Chief Statistician of the OECD will visit Estonia

The visit is connected with the discussions about Estonia joining the OECD. On the first day of the visit Enrico Giovannini will meet the Director General of Statistics Estonia Priit Potisepp and the document of statistical requirements is under discussion which specifies the requirements of a candidate country in joining the OECD: subject areas that must be covered with official statistics, main economic indicators that the country has to publish regularly and description of the statistical system of the candidate country. A separate part of the document discusses the coherence of classifications of the production of statistics with the OECD classifications.

“The aim of the OECD according to the document of statistical requirements is to get reports on all five candidate countries for the next autumn, the reports will be submitted for assessment to the OECD Statistical Committee,” the Director General of Statistics Estonia Priit Potisepp remarked before the meeting. “I think that Estonia will have no problems in joining the OECD as concerns the official statistics.”

During the visit Enrico Giovannini will also be meeting the representatives of the State Chancellery and the Bank of Estonia.

Enrico Giovannini is the Chief Statistician and Director of Statistics Directorate of the OECD since January 2001. Before that he worked in the Italian National Institute of Statistics.

In parallel with Estonia discussions about joining the OECD are held with Chile, Russia, Israel and Slovenia.