Documents of the Statistical Commission for its thirty-first session
New York from 29 February to 3 March 2000

For background documents, normally in English only, go to B below.

(All the files are in Adobe Acrobat PDF format )

B. Following is a list of background documents and room documents. These are not formal documents of the session and are generally in English only.

• Minutes of the meeting of the Inter-Secretariat Working Group on National Accounts, Washington D.C., 15-16 April 1999
• Minutes of the meeting of the Inter-Secretariat Working Group on National Accounts, Paris, 16-17 September 1999
• Progress in the process of implementation of the 1993 SNA in Latin America and the Caribbean, 1998-1999 (available in Spanish only)
• Minutes of the Task Force on International Trade Statistics Meeting held in Washington D.C. 8-10, March 1999
• Tenth Meeting of the Interagency Task Force on Statistics of International Trade in Services, 8-10 February, 2000, IMF, Washington D.C
• Overview of the Manual on Statistics of International Trade in Services (Attachment to letters sent by UNSD and IMF as part of the worldwide review of the draft manual)
• Quality improvement in the calculation of the Purchasing Power Parities: proposals from EUROSTAT
• Updated information on OECD work on Purchasing Power Parities
• Canberra Group on Household Income Statistics - update to E/CN.3/2000/9
• Proposed amendments to the document "Tourism Satellite Account (TSA): Methodological References" (EUROSTAT/OECD/WTO)
• United States' Comments on "Recommendations on Tourism Statistics" and on "Tourism Satellite Accounts (TSA): Methodological References"
• Note for translators - changes to the United Nations/World Tourism Organization Recommendations on Tourism Statistics M.83(English)
• Note for translators - changes to the United Nations/World Tourism Organization Recommendations on Tourism Statistics M.83 (French)
• Note for translators - changes to the United Nations/World Tourism Organization Recommendations on Tourism Statistics M.83(Spanish)
• General comments in relation to the document "Draft update of UNSD and WTO Recommendations on Tourism Statistics including Draft Provisional List of Tourism Specific Products (PROV/ST/ESA/STAT/SER.M/83/Rev.1) (EUROSTAT and OECD)
• E/1999/11 - A critical review of the development of indicators in the context of conference follow-up; Report of the Secretary-General
• E/1999/77 - Informal meeting of the Economic and Social Council on basic indicators for the integrated and coordinated implementation and follow-up of the major United Nations conferences and summits (New York, 10-11 May 1999) Summary by the President of the Council
• Statistics and indicators for social progress- Outline of a proposal for the Geneva 2000 Special Session on Social Development (ECE)
• International work on industry classification - what are the priorities (Australian Bureau of Statistics)
• Programmes of international statistical work in the ECE region, 2000/2001 and 2001/2002: An integrated presentation