On the necessity of unification of international approach to determining the boundaries of official statistics and administrative data

Using administrative data is essential for statistical observations that are carried out by official statistical offices; in order to reduce the respondent burden. This allows it to eliminate duplication of reporting indicators in the future, improving the legislations of the national accounting, interaction between separate government institutions. In recommendations of the international organizations, as well as in documents containing global estimates of national statistical system, application of administrative data is brought to the foreword. At the same time there are differences in recommendations of the international organizations and views of experts. As a result, decisions made based on these recommendations in CIS countries as well as changes made to statutory instruments are differed from each other. The article presents the results of the research on defying the scope of official statistics and collections of administrative data are analyzed recommendations of global estimates of national statistical systems of some CIS countries as well as changes in statistical legislation, the definitions of UNECE, Eurostat and other international organizations and reviewed. Some examples of Azerbaijan practices related to use of administrative data are given, their relation with official statistics is commented on. Differences of the methodology used for preparation of administrative data, from the official statistics methodology are emphasized, challenges that non-statistical organizations associated with the use of official statistics methodology encounter are shown; questions regarding applying in official statistics the data collected for non-statistical purposes are investigated. The authors formulate their position that the optimization of the relationship between official statistics and administrative data array is more appropriate on the basis of elaborating the single international approach.

официальная статистика, административные данные, национальная статистическая система, законодательство, «нагрузка» на респондента - субъекта статистического наблюдения, использование административных данных в официальной статистике, official statistics, administrative data, national statistical system, legislation, burden on respondent-subject of statistical observation, using administrative data in official statistics

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