text: Women (INSTRAW), and the statistical services of the specialized agencies. Some of I • • • E/1990/SR.S English Page 8 (Mr. Ahmed) the publications issued recently were the Compendium of Statistics and Indicators on the Situation of Women, the Compendium of Statistics on Women in Africa, and a new wall chart, The Situation of Women, 1990, the latter being part of a publication on statistical trends relating to women that was being prepared in collaboration with a number of other agencies. WISTAT had also provided extensive statistics for the 1989 World Survey on the Role of Women in Development and the chapter on women in the forthcoming World Economic Survey. Although General Assembly resolution 44/171 had requested that WISTAT should be updated regularly at two-year intervals, he regretted to report that much of the work to date had been done with extrabudgetary funding and that the funding for continued work on the project had not been secured. One of the far-reaching recommendations in the Forward-looking Strategies concerned the measurement of women's contribution to development as reflected in national accounts. The importance of that area of work had recently been reaffirmed by the Commission on the Status of Women, and the Statistical Commission had agreed that a technical report on methods of compilation, valuation and analysis should be prepared to assist countries in developing such statistics, as a way of understanding women's role in the economy, rectifying inequities in their economic situation and providing a better basis for social and economic planning. Methods of compiling statistics from the informal sector had also been developed in special field studies in Africa, and the statistics were now being compiled. Mr. MARTENSON (Under-Secretary-General for Human Rights) said it had become ever more apparent that international peace and security and social and 
analysis: The text primarily discusses the collection and analysis of statistics related to women's role in development, their economic situation, and their contribution to national accounts. It also mentions the importance of measuring women's contribution to development and the need for countries to develop statistics on women's role in the economy.