{"id":8365,"date":"2023-04-07T05:24:21","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T23:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=8365"},"modified":"2025-03-29T02:35:33","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T21:05:33","slug":"united-nations-statistical-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/united-nations-statistical-commission\/","title":{"rendered":"United Nations Statistical Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About United Nations Statistical Commission:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It was established in 1947(HQ: New York) and is the highest body of the global statistical system.<\/li>\n<li>It brings together the Chief Statisticians from member states from around the world.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Functions:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the highest decision-making body for <strong>international statistical activities<\/strong>, responsible for setting <strong>statistical standards<\/strong> and the development of concepts and methods, including their implementation at the national and international levels.<\/li>\n<li>The Statistical Commission oversees the work of the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), and it is a <strong>Functional Commission<\/strong> of the <strong>UN Economic and Social Council.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Membership:<\/strong> The Commission consists of <strong>24 member countries<\/strong> of the United Nations <strong>elected by<\/strong> the <strong>United Nations Economic and Social Council<\/strong> based on an equitable <strong>geographical distribution<\/strong> according to the following pattern:\n<ul>\n<li>Five members from <strong>African States<\/strong> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Four members from <strong>Asia-Pacific States<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Four members from <strong>Eastern European States<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Four members from <strong>Latin American and Caribbean States<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Seven members from <strong>Western European and other States<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The term of office of members is <strong>four years.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>India was a member of the Statistical <strong>Commission last in 2004<\/strong> and the country is returning to the UN agency after a gap of two decades.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Statistics?<\/h3>\n<p>Statistics is the science concerned with developing and studying methods for collecting, analyzing, interpreting and presenting empirical data. Statistics is a highly interdisciplinary field; research in statistics finds applicability in virtually all scientific fields and research.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/india-elected-to-un-statistical-commission\/article66704301.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>India elected to UN Statistical Commission<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UN Statistical Commission was established in 1947 and is the highest body of the global statistical system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8366,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8365","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}