do you want to get involved?  Modernisation committees  Projects Sprints / virtual task teams / reviews  Other activities / project proposals? Let us know

More information HLG Wiki www1.unece.org/stat/platform/display/hlgbas Linked Group Business Architecture in Statistics