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1. Opening of the meeting
Suitable arrangements will be made in due
course. The Bureau of the ninth session of the
Committee on Statistics will preside at the
Working Group in the same capacities.
2. Adoption of the agenda
3. Report of the Bureau
The Bureau will give a summary report of its
first meeting on 29 January 1996.
4. Review of implementation
arrangements for the 1993 System of National
Accounts (SNA)
As requested by the United Nations Statistical
Commission, the secretariat has been collecting
information from countries on their implementation
plans as well as staff strength in national
accounts units, needs for technical assistance
etc. The secretariat has also formulated a series
of project proposals for extrabudgetary funding
to assist countries in their implementation
efforts. A secretariat note will document these
developments.
5. Statistics on trade
in services
The Working Group will discuss the topic on
the basis of the report of the Seminar on Statistics
on Trade in Services, held at Bangkok from 6
to 10 November 1995.
6. Use of information
technology in statistics
- Geographic information
systems
- Remote sensing in statistics
- Implications of the Internet
Participants will be asked to provide a short
report on the status of information technology
use in statistics in their countries. Documentation
will also include up to six short papers on
one of the agenda sub-items, prepared by selected
countries with particular experience and expertise
in those fields.
7. Programmes of national
statistical offices towards the effective dissemination
of statistical information
The secretariat will prepare a short paper
drawing on the Seminar on Managing National
Statistical Services in the 1990s Data Dissemination
with focus on Monitoring Human Development (1993).
8. Statistical coordination
within countries
The secretariat's note on this item will be
drawn largely from information presented by
ESCAP at the South Pacific Commission's Regional
Conference of Statisticians, held in September
1995.
9. Programme matters
(a) Review of the work
programme in statistics, 1996-1997
The work programme for 1996-1997 has been
reviewed by the Committee on Statistics in 1994
and endorsed by the ESCAP Commission in 1995;
the secretariat note will therefore focus on
programme changes.
(b) Review of the outline
of the medium-term plan in statistics, 1998-2001
The secretariat will present a short note
including the text of the medium-term plan in
statistics which will be reviewed by the ESCAP
Commission in 1996.
10. Provisional agenda
for the tenth session of the Committee on Statistics
The Bureau will report on any amendments to
the tentative provisional agenda drawn up by
the ninth session of the Committee.
11. Other matters
12. Adoption of the report
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