The framework consists of ten core principles that address the professional, ethical, and organizational aspects of official statistics—ranging from transparency, confidentiality, and quality to international cooperation and adequacy of resources—ensuring the production of reliable and globally comparable data.
Official statistics must be compiled and made available in an objective and impartial manner, ensuring equal access to all users at the same time.
To achieve consistency and comparability, official statistics should follow international concepts, classifications, and methods.
Statistical agencies are accountable to society and must be transparent about their methodologies, procedures, and data quality.
Statistical agencies should actively prevent and publicly comment on misinterpretations or misuse of statistics.
Official statistics should be based on a variety of sources—censuses, surveys, and administrative records—applied in a consistent and efficient way.
The privacy of individuals, households, and businesses must be strictly protected, and data should be used exclusively for statistical purposes.
A clear legal and institutional framework should govern official statistics, ensuring public trust and professional independence.
Coordination among statistical agencies within a country is essential to ensure consistency, efficiency, and coherence of the national statistical system.
Statistical agencies should collaborate with the international statistical community to improve the consistency, quality, and global comparability of statistics.
Adequate human, financial, and technical resources must be secured to allow statistical agencies to produce high-quality, independent statistics.