Explore the importance of adhering to international standards and good practices in compiling and publishing official statistics, as highlighted in various resources such as handbooks and guidelines. Learn about the utilization of international concepts by statistical agencies to ensure consistency and efficiency across official statistical systems.
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Overview General guidelines Reference period Timeliness Timeseries Revisions Methodological Information Presentation Release Calendars CPI, PPI, IIP, RTT, W&S 3/19/2025
The use by statistical agencies in each country of international concepts, classifications and methods promotes the consistency and efficiency of statistical systems at all official levels. The ninth principle of The UN Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics, UNSD 3/19/2025
Generally accepted good practices and international standards In the compilation and publication of official statistics, countries should follow international standards and good practices. International manuals, guidelines and information about good practices are available for most areas of statistics 3/19/2025
General Guidelines Handbook of Statistical Organization, The Operation and Organization of a Statistical Agency, Third Edition, 2003 http://unstats.un.org/unsd/publication/SeriesF/SeriesF_88E.pdf 3/19/2025
Short-Term Economic Statistics Handbook on cyclical composite indicators-UNSD European Commission s Methodology of Short-Term Business Statistics IMF s Guide to the Data Dissemination Standards 3/19/2025
Reference period No strict international standards, but some guidelines exist: IMF Eurostat 3/19/2025
IMFs recommendations for the subscriber countries Source:IMF s Guide to the Data Dissemination Standards Indicator CPI PPI IIP RTT W&S Frequency Monthly* Monthly Monthly or as relev ant Quarterly 3/19/2025
Timeliness No strict international standards, but some guidelines exist: IMF Eurostat OECD s Short-Term Economic Statistics Timeliness Framework 3/19/2025
IMFs recommendations for the subscriber countries Source:IMF s Guide to the Data Dissemination Standards Indicator CPI PPI IIP RTT W&S Frequency 1 1 Month 6 weeks (1 1 Quarter Mo nth month recommend ed or as relevant) 3/19/2025
Time series Reliable, long time-series of short-term business statistics are essential for international comparison, analysis and appraisal of business cycles in both a historical perspective and for forecasting purposes. Current practices vary significantly between different countries and indicators. There are currently no strict international standards about the length of time-series, methods for back- casting, linking and implementing changes to classifications. 3/19/2025
Revision policy/revisions NSOs which publish time-series, snapshots or sets of observations should ensure that where viable all appropriate revisions are implemented (methodological, survey results, correction of errors, changes to classifications, etc) to the historical data. In cases where NSOs publish individual snapshots for each month (the latest 2 or 3 observations) and maintain a database of these snapshots, efforts should be made to ensure that the snapshots contain all the relevant revisions. In particular NSOs should ensure that where appropriate the sub-annual statistics aggregate to the official annual statistics. 3/19/2025
Methodological information UN Guidelines for Statistical Metadata on the Internet UN Terminology on Statistical Metadata OECD s Data and Metadata Reporting and Presentation Handbook 3/19/2025
Essential Metadata for Internet Metadata assisting search and navigation, which provides general information about the statistical web-site. Metadata assisting interpretation. The requirements for metadata depend very much on the subject area and target user groups. Metadata assisting post-processing should be included when the user intends to use the information from the Internet for further statistical applications. 3/19/2025
Compilation and presentation of statistics OECD s Data and Metadata Reporting and Presentation Handbook European Commission s Methodology of Short-Term Business Statistics IMF s Guide to the Data Dissemination Standards World Bank s Statistical Manual Guidelines and Manuals for particular area of statistics: CPI Manual, PPI Manual, IIP Manual 3/19/2025
Compilation and presentation of statistics Countries should be publishing either fixed base indices or/and absolute values for discrete periods It is not an acceptable practice for countries to only publish the movements between the periods Cumulative and year-to-date statistics should be only published as additional information Where possible countries should published Seasonally adjusted and trend rather then cumulative and year-to-date 3/19/2025
Advance release information There are no strict international guidelines on the release calendars and no detailed international requirements for NSOs to publish advance release information on their websites. IMF requires the countries that subscribe to the SDDS (but not GDDS) to provide details about their advance release information. Providing users with information about the future release dates of statistics benefits both users and NSOs. Users can access the statistics as soon as they become available. Publishing release calendars also ensures that there is less (reduces the chances of) external interference with the release of statistics. Providing users with a release calendars for major economic indicator (at least one year in advance) makes it easier to resist possible external pressure or interference. 3/19/2025
Consumer Price Index Consumer Price Index Manual, Theory and Practice. [http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/stat/guides/cpi/index.htm]. 3/19/2025
Producer Price Index Producer Price Index Manual, Theory and Practice. [http://www.imf.org/external/np/sta/tegppi/index.htm]. 3/19/2025
Index of Industrial Production *International Recommendations for the Index of Industrial Production https://unstats.un.org/unsd/statcom/doc10/BG- IndustrialStats.pdf OECD Compilation Manual for an Index of Services Production http://www.oecd.org/std/business-stats/37799074.pdf 3/19/2025
Retail Trade Turnover International Recommendations for Distributive Trade Statistics 2008 https://unstats.un.org/unsd/trade/M89%20EnglishForWeb.pdf 3/19/2025
Wages and Salaries International Recommendations for Industrial Statistics, There remains a need for an internationally accepted manual for W&S statistics. 3/19/2025
