Matters arising from the fourteenth session of the statistical commission

Abstract

The Commission examined the report of the Inter-Agency Meeting on Statistical Activities (E/CffiT.3/350), held in Geneva in July 1966. On recommendation of the Commission, the Economic and Social Council on 1 June 1967 passed resolution 1214 (XLII) on "statistical co-ordination" which "Requests the Secretary-General, in consultation with the specialized agencies, to prepare a report for consideration by the proposed by the Inter-Agency Meeting inter-agency co-coordinating committee on statistical activities, and thereafter by the Statistical Commission at its fifteenth session, on the important interrelated fields of statistics for which world standards are desirable and on the practical methods by which the Statistical Commission could review and make recommendations on proposed statistical standards in these interrelated fields prior to their recognition as world standards".