Data and metadata reporting and presentation handbook.
Contributors: Ward, Denis.; Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Publisher: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Number of pages: 158
ISBN-13: 9789264030329
Subjects: Statistics -- Standards -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Metadata -- Standards -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Economics -- Data processing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Social sciences -- Data processing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Genres: Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Other titles: Manuel sur la présentation et sur le rapport de données et de métadonnées
Description: This publication contains guidelines and recommended best practice for the presentation of statistical data and metadata disseminated by national agencies and international organizations in various dissemination media. The handbook brings together in one publication relevant presentation guidelines embodied in existing international statistical standards where they exist. The handbook also presents for a standard set of terminologies and guidelines for the presentation of growth rates, indices and seasonally adjusted data developed by the OECD Short-term Economic Statistics Working Party.--Publisher's description.
Notes: "... prepared by Denis Ward"--Foreword.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-138).

Available both in print and online.
Table of contents: title: Introduction and overview; title: Standards for the reporting and presentation of statistics; title: Importance of use of common terminology; title: Guidelines for the reporting of different types of data; title: Guidelines for the reporting of different forms of time series data; title: Guidelines for the reporting and dissemination of metadata; title: Guidelines on key reporting practices.