Abstract

reference set of international guidelines and recommendations for the reporting and presentation of statistical data and metadata. Although, the Handbook was prepared primarily for short-term economic statistics, many, if not most of the recommendations presented are also relevant for annual (structural) statistics and for social and population statistics. The Handbook draws heavily on existing international statistical guidelines and recommendations that have been developed over the last twenty years by international organisations and national statistical agencies. These international standards have been developed for implementation by international organisations themselves and by national agencies in both developed and developing economies. The need for the articulation of a comprehensive set of recommendations on the reporting and presentation of statistical data and metadata is one aspect of the overall demand for improved international comparability and consistency of statistics compiled and published by national agencies and international organisations. This requirement has itself been driven by closer economic and social linkages between both the 30 OECD Member countries and between those countries and large emerging non-member economies. As discussed in the Handbook, the major causes of differences in statistics compiled in different countries flow from the use of different definitions and concepts and

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