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International Recommendations for Distributive Trade Statistics 2008 (Statistical papers, Series M, No. 89) – NEW INTERNATIONAL RECOMMENDATIONS

Administrator2 — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 14:38:01 GMT

The United Nations Statistical Commission, at its thirty-ninth session held in New York on 26-29 February 2008, adopted the International Recommendations for Distributive Trade Statistics 2008 (IRDTS 2008) as the new standard in this area of statistics. IRDTS 2008 provides the comprehensive methodological framework for collection and compilation of distributive trade statistics in all countries irrespective of the level of development of their statistical systems. Its primary audience is the staff of national statistical offices involved in the compilation of these statistics. IRDTS 2008 also contains a wealth of information which might be of interest to data users who would like to better understand the nature of distributive trade data.

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International Recommendations on Statistics of the Distributive Trades and Services (Statistical Papers, Series M, No. 57) – OLD INTERNATIONAL RECOMMENDATIONS

FP Distributive Trade Statistics — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:45:30 GMT

This is an expanded and updated version of the recommendations adopted by the Statistical Commission at its ninth session and published in 1958 (International Recommendations in Statistics of Distribution, Statistical Papers, Series M, No. 26, Sales No. 58.XVII.4). The manual contains internationally recommended concepts and definitions for use by national statistical services in developing their national statistics and collecting indicators of distributive trades and services. These recommendations are intended also to provide a basis for international reporting of statistics of the distributive trades and services.