International Statistics Intoduction

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International Statistics Intoduction
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Let's get acquainted

• Anatoly Sidenko, Dr. Sc. (Ec.), professor of the
  Statistics Chair, Plekhanovs Russian Economic
  Academy and Patrice Lumumba University
• Contacts
• Mobile [phone] or simply 502-36-48
• Email asidenko_at_bk.ru
• Site http//oknedis.narod.ru
• Different files for students are placed at sites
  
• http//ier.mylivepage.ru
• http//reameo.mylivepage.ru - for our
  additional files http//oknedis.mylivepage.ru
  http//Sidenko.mylivepage.ru

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Let's get acquainted

• Email asidenko_at_bk.ru
• Sites http//oknedis.narod.ru
• http//reameo.mylivepage.ru -
  for our additional files you can send your tasks
  to e-mail or upload them to the folder
  International Statistics. In the second case
  your files should have unique names and you
  should register at the portal www.mylivepage.ru.
  If you send your tasks to e-mail, Ill upload
  them to the folder myself

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Textbooks

• There are practically no textbooks in Russian on
  sale. International Statistics as well as
  Statistics itself was invented in the USSR by
  Soviet statisticians and as far as I know it is
  not delivered to students abroad with the same
  contents

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Textbooks

• My first textbook on International Statistics was
  published in 1999 in co-operation with Valentina
  Matveeva and Boris Bashkatov

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Textbook published in 1999
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Textbooks

• In 2000 it was republished without the part of
  Mr. Bashkatov. There were other textbooks, for
  example by Irina Eliseeva published in Minsk in
  1999 etc.

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The book published in 2000
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Textbooks

• Now I prepare a new edition of the textbook for
  my Russian students. Of course it is possible to
  make a textbook in English but the number of
  possible buyers is too small

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Textbooks, Lessons Exam

• You should attend lessons, read presentations and
  fulfill your personal tasks. We shall meet four
  times on lessons, on the fourth meeting you will
  get your marks for this short course

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Programme of work

• As far as I have understood, you wish to work on
  computers, to be trained in calculations by
  Excell. Therefore we shall visit various sites of
  the international statistical organizations,
  compile data and calculate different indicators
  by the means of Excell

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Programme of work

• Your final mark will be based on the results of
  these exercises. The students missing our
  lessons, should execute the same cycle of works
  independently, and during final lesson will
  present results of their calculations

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List Ratings

• You can find the file MBA.xls on my personal
  site, the route http//oknedis.narod.ru/ gt For
  my special guests speaking English and studying
  International Statistics at MBA  gt International
  Statistics gt ListRatings

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List Ratings

• Your presence at lessons and other successes will
  be marked in that file, in particular, the
  fulfillment of 5 tasks. To get the maximal final
  mark you should gain 100 points in your rating

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List Ratings

• Since the rating is made as a countdown system
  you should eliminate 100 points and get a zero or
  make the quantity of points negative

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List Ratings

• You should download this file, find your name
  there and write me a letter with the Subject
  Task1 and attached Word 1997-2003 format file
  by e-mail on asidenko_at_bk.ru

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Task1

• 1. Make correction of your name if any.
• 2. Tell me about yourself.
• 3. Describe your knowledge of statistics, skills
  of work in the Internet and Excell.
• 4. Give an e-mail address and contact phone
  number.
• 5. Reserve a country for investigation

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Task1

• 6. Reserve an international organization to
  describe its site.
• 7. Tell about your preferences lectures or
  practical work on computers

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Personal number

• Each student has got a personal number. Each
  student sending me a message by e-mail should
  specify his personal number for easier
  identification

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Task1

• 1. Choose a free country in the IMF list for
  investigation. Visit the site of the
  International Monetary Fund www.imf.org, the
  route Data and Statisticsgt  World Economic
  Outlook Database, April 2009gt By Countries
  (country-level data)gt All countries

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Task1

• You can find the same list of countries in the
  file MBA.xls

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Task1

• There are 182 countries in the list. Your
  preferences while choosing a country may be
  based on any reason, but you should take into
  account that most developed countries have better
  statistics. Tell us about your choice and Oksana
  will fix it in the List of students

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Country of investigation Tasks 2-3

• Each student should have a separate country to
• compile a national database
• analyse the data
• make a forecast (Task 2)
• - describe the site of national statistical
  service (Task 3)

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Country of investigation

• The chosen country will be noted in the list of
  students

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Sites to visit Task 3

• Within the course we shall visit sites of
  international organizations anyhow dealing with
  statistics. The group of 51 sites is given below.
  Now you should choose one site and make its
  description at home. Maybe next Wednesday we
  shall listen your brief story about your site

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Sites to visit Task 3

• If the site has a statistical part you should
  give a list of non-statistical items and describe
  as much as possible the resources of statistical
  pages

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Sites to visit Task 3

• Concerning statistical part of your site you
  should mention the availability of statistics,
  number of indicators, years, the possibility to
  compile an Excell file by the means of the site
  etc. Should we pay for statistics or it is given
  free of charge

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Sites to visit Task 3

• If the site has no statistical pages you should
  give as much as possible information about it

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Sites to visit Task 3

• You also should visit the site of the national
  statistical department of the chosen country and
  describe it as much as possible. The description
  of both sites should be done in Microsoft Word
  Office 1997-2003 format and sent to e-mail
  asidenko_at_bk.ru

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Sites to visit

• The United Nations Organization UNO
  http//www.un.org/

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Sites to visit

• The UNO General Assembly
• http//www.un.org/ga/

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Sites to visit

• The UNO Security Council
• http//www.un.org/Docs/sc/

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Sites to visit

• The UNO Economic Social Council ECOSOC
• http//www.un.org/ecosoc/

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Sites to visit

• The UNO International Court of Justice
• http//www.icj-cij.org/

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Sites to visit

• The Council of Europe
• http//www.coe.int/

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Sites to visit

• The International Monetary Fund IMF
  http//www.imf.org/

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Sites to visit

• The International Monetary Fund IMF
• databases
• http//www.imf.org/

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Sites to visit

• The European Union
• http//europa.eu/

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Sites to visit

• The European Parliament
• http//www.europarl.europa.eu/

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Sites to visit

• The European Court of Human Rights
• http//www.echr.coe.int/echr/

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Sites to visit

• The International Labour Organization ILO
  http//www.ilo.org/

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Sites to visit

• The International Labour Organization ILO
• Databases statistics http//www.ilo.org/global/W
  hat_we_do/Statistics/lang--en/index.htm

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Sites to visit

• The International Labour Organization ILO
• laborsta
• http//laborsta.ilo.org/

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Sites to visit

• The World Health Organization WHO
  http//www.who.int/

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Sites to visit

• United Nations Educational, Scientific and
  Cultural Organization UNESCO http//portal.unesco.
  org/

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Sites to visit

• The UNESCO Institute for Statistics UIS
  http//www.uis.unesco.org/

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Sites to visit

• United Nations Industrial Development
  Organisation UNIDO
• http//www.unido.org/

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Sites to visit

• United Nations Industrial Development
  Organisation UNIDO
• industrial statistics
• http//www.unido.org/index.php?id4879

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Sites to visit

• The UNO Statistical Division UNSD
  http//unstats.un.org/

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Sites to visit

• Economic Commission for Africa ECA
  http//www.uneca.org/

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Sites to visit

• African Statistical Organization Afristat
• only French language page available
• http//www.afristat.org/

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Sites to visit

• Economic Commission for Asia and the Pacific,
  Statistics Division ESCAP http//unescap.org/stat/
  

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Sites to visit

• Economic Commission for Europe ECE
• http//www.unece.org/

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Sites to visit

• Economic Commission for Europe ECE, Statistics
  Division
• http//www.unece.org/stats/stats_h.htm

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Sites to visit

• Eurostat (European Union)
• http//epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/

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Sites to visit

• Economic Commission for Latin America and the
  Caribbean ECLAC
• http//www.eclac.org/

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Sites to visit

• Economic Commission for Latin America and the
  Caribbean ECLAC, Statistics Division
• http//www.eclac.org/estadisticas/default.asp?idio
  maIN

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Sites to visit

• Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia
  ESCWA
• http//www.escwa.un.org/

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Sites to visit

• Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia
  ESCWA, Statistical Division
• http//www.escwa.un.org/divisions/main.asp?divisio
  nsd

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Sites to visit

• The International Statistical Institute ISI
  http//isi.cbs.nl/

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Sites to visit

• The Federal State Statistics Service of Russia
  http//www.gks.ru/

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Sites to visit

• Interstate Statistical Committee of the
  Commonwealth of Independent States CIS
• http//www.cisstat.com/

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Sites to visit

• Organization for Economic Cooperation and
  Development OECD
• http//www.oecd.org/

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Sites to visit

• Organization for Economic Cooperation and
  Development OECD Statistics Directorate
• http//www.oecd.org/department/0,3355,en_2649_3371
  5_1_1_1_1_1,00.html

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Sites to visit

• Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
• http//www.apec.org/

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Sites to visit

• Statistical Data and Metadata Exchange
• http//sdmx.org/

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Sites to visit

• Joint Vienna Institute JVI
• http//www.jvi.org/

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Sites to visit

• World Economic Forum
• http//www.weforum.org/

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Sites to visit

• The World Bank
• http//web.worldbank.org/

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Sites to visit

• Inter-American Development Bank
• http//www.iadb.org/

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Sites to visit

• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United
  Nations FAO
• http//www.fao.org/corp/statistics/en/

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Sites to visit

• Food aid (World Food Programme)
• http//www.wfp.org/

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Sites to visit

• World Trade Organization WTO
• http//www.wto.org/

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Sites to visit

• International Trade Centre UNCTAD/WTO (ITC)
• http//www.intracen.org/

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Sites to visit

• United Nations Development Programme UNDP
• http//www.undp.org/

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Sites to visit

• International Energy Agency
• http//www.iea.org/

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Sites to visit

• United Nations Crime and Justice Information
  Network
• http//www.uncjin.org/Statistics/statistics.html

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Sites to visit

• United Nations Centre for Human Settlements UNCHS
  (Habitat)
• http//www.unchs.org/

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Sites to visit

• World Meteorological Organisation WMO
• http//www.wmo.int/

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Sites to visit

• Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
  OPEC
• http//www.opec.org/

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Sites to visit Task 3

• The mark for Task 3 will depend on the quality of
  your work and the number of pages prepared.
  English and Russian versions are invited. You can
  find description of most sites and scientists at
  my site http//ier.mylivepage.ru/

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Sites to visit Task 3

• I recommend to follow the stile of most pages
  saved at 3 folders there International
  Organisations, National Statistical Services
  and Scientists. The Statistics Chair will
  celebrate the 100th anniversary in 2 or 3 years,
  we are planning to prepare a book devoted to this
  anniversary

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Additional tasks

• If a student misses any of three classes (I hope
  that the final fourth session will be attended by
  all students), the tasks executed in the
  classroom can be fulfilled at home. You can also
  take an additional task

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Additional tasks

• Since the translation of my Russian presentations
  is at the very beginning, you can help me in
  translating from Russian into English and in
  editing English texts

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The end

• Thank you!