1. International Collaboration to Modernise Official Statistics
Steven Vale
UNECE

2. Introducing UNECE Statistics

3. Introducing UNECE Statistics

4. Introducing UNECE Statistics

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

6. Introducing the HLG
High-level Group for the Modernisation of Statistical Production and Services
Created by the Conference of European Statisticians in 2010
Vision and strategy endorsed by CES in 2011/2012

7. Who are the HLG members? Pádraig Dalton (Ireland) - Chairman
Trevor Sutton (Australia)
Wayne Smith (Canada)
Emanuele Baldacci (Italy)
Bert Kroese (Netherlands)
Park, Hyungsoo (Republic of Korea)
Genovefa Ružić (Slovenia)
Walter Radermacher (Eurostat)
Martine Durand (OECD)
Lidia Bratanova (UNECE) 

8. What does the HLG do?
Oversees activities that support modernisation of statistical organisations
Stimulates development of global standards and international collaboration activities
“Within the official statistics community ... take a leadership and coordination role”
Quotes from the Terms of Reference of the HLG

9. Why is the HLG needed? Before the HLG Now Many expert groups
Clear vision
Little coordination
Agreed priorities
No overall strategy
Strategic leadership
Limited impact
Real progress

11. In the last 2 years more information was created than in the whole of the rest of human history!

12. The Challenges Riding the big data wave
Increasing cost & difficulty of acquiring data
New competitors & changing expectations
ABS, like other National Statistical Institutions, faces shared constraints and challenges.
External Challenges
rapidly changing external environment
More sophisticated users
Demand for timeliness and responsiveness
increasing demand for more accessible and ‘joined up’ data to solve complex policy questions
Constraints
Reduced funding and volatility in funding
Our costs are increasing significantly – unable to contact many households, response rates dropping, difficult to recruit and retain interviewers
skills shortages – competing for statistical and ICT skills across government
complex work programs
siloed processes
and aging infrastructure
Competition for skilled resources
Rapid changes in the environment
Reducing
budget

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

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

15. 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
Endorsed

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

17. Standards-based Modernisaton%
43%
34,600

18. What will this mean for resources?
What does this mean for our Resources?
A change in the effort required for some of the GSBPM activities
Less effort on collect and process activities
More time and effort focussed on higher value analytical work

19. What has the HLG achieved? 2012 2013
Generic Statistical Information Model
2013
Common Statistical Production Architecture
Frameworks and Standards for Statistical Modernisation
2014
Implementation of the Common Statistical Production Architecture
Big Data in Official Statistics
These projects are chosen based on feedback from the CES and an annual workshop with representatives of around 25 international expert groups.
I will give a short summary of what as achieved in 2013, and what is currently in progress.

20. How to work together for minimum cost and maximum benefit?
The standards we need for modernisation are developed in a series of global projects overseen by the HLG
How to work together for minimum cost and maximum benefit?

21. Governance

22. HLG Activities – Engagement Map

24. Get involved! More Information Anyone is welcome to contribute!
HLG Wiki:
www1.unece.org/stat/platform/display/hlgbas
LinkedIn group:
“Business architecture in statistics”