Statistical manuals and guidelines by topic

Cross-cutting and horizontal issues

• Data and Metadata Reporting and Presentation Handbook

• Publishing standards for datasets and data tables

Agriculture and fisheries

International trade and balance of payments

• The Producer Support Estimate Manual

• Manual on Statistics of International Trade in Services

Development

Labour

• DAC Statistical Reporting Directives
• Directives for reporting to the aid activity database (Creditor Reporting System)
• Is it Official Development Assistance (ODA)?
• Methodological work - what is ODA, how is it counted and who qualifies for it?
• International Household Survey Network

• System of Unit Labour Cost and Related Indicators

Economic Projections

Monthly economic indicators

• Sources & Methods of the OECD Economic Outlook 

• Business Tendency Surveys: A Handbook
• Handbook on constructing composite leading indicators: methodology and user guide
• System of Composite Leading Indicators 

Education and training

National Accounts

• Handbook for Internationally Comparative Education Statistics: Concepts, Standards, Definitions and Classifications 

• Measuring the Non-Observed Economy - A Handbook

• System of National Accounts 2008

• System of National Accounts, 1993

• System of National Accounts, 1993: Glossary

Globalisation

Prices and purchasing power parities

• Benchmark Definition of Foreign Direct Investment
• Handbook on Economic Globalisation Indicators

• Consumer Price Index Manual - Theory and Practice
• Methodological Guide for Developing Producer Price Indices for Services
• Producer Price Index Manual - Theory and Practice
• EUROSTAT-OECD Methodological manual on purchasing power parities (PPPs)

Health

Productivity

•  A System of Health Accounts

• Measuring capital: OECD Manual
• Measuring productivity: OECD Manual

Information and communication technology

Science, technology and patents

• Guide to Measuring the Information Society

• A Framework for Biotechnology Statistics
• Frascati Manual
• Oslo Manual (innovation) 
• Patent Statistics Manual

Industry and services

Transport

• Compilation manual for an index of service production
• Eurostat-OECD Manual on Business Demography Statistics
• Tourism Satellite Account: Recommended Methodological Framewok

• Illustrated Glossary for Transport Statistics