Report of the Meeting of Heads of North and East African Statistical Offices

Abstract

Report of the meeting of heads of North and East African Statistical Offices. Reports made by the country delegates provided useful information on the statistical situation in North and East Africa. General progress was noted, although there were considerable differences between countries in the degree of statistical development achieved. The countries stressed the importance of sustaining and refining work which was already being undertaken on a continuing basis, notably public finance, national accounts, banking and industrial statistics, a number of countries were organizing industrial censuses and, in one case, a census of distribution had been carried out. The importance of distributing statistical publications as widely as possible was fully appreciated and some countries were able to report the existence of well-developed bilateral arrangements for this purpose.