Classification of Statistical Activities – Proposed Revisions

Expert Group Meeting on International Economic and Social Classifications

May 18-20, 2011

Alice Born

Implementation of the Classification of Statistical Activities (CSA)

CSA is used to classify the statistical activities of international organizations in UNECE database; Paris21 group for technical assistance; and in the metadata standard, SDMX

Statistics Canada is using CSA to classify variables in its Statistics by variable module andVariables and definitions module

Based on our experience, proposing changes to CSA’s domain 1 Demographic and social statistics

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Implementation of the Classification of Statistical Activities (CSA)

Classification of Statistical Activities Revision 1 (2009)

Proposed changes

Domain 1: Demographic and social statistics Domain 1: Demographic and social statistics

1.1 Population and migration 1.1 Population

1.2 Labour 1.2 Migration and citizenship1.3 Education 1.3 Families and households

1.4 Health 1.4 Labour and time use1.5 Income and consumption 1.5 Education

1.6 Social protection 1.6 Health1.7 Human settlements and housing 1.7 Income and consumption1.8 Justice and crime 1.8 Social protection

1.9 Culture 1.9 Housing1.10 Political and other community activities 1.10 Justice and crime1.11 Time use 1.11 Culture

1.12 Political and other community activities

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Questions to EG

Does the EG agree that the CSA should be added to the family of international classifications?

Should these proposals be submitted by the EG to the UNECE secretariat (steward of the CSA) for their consideration or is it too early? Are there other proposals to be submitted by the EG?

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