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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.