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Fulfilling the ES Code of Practice and assessments of quality in official statistics

Explore the commitment to confidence in official statistics, including EU regulations, Swedish government measures, and Statistics Sweden's executional regulations. Discover the self-evaluation tools and handbooks used to assess and improve the quality of official statistics.

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Fulfilling the ES Code of Practice and assessments of quality in official statistics

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  1. Fulfilling the ES Code of Practice and assessments of quality in official statistics Heather Bergdahl, Statistics Sweden, heather.bergdahl@scb.se Ingegerd Jansson, Statistics Sweden, ingegerd.jansson@scb.se Joakim Malmdin, Statistics Sweden, joakim.malmdin@scb.se June 28, 2018 Session 5

  2. Commitment on Confidence • EU-regulation (EU) 2015/759 for Europeanstatistics • Swedish government bill 2017 – measures: 2013: Qualitycriteria for EuropeanStatistics in the Swedish StatisticsAct. (Statistics Sweden to issueexecutionalregulations) 2016: OrdinanceappointsStatistics Sweden as NSI and strengthens the Council for OfficialStatistics for support. 2016: Amendmentin StatisticsOrdinance on evaluationofqualityofofficialstatisticsfor all national authoritiesresponsible for officialstatistics. Statistics Sweden to issueexecutionalregulations and submitanalysis to the government. • Sufficientmeasures at present to maintainconfidence in statistics, butdevelopmentswill be followed. Note: In principle, mostEuropeanstatisticsareclassified in Sweden as officialstatisticsbut not all officialstatistics in Sweden areEuropeanstatistics.

  3. StatisticsSweden’sexecutionalregulationsfor officialstatistics, 2016-2017 SCB-FS 2016:17 – an updated quality concept which shall be used to describe the development, production and dissemination of official statistics. SCB-FS 2016:27 – amended by SCB-FS 2002:16 with an updated quality declaration/report template to accompany all official statistics and to be released simultaneously with the release of official statistics. SCB-FS 2017:8 – an annual self-evaluation form to assess the quality of official statistics which national authorities are obliged to use. To support a consistentimplementationof the regulations: • A Handbook on quality for official statistics of Sweden • A Handbook on Evaluation of quality of official statistics of Sweden

  4. Qualityconcept for OfficialStatisticsof Sweden – a startingpoint in the maincomponentofRelevance

  5. Self-evaluationsofquality – a cyclical approach • Fitness for purpose • Continuousimprovement

  6. Self-evaluationquestionsrelated to ES CoP

  7. Conclusions: self-evaluationsofqualityofofficialstatistics • A useful tool for compliance to ES CoP • A constructive device for continuous improvements • Raised quality awareness with NSI and ONAs of the importance of quality issues in statistics • Need to have ongoing discussions among NSI and ONAs on how to meet user needs • Need to think more in terms of needs within statistical areas rather than just statistical products • Need to fine-tune the questionnaire • Need to fine-tune the analysis to the government

  8. Fulfilling the ES Code of Practice and assessments of quality in official statistics Heather Bergdahl, Statistics Sweden, heather.bergdahl@scb.se

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