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Guidelines for Industrial Statistics

This page list guidelines issued by the United Nations for the production of industrial statistics.
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PDF   International Recommendations for Industrial Statistics (IRIS) 2008
(Statistical Papers, Series M, No. 90)

  This volume contains the internationally recommended concepts and definitions for use by national and international statistical offices in collecting statistical indicators of industrial activity.

The document shown here is the final draft version of February 2008, submitted to the United Nations Statistical Commission.
The previous, version of this document International Recommendations for Industrial Statistics (Statistical Papers, Series M, No. 48, Rev.1), published in 1983, is accessible here.


PDF   Index numbers of Industrial Production (IIP) 1950
(Statistical Papers, Series F, No.1)

  This manual provides guidance on matters of basic concepts and of statistical practice to individual countries compiling, or planning to compile, index numbers of production and assists in securing international comparability between national index numbers.

This manual is currently under revision. A complete draft version is expected in 2008.

 

The following two are reference documents for economic statistics, under development by the United Nations Statistics Division:

PDF   Statistical Units
(ESA/STAT/2008/6)
PDF   Integrated List of Data Items for Use in Basic Economic Statistics
(ESA/STAT/2008/6)