In today's dynamic data environment, the availability of high-quality data is critical to producing accurate, timely official statistics. A significant amount of valuable data for informed decision-making exists within private entities, including companies, research institutions, and non-governmental organizations. Access to these privately held data presents both opportunities and challenges for National Statistical Institutes (NSIs). 

The proposed session attempts to investigate the technical and non-technical methods and strategies of accessing privately held data to generate official statistics. The landscape of accessing privately held data is very complex, from technological and statistical approaches to ethics, governance, communication, and capabilities. With the contribution of a diverse panel of experts, this session aims to facilitate discussions on innovative approaches, best practices, and real-world case studies in leveraging privately held data sources for statistical purposes.

 

This event features speakers from four different countries: Rwanda, The Netherlands, Indonesia, and Brazil, as well as discussants from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) who lead the G20 Data Gaps Initiative on accessing privately held data, and, the expert from Flowminder, who has participated in the number of projects associated with Call Detail Records with statistics offices. This session is intended to achieve multiple goals, including: 

 

1) Understanding the perspectives of NSIs and companies regarding access to private sector data for official statistics.

2) Investigate the critical role of privately held data in shaping statistics and supporting evidence-based decision-making.

3) Discover opportunities and challenges associated with accessing privately held data, including data quality, interoperability, governance, ethics and privacy issues.

4) Discuss the best practices and methods for obtaining, processing, and integrating private data into statistical systems through privacy-enhancing technologies (PET). 

5) Highlight successful practices to inspire wider adoption and utilization in other countries.

 

This session is also intended to facilitate engagement and knowledge-sharing among participants through an interactive format comprising presentations, panel discussions, and Q&A sessions. It is tailored for statisticians, policymakers, data scientists, researchers, academia, and practitioners involved in producing and utilising statistics as well as raising awareness for the public and corporations (private sectors). 

 

Organization:

 

Organizer: Mr. Eko Rahmadian (Statistics Indonesia)

Chair: Mrs. Titi Kanti Lestari (ISI-South East Asia)

 

Speaker 1. Mrs. Therese Uwimana (National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda)

Speaker 2. Mr. Augusto Cesar Fadel (The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics)

Speaker 3. Mrs. Yulia Virantina (Statistics Indonesia)

Speaker 4. Mrs. Iryna Susha (Utrecht University-The Netherlands)

 

Discussant 1. Mr. Marco Marini (IMF)

Discussant 2. Mr. Thomas Smallwood (Flowminder)

 

Panellist 1. Mr. Eko Rahmadian (Statistics Indonesia)