50th Session of the UN Statistical Commission

The UN Statistical Commission (UNSC) will hold its 50th session on March 5-8 with a focus on ‘Better data, better lives’.

The UNSC brings together Chief Statisticians from UN Member States, and is the highest decision-making body for international statistical activities. Items for discussion during the 50th session will include: Data and Indicators for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development; Open Data; Statistical Capacity Building; Common Open Standards for the exchange and sharing of data and metadata; and Integration of Geospatial and Statistical Integration, among other areas.

As part of the UNSC50 side meetings, the United Nations Statistics Division and the United Nations Expert Group on the Integration of Statistical and Geospatial Information are organizing a side event on the global statistical geospatial integration framework. Other side meetings include: “Where We Live and Work: Improving Population and Infrastructure Data through the POPGRID Data Collective”, with representatives from the organizations leading POPGRID including CIESIN/Columbia University, the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data, and the UNSDSN Thematic Research Network on Data and Statistics, TReNDS) together with key partners such as the UN Population Fund (UNFPA).

More information including a calendar of plenary and side events, and other supporting documentation and resources is available here.

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