Article 33. Ensuring the quality of official statistics
On official statistics (LRU-707-son) · Date: 11.08.2021 · In force
Producers of official statistics shall assess the quality of official statistics on an ongoing basis. To ensure quality assurance, official statistics shall be produced and disseminated on the basis of general principles and methods concerning the coverage, definitions, statistical units, and classifications of official statistics.
In order to improve the quality of official statistics, producers of official statistics shall have the right to analyze and edit data, combine data from different sources, link and compare data for statistical purposes, and use statistical methods to assess them.
Producers of official statistics shall document the sources and methods used in the production process as well as the resulting data sets. Users of official statistics shall be informed about the sources and methods of production of statistics and about the quality of official statistics by means of metadata.
