Statistical Commission meets in New York.Recommendations on international classifications for economic activities and products, systems for measuring national economics, and technical co-operation were among the subjects discussed by the Statistical Commission in 1989. During its twenty-fifth session (615 February, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of ), the 24member body also considered questions related to population and housing censuses, environmental and social statistics, and a review of United Nations statistical publications. This year the Commission adopted a third revision of the International Standard Industrial Classification as the newly-recommended international statistical classification of industrial activity. Also adopted was the new Central Product Classification (CPC (1) (Central Processing Complex) An IBM mainframe that has two or more central processors (CPs) that share memory. It is the collection of processors, memory and I/O subsystems manufactured with a single serial number, typically all contained in one cabinet. ). The two documents were a product of joint efforts by the Statistical Office, the Statistical Commission in co-operation with the European Community European Community: see European Union. European Community (EC) Organization formed in 1967 with the merger of the European Economic Community, European Coal and Steel Community, and European Atomic Energy Community. and other international organizations. Progress was also made on a revised UN System of National Accounts (SNA (Systems Network Architecture) IBM's mainframe network standards introduced in 1974. Originally a centralized architecture with a host computer controlling many terminals, enhancements, such as APPN and APPC (LU 6. ), embodying definitions and concepts central to all macro-economic descriptions and analysis. The Commission hoped that a new draft of the revised SNA would come before its next session. Environment data needed Statistics on services and the environment were identified by the Commission as two important areas requiring substantially more attention. Extrabudgetary funds had been-secured to prepare a first draft of an environmental accounting handbook
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Development indicators were again the focus of the Commission's attentiOn when the report "Patterns of Consumption: Qualitative Aspects of Development" was discussed. The Commission recommended that the Economic and Social Council call for further work by the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development The United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) is "an autonomous United Nations agency that carries out research on the social dimensions of contemporary problems affecting development" [1]. The Institute was established in 1963. (UNRISD UNRISD United Nations Research Institute for Social Development ), in co-operation with the Statistical Office, the World Bank and others, on methodological questions on quantitative indicators of development. Established in 1947, the Commission meets every two years and is one of six functional commissions of the Economic and Social Council. A principal function is promoting the development and comparability of national statistics in a broad range of fields-from demographic and international growth and trade to social and development issues. |
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