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The Short-term Economic Statistics Expert Group (STESEG) meeting was held at the OECD headquarters at 2, rue André Pascal, Paris 75016, on Thursday 26 June and Friday 27 June 2003.
The following preliminary agenda will be revised prior to the June 2003 meeting.
Draft Agenda- (pdf) (STD/STESEG(2003)1)
Participant List
Thursday, 26 June
1. 09.30 - 09.40 - Welcome address (Enrico GIOVANNINI - Chief Statistician, OECD)
2. 09.40 - 10.00 - Summary of relevant events/issues since the 2002 STESEG meeting (Chair and Presenter: Denis WARD - OECD): ppt presentation
- Work of the three STESEG task forces;
- OECD-Eurostat task force on PPIs for services;
- OECD-European Commission co-operation on business tendency and consumer opinion surveys;
- OECD-CIRET joint publication on new Journal of Business Cycle Measurement and Analysis
- Paris Group meeting (4-5 September 2003) - measurement of working time topic
- OECD publication on wage related statistics
3. 10.00 - 11.00 - Task force on short-term indicators for services (Chair Denis WARD - OECD) overview of task force and plans for future work (Presenter: Eun-Pyo HONG - OECD) ppt presentation
- Discussion of future work of task force
Paper:
Overview of Activity of the Short-term indicators for Services Task Force- Eun-Pyo HONG, OECD (STD/STESEG(2003)02)
11.00 - 11.30 - Break
11.30 - 13.00 - Task force on short-term indicators for services (continued)
- Presentation on measures of monthly GDP for services producing industries in Canada (Presenter: Hans MESSINGER - Statistics Canada) ppt presentation
- Presentation of national pratices used by OECD Member Countries to compile short-term indicators for service production (Presenter: Eun-Pyo HONG - OECD) ppt presentation
- Discussion on national practices with respect to terminology, sector coverage, measurement variables, etc.
Paper:
Review of Indices of Services Production for OECD Member Countries - Benoit ARNAUD, Anne HERY, Eun-Pyo HONG, Frederic PARROT, OECD(STD/STDSEG(2003)6)
Background papers related to STESEG Task Force on Short-Term Indicators for Services
13.00 - 14.30- Lunch break
4. 14.30 - 16.00 - Task force on data presentation and seasonal adjustment (Chair: Gian Paolo ONETO - ISTAT)
Overview of task force activity and summary of discussions of task force members (Presenter:Brian FINN - OECD) ppt presentation
Overview of national and international practices for the presentation of growth rates (Presenter: Robert KIRCHNER - Bundesbank)
Papers:
Some Proposals for Standard Terminologies Relating to Data Presentation- Brian FINN, OECD (STD/STESEG(2003)32
Presentation of Growth Rates- Robert KIRCHNER, Deutsche Bundesbank (STD/STESEG(2003)33)
Presentation of Revisions- Sandra JUNG, Federal Office of Germany (STD/STESEG(2003)34
Sampling Error and Seasonal Adjustment- Monique GRAF, Swiss Federal Statistical Office (STD/STESEG(2003)35)
Presentation of Filtered Series- Baek-Geun JEON, Korea National Statistical Office (STD/STESEG(2003)36)
Presentation of Retrospective Fixed Base Indexes - Anna CIAMMOLA, ISTAT (STD/STESEG(2003)37)
Presentation of Seasonally Adjusted Series- Bernard LEFRANCOIS and Catherine MAMAY, Statistics Canada (STD/STESEG(2003)38)
Some Proposals About Identification of Published Series- Adrien FRIEZ, INSEE (STD/STESEG(2003)39)
Overview and Summary of the Activity of the Task Force on Data Presentation and Seasonal Adjustment- Brian FINN, OECD (STD/STESEG(2003)41)
16:00 - 16:30 Break
16.30 - 18.00 - Task force on data presentation and seasonal adjustment (continued)
- overview of national and international practices for the presentation of seasonally adjusted data (Presenter: Roberto SABBATINI - Bank of Italy) ppt presentation
- discussion of task force recommendations
- future work including discussion on topic at UNSC in 2004
Paper:
Data Requirements, Presentation, and Main Uses for Seasonally Adjusted Consumer Price Indices- Roberto Sabbatini. Bank of Italy (STD/STESEG(2003)40)
Background papers related to STESEG task force on data presentation and seasonal adjustment.
18:00 - Cocktail - Salle Marshall (OECD Chateau)
Friday, 27 June
5. 9.30 - 11.00 -Task force on data timeliness and benchmarking (Chair: Richard McKENZIE - OECD) ppt presentation
- Overview of task force activities and presentation of research and new practices for improving timeliness and using benchmarking techniques in OECD Member countries (Presenters: Bongho CHOI - KNSO ppt presentation; Bente DYRBERG - Statistics Denmark ppt presentation; Ronald van der STEGEN - Statistics Netherlands ppt presentation; Sharon BROWN - US BLS ppt presentation)
Papers:
Summary of Task Force Outputs and Recommendations for Future Work- Richard McKENZIE, OECD (STE/STESEG(2003)14)
Use of Modelling Techniques and Flash Estimates at the Federal Statistical Office of Germany- Kai LORENTZ, Federal Statistical Office of Germany (STD/STESEG(2003)8)
Timeliness and Revisions of Short-Term Economic Statistics - Korea's Practices- Bongho CHOI, KNSO (STD/STESEG(2003)15
Timeliness, Response Burden and Cooperation with Respondents at Statistics Denmark, Bente DYRBERG, Statistics Denmark (STD/STESEG(2003)3)
How to Reduce Costs and Reporting Burden for Data Providers and Statistical Agencies in the Collection of Short-Term Economic Indicators? Summary of Practices at Statistic Denmark- Bente DYRBERG, Statistics Denmark (STD/STESEG(2003)16)
Research into Methods to Improve the Timeliness of Short-Term Industrial Production Statistics - Leendert HOVEN and Ronald van der STEGEN, Statistics Netherlands (STD/STESEG(2003)9)
Benchmarking State Labor Force Estimates in the United States- Sharon P. BROWN, United States Department of Labor (STD/STESEG(2003)7)
More Rapid Retail Trade Statistics in Sweden- Anita ULLBERG, Statistics Sweden (STD/STESEG(2003)10)
11.00 - 11.30- Break
11.30 - 13.00 - Task force on data timeliness and benchmarking (continued)
- Recommendations for the use of benchmarking in short-term economic statistics (Presenter: Segismundo FASSLER - IMF) ppt presentation
Papers:
Benchmarking of Short-Term Economic Statistics- Segismundo FASSLER, IMF (STD/STESEG(2003)5)
- Comparing methods used for Retail Trade Statistics in Italy, Sweden, and the US - general lessons learnt for improving timeliness (Presenters: Anita ULLBERG - Statistics Sweden; Pietro GENNARI - ISTAT) ppt presentation
Papers:
Timeliness of Retail Trade Statistics in Sweden, Italy and the United States- Richard McKENZIE, OECD; Anita ULLBERG, Statistics Sweden; Pietro GENNARI, ISTAT (STD/STESEG(2003)11
- Proposal to develop a framework to assist NSOs in improving timeliness of short-term economic statistics (Presenter Richard McKENZIE -OECD) ppt presentation
Papers:
Development of a Framework to Assist in Improving Timeliness for Short-Term Economic Statistics- Richard McKENZIE, OECD(STD/STESEG(2003)12)
A Framework to Assess the Trade-Offs Between Timeliness and Accuracy and Reliability of Short-Term Economic Statistics- Segismundo FASSLER, IMF (STD/STESEG(2003)4)
Background papers related to STESEG Task Force on Timeliness and Benchmarking
- Discussion of task force recommendations and future work
13.00 - 14.30 - Lunch break
6. 14.30 - 16.00 - National practices for the reduction of cost and burden to both respondents and statistical agencies of collecting short-term economic statistics (Chair and Presenter: Denis WARD - OECD) ppt presentation
- overview of methods used by national agencies
- presentation of selected examples of national best practice
- discussion by STESEG
Papers:
OECD Summary of National Practices to Reduce Cost and Burden to Respondents and NGOs- Denis WARD, OECD (STD/STESEG(2003)13)
In additon refer to numerous brief national papers on this topic.
16.00 - 16.20 - Break
7. 16.20 - 16.50 - Future publication of short-term services statistics and metadata by the OECD (Presenter: Denis WARD - OECD) ppt presentation
8. 16.50 - 17.30- Identification of task force topics for work over next twelve months, other business, date for 2004 meeting of the Expert Group (Chair: Enrico GIOVANNINI - OECD)
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