The framework of standards for global harmonisation of social statistics (with special reference to transition and globalisation processes)

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Oleński, Józef^{; 1}

Affiliations: Faculty of Economic Sciences, Warsaw University, 00-241 Warsaw, Poland. Tel.: +48 22 8299 439; Fax: +48 22 8299 442; E-mail: jozef.olenski@mail.nbp.pl, jolenski@wne.uw.edu.pl

Note: [1] This paper is the generalised and updated version of the expertise: The framework of standards in social statistics with special reference to transition countries in the ECE region – non-candidates to the European Union, prepared for the ECE Statistics Division, ECE SD, June 2001.

Abstract: In a globalised, open, market economy the international standardisation of methodologies and indicators in different fields of social statistics, similar to that achieved in economic statistics on the basis of the SNA, is necessary both for governments and international organisations. Those standards are especially needed by transition countries, which are transforming their national statistical systems. The paper analyses the implications of the transition processes for social statistics and stresses the need for international standards. The specificity of standardisation in the field of social statistics on global level is analysed. On this basis it proposes the systematic approach and the generic standard for standardization on social statistics (SSDIS) and a strategy of their development and implementation on national and international level.

DOI: 10.3233/SJU-2003-203-401

Journal: Statistical Journal of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, vol. 20, no. 3-4, pp. 185-217, 2003