Global consultation on the
International Recommendations for Industrial Statistics and Distributive Trade Statistics

The UN Statistical Commission at its 37th session in 2006 endorsed the proposal for the revision of International Recommendations for Industrial Statistics (last revised in 1983) and International Recommendations on Statistics of the Distributive Trades and Services (last revised in 1975). These international recommendations have since been revised in consultation with their respective Expert Groups.

A global consultation was undertaken to seek views of the global statistical community on the revised provisional draft International Recommendations for Industrial Statistics 2008 (IRIS 2008) and the revised provisional draft International Recommendations for Distributive Trade Statistics 2008 (IRDTS 2008).

The consolidated comments received from countries and international organisations for each of the provisional drafts are provided below.

The revised final draft International Recommendations for Industrial Statistics 2008 (IRIS 2008) and the revised final draft International Recommendations for Distributive Trade Statistics 2008 (IRDTS 2008) to be presented for adoption by the UN Statistical Commission at its 39th session in 2008 are posted below.

Revised Final Draft Recommendations Revised Final Draft Recommendations
International Recommendations for Industrial Statistics 2008 (IRIS 2008) - Final Draft International Recommendations for Distributive Trade Statistics 2008 (IRDTS 2008) - Final Draft
 
Consolidated Comments Consolidated Comments
Consolidated comments for IRIS 2008 Consolidated comments for IRDTS 2008
 
Revised Provisional Draft Recommendations Revised Provisional Draft Recommendations
  International Recommendations for Industrial Statistics 2008 (IRIS 2008) - Provisional Draft   International Recommendations for Distributive Trade Statistics 2008 (IRDTS 2008) - Provisional Draft
 
"Old" Recommendations "Old" Recommendations
International Recommendations for Industrial Statistics International Recommendations on Statistics of the Distributive Trades and Services
 
Reference Documents
Integrated List of Data Items for Use in Basic Economic Statistics
Statistical Units