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 Periodicity and regularity of time series: Time series administrative
data will need evaluations for regularity and periodicity; gaps will need
to be identified; and technical solutions found for integrating
administrative data time series with sample survey time series.
Solutions will also need to be developed for maintaining continuous
updates.
 Continuous quality review: Programs of follow-up data quality
assessment procedures will need to be developed by statistics
agencies, in coordination with the institutions producing data.
B. Organizational procedures:
 Raising role awareness: Statistical agencies will need to raise the
awareness of the data-producing institutions about the importance of
their roles in providing quality data as input to official statistics at the
national level.
 Obtaining commitment: Data-producing institutions will need to be
fully committed to producing quality data as input for official statistics
in order to commit resources to implementing the technical
procedures necessary to meet international standards.
 Harmonization of technical and policy environments: the IT
systems, legal environment and institution policies will need to be
harmonized in order to achieve the appropriate application of
technical procedures which enable the administrative data flow.
 Increasing electronic communication: Electronic data-sharing
facilities will need to be built to enable the statistical agencies to utilize
the administrative data provided by other institutions. Building these
facilities and systems may require the initiation of new technical
projects, or the expansion of e-government initiatives.
 Building statistical knowledge: Human resources programs and
policies will need to be developed for staff to share and exchange
experiences between the statistical agencies and the data-producing
institutions, in order to build the required knowledge about statistical
methodologies and application of statistical methods.
 Statistical co-ordination: Statistical agencies will need to assign
statisticians as co-coordinators in the data-producing institutions, to
provide support and guidance in the application of methodologies and
statistical methods.

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