Fundamental principles of official statistics pdf

#Fundamental principles of official statistics pdf professional#

The laws, regulations and measures under which the statistical systems operate are to be made public.ДЁ. Individual data collected by statistical agencies for statistical compilation, whether they refer to natural or legal persons, are to be strictly confidential and used exclusively for statistical purposes.Д§. Statistical agencies are to choose the source with regard to quality, timeliness, costs and the burden on respondents.Д¦. Data for statistical purposes may be drawn from all types of sources, be they statistical surveys or administrative records. The statistical agencies are entitled to comment on erroneous interpretation and misuse of statistics.ДҐ. To facilitate a correct interpretation of the data, the statistical agencies are to present information according to scientific standards on the sources, methods and procedures of the statistics.Д¤.

#Fundamental principles of official statistics pdf professional#

To retain trust in official statistics, the statistical agencies need to decide according to strictly professional considerations, including scientific principles and professional ethics, on the methods and procedures for the collection, processing, storage and presentation of statistical data.ДЈ. Noting also that, at its eighth session, held at Addis Ababa in March 1994, the Joint Conference of African Planners, Statisticians and Demographers, considered that the Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics are of universal significance,ДЄdopts the present principles of official statistics:Дў. Noting that, at its eighth session, held at Bangkok in November 1993, the Working Group of Statistical Experts, assigned by the Committee on Statistics of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific to examine the Fundamental Principles, had agreed in principle to the ECE version and had emphasized that those principles were applicable to all nations, Having expressed the opinion that resolution C (47), adopted by the Economic Commission for Europe on 15 April 1992, is of universal significance, Recalling also the International Statistical Institute Declaration of Professional Ethics, Recalling the efforts of governmental and non-governmental organizations active in statistics to establish standards and concepts to allow comparisons among countries, Bearing in mind that the quality of official statistics, and thus the quality of the information available to the Government, the economy and the public depends largely on the cooperation of citizens, enterprises, and other respondents in providing appropriate and reliable data needed for necessary statistical compilations and on the cooperation between users and producers of statistics in order to meet users' needs,