Services in the informal sector of Africa

Abstract

At the special session of the Statistical Commission on 11 - 15 April 1994 several developing countries asked for a group to be set up to examine and consider service industry statistics in view of the emerging nature of that sector in their economies, and the significant problems of measurement and accounting associated with the informal and household sectors specific to those economies. The Working Group on International Statistical Programmes and Coordination at its seventeenth session urged the United Nations Statistical Division (UNSD) to allocate the required resources to examine this problem.