Meeting of the OECD Short-term Economic Statistics Working Party (STESWP) - Paris, 23 - 24 June 2008

DRAFT AGENDA

Monday 23 June

09.30 – 09.40  Welcome address (Nadim Ahmad, OECD)

Adoption of the Agenda

09.40 – 10.45 1. Revisions Analysis

Summary of taskforce output and the web-framework. (Robin Youll, UK ONS) ppt presentation

Data requirements and recommended summary statistics. (Michela Gamba, OECD) ppt presentation

A generic tool for performing revision analysis (Robin Youll, UK ONS)

Revisions Policy. (Rosa Cannata-Ruggeri, Eurostat) ppt presentation

10.45 – 11.05 Coffee break

11.05 – 12.30 [Revisions Analysis cont.]

Case Studies:

1. Index of Industrial Production (Anna Ciammola, Italy ISTAT) ppt presentation
                     
2. Gross Domestic Product (Leendert Hoven, Netherlands CBS) ppt presentation

Noise or News (Nadim Ahmad, OECD)

Decomposing revisions: seasonal adjustment (Jens Mehrhoff, Germany Bundesbank)
ppt presentation

12.30 – 14.00 Lunch Break

14.00 – 14.30 [Revisions Analysis cont.]
 

Revisions Analysis Room Documents:
Revisions and the role of metadata. (Andreas Lorenz, Germany Bundesbank) ppt presentation
Revisions in Euro area GDP and retail trade data: Reliability, timeliness and infra-annual distribution. (Heinz Christian Dieden and Hans Olsson, ECB)  ppt presentation

14.30 – 15.30 2. Revision of the Index of Industrial Production publication by the United Nations Statistics Division (Marcel van Kints, UNSD) ppt presentation

Presentation 1. Background
                     2. Process and timetable for revision
                     3. Objectives
                     4. Key Issues
                     5. Next steps

 Discussion of key topics/issues presented

15.30 – 17.20  3. National and international presentations: Updates on short-term economic statistics

Latest developments in the evolution of short-term indicators in the ICBS:
the OECD accession process and beyond (Yoel Finkel, Israel ICBS) ppt presentation

Recent events in short-term economic statistics in Statistics New Zealand (Louise Holmes-Oliver, New Zealand SNZ) ppt presentation

16.00 – 16.15 Coffee break

Short-term economic statistics in UNECE (Artur Andrysiak, UNECE) ppt presentation

Chile: Electricity, gas and water indexes ppt presentation; index of sales of selected services ppt presentation (Maria Oliden, Chile INE)

A new business statistics in Finland - short term investments (Kirsi Ristola, Statistics Finland) ppt presentation

A new monthly service production index from Statistics Sweden (Daniel Lennartsson, Statistics Sweden) ppt presentation

Short-term economic indicators for business cycle analysis and forecasts (Hartmut Huesges, Germany Ministry of Finance) ppt presentation

National Presentations Room Documents: 
Indices of industrial production in Russia (Elena Shustova, Russian Federation Rosstat) ppt presentation

Synthetic outline paper on the development of flash estimates for certain PEEIs (Johara Khélif, INSEE)

17.20 – 17.45 4.  Developing new indicators for the OECD’s MEI database (Nadim Ahmad, OECD)  ppt presentation

18.00 Cocktail at OECD – Salle Marshall

Tuesday, 24 June

9.30 – 10.00 5. Revised classifications: Backcasting and linking (Brian Newson, Eurostat) ppt presentation

Presentation on changing classifications and backcasting

10.00 – 10.30  6. STESWP Frameworks Update and the European Statistical System Seasonal Adjustment Guidelines (David Brackfield, OECD) ppt presentation
Update of current status of the two frameworks

Report: International seminar on the use of administrative data for economic statistics and register-based population and housing censuses – Seoul 19-20 May 2008

European Statistical System Seasonal Adjustment Guidelines

10.30 – 11.00 7. Tour-de-table

Short verbal presentations (5 minutes max) from participants outlining new initiatives/data collection in short-term economic statistics

11.00 – 11.20 Coffee break

11.20 – 12.00 [Tour-de-table continued]

12.00 – 12.30 8. Moving forward: post-STESWP (Nadim Ahmad, OECD)

Future thinking of where to from here

Possibility of new projects/taskforces

Agreeing with the group on this direction