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Data and metadata reporting and presentation handbook.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- 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.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (162 p.)
- Other Title:
- French title on t.p. verso: Manuel sur la presentation et sur le rapport de donnees et de metadonnees
- Place of Publication:
- Paris : Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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 for 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:
- "... prepared by Denis Ward"--Foreword.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-138).
- ISBN:
- 1-281-74585-5
- 9786611745851
- 92-64-03033-6
- OCLC:
- 476187245
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