Data governance practices in Asia and the Pacific from a national statistical office perspective

Abstract

Data governance arrangements vary across Asia and the Pacific and data governance practices are continually evolving. This paper presents a data governance framework with five pillars which can be used to describe the role of national statistical offices in data governance arrangements in different countries in a comparable manner. Each pillar is explained and illustrated by examples from the Asia-Pacific region where several countries have applied the framework to develop a data governance profile for their country. National statistical offices can use the country profiles to consider the role they play in their own country's national data governance arrangements and how that compares with the arrangements in other countries.