Capacity-building activities: Transport Statistics as a tool for assessing economic development

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Capacity-building activitiesTransport
Statistics as a tool for assessing economic
development

• Martine Sophie FOUVEZRegional Adviser for
  Transport
• Item 7
• Working Party on Transport StatisticsGeneva,
  14-16 May, 2012

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Background

• 1st WebCoQ questionnaire Workshop Almaty
  (Kazakhstan) 16 September, 2010
• Inter secretariat cooperation of EUROSTAT, UNECE
• Transport Statisticians of KZ, KY and UZ
• Follow-up Workshop Almaty (Kazakhstan) 21
  April,2011
• Delegates of AFG, ARZ, KZ and TJ
• 2nd WebCoQ questionnaire Workshop
• Baku (Azerbaijan) 9 December, 2011
• Inter secretariat cooperation of OECD/ITF, UNECE
• Transport Statisticians of AZ and RUS
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Why Central Asian countries?

• To raise awareness of Eastern and Central Asian
  countries on the necessity to provide coherent
  and consistent inland transport statistics

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Next Steps

• A concept note on Transport Statistics as a tool
  for assessing economic development December,
  2012
• Christian Reynaud - NESTEAR
• Publication of the report as a means for raising
  awareness in countries not participating in WP6
  work
• gt mandate to be given by WP6

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Transport Statistics as a tool for assessing
economic development

• Informal document WP.6 No. 8 (2012)
• Eight Central Asian countries considered
• Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan,
  Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and
  Uzbekistan.
• Three main conditions for reliability and
  accuracy
• a return of information ,
• accurate formats for data collection,
• Progressivity.

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TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO COUNTRIES WITH TRANSITION
ECONOMIES

• 3rd WebCoQ questionnaire Workshop2nd Half, 2012
• At the request of a Host country
• Inter secretariat cooperation of OECD/ITF,
  EUROSTAT, UNECE
• WP6 participants - Volunteers involved?
• Open to Transport Statisticians of SPECA and CIS
  countries

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