Recommendations for promoting, measuring and communicating the value of official statistics

In a world where huge amounts of data are being generated all the time, and where citizens can look up almost anything they want, official statistics must stand out as a unique sourceof impartial and trustworthy information. The Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics – based on professional independence, scientific methods and rigorous quality criteria – give official statistics their powerful competitive advantage. This publication showcases the value of official statistics and provides recommendations for statistical offices on ways to promote, measure and communicate this value. It includes practical tools for official statisticians: a one-page summary of the value of official statistics; analysis of the value for different stakeholders; an overview of measurement approaches, including monetizing the value; and generic user survey questions for statistical offices.
1. Introduction -- 2. The current position -- 3. Existing practices to generate, promote and measure value -- 4. Building value through partnerships -- 5. Measuring the value of official statistics -- 6. Recommendations -- 7. Conclusions and next steps -- Annex 1. The value of official statistics in a page -- Annex 2. Why official statistics are valuable? -- Annex 3. Generic user survey questions for statistical offices -- Annex 4. Case studies of other industries’ approach to generation and promotion of value -- Annex 5. Studies that use statistics to achieve development impacts.

v, 88 p. : graphs, tables

Includes bibliographical references.

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