Measuring the Sustainable Development Goal Indicators: An unprecedented statistical challenge

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dc.contributor.authorMacFeely, Stephen
dc.date.accessioned2021-08-30T15:41:38Z
dc.date.available2021-08-30T15:41:38Z
dc.date.issued2020-06-15
dc.date.updated2021-08-30T15:35:37Z
dc.description.abstractIn March 2017, the United Nations (UN) Statistical Commission adopted a measurement framework for the UN Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development, comprising of 232 indicators designed to measure the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their respective 169 targets. The scope of this measurement framework is so ambitious it led Mogens Lykketoft, President of the seventieth session of the UN General Assembly, to describe it as an 'unprecedented statistical challenge'. Naturally, with a programme of this magnitude, there will be foreseen and unforeseen challenges and consequences. This article outlines some of the key differences between the Millennium Development Goals and the SDGs, before detailing some of the measurement challenges involved in compiling the SDG indicators, and examines some of the unanticipated consequences arising from the mechanisms put in place to measure progress from a broad political economy perspective.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
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dc.identifier.citationMacFeely, S. (2020) 'Measuring the Sustainable Development Goal Indicators: An Unprecedented Statistical Challenge', Journal of Official Statistics, 36 (2), pp. 361-378. doi: 10.2478/jos-2020-0019en
dc.identifier.doi10.2478/jos-2020-0019en
dc.identifier.endpage378en
dc.identifier.issn0282-423X
dc.identifier.issued2en
dc.identifier.journaltitleJournal of official Statisticsen
dc.identifier.startpage361en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/11812
dc.identifier.volume36en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherSciendoen
dc.relation.urihttps://sciendo.com/de/article/10.2478/jos-2020-0019
dc.rights© 2020 Steve MacFeely, published by Sciendo. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/en
dc.subject2030 Agendaen
dc.subjectAdministrative dataen
dc.subjectNational statistical systemsen
dc.subjectUnintended consequencesen
dc.subjectSustainable Development Goal Indicatorsen
dc.subjectSustainable Development Goals (SDGs)en
dc.titleMeasuring the Sustainable Development Goal Indicators: An unprecedented statistical challengeen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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