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UN ServiceTrade. The United Nations database of Statistics of International Trade in Services. UN ServiceTrade. Read me First. Task Force agrees that UNSD creates World wide database on Trade in Services Sources: IMF, OECD, CARICOM, National Comparison Classification: EBOPS, some BOP items
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UN ServiceTrade The United Nations database of Statistics of International Trade in Services
Read me First • Task Force agrees that UNSD creates World wide database on Trade in Services • Sources: IMF, OECD, CARICOM, National • Comparison • Classification: EBOPS, some BOP items • Data Extraction: UN Comtrade features • Data Availability • Meta-data: Services List
Demonstration • Data Availability • Overall • By specific Reporter • By specific Service Category • Transportation • Freight • Trinidad and Tobago • Compare sources
Future perspective • Improve Data Availability • Improve Data Processing • Improve Data Detail • Improve Meta Data information
UN ServiceTrade content • IMF: Years 1996-2002 • 150 Reporters • Few EBOPS categories • OECD: 1999-2002 • 23 Reporters • Many EBOPS categories • Partner countries • CARICOM • Bahamas, Trinidad and Tobago, 1999, 2000
National Data • Belarus 2003 and 2004 • Russia 2001-2004 • More data needed