Documents of the Statistical Commission for the thirtieth session
New York from 1 to 5 March 1999

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.

• The future of the International Comparison Programme (ICP): Comments by the Australian Bureau of Statistics
• A statistical perspective of the IMF's Special Data Dissemination Standard (SDDS): Views of the Australian Bureau of Statistics
• Population and housing census dates: 1990 and 2000 rounds of censuses (Containing data available as of February 15, 1999) (related to E/CN.3/1999/9)
• Developing a framework to measure sustainable development. Note by OECD
• Sustainable Development Indicators: OECD plans. Note by OECD
• The Statistical Measurement of Poverty (a paper prepared by Simon Schwartzman, President, Brazilian Institute for Geography and Statistics)
• Follow-up to the agreed conclusions of the ECOSOC high level and coordination segments and to its resolutions: note by the United Nations Statistics Division
• Preamble: International Family of Economic and Social Classifications (related to E/CN.3/1999/17)
• Standard Statistical Classifications: Basic Principles (related to E/CN.3/1999/17)
• Proposed future work programme of the Classification Sub-group of the Voorburg Group on the Central Product Classification (related to E/CN.3/1999/18)
• The Harmonized System: Present position and plans for the future. Note by the World Customs Organization
• Report of the Working Group Session on Best Practices in Statistics (Singapore, 12-14 January 1999) (related to E/CN.3/1999/26)

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