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First ever World Statistics Day to be celebrated
Tehran, Oct 18, IRNA — World Statistics Day, to be celebrated globally for the first time on October 20, 2010, will pay tribute to the outstanding work statisticians produce and disseminate daily.
While statistics are an integral part of national and international life and policy-making, the global community is dedicating 20-10-2010 as the first international day to pay tribute to Official Statistics. Over 100 countries and areas and some 40 international agencies will mark this day with special events and activities, a press release issued by the UN Information Center (UNIC) here on Monday announced.
Through resolution A/64/267, the General Assembly formally acknowledged the indispensability of reliable, timely statistics for making informed policy decisions and monitoring the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals. Official statistics are data produced and disseminated by national statistics offices, other statistical units within governments and by many United Nations, international and regional statistical divisions.
Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs Sha Zukang stresses that there is much to celebrate after more than 60 years of work on official statistics at the United Nations: “That official statistics from countries around the globe are produced in a reliable, accurate, scientific and comparable manner is a great collective accomplishment.
It is the result of the service, professionalism and integrity demonstrated on a daily basis by dedicated experts in the national statistical systems across the world.” “The notion of a global professional statistical family, that transcends political, economic and cultural differences among countries, is perhaps the biggest achievement of all,” says UN Statistics Division Director Paul Cheung, in his own Message for the Day.
“We, at the UN, are committed to assisting countries so that every citizen in the world can rely on a well-functioning system that regularly produces, analyses, and disseminates relevant and quality statistics — statistics that respond to users’ needs and concerns, statistics that can help us respond to new challenges and bring about policy changes,” he adds./end
While statistics are an integral part of national and international life and policy-making, the global community is dedicating 20-10-2010 as the first international day to pay tribute to Official Statistics. Over 100 countries and areas and some 40 international agencies will mark this day with special events and activities, a press release issued by the UN Information Center (UNIC) here on Monday announced.
Through resolution A/64/267, the General Assembly formally acknowledged the indispensability of reliable, timely statistics for making informed policy decisions and monitoring the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals. Official statistics are data produced and disseminated by national statistics offices, other statistical units within governments and by many United Nations, international and regional statistical divisions.
Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs Sha Zukang stresses that there is much to celebrate after more than 60 years of work on official statistics at the United Nations: “That official statistics from countries around the globe are produced in a reliable, accurate, scientific and comparable manner is a great collective accomplishment.
It is the result of the service, professionalism and integrity demonstrated on a daily basis by dedicated experts in the national statistical systems across the world.” “The notion of a global professional statistical family, that transcends political, economic and cultural differences among countries, is perhaps the biggest achievement of all,” says UN Statistics Division Director Paul Cheung, in his own Message for the Day.
“We, at the UN, are committed to assisting countries so that every citizen in the world can rely on a well-functioning system that regularly produces, analyses, and disseminates relevant and quality statistics — statistics that respond to users’ needs and concerns, statistics that can help us respond to new challenges and bring about policy changes,” he adds./end
