The General Law defines the rights and obligations of the bodies that make up the National Statistics System, as well as the principles and procedures that must be applied in the production and distribution of official statistics. The organizational model proposed by the General Law defines the National Statistics Office (ZKS) as the leading authority of the National Statistics System and as a professionally independent body. The adaptation preserves the structure and spirit of the original document and its full compliance with the Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics.
Director of the Office for National Statistics [replace with the official title everywhere in the Act]. The director represents the national statistical system at international level and coordinates the international cooperation between the national statistical system. These functions must be performed in full compliance with the basic principles of official statistics, statistical legislation and standards issued by the director of the governing body for statistics.
The Director of the National Statistical Office is a member of the Statistical Council provided by the National Statistical Office. The National Statistical Office shall be provided with the appropriate funds necessary to cover the costs of the Statistical Council's operation. The producer demonstrates his ability and willingness to comply with the provisions of this law and the principles of official statistics as defined in articles 1 and 3. b) Supplies and activities may not duplicate those carried out by other producers, nor cause an excessive burden. to respondents.
The program also includes planned internal or external assessments of the functioning of the entire national statistical system or its parts.
Data collection
In exceptional cases, the Producer of Official Statistics may decide to compensate respondent households for completing a survey that imposes a significant burden.]. If the administrative data providers plan to develop a new data collection or carry out a major review or update of their data collection or processing in a way that may affect data provided for official statistics, they must National Statistics Office consults and, where appropriate, the Other Producers of Official Statistics, before the decision. In addition, information declared a state secret on the basis of [name of the legal act] shall be subject to statistical confidentiality.
Individual data collected by Producers of Official Statistics for statistical purposes will not be used for any investigation, inspection, supervision, legal process, administrative decision or other similar matter regarding a natural or legal person, by any authority or organization , whether national or international. All original data collection forms, in their various. formats that include identifiers will be destroyed as soon as they are no longer needed for statistical purposes. To determine whether a natural or legal person is indirectly identifiable, all relevant means that can reasonably be used must be taken into account.
The data must be limited to those directly relevant to and necessary for the purposes of the requesting research project, and not for administrative, judicial, or programmatic use, nor may they be used in other research without permission. Users must be kept informed about the sources and methods of statistical production and the quality of the statistical outputs through metadata.
Dissemination
Statistical processing services must not jeopardize the production and quality of official statistics or the reliability of the National Statistical System. The results of any statistical services provided without compensation, including their metadata, will be made public. The provision of data collection services must not jeopardize the production and quality of official statistics or the reliability of the National Statistical System.
A list of all activities involving the provision of data collection services will be mentioned in the implementation report of the annual statistical program.
Infringements
Any party preparing legislation that may affect statistical data or activities should consult the Office for National Statistics for its advisory opinion. If conflicting legislation exists, the provisions of this Act or another law based on or mentioned in this Act shall apply. Statistics produced by authorities according to their own regulatory frameworks that do not comply with the provisions of this law shall not be considered official statistics.
Entry into force
Law on Official Statistics in Latin America
The activities of Producers of Official Statistics must be fully in accordance with the Act and follow standards and guidelines issued by the Director of the National Statistics Office. The heads of Other Producers of Official Statistics must participate in the Statistical Coordination Committee; it's around. The Director of the National Statistics Office has the authority to request changes or refuse the inclusion of Producers of Official Statistics and products that do not meet the criteria.
This promotes the use of common statistical registers among the producers of official statistics to ensure the use of uniform sampling frames across the national statistical system. In the event of budget cuts, the Producers of Official Statistics will analyze which activities should be discontinued or scaled back. The individual data from statistical registers can only be used to produce official statistics within the national statistical system.
Producers of Official Statistics must take sufficient measures to prevent indirect identification of confidential aggregates. It is not the duty of Producers of Official Statistics to collect individual data and provide it for anything other than statistical purposes. This includes access to the buildings where the Producers of Official Statistics are located and the production equipment and software.
One possibility is that producers of official statistics store individual data with internal or even encrypted identifiers that are unknown or used outside the national statistical system. Other providers of official statistics may use the services of other units of the authority to which they belong. Subcontracting does not reduce the responsibility of producers of official supply statistics.
The goods or services purchased from subcontractors must be validated by the producers of official statistics. The director of the national statistical office is also responsible for continuously assessing whether the other producers of official statistics comply with the principles of official statistics. Equal access is also an important indicator of the professional independence of the producers of official statistics.
In practice, this may mean that there is a brand of official statistics for the entire national statistical system.
