Social statistics

The "Guide to statistics in European Commission development cooperation" provides extensive information on statistics in development cooperation, presenting key international initiatives supporting developing countries in building sustainable statistical systems that produce quality statistics. This new edition of the Guide is updated with information on key developments, including the Sustainable Development Goals and the SDG indicators framework, the UN World Data Forum and other significant initiatives. The Guide explains the 'statistical machinery', covering the organisation, functioning and products of national statistical systems, as well as key international quality frameworks and principles. It presents tools for assessing statistical systems, strategic plans for developing statistical institutions, management of national projects/programmes in the field of statistics, training, as well as different aspects of statistical capacity building. It presents a summary of EU support to statistics, including issues such as requests for support to statistical capacity building, indicators to feed resultbased management tools, monitoring development partnerships or assessing the performance of policies and interventions. The Guide can be used to identify and develop actions to support statistics and statistical indicators to define and follow-up cooperation programmes, including sector policies. It provides insight into the statistics in a wide range of specific sectors, from agriculture to social statistics, from sustainable development indicators to business statistics. This new edition of the Guide groups the previous sector chapters into four new thematic volumes on: the Sustainable Development Goals and indicators; Social statistics; Economic statistics (will be updated at a later stage); Environment and climate change. Finally, it should be noted that this is the fifth edition of the Guide, the previous editions being done in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2017.