System of National Accounts

ISWGNA

Iraq

Country	Statistical Agency	Institution	Central Organization for Statistics And Information Technology (COSIT) Ministry of Planning P. O. Box 8001 Baghdad, Iraq (964-1) 887-4321 Email cso@cso-yemen.org Web http://cosit.gov.iq/english/index.php

	Legal Framework	Statistical Law	Statistics Law No. 21 - issued for the year 1972 and covers the duties and responsibilities of CSOIT as well as those of respondents/individuals and institutions (no link)

	Projects/Programmes	2008 SNA Implementation Programme (ISWGNA)	2008 SNA

	Data	CSO Website	Annual Abstract of Statistics 2006 - 2007

	Statistical Standards	National Accounts Methodology	1968 System of National Accounts

		National Accounts Base Year	1988

		Balance of Payments Manual	BPM5

		Government Finance Accounting Concept	Budgetary

		CPI Base Year	1993

UNSD	Data	Country Profile	UNdata

		National Accounts	AMA

		UN-NAQ Latest Submission	2008

		UN-NAQ MRDS	5 tables

		HFI Data	Yes

IMF	Relevant Documents	Country Report	2010

		GDDS/SDDS	GDDS

	Data	World Economic Outlook	WEO

World Bank		Country Data	Iraq

Eurostat	Relevant Documents	Strategy Paper	Country Strategy Paper

Paris 21		National Strategies for the Development of Statistics	NSDS
			http://www.paris21.org/documents/3323.pdf