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National perspectives on the opportunities and challenges for National Statistical Systems seeking to align with the 2015 agreement

Angela Ferruzza IstatGiovanna TagliacozzoIstat

UN World Data Forum - 2017Aligning 2015 agreements through multi-purpose disaster related data and statistics

Cape Town 16 January 2017

Increasing demand for Official Statistics to describe complex issues: Sustainable development, Climate change, Disaster related statistics

NSSs and NSOs are called to enhance their contribution to fill data gaps: produce consistent and comparable statistics and indicators describe state and trends and socio-economic interactions between

Human and Natural systems

A wide range of interlinked statistical domains are involved

New Challenges but also New Opportunities

New challenges and new opportunities for NSO

UN World Data Forum – Cape Town 16 January 2017

International Framework

FDES

SEEA

SDG

CCRS

SENDAI

UNISDR

MEED

UNSD

COP21

Consistency among frameworks and Recommendations Guidelines and standardization Intersections among monitoring systems and integration

among indicators

SDG: 17 goal, 169 target, 240 indicators

CCRS: 5 sectors, 40 indicators

OEIWG Terminology Indicators

OEIWG: 7 target, 38 indicators


Conference of European Statisticians (CES) decided to launch this work.

Started 2015, aimed to: Clarify the role of National Statistical Offices in measuring extreme events and

disasters

Identify practical steps on how NSOs can support disaster management and risk reduction

Identify main data needs and data sources. Take into account SDGs Identify needs for harmonisation of classifications, terms and definitionsTools Survey to have information from the NSO on the actual situation Cooperate with the UN agencies and other international organisations working in

this area (UNISDR, UNESCAP, WMO) to consider the definitions Draft recommendations on the measurement of extreme events and disasters

within the realm of official statistics

UNECE TF Measuring Extreme Events and Disasters

http://www.unece.org/statistics/statstos/task-force-on-measuring-extreme-events-and-disasters.html




A3/4. What is/should be the role of the NSO in EED-related statistics in your country?

Coordination role

Analyse EED related data

Collect EED related data

Provide data in case of occurrence

Provide technical assistance

Provide for DRA

Publish EED related data

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E4. In your view, which are the priority areas in EED related statistics for which guidelines, recommendations, best practices, international standards, etc., would be needed?



Most NSOs consider themselves as being at an early development stage or do not yet produce EED-related statistics

There is a wide range of national institutions producing these kind of statistics

Most NSOs believe they should play a bigger role in producing EED-related statistics, including taking up the coordination role

In most countries official statistics are used for EED-related activities (population statistics, housing statistics, agriculture statistics, etc.) by other agencies

Guidelines, recommendations, best practices, international standards etc. would be needed primarily for methodology, definitions and the integration of geospatial information

Main Outcomes from the Survey


Survey EED: Italy


The aim is to have a set of possible coherent indicators to measure the process in the implementation of Sendai Framework and of SDGs

But … the concrete operazionalization of the indicators and of its recommended terminology, methods and definitions is a long process …That has already started

To fill the data gaps assessing available data it is necessary to consider the multiplicity of sources of data and producer and institutions involved

Transform data into statistics within official systems: the huge amount of unprocessed observations and measurements need to become “Statistics”, considering the necessary methodological issues and adopting common terminology and definitions, enhancing multidisciplinary approach and expertise

Challenges, Building Capacity and Role of NSO in Italy


Access large and diverse microdata sets (administrative data, big data ..) integrate and combine various types of relevant data, linking datasets across domains

Existing statistics should become more usable for the analysis, investing in building and implementing harmonized methods and definitions

For example: Number of deaths, missing persons and persons affected by disaster per 100,000 people (SDGs and Sendai Indicator) requires detailed analysis of Causes of death – standardized death rate, considering detailed causes of death: victims of tzunami, earthquake, volcanic eruption, etc…

New statistics could be developed ensuring a coherent system at national and international level

Besides the global and national scale, regional scale and georeferenced data are essential for the comprehension of the phenomena dynamics



Regular planning of joint activities between various institutions that in various ways have an active part in the construction and implementation of the strategy, are necessary actions

In Italy collaboration among Civil Protection and other research agencies (ISPRA) could be essential to improve the production of indicators requested to monitoring Sendai and SDGs

National Statistical System is involved: developing partnerships among different producers is crucial

December 2016, Istat produced a first release of SDGs indicators (95 indicators related to 66 SDGs indicators), other releases will be in the next months, considering also Sendai indicators

Autumn 2016, Istat produced specific data related to the last earthquake considering the socio-demographic and economic issues for involved areas



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Directive of the Prime Minister Dir.P.C.M. 49/2015

“the Civil Protection Department makes available to Regions and River Basin Authorities a web-GIS platform, named FloodCat, that fulfills the function of catalogue of flood events and, therefore, should be used to address the requirements of the FD.”

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To ensure high quality and sustainable monitoring of the targets of the Sendai Framework and the Sustainable Development Goals:it is therefore necessary to align relevant components of the monitoring framework with official statistics

Such alignment will ensure that Sendai monitoring takes full advantage of the expertise and services of national statistical systems, which on a continuous basis produce statistics that are comparable over time and across borders

It is important to recognize the use of official statistics as a multi-purpose information source to elaborate indicators for progress monitoring and results reporting against the Sendai Framework, the SDGs and the Paris Agreement

Within the intergovernmental platforms provided by two of the United Nations regional commissions, UNECE and ESCAP, disaster experts and statisticians from around the world are working and will work on a draft Statistical Framework for Disaster-related Statistics

It is essential to undertake further technical work building on the outcomes of the OEIWG, in respect of existing statistical standards, including those related to the SDGs, and to develop guidelines to guarantee the some high quality and sustainable standards

Now and the future


In Europe also Eurostat is considering Sendai indicators among the indicators that should be produced for SDGs indicators

There is still a long way to go but NSOs have a crucial role in strengthening and increasing the production of Statistical Information, improving knowledge and awareness

Istat, promotes and works on the cooperation and awareness of the agencies and institutions operating in the NSS and not only, to exploit the existing information assets, to develop high quality robust coherent and consistent statistics with the statistical international framework on SDGs in general and in particular on Sendai working


Now and the future

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