DOHA: The Ministry of Development Planning and Statistics (MDPS) will participate in the 49th session of the United Nations Statistical Commission which will be held at the UN Headquarters in New York from March 6 to 9.
The Minister of Development Planning and Statistics H E Dr Saleh bin Mohammad Al Nabit will lead the MDPS’s delegation, and will meet a number of heads of international and regional organisations and heads of participating delegations to discuss cooperation, coordination and exchange of experiences as well as successful experiences related to the modernization of national statistical systems.
The State of Qatar represents the Asian Group in the United Nations Statistical Commission until 2019.
The 49th session will discuss a number of reports, including the new handbook of statistical organisation which deals with the mechanisms of official statistics, open data as well as economic statistics and their evolution in national accounts, along with the International Comparison Program and price statistics.
Topics related to social and demographic statistics will be of major interest to the Statistical Commission this year, in particular with regard to household surveys, population statistics and science and technology statistics. Forums held by the United Nations and the role of countries participating in these forums will also be highlighted.
During the session, member states will shed light on statistical capacity-building mechanisms in their respective countries and coordinate the efforts of the State and international organizations in training statistical cadres.
