Data and metadata reporting and presentation handbook.

Format:

Book

Government document

Contributor:

Ward, Denis.

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Statistics--Standards--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Statistics.

Metadata--Standards--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Metadata.

Economics--Data processing--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Economics.

Social sciences--Data processing--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Social sciences.

Social sciences--Data processing.

Economics--Data processing.

Metadata--Standards.

Statistics--Standards.

Genre:

Handbooks and manuals.

Physical Description:

158 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Other Title:

French title on t.p. verso: Manuel sur la présentation et sur le rapport de données et de métadonnées

Place of Publication:

Paris : Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, [2007]

Summary:

This publication contains guidelines and recommended best practice for the presentation of statistical data and metadata disseminated by national agencies and international organizations in various dissemination media. The handbook brings together in one publication relevant presentation guidelines embodied in existing international statistical standards, where they exist. The handbook also presents a standard set of terminologies and guidelines for the presentation of growth rates, indices and seasonally adjusted data developed by the OECD Short-term Economic Statistics Working Party.--Publisher's description.

Contents:

Introduction and overview

Standards for the reporting and presentation of statistics

Importance of use of common terminology

Guidelines for the reporting of different types of data

Guidelines for the reporting of different forms of time series data

Guidelines for the reporting and dissemination of metadata

Guidelines on key reporting practices.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-138).

"... prepared by Denis Ward"--Foreword.

ISBN:

9789264030329

9264030328

OCLC:

156977004