Within the framework of the State Statistical Office cooperation with the UNFPA Office in Macedonia and the Platform for Tackling Poverty, the sixth workshop on the preparation of the Program for Statistical Surveys 2018-2022 was held in Veles. Representatives from the authorized holders in the national statistical system, as well as from other institutions who collect any kind of data, attended this workshop. The workshop participants concluded that it is necessary to improve the coordination and cooperation between the institutions involved in the production of official statistics, and one of the possibilities for achieving this goal is the establishment of the proposed Coordinating Committee.