Business statistics

The 2025 System of National Accounts (2025 SNA) was adopted by the United Nations Statistical Commission during the 56th session in March 2025. The 2025 SNA is integrated with the 7th edition of the Integrated Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Manual (BPM). Varying capacities and experiences of national statistical offices in implementing the 2008 SNA will have an impact on the smooth transition to the updated framework. The implementation challenges are accentuated especially in small island developing states and most developing countries where data collection is not frequent nor granular for the new standard breakdown and/or supplementary tables/accounts, due to an array of factors such as resource constraints amongst others. >>more details

The 2025 SNA framework will serve as the internationally recognized standard for compiling economic activity measures. It aims to enhance the understanding of wellbeing and sustainability while providing adaptable methods to integrate environmental and social dimensions into economic statistics. Critical conceptual and measurement issues, such as in advancements of digital products, the complex interplay between economic, social, and environmental factors, and the intricacies of global trade, have been harmonized and incorporated into the updated framework to a great extent.  
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Historically business statistics have focused very much in measuring the economic performance and competitiveness of businesses. However, businesses play a very important role toward sustainability and wellbeing. Since its establishment in 2018, the UN Committee of Experts on Business and Trade Statistics (UN CEBTS) recognized the need to measure the role of businesses toward sustainability and wellbeing and thus created a dedicated task team to address the measurement challenges. The Task team identified a set of 18 reference indicators related to the measurement of the business sector’s impact on well-being and sustainability.
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The course will be divided into two parts: a self-paced online module and a face-to-face module. Completion of both the online and face-to-face modules will be required to obtain a training certificate. This regional course aims to provide a platform for demonstrating good practices and exchanging experiences in dealing with challenges and issues in the development, maintenance and use of statistical business registers (SBRs). >>more details....

This regional course objective provided a platform for demonstrating best practices and exchanging experiences in dealing with challenges and issues in the maintenance, use and improvement of statistical business registers (SBRs). >>more details....

Face-to-Face Module [12-16 September 2015, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran]  The workshop will provide opportunities for the participants to learn from advanced statistical systems about how statistical register systems are constructed, how linking between different base registers are created and how official statistics are produced from statistical registers.