E/ESCAP/STAT.11/L.1
19 August 1998
ORIGINAL: ENGLISH

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMISSION FOR ASIA AND THE PACIFIC

Committee on Statistics
24-26 November 1998
Bangkok

1. Opening of the session.
2. Adoption of the agenda.
3. Implementation of recommendations of the Committee at its ninth and tenth sessions.
4. Report of the Bureau.
5. Report of the Working Group of Statistical Experts.
6. Review of statistical activities in the region.
7. Issues relating to the Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific (SIAP), including the reports of the Governing Board.
8. Matters arising from and inputs to sessions of the ESCAP Commission, the Statistical Commission and major global and regional meetings.
9. Statistical development challenges at the turn of the century: Effects of the financial crisis on statistical services.
10. Information resources and technology
    1. Information resource management: successes and challenges
    2. Information technology applications in the national statistical service and in the public sector
11. Programmes of work in statistics, 1998-1999 and 2000-2001, including the development of an integrated presentation of work programmes.
12. Other matters.
13. Election of the Bureau.
14. Adoption of the agenda