Advocating the implementation of the Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics in countries

The Statistics Division will continue its efforts to promote the adoption of the principles and related practices.

It mandated a drafting group3 to develop proposals for a set of principles and good practices, and to use the Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics as a reference framework.

Ensuring that national statistical offices and other national organizations for official statistics are duly involved and advocating that the Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics be applied when data are collected in countries

(b) Comply with internationally accepted norms to protect human rights and fundamental freedoms and ethical principles in the collection and use of statistics.

Monthly bulletin of statistics, December, 2003, Federal Bureau of Statistics.

inspections by the office of labour inspectors and controllers, including relevant statistics on the number of labour inspections conducted, and on violations of the principles of the Convention discovered and remedies applied.

(b) Strengthen official energy statistics as part of the system of national statistics

Environmental economic accounting and related statistics are relatively new areas of statistics.

Statistics of games played

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As a result, the comparison and integration of agricultural statistics with other statistics was impaired.

Summary of tourism growth statistics

In cooperation with the Statistics Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, the Monitoring and Research Division mobilized a network of national statistics offices to collect urban statistics.

Annual industrial commodity production statistics are disseminated through the Industrial Commodity Statistics Yearbook with a time lag of about two years, while the monthly commodity production statistics are disseminated though the Monthly Bulletin of Statistics with a time lag of a quarter.

Database Statistics

Energy statistics

Social statistics

Research Statistics)

Research Statistics)

Energy statistics

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Business statistics

Tourism statistics

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Eurostat aims to put service statistics on a more equal footing with manufacturing statistics in both short term and structural statistics.

UNIDO disseminates general industrial statistics on manufacturing through its annual hard copy publication, The International Yearbook of Industrial Statistics, and CD ROM versions of the UNIDO industrial statistics database INDSTAT.

(d) Improving the coordination of energy statistics with social, economic and environmental statistics at the international level

We should not get carried away by statistics, but statistics are important.

(Source Table 18 Statistics Bulletin 5, 2003, Bosnia and Herzegovina Statistics Agency.

Strategy of the Statistics Division for updating international recommendations on distributive trade statistics and the status of its implementation

Also site of population survey statistics.

Costs of registration and statistics activities

Costs of registration and statistics activities

Source Central Bureau of Statistics, 2004

Source Central Bureau of Statistics, 2004

Source Central Bureau of Statistics, 2004

Source UNCTAD, Handbook of Statistics, 2004.

The Statistics Division held an expert group meeting on industrial statistics in September 2005, with the objective of reviewing the proposed amendments to current international recommendations for industrial statistics.

Source UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics, UNCTAD secretariat calculations based on UN Commodity Trade Statistics Database (UN Comtrade) data.

Source UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics, UNCTAD secretariat calculations based on UN Commodity Trade Statistics Database (UN Comtrade) data.