1. Policy Group on Statistical Cooperation 30-31 October 2014, Antalya
Producers of official statistics – criteria to define official statistics, identify ONAs and monitor their compliance with the CoP

2. European / Official statistics
European / other statistics
Criteria to define official statistics
Statistics is an output part of work programme(s)
Organisational entities producing it follow the CoP
Production cycle criteria
Recurrent
Statistical methods used
Complete data coverage
Publicly available
Used to design and monitor policies

3. Other producers of official statistics (1)
Why criteria are needed
To define the actual composition of the NSS
To make sure all of them apply the CoP
To define who should follow national guidelines for the production of official statistics
To identify the authorities whose heads would enjoy the same level of professional independence

4. Other producers of official statistics (2)
What criteria to be used
Exercise public authority
Public authority enshrined in legislation
Have the legal mandate/responsibility
Production of statistics to be a regular task
Compile data from relevant sources
Provide publishable output
Transmit data to Eurostat
Are not just providing information to produce statistics

5. Application of the CoP to other producers
Good practices?
Use the PR to make ONAs familiar with the requirements
Monitoring questionnaires to ONAs
Put the requirement to apply the CoP into the statistical law
Workshop to collect good practices?

6. Questions for discussion
1. What definition of official statistics is applied by your NSIs?
2. What are the difficulties you experience with this definition?
3. How to you define other national authorities, what criteria do you apply?
4. What are examples of other producers of official statistics in your countries?
5. How did you define them?
6. What are the difficulties and challenges experienced in this process?
7. What are the tendencies / trends in your countries to define the NSS and ONAs?
8. What could be done / has been done by you to promote the application of the CoP by ONAs?