Development of official statistical methodology

The article presents general development principles of the official statistical methodology, planning system of scientific and methodological works, current status and development directions of the regulatory framework for the development and coordination of official statistical methodology. The author discusses the new factors and events affecting the development of official statistics and statistical methodology - economic crisis, competitive environment new for statistics, budget cuts, «big data». The article presents a brief characterization of global initiatives on updating statistical methodology and practice, and addresses OECD projects on creating modern instruments for statistical measurement of economic welfare and sustainable development of society. The main development directions of the Russian official statistical methodology concerning regional, social and demographic statistics, systems of statistical surveys of the population on socio-demographic issues are presented. Special emphasis is laid upon the development of an integrated methodological basis for economic statistics, represented by a system of economic indicators, based on the use of common to all sections of economic statistics definitions, principles, assessment methods and data sources, as well as updating the methodology of national accounts as a conceptual framework for integrated statistics.

официальная статистическая методология, система планирования научно-исследовательских и методологических разработок, нормативная база, ОЭСР, интегрированная экономическая статистика, социально-демографическая статистика, official statistical methodology, planning system for scientific research and methodological developments, regulatory framework, OECD, integrated economic statistics, social and demographic statistics