ESCAP delegation visited the Statistics Agency

On October 21 of this year, a mission headed by Rachel Bevan, Head of the Statistical Department of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), began work at the Statistics Agency under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

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For reference: ESCAP provides technical support to the Statistics Agency and has selected Uzbekistan as a priority country for the implementation of the project “Data Decade 2030 – Strengthening the institutional capacity of national statistical offices in the Asia-Pacific region to use innovative, new and large data sources for official statistics in support of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development of the year.”

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Meeting with the Head of the UN Statistics Division for Asia and the Pacific Ocean (ESCAP) - Rachel Bevan and ESCAP big data experts Mr. Eric Deeben and Mr. Sergei Goussev were headed by the Director of the Statistics Agency Bakhodir Abdusalomovich Begalov. The meeting was also attended by Deputy Director of the Statistics Agency under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Ziyaev Zokhidjan Muratovich and employees of the central office of the Statistics Agency.

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As part of the project, ESCAP experts are supporting the development of methodological skills for the integration of web data and EPOS data from the Tax Committee in the CPI compilation processes, as well as in support of the data architecture and processing requirements that make this integration effective.

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The meeting also discussed priority issues of cooperation in the field of statistics, and the participation of the Agency of Statistics under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan by the Agency in programs and training seminars organized by ESCAP.

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