Effectiveness of the outreach of official statistics standards and guidelines,methodologies and recommendations to developing statistical systems: A discussion

Abstract

How to support the outreach and roll-out of standards in the developing statistical systems and what are the shortcomings in the outreach and roll-out systems? This paper aims to contribute to the debate by discussing the set of papers presented in the special Invited Paper Session of the ISI World Statistical Congress 2021 (The Hague) on the effectiveness of the outreach of official statistics standards and guidelines. I argue that the use of standards is essential to maximize the effectiveness of statistical outputs and the efficiency of the production process, however for the developing countries one should consider issues of capacity in implementation in line with the correct outreach and implementation of standards.