Participation of representatives of the State Statistical Committee in the Seminar on “New Frontiers for Statistical Data Collection” organized in Geneva, Switzerland.

Representatives of the SSC of the Republic of Azerbaijan Deputy Head of Department of Coordination of Statistical Works – G.Aliyev and adviser of the Department of Quality Management and IT – A.Sultanova participated in the seminar organized by Unite Nations Economic Commission For Europe on “New Frontiers for Statistical Data Collection” held in Geneva, Switzerland on 31 October-2 November of current year.
Experts of Statistical Services of Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, South Korea, Mexico, Holland, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Russian Federation, Slovenia, Sweden, Turkey, England, and United States of America also participated in the seminar. As well as experts of Eurostat, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, International Labour Organization, International Monetary Fund and World Bank participated as an observer. Following topics were discussed: new data sources, new method and technologies, legal and institutional aspects in the use of new data sources, different sources and collection of data by using of mixed regime, economy level by the help of simple equipment and methods.
Legal and institutional aspects in the use of new data sources topic were organized by the representative of Central Statistical Office of Ireland - Mr. John Dunne. Representatives of the SSC of the Republic of Azerbaijan were presented presentation on “Juridical and institutional aspects in the use of new data sources in the official statistics of Azerbaijan”. Presentation was met with great interest by the participants. During discussion of this presentation especially experts of Ireland and Russian Federation were very active. It was noted in the presentation that, today in the State Statistical Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan involvement of administrative sources in collaboration and use of administrative source data in organization of statistical surveys are one of the main priority areas and the legislation wholly enables more effective organization of the activity in this area. Obtaining and using of administrative data by the state statistical authorities for statistical purposes is admitted by the “Law on Official Statistics” of the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Statues of the central and local statistical bodies, and it is also appropriate to “Mandate for Data Collection” principle of the Code of Practice of the state statistical authorities of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
It was noted that, the State Register of statistical units reflecting statistical data is carried out by the State Statistical Committee, it includes address and economic indicators characterizing financial-economic activity, main and not main activity of legal and natural persons engaged in economy-ownership and other types of activity not prohibited by the legislation. Compilation and carrying out of the State Register of statistical units based on data obtained from the corresponding executive authorities that carry out the state register of legal entities and private owners and other information is the duty of the State Statistical Committee. The State Statistical Committee has the right to obtain data essential for compilation and carrying out of the State Register of statistical units from corresponding executive authorities. This duty and right of the State Statistical Committee is approved by the Law and the Statue of the State Statistical Committee.
Then it was carried out wide discussion on this topic and questions were answered. There were other presentations by other countries and they were also very interesting.