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Statistical Legislation: Toward a More General Framework

By Sarmad Khawaja, Thomas K. Morrison

October 1, 2002

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Sarmad Khawaja, and Thomas K. Morrison Statistical Legislation: Toward a More General Framework, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2002) accessed November 21, 2024
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Summary

The paper outlines a general framework for statistical legislation. The implications of statistical legislation for the whole statistical system, as well as for centralized versus decentralized statistical systems, are addressed. The general framework is spelled out by identifying "essential" components of statistical legislation. The paper illustrates how these components can be applied to different country situations, and it draws attention to a number of additional topics for discussion and areas for future study in statistical legislation. It also brings together summary descriptions of the statistical legislation of a large number of countries that underlie the derivation of the essential components. It thus provides a reference for countries considering new or revised statistical legislation.

Subject: Banking, Data collection, Data dissemination, Data Quality Assessment Framework (DQAF), Economic and financial statistics, Labor, Legal support in revenue administration, Revenue administration

Keywords: Africa, Agency head, Agency INSTAT, Authority, Compiling agency, Country, Data collection, Data dissemination, Data Quality Assessment Framework (DQAF), IMF, Legal support in revenue administration, Nominal authority, Official statistics, Procedure, Statistical agency, Statistical legislation, Statistics-producing agency, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    66

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2002/179

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA1792002

  • ISBN:

    9781451859041

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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