54TH SESSION OF THE UNITED NATIONS STATISTICAL COMMISSION (UNSC)
3 March 2023 (Friday)
New York
DOSM Representatives:a. YBhg. Dato' Sri Dr. Mohd Uzir Mahidin, Chief Statistician Malaysia
b. Ms. Ezatul Nisha Abdul Rahman, Director, Strategic Communication and International Division
. Item 6: Programme questions (Statistics Division)
. Item 7: Provisional agenda and dates of the fifty-fifth session of the Commission
. Item 8: Report of the Commission on its fifty-fourth sessionWith assistance from the UN Secretariat and Bureau of the Statistical Commission, about 500 representatives from 98 countries, 37 organisations, and three non-governmental organisations have successfully concluded their critical decisions and recommendations that will be put into action by the international statistical community in the upcoming year. The #UN54SC session of the Statistical Commission emphasises the importance of quality assurance for official statistics for #BetterDataBetterLives, with 302 written statements from 41 countries and in-person oral declarations. Malaysia will keep working with the Bureau, the Secretariat, and other global statistical communities to formulate strategies to elevate the role of statistics for evidence-based decision-making and accomplish the commission’s goals in the fields in which it is most interested in enhancing national and global statistical systems.
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