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Straf, eds. Levine, ed. Citro and Eric A. Hanushek, eds. Principles and Practices for a Federal Statistical Agency. Margaret E. Martin and Miron L. Citro and Graham Kalton, eds. Duncan, Thomas B. Jabine, and Virginia A. Citro and Robert T. Michael, eds. Modernizing the U. Committee on Na- tional Statistics. Citro and Janet L. Norwood, eds. Longitudinal Surveys of Children. West, Robert M. Hauser, and Terri M. Scanlan, eds. Cohen, John E.

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Office of Management and Budget. Although the reviewers listed above provided many constructive comments and suggestions, they were not asked to endorse the conclusions or recommendations of this report nor did they see the final draft before its release.

He was responsible for making certain that an independent examination of this report was carried out in accordance with the standards of the National Academies and that all review comments were carefully considered.

Responsibility for the final content rests entirely with the authoring committee and the National Academies. Finally, we thank the many federal agencies that support the Committee on National Statistics directly and through a grant from the National Science Foundation, a cooperative agreement from the National Agricultural Statistics Service, and several individual contracts. Without their support and their commitment to improving the national statistical system, the committee work that is the basis of this report would not have been possible.

Definition of a Federal Statistical Agency. Establishment of a Federal Statistical Agency. Brief History of the U. Federal Statistical System. Principle 1: Relevance to Policy Issues. Principle 2: Credibility among Data Users. Principle 3: Trust among Data Providers. Practice 2: Necessary Authority to Protect Independence. Practice 6: Cooperation with Data Users. Practice An Active Research Program. Practice Professional Advancement of Staff. Authority of the U. Statistical Policy Directive No.

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National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics. Office of Research, Evaluation, and Statistics. Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality. National Center for Veterans Analysis and Statistics. Publicly available statistics from government agencies that are credible, relevant, accurate, and timely are essential for policy makers, individuals, households, businesses, academic institutions, and other organizations to make informed decisions.

Even more, the effective operation of a democratic system of government depends on the unhindered flow of statistical information to its citizens. In the United States, federal statistical agencies in cabinet departments and independent agencies are the governmental units whose principal function is to compile, analyze, and disseminate information for such statistical purposes as describing population characteristics and trends, planning and monitoring programs, and conducting research and evaluation.

The work of these agencies is coordinated by the U. Statistical agencies may acquire information not only from surveys or censuses of people and organizations, but also from such sources as government administrative records, private-sector datasets, and Internet sources that are judged of suitable quality and relevance for statistical use.

They may conduct analyses, but they do not advocate policies or take partisan positions. Statistical purposes for which they provide information relate to descriptions of groups and exclude any interest in or identification of an individual person, institution, or economic unit. Four principles are fundamental for a federal statistical agency: relevance to policy issues, credibility among data users, trust among data providers, and independence from political and other undue external influence.

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