Matters arising from the twelfth session of the statistical commission

Abstract

The twelfth session of the United Nations Statistical Commission was held at United Nations headquarters from 24 April to 10 May 1962. The substantive part of the report (E/3663) is divided into the following sections: review of international statistics (Par. 8-15), training and assistance to developing countries (par. 16-18), industrial statistics (par. 19-32),statistics of the financial accounts of enterprise (par. 33-39), integrated accounts on income and financial statistics (par 40-43) , national accounts (par. 44-61), methodology and evaluation of continuous population registers (par. 62-66), demographic statistics (par. 67-80), statistics for social programmes (par. 81-95), ad hoc working group of specialists in sample survey methods (par. 96-102), classification of governments accounts (par. 103-109), balance of payments statistics (par. 110-111), external trade statistics (par. 112-123), data processing by electronic computer (par. 124-129), tourist statistics (par. 130-132). While the various deliberations of the commission are of interest to the conference of African statisticians, this document is designed to highlight those aspects of the discussions which are of special relevance to the conference.