Statistical commission
The United Nations Statistical commission is responsible for the development and coordination of statistical services within the UN organization. The Commission also serves as an advisory body to the Secretariat and the UN agencies.
A subunit of the Commission is the United Nations Statistics Division. The subunit collects and disseminates statistical information and publishes statistical data updates, reports and papers regularly.
More on the Statistical commission
The individual documents of the Statistical commission carry the following symbols:
E/ Economic and Social Council |
-/CN.3 Commission no 3 = Statistical commission |
-/year |
-/sequential number |
Ex. E/CN.3/2002/7 Economic and Social Council, Statistical commission, 2002, document no 7 |
- Statistical commission. Documentation and reports, information about the structure and work of the commission.
- The commission submits an annual report to the ECOSOC in the documentary series Supplements to the Official Records of the Economic and Social Council with the symbol pattern: E/CN.3/YEAR/No.
- Supplements are posted as 'Reports' at the ECOSOC website.
- UNdata includes statistical data from a variety of UN sources.
- UNSD : Statistics
- Statistics resource guide a research guide by the UNOG library.
Key UN documents
- UN Charter in Swedish | in English
- UN System Chart
- Yearbook of the United Nations
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Swedish | in English
- Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action
- Statue of the International Court of Justice
UN documents and publications in catalogues and databases
- United Nations Digital Library. UN official documents and open access publications, UN maps, UN voting data and speeches.
- UN iLibrary. UN publications online covering different topics.
- ODS (Official Document System) is an full-text database of UN documents published since 1993, including digitized documents published between 1946 and 1993.
- Daily list of documents. Documents published for the day, with full text links, can be found in the United Nations full text database ODS.
- UNBIS Thesaurus is a multilingual database of the controlled vocabulary used to describe UN documents.
- Index to proceedings is an annual bibliographic guide to the proceedings and documentation of the major UN organs. The index includes:
- a list of all documents
- a comprehensive subject index
- an index to speeches
- a voting chart of resolutions
- United Nations Documents Index (in United Nations Digital Library). References to all documents by subject area are published. A collection of indexes is held by the Dag Hammarskjöld and Law Library, Uppsala, Sweden and the UN Library in New York and the UN library in Geneva.