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LOCALMonday 23 November 2015

ECLAC and Ecuador Call for Improving Quantity and Quality of Statistics

--The President of Ecuador, President of Ecuador, Ra- velopment with equal- participate until November
Rafael Correa, and the Ex- ity in the framework of the 19 at the SCA’s meeting,
ecutive Secretary of the fael Correa, and the Ex- 2030 Agenda, during the the main forum for the de-
Economic Commission for inauguration of the eighth bate of statistics develop-
Latin America and the Ca- ecutive Secretary of the meeting of the Statistical ment in the region, which
ribbean, Alicia Bárcena, Conference of the Ameri- will be held at the Union
inaugurated in Quito the Economic Commission cas (SCA) in Quito. of South American Nations
eighth meeting of the Sta- A total of 36 delegations (Unasur) building in Quito.
tistical Conference of the for Latin America and the from ECLAC’s member and “The new global agenda
Americas. associated states and rep- for development imposes
Caribbean (ECLAC), Ali- resentatives from 18 United the need to boost on the
ORANJESTAD/QUITO - The Nations organizations will national statistical systems
cia Bárcena, made a call a revolution to satisfy the
demand of information
to the different social ac- necessary for its implemen-
tation and supervision”,
tors recently to improve Ecuador’s President said
and added that this implies
the quantity and quality of strengthening the national
statistical systems through
statistics in order to place allocation of resources, ex-
istence of legal frameworks
them at the service of de- that guarantee its inde-
pendence and innovation
in the processes of data Alicia Bárcena.
generation.
Rafael Correa advocated non-remunerated work, as
for the need to “break the well as the quality of life in
conceptual inertias and general, not only the gross
progress towards new met- domestic product per cap-
rics that challenge the par- ita.
adigm of traditional con- “Statistics must be under-
cepts.” stood as a public good at
As an example, he said the service of our democ-
that not only the “work racies,” he underlined.
for the market” should be “The State needs timely
measured but also the and quality statistical infor-
mation to perform its role
in an effective way,” said
ECLAC’s Executive Secre-
tary, who also advocated
for guaranteeing the au-
tonomy of national statistic
offices and for consolidat-
ing its guiding role of the
national statistic systems.
This should be done with
the aim of giving back
feedback for politics and
building a new equation
between State, market
and society.
Alicia Bárcena encour-
aged the region’s countries
to go beyond traditional
measurements and to
build metrics that account
for distributive inequalities
in different spheres. q