IRES Digests — Map of Content

This MOC traces the International Recommendations for Energy Statistics (IRES, Statistical Papers Series M No. 93, United Nations, 2018) in source order. Its digests preserve chapter and paragraph coverage, surface the document’s recommendations and boundary decisions, and connect each source section with the wiki pages that synthesize its concepts.

Each annotation describes what its linked digest records, defines, classifies, explains, structures, or consolidates. Compare a question with all chapter descriptions and open every materially overlapping digest; include adjacent chapters when a definition, compilation step, or use crosses chapter boundaries. Follow each digest’s page map to the relevant topic pages for consolidated concept coverage.

Chapters

• IRES Front Matter — Publication Data, Preface and Acknowledgements - records IRES publication and contents data, explains the mandate and development history in the preface, credits the contributing groups, and expands the document’s abbreviations
• IRES Chapter I — Introduction - traces IRES’s background and development, defines its purpose, users, and uses, maps the chapter structure, distinguishes recommendations from encouragements, and records implementation and revision policy
• IRES Chapter II — Scope of Energy Statistics - defines energy in the statistical sense, establishes the product, flow, production, territory, industry, and consumer boundaries of energy statistics, and consolidates the chapter’s recommendations
• IRES Chapter III — Standard International Energy Product Classification - defines SIEC’s purpose and scope, explains its classification criteria and coding system, reproduces its hierarchy, and consolidates the energy-product definitions
• IRES Chapter IV — Measurement Units and Conversion Factors - distinguishes original and common measurement units, explains mass, volume, and energy conversions, develops calorific-value concepts and defaults, and consolidates the chapter’s unit recommendations
• IRES Chapter V — Energy Flows - defines energy flows and stock changes, consolidates the main supply and use flows, distinguishes energy industries from other producers, and organizes consumers and energy uses
• IRES Chapter VI — Statistical Units and Data Items - distinguishes observation from analytical units, defines statistical-unit types and characteristics, and inventories the flow, stock, capacity, economic-performance, and resource data items to collect
• IRES Chapter VII — Data Collection and Compilation - establishes the legal and institutional setting for energy statistics, organizes collection strategies and data sources, and explains validation, imputation, estimation, and outlier treatment
• IRES Chapter VIII — Energy Balances - defines the energy-balance framework, structures its products and flows, explains statistical difference and reconciliation, reproduces detailed and aggregated templates, and distinguishes commodity balances
• IRES Chapter IX — Data Quality Assurance and Metadata - defines data quality and its dimensions, structures the national assurance framework, explains quality measurement, reporting, and reviews, and organizes statistical metadata
• IRES Chapter X — Dissemination - explains dissemination policy and timing, defines confidentiality controls and revision practices, compares release formats, and connects international reporting with SDMX
• IRES Chapter XI — Uses of Basic Energy Statistics and Balances - connects basic energy statistics and balances with SEEA-Energy accounts, organizes social, economic, and environmental indicators, and explains greenhouse-gas inventory methods and data needs
• IRES Annexes and References - classifies SIEC headings by primary or secondary and renewable or non-renewable status, reproduces the conversion and calorific-value tables, and inventories the IRES reference bibliography

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