Such a method cuts production time but still gives plenty of scope for detailed study of the data in question. Electronic dissemination first ' is becoming the general rule. Importance of the Internet Availability of data on the Internet is a form of democracy. Statistics are available to all users at the same time, directly from source and free of intermediaries. World-wide development of the web exploded in the nineties.
Access is high even in some of the poorest countries.
The Internet allows data producers to give the public a lot of information at relatively low cost. Outlets connecting people to the net are becoming very common everywhere. This has served to boost the number of potential users of official statistics. The objective of the pilot was to assess the impact of replacing print publications with electronic equivalents via the Internet in DSP libraries. This objective was based on an assumption that the electronic medium will compliment print rather than replace it entirely and that departments will continue to produce some print publications in the future.