The data revolution presents new opportunities for national statistical offices
Big data for official statistics
Development of an international statistical geospatial framework
National data quality assurance framework
Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics (2014)
SEEA 2012: Central Framework, Experimental Ecosystem Accounting and Applications and Extensions
Revised Principles and Recommendations for a Vital Statistics System (2014)
Agreed as a practical starting point on a proposed global indicator framework for the Goals and targets of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (2016)
2020 World Population and Housing Statistics Programme
ECOSOC Resolution on "Strengthening statistical capacity" (2006/6)
Establishment of the Committee for the Coordination of Statistical Activities (CCSA)
Human settlements programme
Access to microdata: Proposed set of principles and guidelines, underlying the extreme importance of ensuring confidentiality and maintaining public trust
2010 World Population and Housing Census Programme
System of National Accounts - 2008
System of Environmental-Economic Accounts for Water (2007)
First edition of the World's Women (1991)
System of National Accounts - 1993
System of Environment-Economic Accounts 1993 (interim publication)
Minimum National Social Data Set (MNSDS)
Practical guidelines for good practices in technical cooperation in statistics
2000 World Population and Housing Census Programme
Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics (1994)
Continuing need for evaluation of technical cooperation in statistics
Stressing the need for cooperation amonginternational organizations in exchange of information and experiences
Work on the use of administrative records for statistical purposes
Handbook on Statistical Organization (1980)
1983 World Programme of Industrial Statistics
1984 Framework for the Development of Environment Statistics
1990 World Population and Housing Census Programme
Technical assistance integrated five-year scheme, in co-operation with the specialized agencies, established
The role of official statistics in advancing development objectives under the Second United Nations Development Decade strongly acknowledged
Comprehensive report International technical co-operation in statistics, 1979-1983, prepared by the United Nations Statistical Office jointly with the statistical offices of the regional commissions, specialized agencies, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations and a number of individual counties
Environment statistics: Stressing the importance of co-ordination at an early stage of the work between the United Nations system and other international bodies
National Household Survey Capability Programme
World Programme of Industrial Statistics
1980 World Population and Housing Census Programme
First Interagency Meeting on Statistical Activities (Geneva, 1966)
1970 World Population and Housing Census Programme
System of national Accounts - 1968
International Standard Industrial Classification, second revision
Classification by broad economic categories
Commission membership increased to 24 members, its current size
Standard International Trade Classification (SITC) (1950)
System of National Accounts - 1953
Principles for statistics of external trade (1953)
Definitions in basic industrial statistics (1953)
Recommendations for migration statistics (1953)
Principles for a Vital Statistics System - Recommendations for the Improvement and Standardization of Vital Statistics (1953)
International Definition and Measurement of Standards and Levels of Living (1954)
First Principles and Recommendations for National Population Censuses and General Principles for a Housing Census (1958)
The United Nations Statistical Commission established by ECOSOC as a subsidiary body with 12 members
United Nations Statistical Office (UNSO, now UNSD) instituted as the central statistical unit within the United Nations Secretariat; Henry Campion (UK) appointed the first director
First steps toward the development on international standardizations and classifications
World Statistical Congress - convoked by the United Nations to coincide with the first post-war congress of the International Statistical Institute - Washington, D.C., September 1947
Subcommittee on Statistical Sampling
First edition of the United Nations Demographic Yearbook (1949)
First International Standard Industrial Classification of all Economic Activities (ISIC) (1949)
