City groups on statistical methodologies

View the programme on City Groups:

Country and area codes for statistical use

Civil registration systems

Developing the capability to operate and maintain the fundamental systems of civil registration and vital statistics in a coordinated manner...

Data dictionary of official definitions: UN Common Database

View the UNESIS Data Dictionary- a set of internationally recognised definitions of terms, an invaluable tool for promoting integration and consistency among databases and a common and agreed language among users and producers...

Development indicators

View the work of the Advisory Committee on Indicators...

Demographic and social surveys

Promoting household surveys through the production of methodological publications and encouraging integrated household survey programmes...

Geographical names and information systems, methods and techniques

International economic and social classifications

View the programme on statistical classifications:

International migration

View materials in statistics of international migration and international recommendations for those statistics...

Methodological publications in statistics

View the database composed on "work in progress", containing information on planned or current work in progress of the international organizations, and "completed work", which provides details and annotations on previously adopted statistical standards and published methodological work....

National accounting

View the programme on national accounts:

Official statistics: principles and practices, organization and management

This site provides the Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics and related reference materials, including the Handbook of Statistical Organization, Third Edition: The Operation and Organization of a Statistical Agency. Deals with the fundamentals of national systems of official statistics: general principles, organization and management, data collection, respondent policies, and dissemination guidelines...

Public order and safety, offenders and their victims 

Population density and urbanization

Standards and methods on population density and urbanization, data on the population of the city proper according to its administrative bounderies and on the urban agglomeration...

Population and Housing Censuses

Standards and methods, housing census programmes to assists countries in the development, conduct and implementation of periodic population and housing censuses...

Poverty Statistics

Statistical activities classification

View the United Nations system programme classification used to coordinate statistical activities of the United Nations agencies....

Statistics on international trade in services

View the work on international trade in services, including the draft Manual and current state of methodology and implementation of international guidelines for the compilation of statistics related to international trade in services...

Time-use statistics (Allocation of time and time use)

View the Programme to facilitate and promote the conduct of time-use surveys in developing countries, activities which contribute to the development of international guidelines and an activity classification for time use statistics...