National statistical systems are called to leverage all sources of data at their disposal and mobilize partners and experts from all sectors of society to implement solutions for the production of timely and disaggregated statistics urgently needed to understand and respond to the global COVID-19 crisis.
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The
ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has created a huge demand for fast data to measure its
impact on society. Statistics Denmark, in collaboration
with other members of the national statistical system, has been using new data
sources and methods to provide faster indicators of development. These
Experimental Statistics, whose methodologies are subject to continuous
development and are not part of the official statistics production, can
nevertheless be of great value when users demand fast, innovative and reliable
measures of development. In the context of the COVID-19 situation, they provide
valuable information to understand the pandemic’s impact on consumption,
industry, employment, transportation, trade, etc. Experimental statistics also
serves as supplement to mainstream statistical methods where, due to the
COVID-19 situation, the data is uncertain or lacking.
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The
Office of National Statistics (ONS) of the United
Kingdom has released a
provisional analysis of deaths related to COVID-19,
as reported on the death certificate, from different ethnic groups in England
and Wales. The analysis was prepared using linked census and mortality records
on deaths occurring between 2 March and 10 April (reported as of 17 April 2020).
While ethnicity is not recorded on death certificates in England and Wales, the
researchers linked the deaths involving COVID-19 to the 2011 Census. The 2011
Census data included self-reported ethnicity.
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The international statistics community has continued to work together, in
partnership with national statistical offices and systems around the world, to
ensure that the best quality data and statistics are available to support
decision making during and after the current crisis. In this context, thirty six
international organizations have launched, under the aegis of the
Committee for the Coordination of Statistical Activities (CCSA),
a report entitled
“How COVID-19 is changing the world: a statistical perspective”.
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Responding to the need for statistical benchmarks for substantiating the public
and private decisions that will be taken in the coming months in response to the
COVID-19 crisis, the
Institute of National Statistics (INS) of Romania is
making available a series of
ad-hoc studies measuring the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Romanian economy,
including rapid estimates for the decreases in economic activity, employment,
and exports.
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As
part of its
response to the COVID-19 crisis, the
Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) has launched a
Coronavirus Impact Dashboard
to track the real-time impact of the coronavirus on countries in the region. The
dashboard tracks a range of variables in order to provide Latin American and
Caribbean policymakers, epidemiologists, and the general public with measures of
the impact of the coronavirus outbreak on people’s behavior and economic
activity.
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In
order to measure and monitor differences in COVID-19 incidence and fatality
rates between women and men, data disaggregated, as a minimum, by sex, age
groups and geographical areas are urgently needed. It is also highly recommended
to ollect and disseminate additional data on employment, occupation (to capture
the most vulnerable workers), household type (e.g., one person, couples without
children, couples with children, lone parents, extended family), and access to
social protection and to mobile and virtual services (e.g., health, education
and financial) during physical distancing and/or isolation.