Twenty-ninth session
11-14 February 1997
Item 2 of the provisional agenda*
1. By Economic and Social Council resolutions 1979/1 and 1979/69 on the control and limitation of documentation and 1988/77 on the revitalization of the Council, the Council reiterated that the Secretariat should circulate the relevant documentation in all the working languages six weeks before the opening of the sessions of the Council and its subsidiary organs, and invited the Secretariat to take steps to ensure effective compliance with rule 13, paragraph 4, of the rules of procedure of the Council. By resolution 1979/69, the Council requested the Secretariat to inform the Council and its subsidiary bodies which documents had not been issued in accordance with the six-week rule, with a full explanation of the reasons that prevented their circulation.
2. In view of the schedule of the twenty-ninth session of the Statistical Commission (11-14 February 1997), the documentation for that session should have been submitted to the Division for Policy Coordination and Economic and Social Council Affairs by 30 December 1996 and circulated by 13 January 1997.
| Agenda item | Document and symbol | Date of submission to the Division for Policy Coordination and Economic and Social Council Affairs | Date of submission to the Office of Conference Services | Actual or projected date of issue |
| 2 | Provisional agenda and annotations (E/CN.3/1997/1) | Issued | ||
| 3 | Critical problems in economic statistics
Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the Expert Group on Critical Problems in Economic Statistics (E/CN.3/1997/2) |
Issued | ||
| Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the reports of the ad hoc study groups established by the Statistical Commission's Working Group on International Statistical Programmes and Coordination (E/CN.3/1997/3) | 9 December | 8 January | 5 February | |
| Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the reports of the ad hoc study groups established by the Statistical Commission's Working Group on International Statistical Programmes and Coordination (E/CN.3/1997/3/Add.1) | Issued | |||
| 4 | International economic and social
classifications
Report of the Secretary-General on international economic and social classifications (E/CN.3/1997/4) |
Issued | ||
| Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the Voorburg Group on Service Statistics on the revised Provisional Central Product Classification (E/CN.3/1997/5) | Issued | |||
| Draft revised Central Product
Classification (Services Part) (PROVISIONAL/ST/ESA/STAT/SER.M/77 (Version 1.0)) | 4 November | 4 November | 5 February | |
| Draft revised Central Product
Classification (Services Part) (PROVISIONAL/ST/ESA/STAT/SER.M/77 (Version 1.0)/Corr.1)) | 23 January | 24 January | 10 February | |
| 5 | Environment statistics
Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the Task Force on Environment Statistics (E/CN.3/1997/6) |
Issued | ||
| 6 | Service statistics
Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the Task Force on Service Statistics (E/CN.3/1997/7) |
30 January |
- |
- |
| 7 | Industrial and construction statistics
Report of the Secretary-General on the revised International Recommendations for Construction Statistics (E/CN.3/1997/9) |
Issued | ||
| Draft revised International Recommendations for Construction Statistics (PROVISIONAL/ST/ESA/STAT/SER.M/47/Rev.1) | 22 October | 22 October | 10 February | |
| 8 | International trade statistics
Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the Task Force on International Trade Statistics (E/CN.3/1997/10) |
Issued | ||
| Report of the Secretary-General on the revised International Merchandise Trade Statistics: Concepts and Definitions (E/CN.3/1997/11) | Issued | |||
| Draft revised International Merchandise Trade Statistics: Concepts and definitions (PROVISIONAL/ST/ESA/STAT/SER.M/52/Rev.2) | 10 October | 31 October | 10 February | |
| 9 | National accounts
Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the Task Force on National Accounts (E/CN.3/1997/12) |
Issued | ||
| 10 | Finance statistics
Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the Task Force on Finance Statistics (E/CN.3/1997/13) |
Issued | ||
| 11 | Demographic and social statistics:
(a) 2000 World Population and Housing Census Programme
Report of the Secretary-General on the preparation of the 2000 World Population and Housing Census Programme (E/CN.3/1997/14) |
16 December |
23 December |
6 February |
| Draft revised Principles and
Recommendations for Population and
Housing Censuses (PROVISIONAL/ST/ESA/STAT/SER.M/67/Rev.1) | 5 November | 5 November | 10 February | |
| (b) Demographic, social and migration
statistics
Report of the Secretary-General on demographic, social and migration statistics (E/CN.3/1997/15 and Add.1 and Add.2) |
Issued | |||
| Draft revised Recommendations on
Statistics of International Migration (PROVISIONAL/ST/ESA/STAT/SER.M/58/Rev.1) | 25 November | 26 November | 10 February | |
| (c) Statistical implications of recent major
United Nations conferences
Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the Expert Group on the Statistical Implications of Recent Major United Nations Conferences (E/CN.3/1997/16) |
Issued | |||
| 12 | Technical cooperation in statistics
Report of the Secretary-General on technical cooperation in statistics (E/CN.3/1997/18) |
Issued | ||
| Note by the Secretary-General on crucial issues on technical cooperation (E/CN.3/1997/18/Add.1) | Issued | |||
| Note by Statistics Canada on a framework
for the description and analysis of
technical assistance (E/CN.3/1997/18/Add.2) | Issued | |||
| 13 | Coordination and integration of
international statistical programmes
Report of the Working Group on International Statistical Programmes and Coordination on its eighteenth session (E/CN.3/1997/19) |
Issued | ||
| Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the ACC Subcommittee on Statistical Activities on its twenty-ninth session (E/CN.3/1997/20) | Issued | |||
| Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the ACC Subcommittee on Statistical Activities on its thirtieth session (E/CN.3/1997/21) | Issued | |||
| Report of the Secretary-General on strengthening the role of the regional commissions on statistics (E/CN.3/1997/22) | 16 December | 10 January | 6 February | |
| Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of an ad hoc study group on the review of the efforts aimed at strengthening international statistical cooperation since 1992 (E/CN.3/1997/23) | 23 January | 3 February | 10 February | |
| Report of the Secretary-General assessing the work of the inter-agency task forces established by the Statistical Commission in relation to their mandates (E/CN.3/1997/24) | 20 December | 15 January | 5 February | |
| Report of the Secretary-General on the coordination of statistical data-collection activities (E/CN.3/1997/25) | Issued | |||
| 14 | World Statistics Day
Report of the Secretary-General on the possible holding of a world statistics day (E/CN.3/1997/26) |
Issued | ||
| 15 | Programme questions and related matters
Report of the Secretary-General on the plans of international organizations in statistics (E/CN.3/1997/27) |
Issued | ||
| Note by the Secretary-General on the draft programme of work and medium-term plan of the United Nations Statistics Division (E/CN.3/1997/28) | 24 January | 27 January | 4 February | |
| Draft programme of work of the United Nations Statistics Division for the biennium 1998-1999 and related information (E/CN.3/1997/CRP.1) | 24 January | 28 January | 7 February | |
| Medium-term plan of the United Nations Statistics Division for the period 1998-2001 (E/CN.3/1997/CRP.2) | Issued | |||
| 16 | Provisional agenda for the thirtieth
session of the Commission
Draft provisional agenda for the thirtieth session of the Commission (E/CN.3/1997/L.3) |
Issued |