As well as his duties as ex officio member of the Australian Statistics Advisory Council, Pink is Vice Chairman of the OECD Committee on Statistics, and Australia's Head of Delegation to the United Nations Statistical Commission.
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Economists were expecting surprises in the data since Monday's release was the first set of preliminary figures calculated using newer international standards _ the so-called 93 SNA recommended by the U . N . Statistical Commission.
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The TSA was recognized by the United Nations Statistical Commission in 1999 . During the 1990s, the WTTC expanded the activities of the Council to include education and training, air transport liberalisation, and taxation and sustainable development.
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To support the implementation of SEEA-Water the United Nations Statistics Division ( UNSD ) developed the International Recommendations on Water Statistics ( IRWS ), which has also been adopted by the UN Member States through the Statistical Commission.
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The statistics _ based on standards issued in 1993 by the U . S . Statistical Commission _ also showed the economy shrank 0.6 percent in the 1998 fiscal year, compared with a 2 percent decline under the old rules.
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The statistics _ based on standards issued in 1993 by the U . S . Statistical Commission _ also showed the economy shrank 0 . 6 percent in the 1998 fiscal year, compared with a 2 percent decline under the old rules.
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According to Joy E . Hecht, PhD, the 1993 handbook did not receive the approval of the United Nations Statistical Commission " . . . because it did not represent a consensus report but was offered to UN members as a basis for discussion and experimental implementation ".
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Several projects have been initiated in developing countries such as Botswana, Colombia and Madagascar with a view to improving their capacity to implement the SEEA, in collaboration with UNEP, the UNDP, the United Nations Statistical Commission, and the financial support of NGOs and the governments of Australia, Canada, France, Japan, Norway and the United States.
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ECOSOC's subsidiary bodies include the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, which advises UN agencies on issues relating to indigenous peoples; the United Nations Forum on Forests, which co-ordinates and promotes sustainable forest management; the United Nations Statistical Commission, which co-ordinates information-gathering efforts between agencies; and the Commission on Sustainable Development, which co-ordinates efforts between UN agencies and NGOs working towards sustainable development.
