Directorate-general Statistics Belgium – quality of its statistics
| Audit Id | 1450278516938 |
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| Title | Directorate-general Statistics Belgium – quality of its statistics |
| Title in original language |
Kwaliteit van de statistieken van de Algemene Directie Statistiek - Statistics Belgium Dutch Qualité des statistiques de la Direction générale Statistique - Statistics Belgium French |
| Year | 2014 |
| Subject |
Government Operations (Budget and Spending) |
| Type |
Performance |
| Type of performance |
Performed by single SAI |
| Comments | High-quality statistics are needed to take relevant, well-sustained policy measures. The Belgian Court of Audit has audited the workings of the Directorate-general Statistics (DGS-ADS), which is the official statistics body for Belgium. The DGS-ADS meets most of the quality standards and has been making major efforts in order to improve its efficiency. Even so, it lacks highly qualified personnel, so that it can only produce the minimum required statistics, at the cost of other activities that could improve the quality of statistics. Besides, the latter depends on how other public services cooperate and on the quality of their input data. The DGS-ADS has absolutely no control on this. However, the cooperation agreement of 19 March 2014 creating the Interfederal Statistical Institute (IIS) can resolve some of the issues emphasised by the Court’s audit, such as the relationship between the DGS-ADS and the regional statistical offices. |
| Author |
Belgium |
| Materials |
Audit report Dutch French |
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