Introduction to the International Recommendations for Energy Statistics and why they are important

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Introduction to the International
Recommendations for Energy Statistics and why
they are important

• Side Event International Recommendations for
  Energy Statistics Achievements and future
  challengesNew York, 21 February 2011

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Outline

• Some historical background
• Consultation process
• Content of IRES
• Important elements of IRES
• What lies ahead

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Historical background

• The work started in 2005 with a programme review
  on energy statistics to the UN Commission
• In 2005 the ad-hoc expert group meeting on energy
  statistics was held in NY
• Two groups were created in 2005 by the
  Statistical Commission to advance in energy
  statistics
• The Oslo Group on Energy Statistics
• Intersec. Working Group on Energy Statistics
  (InterEnerStat)

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• The mandate of the Oslo Group on Energy
  Statistics
• Review and contribute to the updating of the
  United Nations handbooks and manuals on energy
  statistics
• .
• The mandate of InterEnerStat
• harmonizing of data collection, processing and
  dissemination, by limiting duplication and/or by
  building links/bridges between existing energy
  statistics questionnaires, concepts, methods and
  timetables

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• In 2007, UNSD reviewed the work for the revision
  of the existing UN publications on energy stat.
  and decided that enough momentum had been created
  for the development of international
  recommendations for energy statistics
• In 2009 the UN Statistical Commission endorsed
  the UNSD strategy for the preparation of IRES

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Organization of the revision process

• Substantive discussion and drafting
• discussion on substantive issues (within the Oslo
  Group and InterEnerStat)
• collection of country experience
• drafting text
• Consultation
• Ad-hoc on specific issues with relevant groups
  such as the Expert Group on Classification,
  UNCEEA, London Group, FAO, UNFCCC, etc.
• Worldwide consultation with countries and
  organizations (carried out in 2 stages)
• Expert Group Meeting (Nov. 2010) prior to the
  IRES submission to the UN Statistical Commission

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Worldwide consultation process

• 1st stage on the scope and content of IRES
  (May-June 2008)
• 2nd stage on the provisional draft of IRES
  (July-Aug 2010)
• The consultation took place with countries and
  international regional organizations active in
  energy statistics

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Content of IRES

• IRES provides recommendations on different stages
  of the statistical process from basic concepts,
  definitions and classifications to data sources,
  data compilation strategies, energy balances,
  data quality and statistical dissemination.
• IRES will provide a firm foundation for a
  long-term development of energy statistics based
  on the Fundamental Principles of Official
  Statistics.

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Outline of IRES

• Chapter 1 Introduction.
• Chapter 2 Scope of energy statistics
• Chapter 3 Standard International Energy
  Products Classification
• Chapter 4 Measurement units and conversion
  factors
• Chapter 5 Energy Flows
• Chapter 6 Statistical units and data items
• Chapter 7 Data collection and compilation
• Chapter 8 Energy balances
• Chapter 9 Data quality assurance and metadata
• Chapter 10 Dissemination
• Chapter 11 Use of basic energy statistics and
  balances
• Annex A Primary/secondary and renewable
  /non-renewable products
• Annex B Additional tables on conversion factors,
  calorific values and measurement units
• Annex C Commodity balance
• References

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Key elements of IRES

• An international standard classification (SIEC)
  and harmonized definitions of energy products
• Statistical units and data items
• Data collection and compilation
• Energy balances
• Data quality assurance and metadata
• Dissemination

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What lies ahead

• Preparation of the Energy Statistics Compilers
  Manual
• Technical assistance to countries to implement
  the new recommendations
• Develop a knowledge base on energy statistics
  that can be consulted by countries and other
  users of energy statistics
• Revise the UNSD Questionnaire to reflect the new
  recommendations and to harmonize international
  data collections

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• Thank you!