National Bureau of Statistics

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NBS as an executive agency is operating on a commercial business. It produces the statistics demanded from the public as well as from private users. The users, including the Government, have to pay for the statistical products. The NBS, as the provider of the publicly funded national statistical service, attaches considerable importance to easy and widespread access by all levels of governments, and the community at large, to the statistics it compiles.

The continued progress of society relies heavily on active and positive participation of its members, be the investors, business executives, employees, NGOs or individuals in the general public, and this in turn relates to how well these parties are informed on all aspects of the socio-economic situation. Increasingly the need to know is becoming so fundamental to the sustained development of society that this need is gradually perceived as a right by itself. NBS as the Statistical authority is aware of the expectation of society on the right of access to statistical information and adopt a well-formulated data dissemination policy. Among the principles proclaimed by the local and international statistical community, maintenance of professionalism and integrity in statistical work are major considerations. For individual economies, greater utilization of data represents a firmer basis for socio-economic development at the macro-level. Apart from general principles, issues considered in this policy include user targeting; user-friendliness and a client-based service culture; pricing policy; and promotion of statistical literacy in the community to ensure proper interpretation and application of statistics.

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