The Committee on Statistics is a subsidiary body of the Commission dedicated to the development of official statistics in the Asia-Pacific region. The Committee is convened biennially, is serviced by the Statistics Division and addresses the following issues:
Tracking key socio-economic and environmental trends in the ESCAP region, especially progress towards the Millennium Development Goals;
Identifying data requirements for economic, social and environmental analysis in accordance with internationally agreed standards and good practices;
Capacity-building for national statistical…