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QSA to organise a meeting to mainstream national sectoral system into NSDS

As part of the implementation of the second phase of the National Strategy for the Development of Statistics (NSDS), Qatar Statistics Authority will conduct a high level meeting on mainstreaming sectoral statistical systems in the implementation of the NSDS. The event is scheduled to be held from 12 to 13 October 2009 and will bring together various participants from data producers and government institutions as well as representatives from the public, private and mixed sectors, GCC statistical organizations, United Nations agencies and Paris 21, etc,.

The meeting will focus on the fourth NSDS strategic goal related to producer-producer coordination and supplier/respondent cooperation and seek to harmonize and standardize statistical activities and to generate a coherent, integrated set of statistics in Qatar. The objective of the meeting is to learn about the best practices to incorporate sectoral statistics into the national statistical system in order to produce quality and timely data in accordance with internationally recognized definitions and classifications; and to agree on a sustainable mechanism for data production of secrtoral statistics and ensure smooth flow of data to various users to assist them in formulating the national development

- Provisional Agenda