UN Statistics Commission

United Nations Statistical Commission United Nations Statistical Commission
Organization type	Advisory body of the ECOSOC control body of the UNSD
Abbreviation	StatCom
management	Zachary Mwangi Chege Kenya
status	active
Founded	1947
Headquarters	New York City United States
Upper organization	United Nations
Statistical Commission at unstats.org

The United Nations Statistical Commission ( STATCOM , UN Statistical Commission ), the Commission United Nations , the work of the Statistical Division of the United Nations ( UNSD , UN Statistics Division monitors). The statistical work of the UN operates under the abbreviation UNSTATS .

STATCOM

The UN Statistics Commission is an advisory body to the UN Economic and Social Council , which in turn is a UN body. The STATCOM can thus be regarded as the highest statistical body at world level.

The annual STATCOM meeting takes place at the end of February in New York . Members are the directors of the national statistical institutes.

Commission chairmen

Chairman	country	from	to
Stuart Arthur Rice	United States	1946	1946
Herbert Marshall	Canada	1947	1948
Philip Idenburg	Netherlands	1949	1950
Harry Campion	United Kingdom	1951	1953
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis	India	1954	1957
George Wood	New Zealand	1958	1959
Donal McCarthy	Ireland	1960	1964
Petter Jakob Bjerve	Norway	1965	1967
Keith Archer	Australia	1968	1969
Jean Ripert	France	1970	1973
Claus Adolf Moser	United Kingdom	1974	1975
VR Rao	India	1976	1978
Mikhail Antonovich Korolev	Soviet Union	1979	1980
Joseph W. Duncan	United States	1981	1982
Vera Nyitrai	Hungary	1983	1984
Tom Linehan	Ireland	1985	1986
Emmanuel Oti Boateng	Ghana	1987	1988
Luis Alberto Beccaria	Argentina	1989	1990
Willem Begeer	Netherlands	1991	1993
Jozef Olenski	Poland	1994	1994
Bill McLennan	United Kingdom	1995	1996
Carlos Jarque	Mexico	1997	1998
Guest Charumbira	Botswana	1999	2000
Shigeru Kawasaki	Japan	2001	2001
Tamás Mellár	Hungary	2002	2003
Katherine Wallman	United States	2004	2005
Gilberto Calvillo Vives	Mexico	2006	2007
Pali Lehohla	South Africa	2008	2009
Ali bin mahboob	Oman	2010	2011
Gabriella Vukovich	Hungary	2012	2013
Jil Matheson	United Kingdom	2014	2014
John Pullinger	United Kingdom	2015	2015
Wasmália Bivar	Brazil	2016	2017
Zachary Mwangi	Kenya	2018	current

UNSD

The tasks of the Statistical Division of the UN include:

• to promote the international comparability of statistical data and the cooperation of the national statistical offices ( Committee for the Coordination of Statistical Activities CCSA)
• to formulate ethical principles within the framework of statistics
• Define nomenclatures , methods and indicators
• develop the standards for worldwide statistics
• To coordinate the collection of the statistical data required for the evaluation as part of the Millennium Development Goals .

It develops country or area codes for statistical purposes. It uses both three-digit numeric codes and three-digit alphabetic codes assigned by the ISO (see ISO 3166 and ISO 3166-1 coding list ).

The UNSD also defines regional structures and summarizes countries and areas. These summaries are used for statistical purposes, but are also used in other contexts (e.g. in Wikipedia ).

The German economist Stefan Schweinfest has been director of UNSD since July 2014.

Sub-organizations

• United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names (UNGEGN) / United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names (UNCSGN)

Web links

• unstats.un.org
• STATCOM homepage

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49alpha.htm UNSD: States and Territories, Codes and Abbreviations, engl.
2. ↑ http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49regin.htm UNSD: Summary of geographical regions, engl.
3. ↑ https://unstats.un.org/home/Stefan-Schweinfest.cshtml accessed on May 20, 2019

Coordinates: 40 ° 45 ′ 0.2 ″  N , 73 ° 58 ′ 3.8 ″  W.