The Handbook on Economic Tendency Surveys provides best practices and harmonized principles on how to conduct economic tendency survey from sample selection, questionnaire design, survey questions, survey execution, to data processing and dissemination. It also provides examples of uses of these surveys, for example, for composite tendency indicators. These surveys provide qualitative information that cannot be collected using other quantitative statistical methods. They also serve as an integral part of an early warning system because they provide information about the occurrence and timing of upturns and downturns of the economy.

This flagship publication, System of National Accounts, 2008 (2008 SNA) is the comprehensive statistical framework for economic statistics that provides a consistent and flexible set of macroeconomic accounts for policymaking, analysis and research. It has been produced and is released under the auspices of the United Nations, the European Commission, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group.

This portal provides data and detailed metadata for indicators on violence against women. The portal also provides a one stop access to related methodological guidelines and capacity building events.

This portal provides data and detailed metadata for time-use statistics provided by countries. Detailed information on the collection instruments and type of surveys used by countries to collect time use data is available and serves as a repository of national practices in time use statistics. The portal also provides a one stop access to related methodological guidelines and capacity building events.

The publication will provide national statistical agencies with guidance on collecting, processing, disseminating and analysing data on entrepreneurship from a gender perspective. These Guidelines introduce the concepts, definitions and data requirements for measuring entrepreneurship from a gender perspective and provide guidance on planning, organizing and implementing a survey to collect the data (a stand-alone, dedicated (or specialized) survey, or on how to introduce a module into another survey) as well as on planning for data analysis and dissemination.

The publication will provide national statistical agencies with guidance on collecting, processing, disseminating and analysing data on asset ownership from a gender perspective. These Guidelines introduce the concepts, definitions and data requirements for measuring asset ownership from a gender perspective and provide guidance on planning, organizing and implementing a survey to collect the data (a stand-alone, dedicated (or specialized) survey, or on how to introduce a module into another survey) as well as on planning for data analysis and dissemination.

The publication provides national statistical agencies with guidance on collecting, processing, disseminating and analysing data on violence against women. These Guidelines introduce the concepts, definitions and data requirements for measuring violence against women and provide guidance on planning, organizing and implementing a survey on violence against women (a stand-alone, dedicated (or specialized) survey, or on how to introduce a module on violence against women into another survey) as well as on planning for data analysis and dissemination.

The present manual is targeted primarily at statisticians working in national statistical systems and can be used as resource material for training in gender statistics. The manual should help statisticians (a) to improve the coverage of gender issues in statistics, as well as the quality of statistics, on a wide range of topics; (b) to incorporate a gender perspective into the design of surveys and censuses, by taking into account gender issues and gender bias in measurement; and (c) to improve data analysis and data presentation and to deliver gender statistics in a format that is easy to use by policymakers and planners. The manual may also be useful for data users who wish to be able to interpret statistics correctly and to understand the problems involved in the production of gender statistics and therefore have a more efficient dialogue with data producers.

This report is a step towards better understanding of country practices and difficulties and challenges in maintaining the civil registration system and in collecting and compiling vital statistics. The report can help countries
in the African region to share experiences while in the process of improving their civil registration and vital statistics system, particularly in the context of the Africa Programme on Accelerated Improvement of Civil Registration and Vital Statistics and the Conferences of African Ministers Responsible for Civil Registration.

This report is a step towards better understanding of country practices and difficulties and challenges in maintaining the civil registration system and in collecting and compiling vital statistics. The report can help countries in the African region to share experiences while in the process of improving their civil registration and vital statistics system.