The aim should be to ensure comparability of estimates for those activities between sections.

It is therefore particularly important to ensure methodological consistency and financial comparability between the initial calculation and the midterm recalculation.

The diversity of surveys conducted in developing countries affects the comparability between countries and makes it difficult to draw conclusions.

(ii) Enhancing the comparability of data at the regional and global levels

Evaluations from users emphasized that the key advantage over other scoreboards is the way the Investment Compass permits meaningful comparability between developing countries, and identifies a country's strengths and weaknesses.

Review of the Comparability and the Relevance of Existing Indicators on Corporate Social Responsibility

These policy demands require conceptual coherence and statistical comparability across goods and services producing activities.

Indicators should meet some basic requirements such as validity, objectivity, sensitivity, comparability, accuracy and disaggregation.

B. Usefulness of Guidelines, as reflected in communications (particularly with respect to comparability, completeness and transparency)

Within this component, the programme needs to develop assessment tools to monitor implementation, data quality and comparability.

The four principal qualitative characteristics are understandability, relevance, reliability (accuracy, neutrality and completeness) and comparability over time.

This action would be best taken at the international level, in order to achieve comparability of information world wide.

The objectives of the 2007 revision of the Central Product Classification were formulated in terms of relevance, comparability and continuity.

For full comparability, UNICEF would then need to include the portion of Cash Assistance to Governments used to procure goods.

The international comparability of databases maintained by international organizations is hampered because different revisions versions and levels of classification are applied.

However, the pursuit of current figures should not have a negative impact on the equally important considerations of comprehensiveness and comparability.

This will be instrumental in the harmonization of national practices and will result in improved international economic statistics with enhanced comparability.

(a) Policies of international organizations on adjusting nationally supplied data to improve international comparability and making estimates for non reported data

Therefore the Minimum European Health Module (MEHM), composed of 3 general questions covering these dimensions, has been introduced into the Eurostat EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions Survey (EU SILC) to improve the comparability of health expectancies between countries.

(a) The operation of the Federal Employees Pay Comparability Act of 1990 (FEPCA) (resolution 46 191 of 20 December 1991, sect. IV)

Moreover, there are concerns regarding comparability of the national data and the need to harmonize relevant methodologies is becoming more and more apparent.

As a consequence, it was determined that changes should be made only where the benefits in terms of relevance or comparability outweighed the costs.

For the purposes of transparency and comparability, budgeted expenditure for the liaison offices will be presented with the Commissioner General's Office in Chapter 7.

At the same time, the lack of comparability and transparency of financial statements inhibits the free movement of capital in an efficient market system.

19 For example, the Paris Club agreement for the Dominican Republic in April 2004 was made contingent on the implementation of the comparability of treatment.

It should encourage flexibility, which is the ability to evolve over time in order to respond to the needs of the Convention while maintaining comparability

UNCTAD continued its efforts in the area of international harmonization of financial reporting with a view to improving comparability of financial data provided by TNCs.

Standardized use of the concept would result in increased comparability with regard to the importance of different drug types for treatment in different regional settings.

15. The Commission recommends that the reports requested in paragraphs 13 and 14 above should be prepared on the basis of comparability of information contained.

The estimates for 1985 have been updated from those in the World Development Report 1990 to incorporate new data and to ensure comparability across years.

Most importantly, it allowed the Global Office and the regional coordinators to identify areas where each region needed to make adjustments for comparability purposes across regions.

That achievement in comparability was realized through the discussion and evaluation of new concepts and their respective adoption in the ISIC, but also in the other classifications.

Since geographical distribution of staff is fluid throughout the year, the progress in this area is recorded traditionally as of 30 June, thus allowing comparability of data.

Improving current practice and international comparability are high priorities as reflected by the range of recent and current activity on this theme on services producer price indices.

In order to improve quality and comparability of such estimates it was agreed to standardize the estimation procedure using the new approach developed by the Statistics Division.

The purpose of the compendium is to standardize conference servicing procedures and practices across the duty stations with a view to promoting comparability and strengthening planning and coordination.

CCAQ(FB) regarded such comparability as an important complement to the standards, and agreed that the aim of achieving it should be pursued as a matter of priority.

7. The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development secretariat processed the national reports submitted to the Conference and decided to organize them on the basis of comparability.

Thanks to the comparability of ENIGH 2000 and 2002, it is now possible to measure trends in the proportion of the population below each of the three reference thresholds.

They also should ensure the quality and the objectivity of the thorough and comprehensive technical assessments in the reviews and to provide for continuity, comparability and timeliness of the review.

There is little comparability with previous data, and income is used as an indicator of well being, rather than consumption which is, among others, a more reliable measurement of poverty.

The Programme has identified a set of 12 basic indicators which capture different dimensions of the housing sector taking into account their cost effectiveness, policy sensitivity, comparability, and so forth.

In order to ensure comparability, the 703 outputs carried over from earlier biennia have been included to the total outputs programmed and due for implementation in the 1992 1993 biennium.

The degree of data comparability between the reporting cycles is restricted, as not all questions remained comparable, because of fine tuning of the questionnaire following the first reporting period and the fact that not all countries replying to the questionnaire for the first and second reporting periods did so for the third reporting period.

The workshop was organized to support statistical offices in this work, to take stock of work that is currently underway in OECD countries and to enhance the international comparability of productivity measures.