4th International Conference on Agruculture Statistics, Beijing, October 2007 Statistics Sweden and...

4th International Conference on Agruculture Statistics, Beijing, October 2007

Statistics Sweden and the System of Official Statistics in Sweden

Inger Eklund

Director, Statistics Sweden


Contents1. Swedish national administration

and the role of Statistics Sweden2. The System of Official

Statistical3. Regulations and guidelines4. Outcome and factors of success


Statistics Sweden’s place in the national administration

The Parliament

The Government

Ministry Ministry of Finance

PublicAuthority

PublicAuthority

Ministry

PublicAuthorit

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PublicAuthorit

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StatisticsSweden


Role of public authorities in Sweden In accordance with the Swedish

Constitution, public authorities in Sweden have an independent role vis-à-vis the Government. The task of a public authority is to translate political decisions reached by the Parliament and the Government into practical action.


The roles of Stat SwedenResponsibility for

• multi sectoral statistics

• coordination of official statistics

• international cooperation and reporting statistical data to international organisations

• developing nomenclatures and classification standards for statistics


The Statistical System IA quite centralised system of official

statistics before the mid ’90sDecentralisation by the Statistics

Reform in 199425 responsible authoritiesStatistics Sweden still central

government authority for official statistics


The Statistical System IIEvaluation in 1998 showed that the

overall view of official statistics had worsened

Foundation of a Council for Official Statistics in 2002


The Statistical System III

•22 subject matter areas•321 statistical products (of which

Stat Sweden is responsible for 119)

•70 % of the official statistics are presently produced by Statistics Sweden


Responsibilities of other authorities within the system

• Decides • budget for Official Statistics within their

own appropriation• contents and scope of the statistics within

its subject matter area• on new surveys and a closure of a survey

• Responsible for quality and dissemination of the statistics


The system includes...• Laws and other regulations

• General recommendations

• Statistics and metadata

• Production systems

• Guidelines

• Tools and methods


The system includes...• Statistical authorities

• The Council for Official Statistics

• Statistics Sweden as a co-ordinating body for Official Statistics


The Council for Official Statistics• The members

• are appointed by the Director General of Statistics Sweden after consultation with the agencies responsible for Official Statistics.

• are appointed for three years.

• Chaired by the Director general of Statistics Sweden


The tasks of the Council• advisory body who deals with matters

of principle concern as availability, quality, the usefulness of the official statistics and response burden

• annual report on the official statistics• annual publishing plan• improve cooperation between the

statistical authorities


Soft coordination by broad-based cooperation• A report on statistical co-ordination for

the official statistics of Sweden • The Council’s secretariat and working

groups• Seminars, courses and study-tours• Annual conference on official statistics• Guidelines as support


The Infrastructure• The entrance to the Internet

• Publishing plan

• Templates for descripton and quality-declaration of the statistics

• Templates for the product-site

• A database on products

• Rules for changing the content of official statistics


Guidelines• Recommendations on Publishing

• Guidelines for decisions on the contents and scope of the Official Statistics

• Sufficient quality and criteria for official statistics

• Preliminary statistics


Follow up• Publishing plan• Punctuality and production time• Electronic publishing • Documentation• The use of the designation ”Official

Statistics of Sweden”• Costs to data providers• Statistics by sex• Costs and staff


Outcome so far• A joint view among the authorities• Rules for how to carry out changes in the

System• Channel to Statistics Sweden• Increased awareness about user needs,

response burden and the importance of disaggregating statistics

• The overall view and the availability of the statistics has improved


Factors of successStrong support by the top management Increased exchange of experience among the

authorities Close cooperation with statistical units at the

authorities and with the departments at Statistics Sweden

Close cooperation with representatives for the respondents

Strong infrastructure and a system for follow-up

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