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in the implementation of the OSP. The composition of Statistical Council will
help INSTAT to ensure that quality and professional standards meet user’s
needs.
The Albanian NSS is composed by three Statistical Agencies: INSTAT, Bank
of Albania and Ministry of Finance. As the coordinator of the NSS INSTAT, must
develop methodologies, concepts, definitions, standards and classifications
that need to be adopted by the other statistical agencies, wherever possible,
while producing official statistics. A five year OSP is approved by the Assembly,
and includes the statistical production of the entire NSS. Common reports and
dissemination calendar, for the NSS, are coordinated by INSTAT. INSTAT in the
framework of fulfilling obligations deriving from OSP has been working to
increase the usage of administrative data for statistical production. In this
regards memorandums of understanding (MoUs) with administrative data
owners as well as research community have been signed in the last years.
INSTAT is committed to quality and this is not related only to the statistics
that are produced within the institute, but also to the guidance and monitoring
towards the quality assurance of production of official statistics by the
National Statistical System (NSS). High quality in official statistics is achieved
through a well-functioning and coordinated statistical system, which is
fundamental in the efforts toward fulfilling the requirements of the European
Code of Practice (CoP).The new law has increased INSTAT power in terms of
coordination of the statistical programming and reporting, monitoring quality,
methodologies, data transmission and communication on the activities of the
NSS. It is INSTAT General Director's duty to guide the coordination of NSS,
decide on methodologies, standards and procedures of official statistics
produced and request for statistical audits on statistical production processes
within the NSS, when appropriate.
In the work towards building trust in official statistics and a quality culture
for the statistical processes and products, there is a need to have a mutual
mission and a cooperative working environment in the scope of NSS. INSTAT
has developed a Training Strategy including trainings of Statistical Agencies in
methodologies, concepts, definitions, standards and classifications which will
influence the quality improvement, by decreasing rates of noncompliance with
the European CoP and improvements in customer satisfaction.
The Steering Body is the governing body of INSTAT, composed by the mid
and high level management of INSTAT, chaired by the Director General. Its
responsibility is to propose to the Director General, guidelines, methodologies
and standards to be implemented by the NSS in order to ensure quality for
collecting, processing and publishing official statistics. The new role of the
Steering Body will facilitate the decision-making mechanism to strength the
professional and institutional independence.

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