Statistician-general lacks authority to co-ordinate stats system
‘If we produce the wrong GDP data or CPI data then it is game over ... Let us try to fix this now before the smash happens’
16 March 2020 - 17:33
Legislative amendments are in the offing to make the decentralised statistical system more effective by strengthening the co-ordination role of the statistician-general.
The proposed amendments to the Statistics Act make provision for the establishment of statistical units in other organs of state and trading entities, which will be required to submit annual statistical plans and annual reports to the statistician-general. Currently there is no such obligation. ..
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