The President of the National Statistical Institute of
The Conference of European Statisticians (CES) is one of the oldest statistical bodies working on international statistics with roots in the first Conference on Statistics held under the
CES provides a platform for the coordination of international statistical work in the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) region, for addressing emerging issues and for developing methodological guidelines and recommendations to improve national statistics and their international comparability. Over the years the Conference has played an important role in promoting and modernizing official statistics.
Some of the topics discussed during this year’s plenary session include: data ethics as a key enabler of social acceptability; measurement of well-being; data stewardship and public data governance and the tasks of national statistical offices; measuring circular economy; measuring hazardous events and disasters; moving from traditional software to open-source technologies to process large volumes of data (Big Data), etc.
