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International Recommendations for Energy Statistics
The International Recommendations for Energy Statistics (IRES) have been prepared by the United Nations Statistics Division in close cooperation with countries and other international/regional organizations and adopted by the United Nations Statistical Commission in February 2011. IRES was developed to assist countries in the establishment and strengthening of their energy statistical programmes. In particular IRES provides data compilers with a complete set of recommendations covering all aspects of the statistical production process from basic concepts definitions classifications and measurement units to data sources institutional and legal framework data compilation strategies energy balances data quality and statistical dissemination. It also contains the Standard International Energy Product Classification (SIEC) which is the first internationally agreed classification of energy products. IRES is a multipurpose document intended to address the need of various user groups including data producers and data users.
Classification by Broad Economic Categories, Rev.5
Defined in Terms of the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System (2012) and the Central Product Classification, 2.1
Broad Economic Categories (BEC) aims to analyse international trade statistics by large economic classes of goods and services based on the main outputs of corresponding industries to facilitate broad analyses of trade and production. It can also be used to identify end-use dimensions (intermediate consumption gross fixed capital formation final consumption). It provides a new top level of broad economic categories based on the main outputs of corresponding industries to facilitate broad analyses of trade and production and It adds services and therefore refers to products rather than goods. It also identifies end-use as a separate dimension.
Framework for the Development of Environment Statistics 2013
This multi-purpose conceptual and statistical framework provides an organizing structure to guide the collection and compilation of environment statistics at the national level. Though recommended for use by countries at any stage of development its primary objective is to guide countries at early stages in the development of their environment statistics programmes by: (i) delineating the scope of environment statistics and identifying its constituents; (ii) contributing to the assessment of data requirements sources availability and gaps; (iii) guiding the development of multipurpose data collection processes and databases; and (iv) assisting in the co-ordination and organization of environment statistics given the inter-institutional nature of the domain. It adequately responds to the increasing demand for information in the follow-up to Rio+20 and the Post-2015 Development Agenda.
Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses, Revision 3
Since its early years the United Nations has issued a series of international recommendations on population and housing censuses under the title “Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses”. These publication series which are based on good national practices in census taking are widely used by national statistical offices and census officials in countries throughout the world in planning and carrying out population and housing censuses as well as other related data collection activities particularly demographic and and socio-economic surveys.The recommendations provide guidance on the main characteristics of population and housing censuses general material on census methodology planning and operations and more detailed guidance on the content of censuses in terms of topics for population and also housing. These series are currently revised to assist countries in preparing for the 2020 round of censuses by taking into account changes in methodology technology as well as the need for better data dissemination and utilization.
Manual on Statistics of International Trade in Services 2010 Compiler's Guide
The Guide provides practical support on the compilation of service transactions between residents—non-residents transactions utilizing the EBOPS classification with special emphasis on the partner country break-down the foreign affiliates statistics (FATS) and also on flows by modes of supply. The overarching aim is to increase the availability and quality of SITS in order to fulfil the urgent needs and demands for such data by policy makers researchers market analysts and the public in general. While the international standards in economic statistics are in the process of being implemented this Guide comes timely providing the statistical community with guidelines best practices case studies and practical advice on the compilation of SITS.
International Recommendations for Tourism Statistics 2008
Compilation Guide
International Recommendations for Tourism Statistics 2008 Compilation Guide is a companion document to the International Recommendations for Tourism Statistics (IRTS 2008). The primary purpose of this Compilation Guide is to provide further clarifications and practical guidance for using sources and methods to compile statistics on tourism. It is designed to support the production of a high quality set of basic data and indicators in each country and to strengthen the international comparability of tourism statistics. The Compilation Guide was prepared by national compilers of tourism statistics experts from international and regional organisations and by staff of UNWTO.
Handbook on Economic Tendency Surveys
The Handbook on Economic Tendency Surveys provides best practices and harmonized principles on how to conduct economic tendency survey from sample selection questionnaire design survey questions survey execution to data processing and dissemination. It also provides examples of uses of these surveys for example for composite tendency indicators. These surveys provide qualitative information that cannot be collected using other quantitative statistical methods. They also serve as an integral part of an early warning system because they provide information about the occurrence and timing of upturns and downturns of the economy.
Principles and Recommendations for a Vital Statistics System
Revision 3
The publication is an international standard on the design and operation of an efficient and accurate vital statistics system at national level. It provides guidelines on collection compiling and disseminating vital statistics. More specifically it contains (a) basic principles for a vital statistics system; (b) uses of vital statistics and civil registration records; (c) topics to be covered in a vital statistics system; (d) sources of vital statistics and how they function; (e) quality assurance in the vital statistics system and (f) strategies in improving civil registration and vital statistics systems in countries. It also informs policy makers and the general public on the importance of vital statistics and hence further improving the vital statistics system.
International Recommendations for Distributive Trade Statistics 2008
The publication provides recommendations on the concepts definitions classifications data sources data compilation methods approaches to data quality assessment metadata and dissemination policies applicable in distributive trade statistics. The recommendations also cover some specific topics that have been identified as requiring additional guidance such as the treatment of informal sector units compilation of indices of distributive trade and seasonal adjustment. The information is consistent with those issued in other fields of economic statistics and has been harmonized with the System of National Accounts 2008 (2008 SNA).
International recommendations for industrial statistics 2008
The present publication is a component of the United Nations Statistics Division initiative for strengthening countries methodological and operational foundation for industrial statistics. Although this publication makes recommendations for industrial statistics many elements of its recommendations like those for the definition and delineation of statistical units and its guidance on a data-collection strategy and data compilation practices are generally applicable to the development of an integrated economic statistics system for business statistics in general with a view to collecting compiling and reporting basic economic data across economic activities in the most cost-efficient manner consistent with macroeconomic statistics. This publication is designed to provide a comprehensive methodological framework for the collection and reporting of industrial statistics in all countries irrespective of the level of development of their statistical systems.
International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities (ISIC), Rev.4
Principles and recommendations for population and housing censuses
The population and housing census is part of an integrated national statistical system which may include other censuses (for example agriculture) surveys registers and administrative files. It provides at regular intervals the benchmark for population count at national and local levels. For small geographical areas or sub-populations it may represent the only source of information for certain social demographic and economic characteristics. For many countries the census also provides a solid framework to develop sampling frames. This publication represents one of the pillars for data collection on the number and characteristics of the population of a country.