ESCAP works to improve the quality of official statistics and the use of data for decision-making in Asia and the Pacific. Relevant, timely and high-quality statistics are key to providing policy decision-makers with evidence they need to make informed decisions.
Quality statistics charge governance with evidence, inform individuals of their rights and responsibilities, and give local communities a voice to influence policy and communicate policy impacts. Through the improved use of data and statistics, ESCAP enables stakeholders to build inclusive, sustainable and resilient societies.
ESCAP supports national statistical systems with economic, environment and social statistics and accounting following the vision and priority areas for set out by Governments in the region. Whether working on social, economic or environmental statistics, ESCAP promotes national statistics development through five action areas:
Highlights
Communities
- Resource Platform on Environment Statistics
- RSG for CRVS in Asia and the Pacific
- RSG for Population and Social Statistics
- Technical Working Group on Disaster-related Statistics
- Data Integration Community of Practice (Members only)
- Economic Statistics (Members only)
- Network of young statisticians (Members only)
- The Data and Statistics Working Group (WG) is one of the means of implementation groups under the Regional Collaborative Platform (RCP).
Projects:
- Data governance
- Supporting the Use of Evidence to Inform Policy Outcomes (Evidence to Action, E2A)
- Using big data to measure the nexus between environment and gender in Asia and the Pacific
- Implementing Inequality Assessments and Strengthening Demographic Analysis Capacity
- Nurturing young official statisticians in Central Asia as catalysts for the future of official statistics
- Network of young statisticians (Members only)
The report launch event was held on Thursday, 15 February 2024, from 11:00 to 12:00 hours (Bangkok time, UTC+7), at the Foreign Correspondent’s Club of Thailand (FCCT), Bangkok and Online via Zoom. Download: Full Report | Highlights
The CRVS community in Asia and the Pacific has reflected on where it stands at the midpoint of the CRVS Decade (2015-2024) during the Second Ministerial Conference. Go to the CRVS website.
Data & Statistics
The Asia-Pacific SDG Gateway is a window to data and analysis at regional, subregional and country levels on SDG statistics for Asia and the Pacific.
Explore more than 1,000 data series on the SDG and other thematic development indicators for Asia-Pacific.
The National SDG Tracker is a tool for countries to track progress on the Sustainable Development Goals. It allows countries to add their data, enter national target values, and visualize progress in a few simple steps.
EPiC (Every Policy is Connected) is a tool that facilitates policy-data dialogue aiming to identify policy priorities as well as data needs.
