| Description | The Handbook provides a single comprehensive reference set of international guidelines and recommendations for the reporting and presentation of statistical data and metadata. Although, the Handbook was prepared primarily for short-term economic statistics, many, if not most of the recommendations presented are also relevant for annual (structural) statistics and for social and population statistics. The Handbook draws heavily on existing international statistical guidelines and recommendations that have been developed over the last twenty years by international organisations and national statistical agencies. These international standards have been developed for implementation by international organisations themselves and by national statistical agencies. |