8.10 Relevance to other producers of official statistics

In the process of undertaking its coordination role, an NSO should consider how its quality management framework and supporting quality procedures and tools can best be adapted to other producers of official statistics. For example, the NSO may develop and promote a version of its quality guidelines for the entire NSS, especially tailored to organizations producing statistics based on administrative data.

Other producers of official statistics are statistical units located within government organizations that do not have statistics as their core function, for example, the central bank, or the department of education. For an organization of the first type, all the information provided in Chapter 8 - Quality Management is relevant with the exception of NSS coordination, which is the responsibility of the NSO. The organization should consider, and draw on, what the NSO uses as a quality assurance framework, including the application of general quality management principles, statistical principles, quality guidelines, monitoring and evaluation. As part of the NSS, the organization should adopt a similar approach, tailored as needed to its own particular situation, for example, simplified to reflect its smaller size relative to the NSO.