Study on How to Improve the Quality of Official Statistics and Provide Accurately Categorized Data

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Study on How to Improve the Quality of Official
Statistics and Provide Accurately Categorized Data

• SAFE Shanghai Branch
• Deputy Director-General Lv Jinzhong

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Introduction

• Define the Quality of the Official Statistical
  Data
• The Opportunities and Challenges facing the
  Government Statistics
• Improve government statistical information
  quality, provide detailed segregate data

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Define the Quality of the Official Statistical
Data

• What is high quality statistical Data
• Relevance - This dimension provides information
  that will allow you to determine whether the data
  presented is relevant for your particular need.
• Accuracy - This dimension provides information
  about how precisely the statistics measure the
  true quantities of interest.

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Define the Quality of the Official Statistical
Data

• Timeliness This dimension provides information
  that will help you to determine if the data is
  current enough for your purpose, of it relates to
  the period of interest.
• Coherence this dimension provides information
  about the comparability of the information with
  other key related statistics, and changes in this
  collection over time.
• Others, such as interpretability, subjectivity
  (data integrity), methodology and validity.

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Define the Quality of the Official Statistical
Data

• In international statistical arena, consensus
  has been highly formed towards the high quality
  government statistical information.
• Firstly, focus on the user end evaluation of
  how fitness the information can offer.
• Secondly, data quality is a comprehensive
  concept and needs to establish an open and
  transparent statistical data management system to
  evaluate the data from different angle.
• Thirdly, relevance, accuracy, timeliness,
  accessibility and coherence are the basic feature
  of high quality data.

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The Opportunities and Challenges facing the
Government Statistics

• New opportunities----the information age and
  globalization
• To bring more powerful information equipments,
  user friendly statistical packages , and online
  statistical surveys.
• To enable you better coordinate each steps from
  questionnaire designing, data collection, data
  processing/analyzing to data dissemination as
  well as better control of the whole process
• To vastly reduce the human errors and operational
  risks, enhance the government statistical
  capability
• To improve statistical data quality and quicker
  turnaround to broadens information channel for
  the government statistics to bring interface
  within statistical end-user and statistical
  bureau.
• To empower possibilities for establishment of
  international statistical standard to facilitate
  the cooperation of statistical theory and
  practical experience internationally.

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The Opportunities and Challenges facing the
Government Statistics

• New challenges----the information age and
  globalization
• Firstly, end-users hope governmental statistical
  bureau provide better quality, more timeliness
  and easy navigated information.
• Secondly, global business activities bring more
  needs for statistical information.
• Thirdly, the enhanced research capabilities
  leverage the needs for regional, segregated
  statistical information.
• Fourthly, the evolution of each basic element
  formulates quality data of the government
  statistical information.

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The Opportunities and Challenges facing the
Government Statistics

• Fifthly, information age empowers the possibility
  of the international statistical data sharing,
  brings more requirements for data coherence,
  which at least should fulfill the following three
  fronts.
• Government should apply the same statistical
  methodology and tools during the census survey
  and data analyzing.
• Standardize the government statistical
  frameworks, concepts, classifications and
  systems.
• Globalization

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How to improve government statistical information
quality

• Develop and implement an evaluation system that
  conform to international standard and strengthen
  quality management awareness.
• Establish special quality management organization
  for statistical data, check the quality
  periodically.
• Establish multilayer quality evaluation system.

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How to offer categorized statistical data

• Currently, Chinese government statistics are in
  the form of duo structure. Each local statistical
  bureau to perform the comprehensive statistical
  function co-exists with each governmental
  department to perform the divisional statistical
  function. Two structures comprehend with each
  other. To meet the ever-growing needs of
  segregated statistical data, it should clearly
  define statistical function under the duo
  structure and promote cooperation and
  collaboration.

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How to offer categorized statistical data

• Divisional statistics should focus on the
  segregated statistical information.
• Firstly, statistical data derived from business
  activities could be collected by government
  departments by compiling data through vertical
  business lines.
• Secondly, industrial data or detailed segregated
  data required by various research entities could
  also supplied by government department and the
  statistical bureau could conduct survey as
  supplement.
• Thirdly, any overlapping information with
  regarding to non-macro level should still be
  accomplished by government department and the
  statistical bureau could focus on key macro level
  statistics.

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How to offer categorized statistical data

• Establish statistical data exchange and sharing
  mechanism, promote communication and
  collaboration platform. To crystallize the
  statistical data exchange and sharing, it should
  establish an electronic platform through
  partnership between statistical bureau and
  department statistical division. Chinese
  government should formalize governmental
  statistical information dissemination system to
  streamline and to centralize the statistical data
  dissemination.