Committee for the Coordination of Statistical Activities SA/2013/4 Twenty-first Session 19 February 2013 New York, 25 February 2013 Item 3 of the provisional agenda ======

Status of the CCSA session on international at the ISI World Statistics Congress in Hong Kong Prepared by the European Central Bank

I. Background

1. During the 20th Session of the CCSA meeting in September 2012, CCSA decided to explore the possibility of organising a CCSA session at the ISI World Statistics Congress (WSC) in Hong Kong on 25-30 August 2013. Subsequently, a proposal was submitted and the organisers confirmed that a CCSA session was accepted for the WSC 2013.

2. CCSA members were asked to volunteer and contribute to the CCSA session on 6th December 20121 with a deadline of 14th December 2012. Against this background, please find a tentative overview of the CCSA session including speakers, further guidelines and obligations for CCSA presenters and the tentative list of WSC statistics topics.

II. Status of the CCSA session at the ISI World Statistics Congress 2013

3. By the deadline, eight CCSA members expressed their commitment to contribute as speaker to the CCSA session with the draft conference title “Supplying International Statistics for Decision-Making”. A request was therefore made to the Chair of the Scientific Programme Committee to open a 2nd CCSA session and to obtain also an exception to the rule that attendants can present only one presentation at the conference.

4. Moreover, based on the CCSA expressed interest for external speakers, a slot is provided for an external - large and frequent data - user to express views on the importance of high quality, timely and comparable official international statistics.

5. In order to create a kind of discussion for obtaining the views and thoughts from the national statistical authorities’ perspective, we have secured Mr Jonathan Palmer, Chief Operating Officer, from the Australian Bureau of Statistics as one of our CCSA discussants.

6. Please find the tentative programme for the CCSA session(s) in supplement one to this note.

7. Against this background and subject to the allocation of a 2nd CCSA session, we would like to explore the interest of two additional CCSA members to volunteer as speakers to the CCSA organised session in Hong Kong.

1 Ref.: CCSA secretariat e-mail on “CCSA: Follow up activities from the 20th Session: ISI World Congress, Microdata, CCSA website”, dated December 6, 2012. 1

III. Guidelines and obligations for presenters

8. The WSC will be held in the week 25-30 August 2013 in Hong Kong, China. There will be three technical sessions each day during the first three days: 9:00-11:15, 13:00-15:15, and 15:30-17:45. On 29 and 30 August 2013, there will be two technical sessions, the ISI General Assembly and the Closing Ceremony will be held during the last time slot respectively.

9. The CCSA session is organised under the banner of “Special Topic Sessions (STS)” with the registration number STS045 and has been tentatively scheduled for Aug 30, at 9:00- 11:15 (and possibly 13:00-15:15 for the 2nd session). We shall naturally communicate the final date and time slots as soon as finalised with the organisers.

10. Presenters are asked to note that abstracts and papers should be available by March 15, 2013 and April 15, 2013, respectively and submitted via the online system.

11. To minimise administration, each CCSA presenter is asked to upload her/his respective abstract via the on-line system and to send in parallel the abstract to Per Nymand- Andersen via e-mail ([email protected]) by the deadline of March 15, 2013. The abstracts will be shared with the corresponding discussant.

12. Each presenter is asked to submit her/his draft paper to Per Nymand-Andersen via e- mail ([email protected]) by the deadline of April 8, 2013, one week in advance of the official deadline. This would enable us to interact with authors, provide suggestions for ensuring complementarity between the papers, identify potential overlaps and provide light editorial comments. Subsequently each CCSA presenter is asked to upload her/his respective final paper via the on-line system and in parallel send the paper to Per Nymand-Andersen via e-mail ([email protected]) by the deadline of April 15, 2013. Submitted papers will be shared with the corresponding discussant.

13. The following timetable is therefore envisaged:

Deadline Task Who March 8, 2013 Definite deadline for CCSA members CCSA members to send an to volunteer as speaker for the CCSA e-mail to [email protected] session at the WSC in HK March 15, 2013 CCSA speakers to finalise and upload CCSA presenters the abstract via the on-line system and to send a copy to [email protected] March 22, 2013 Complete the CCSA agenda of the two Per Nymand-Andersen. sessions and distribute the agenda and The distribution of agenda and abstracts to the CCSA members abstract will be done centrally by the CCSA secretariat. April 8, 2013 Presenters to submit draft of paper to CCSA presenters [email protected] April 11, 2013 Editorial feed-back to presenters, Per Nymand-Andersen where applicable April 15, 2013 Update, where applicable and upload CCSA presenters

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final paper via the on-line system and in parallel send the abstract to [email protected] To be specified Preparation of presentations CCSA presenters August 30, 2013 Presentation of papers CCSA presenters

14. Please find in supplement two the guidance and formats for preparing abstracts and papers. For uploading abstracts and papers, please use the following website http://abstract.isi2013.hk.

15. Please find in supplement three the tentative list of STS organised session as of 31 January 2013.

16. Please find additional information on the website of the 59th World Statistics Congress http://www.isi2013.hk/en.

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Supplement one: Tentative programme for the CCSA session on international statistics

COMMITTEE FOR THE COORDINATION OF STATISTICAL ACTIVITIES

19 February 2013

CCSA SESSION ON INTERNATIONAL STATISTICS

SUPPLYING INTERNATIONAL STATISTICS FOR DECISION-MAKING

DAY, [30], AUGUST 2013, [TIME]

Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC), 1 expo drive, Wanchai, Hong Kong, China ______Draft Programme (running order to change once titles, abstracts, logistic are developed) xx.xx – xx.xx Welcome address Welcome remarks by the CCSA Co-chairs Part 1 – International statistics for decision-making xx.xx – xx.xx Mr Shyam Upadhyaya, Chief Statistician, United Nations Industrial Development Organization "Composite measure of industrial performance for cross-country analysis” xx.xx – xx.xx Mr Robert Heath, Deputy Director Statistics Department, International Monetary Fund “Why are the G-20 Data Gaps Initiative and the SDDS Plus Relevant for Financial Stability” xx.xx – xx.xx Mr Werner Bier, Deputy Director General & Mr Per Nymand-Andersen, Adviser, Directorate General Statistics, European Central Bank “Can international organisations use other than official sources for serving the international community?” xx.xx – xx.xx Ms Chellam Palanyandy, Principal Statistician, Asian Development Bank "Title to be defined” xx.xx – xx.xx Mrs Maurine Haver, CEO, Owner, Haver Analytics Ltd. "To be confirmed and Title to be defined” xx.xx – xx.xx Discussant - Mr Jonathan Palmer, Chief Operating Officer, Australian Bureau of Statistics [Lunch] break Part 2 – International statistics for decision-making xx.xx – xx.xx Mr Abdelaziz Maalmi, Director General, Arab Institute for Training and Research in Statistics. "Strategy for research and training in international statistics” xx.xx – xx.xx Mr Grant Cameron, Manager International Statistical Programs, World Bank “New collaborations to improve standardised approaches to for the international agenda”. xx.xx – xx.xx Mr Paul van den Bergh, Head of Statistics and Research Support, Bank of International Settlements “Assuring high quality international statistics: a perspective from the BIS” xx.xx – xx.xx Mr Andreas Maurer, Chief, World Trade Organisation "International trade statistics systems and the importance of services” xx.xx – xx.xx CCSA member presentation xx.xx – xx.xx Discussant - “to be nominated” xx.xx – xx.xx Closing remarks by CCSA Co-chairs

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Supplement two: Guidelines for preparing CCSA abstracts and papers

The abstract must be in English, single-spacing, font type ‘Times New Roman’, font size 12. • The abstract should include a statement about the issue being discussed, why it is important, and a description of what will be covered in the presentation. The abstract should have no more than 400 words. • The title should be in bold letters and be followed by the names of authors (with an asterisk next to the name of the presenter who should also be the corresponding author), organisational affiliation(s), name(s) of city and country, and e-mail address for the contact author. • It is advised not to include any mathematical equations, references to papers, or images and special characters (such as alpha, beta, etc.). • A list of key words (maximum of four) must be included after the text. Words from the title should not be repeated in the list of key words. • Abbreviations should be spelled out in full the first time they occur. (Example: `The properties of maximum likelihood estimators (MLEs) are developed.’ • Double check for scientific accuracy as well as proper grammar, punctuation and clarity before submitting the abstract. • The abstract must be submitted as a PDF file, created by using Word, Latex, or other , and have no form of security protection.

The Paper must be in English, single-spacing, font type ‘Times New Roman’, font size 11. • Written as a word file or in Latex and converted to PDF file with no security protection. • Maximum of 6 pages including title and affiliation, abstract, paper, and references. • Margins: 25 mm or 1 in. top and bottom; 37.5 mm or 1.5 in. left and right. Text should be fully justified (left and right). • No page numbers. The paper should be structured as follows: • Title, names and affiliations followed by contact author’s e-mail address (all centered). • Body of paper; Organise the paper in sections: introduction, intermediate sections; conclusion as follows: Section 1 (for example, Introduction); Section 2 (for example, Results); Etc. - until conclusions. • Figures and tables should be numbered and centred. Colour graphics are acceptable. • References within the text should follow the style of journals: e.g., Merck (2002); Nan and Merck (1999a); Tsunami et al. (1985). • References: Use formatting of journals: e.g. Aarborn, D. (1977), “New breakthroughs in statistics,” Journal of Nanostatistics, 32, 105-108. Singha, N. (2002), Modelling and simulation, Jackland Press, London.

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Supplement three: Tentative list of STS organised sessions as of 31 January 2013

STS Title Organiser STS001 Promoting statistics amongst the youth through fun activities Delia North STS002 Finite sample behaviour of statistical procedures Jana Jureckova STS003 The LAD methods and their statistical inferences Yadolah Dodge STS004 Multivariate non-parametric methods with applications Regina Y. Liu to high dimensional data STS005 Two views of smoothing splines and related tools Yuedong Wang STS006 Towards an international framework for statistical Richard Alldritt councils of national statistical systems STS007 Extremes in action: from to random fields Natalia M. Markovich STS008 Bayesian spatial modelling with application to heath Ngianga-Bakwin and survival in sub-Saharan Africa Kandala STS009 Statistical analysis of competing risks data Uttara V. Naik- Nimbalkar STS010 Latent variable modelling of complex survey data Paul Philip Biemer STS011 Recent advance in stochastic processes and their applications Lihu Xu STS012 Recent developments of statistical methods in Colin O. Wu pleiotropic genetic association studies STS013 Measuring poverty in the context of energy and money Helmut Maier restrictions STS014 Time series analysis and finance Bovas Abraham STS015 Ethical dilemmas for statisticians – How should we respond? Dennis Trewin The role of the ISI declaration on professional ethics. STS016 Measuring China's economic performance Nan Zhang STS017 Alternative methods, lessons learned from the Jean-Michel Durr 2010 round, projects for the 2020 round STS018 The potential of Internet, big data and organic data for official Daniel Defays statistics STS019 Probability forecasting A. Philip Dawid STS020 Global and multiple testing procedures for Frank Konietschke high-dimensional data STS021 The roles of administrative data in Michael Slyuzberg STS022 Difference-based estimation in nonparametric Tiejun Tong regression STS023 Statistics and policy Andrea Saltelli STS024 New ways to measure global value chains Axel Behrens STS025 New approaches for agricultural statistics Michael Allen Steiner STS026 Experiences when building the methodological Eva Elvers architecture for statistics production

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STS027 New forms of data for research, policy evaluation and Niels Ploug official statistics STS028 Depth-based procedures for high-dimensional and functional Karl Mosler, Mia data Hubert STS029 Practicalities in measuring intangible assets Peter van de Ven STS030 Statistical education at university focusing on learning Maria Cristina approaches in different educational and cultural contexts Plencovich STS031 International comparability versus national relevance: Krishna Mohan contributions of the national statistical offices in monitoring Palipudi the leading cause of death - methods and merits of global adult tobacco survey STS032 Energy statistics Carol Joyce Blumberg STS033 Branching processes and related fields: theory and applications Miguel Gonzalez STS034 What are the quality impacts of high profile official statistical Dennis John Trewin collections on a voluntary basis? STS035 Statistical methods for biophysical structure and dynamics Axel E. Munk STS036 Statistical machine learning theory Andreas Christmann STS037 Real estate price statistics Roberto Barcellan STS038 Over- and under coverage in register data Bart F.M. Bakker STS039 Measuring progress at local level Monica Pratesi STS040 Implementing SNA2008/ESA2010 in the EU and OECD Silke Stapel STS041 Statistics as a career choice for women: great rewards, Yulia R. Gel persistent challenges and making the change happen STS042 Subjective indicators and their role in measuring countries’ Filomena Maggino progress and wellbeing: definition, construction and analysis STS043 Using geospatial information in area and Sarah M. Nusser estimation for agricultural and environmental surveys STS044 Measurement error models Alexander G. Kukush STS045 International statistics - supplying international statistics for Per Nymand-Andersen decision-making STS046 Limit theorems for high frequency data Mark Podolskij STS048 Statistical network - showcasing a new approach for Frank Yu international collaboration in industrialising the production of official statistics STS049 Small area estimation for business statistics Natalie Shlomo STS050 New statistical methods originating in astronomy David A. van Dyk STS051 Source and feature detection in astronomy Joseph M. Hilbe STS052 Official statistics in the Arab region - challenges and the way Hamad bin Jabor forward Al-Thani STS053 Robustness and stability measures Avner Bar-Hen STS054 Large sample covariance matrices and high-dimensional Jianfeng Yao statistics 7

STS055 Non-parametric curve estimation: theory and applications Shan Sun STS056 Secured matching: linking records anonymously Pierre Lavallee STS057 Methodological and compilation review on bank Aurel Schubert interest rates statistics STS058 Frontiers in quantile regression Holger Dette STS059 Spatial and Spatio-Temporal models for environmental Marta Blangiardo STS060 Toward a better economic statistics Mohamed Ali Ismail STS061 Insurance and financial risks: approaches Kai Wang Ng STS062 Synthetic establishment microdata - enhancing access to Lars Vilhuber confidential data in novel ways STS063 Role of population and housing and agricultural Eva Laczka in the national statistical systems STS064 Statistical methods for risk management Mike So STS065 Statistical techniques in heterogeneous learning Hongxia Yang STS066 The use of modern technology in statistics Yipin Xu STS067 Using technology to improve of population Nancy Elizabeth censuses - some experiences from the 2010 round McBeth STS068 Analysis of high-dimensional data and graphs Laura Trinchera STS069 Youth in Arab countries, facts and challenges Ola Awad STS070 Beyond the new public management theory: Derek Bond understanding NSO operations in a changing environment STS071 Open data and official statistics Federico Segui STS072 Graph theoretic methods for spatial data analysis Elvan Ceyhan STS073 Finance and contemporary issues Gopal K. Basak, Ngai Hang Chan STS074 The services sector of the economy: is it possible to measure? Catherine Ahsbahs STS075 Memorial session: Gad Nathan and his contributions to survey Michail Sverchkov sampling STS076 Cooperation between national central banks and national Romana Peronaci statistical institutes-challenges in the next decade STS077 Central banks and the role of sample surveys in an age of Nicole De Windt abundant administrative data STS078 Open data and statistics with special focus on urban Asta Manninen and regional statistics STS079 Measuring real effective exchange rates Rimantas Juozas Vaicenavicius STS080 The use of microeconomic data in compiling macroeconomic Chihiro Sakuraba statistics STS081 Measuring domestic and international inflation Jacques Fournier STS082 Reviewing measures of external debt Katherine Hennings

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STS083 Improving measures of capital flows including speculative Hock Chai Toh flows STS084 Is distribution theory still relevant? Evdokia Xekalaki STS085 Measuring green economy Yeonok Choi STS086 Latest development in national censuses Songxi Chen STS087 Official statistics in the service of business and industrial Irena Ograjenšek statisticians STS088 - new statistical tools for analysing Robert Kirchner economic developments STS089 Fuzzy Reinhard Karl Viertl STS090 Statistical education and thinking development Rongpo Xia STS091 High dimension and Zhi Geng STS092 Variable selection and dimension reduction Baoxue Zhang STS093 Semiparametric inference and variable selection Qihua Wang STS094 Statistics in biopharmaceutical research Xiaohua Zhang

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