22 July 2004

Documents for the thirty-fifth session of the Statistical Commission
New York, 2 to 5 March 2004

A. Below is a list of official documents. For background documents, normally in English only, please go to B.

(All 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.

• Background information on the Statistical Commission and practical information on its functioning
• Report of the Paris Group on Labour and Compensation on its fifth session, London, 4-5 September 2003
• Report of the Inter-agency Task Force on Statistics of International Trade in Services to the Statistical Commission 2004
• Report on the comparison of IMF's data quality assessment framework and Eurostat's quality definition
• Joint UNECE/UNCTAD/UIS/ITU/OECD/Eurostat Statistical Workshop on Monitoring the Information Society: Data, Measurement and Methods, Geneva, 8-9 December 2003
• Report of the Expert Group Meeting on Measuring Electronic Commerce as an Instrument for the Development of the Digital Economy, Geneva, 8-10 September 2003
• Report of the Expert Group Meeting on Setting the Scope of Social Statistics, New York, 6-9 May 2003
• World Telecommunication Development Report 2003: Access Indicators for the Information Society - Executive Summary (in all 6 official UN languages)
• Work programme for the updating of the 1993 SNA
• Addendum to E/CN.3/2004/5 "Report of the UN-HABITAT on Human Settlement Statistics"
• List of publications by the UNSD in 2003
• Measuring and monitoring the information and knowledge societies: a statistical challenge (in English and French)
• The development and management of data and statistics with the objective of ensuring an empirical basis for policy making in the field of international drug control - UNODC Statement at the Statistical Commission 35th session
• Chapter 5 "The Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics: the Breakthrough of a New Era" from the UNECE publication "50 Years of the Conference of European Statisticians"
• Executive summary of the Third Meeting of the Washington Group on Disability Statistics, February 19-20, 2004, Brussels, Belgium
• Report of the Expert Group Meeting to Review the United Nations Demographic Yearbook System, New York, 10-14 November 2003
• Summary Report of the 17th International Conference of Labour Statisticians (ICLS), Geneva, 24 November to 3 December 2003
• Inter-secretariat Working Group on Price Statistics
• Statistical Activities of the International Labour Organization
• The Second Administrative Level Boundaries data set project (SALB): Concepts, Progress and Future
• Status Report on the International Comparison Programme
• Updated activities of the Delhi Group on Informal Sector Statistics
• The Marrakech Action Plan for Statistics: Better Data for Better Results - An Action Plan for Improving Development Statistics
• Proposed Strategic Framework for the biennium 2006-2007
• Opening Statement at the Statistical Commission by Mr. Jose Antonio Ocampo, Under-Secretary General for Economic and Social Affairs, March 2, 2004
• Update: Handbook on Non-Profit Institutions in the System of National Accounts
• Advisory Committee on Indicators study on the correspondence of Friends of the Chair and Millennium Development Goals Indicators and availability of data
• OECD/DAC Chairman Richard Manning's address to the Statistical Commission
• Statement by Ms. Katherine K. Wallman, Chief Statistician, Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office of the President of the United States of America, Chairperson of the United Nations Statistical Commission, at the ECOSOC Panel of Chairpersons of Functional Commissions, 19 July 2004