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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

UNHCR agreed with the Board's recommendation to invite the Office of Internal Oversight Services to liaise with other United Nations audit services so as to harmonize internal audit ratings, in order to allow comparability among organizations.

UNHCR agreed with the Board's recommendation to invite the Office of Internal Oversight Services to liaise with other United Nations audit services so as to harmonize internal audit ratings, in order to allow comparability among organizations.

UNHCR agreed with the Board's recommendation to invite the Office of Internal Oversight Services to liaise with other United Nations audit services so as to harmonize internal audit ratings, in order to allow comparability among organizations.

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.

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

With respect to the first of those items, the chairperson reported that during the intersessional period a review of existing indicators of corporate social responsibility had been undertaken with a special focus on their comparability and relevance.

The Secretariat attempted to identify bodies bearing similarity with the Conference of the Parties, in order to enhance the comparability of the information to be brought to the attention of the Conference.

(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.

With regard to Tackling the problem , the questions changed significantly during the revision of the questionnaire and, therefore, the present analysis includes only the reporting periods 2000 2002 and 2002 2004 to ensure comparability.

The objectives of the 2007 revision of the International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities were formulated in terms of improving and strengthening its relevance and comparability with other classifications, while considering its continuity.

(p) Supporting the development of national data processing capabilities with a view to the improvement of the quality, relevance, timeliness and intercountry comparability of statistical data and facilitating access to national, subregional and regional databases

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

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

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.

This increases the comparability of the results (all effects are computed with reference to the same central point in space) and minimizes the chances of computer programme crashes, more likely when several input factors are changed simultaneously.

To facilitate comparability with the programme of work and budget proposals of other organizations of the United Nations system, the staff costs are shown net of staff assessment under the various expenditure sections of the programme budget.

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.

However, even with these improved database systems, the international comparability of databases will remain limited unless the harmonization of concepts, definitions, classifications and other methodological elements is pursued according to common international standards by the international statistical community.

To facilitate comparability with the work programme and budget proposals of other organizations of the United Nations system, the staff costs are shown net of staff assessment under the various sections of expenditure of the proposed programme budget.

10. Regarding the establishment of national drug abuse assessment systems in line with the International Drug Abuse Assessment System, the situation varies from country to country, and differences in comparability have made the analysis of reported data difficult.

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.