Eurostat

• European Statistical Recovery Dashboard: The Dashboard contains a set of 23 monthly and quarterly indicators for monitoring the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. They fall into three broad categories: Economy & Prices, Business & Trade, and People & Work.
• COVID-19: Support for statisticians: This methodological corner brings together all the new guidelines and methodological notes published by Eurostat and will be regularly updated as new guidelines are developed.

ECLAC

• https://www.cepal.org/es/temas/covid-19
• ECLAC COVID-19 Observatory compiles and makes available:
  • Public policies that the 33 countries of the Latin American and Caribbean region are taking to limit the impact of the pandemic COVID-19
  • Analysis of the economic and social impacts that it will have at national and sectoral level

ESCAP

• ESCAP Disaster-Related Statistics Framework

• ESCAP Stats Brief, February 2020 (Issue no. 23): Surveys Under Lockdown; a pandemic lesson

IAOS

• Discussion on official statistics in the context of the COVID-19 crisis on the discussion platform of the Statistical Journal of the International Association for Official Statistics (SJIAOS)

ILO

• https://ilostat.ilo.org/topics/covid-19/
• Monitoring labour markets amid lockdowns to contain the COVID-19 virus: Essential labour force survey content and treatment of special groups
• Guidance to data producers to maintain labour force survey data collection
• Resources on impact of COVID-19 on labour market statistics
• Study on the impact of COVID-19 on availability and quality of labour statistics

OECD

• https://community.oecd.org/community/official-stats-workspace-covid19 
• Digital secure workspace covering:
  • Short-term statistics
  • National accounts
  • Prices
  • Business statistics
  • Balance of payments and international trade
  • Household surveys including LFS
  • Population and housing census

• The workspace is a collaborative effort with logistics being managed by the OECD, and participation of several international organizations, among which UNECE, BIS, ECB, ILO, IMF, PARIS21 and others.

• It is available only for registered participants. To register please ask Ms Virginie ELGRABLY from OECD Secretariat, who can be contacted via e-mail using the form firstname.LASTNAME@oecd.org

UNSD

• https://covid-19-response.unstatshub.org
  • Space for the global statistical community to share guidance, actions, tools and best practices to ensure the operational continuity of data programmes by national statistical offices, and to address issues of open and timely access to critical data needed by governments and all sectors of society to respond to the global COVID-19 crisis.
  • Areas covered: 
    • Ensuring continuity
    • Working remotely
    • Data solutions
    • Open data
    • Useful links
  • Enables sharing experiences through.
    • Statistics COVID-19 response hotline (covid-19.stats@un.org)
    • Twitter chats and webinars
    • Closed email listserv (contact info@data4sdgs.org to join)

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