Methodology of Statistics of International Trade in Services
(updated 9 August 2012)
Compilation Guide for MSITS 2010 (CG MSITS 2010)
The UN Expert Group was established in 2011 by UNSD to support the drafting of a compilers guide to support the implementation work in countries. Further information is available here.
World-Wide consultation on the annotated outline of the CG MSITS 2010
This Manual on Statistics of International Trade in Services 2010 (MSITS 2010) was prepared by the Interagency Task Force on Statistics of International Trade in Services (TFSITS) and approved by the UN Statistical Commission in 2010. It sets out an internationally agreed framework for the compilation
and reporting of statistics of international trade in services.
The updating of the MSITS 2002 was led by the
Interagency Task Force on Statistics of International Trade in Services (TFSITS). The process
started in 2006 with a worldwide consultation on the scope of the update and the issues to be included.
More information about the update of the MSITS 2002 is available here.
MSITS 2002
The first Manual on Statistics of International Trade in Services (MSITS 2002) was prepared by the Interagency Task Force on Statistics of International Trade in Services (TFSITS). It was approved by the UN Statistical Commission at its thirty-second session in March 2001 and was
officially published in 2002. The MSITS sets out a statistical framework for the collection and dissemination
of trade in services data.