Statistics

The Statistics Division, at the request of Governments, ensures the provision of expert assistance in statistics and statistical data processing to assist in the enhancement of capabilities related to decennial censuses and the System of National Accounts. More specifically, the Division offers technical advisory services on: demographic, social, industrial, energy, environmental, national accounts and trade statistics. It also provides technical cooperation services on national accounts and on computers and informatics. It advices to the African, Caribbean and Pacific group of States, OAU and the World Tourism Organization, on scale-of-assessment methodology.

The Division provides group training and technical services to Member States and regional and interregional projects and training to assist developing countries and countries with economies in transition to strengthen national capabilities in the collection, processing and dissemination of statistics.

Advisors

Ms.  Meryem Demirci
Methods of population and housing census; ICR technology; administrative registers for census data; data quality; demographic techniques; population projections

Mr. Michael Vardon
Compilation and use of environmental-economic accounts, including use of administrative data and the development of questionnaires for data collection. Review of sources and methods used in the compilation of environmental-economic accounts. Evaluation of country needs for environmental-economic accounts in public policy and key analytical uses. Development of a system of basic environmental statistics for use in the compilation of environmental-economic accounts.