TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Cameron, Grant J.
AU  - Dang, Hai-Anh H
AU  - Dinc, Mustafa
AU  - Foster, James
AU  - Lokshin, Michael
        TI  - Measuring the Statistical Capacity of Nations
        PY  - 2020/Nov/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 13895
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp13895
        AB  - The international development community has used the World Bank's Statistical Capacity Index since its inception in 2004. The Sustainable Development Goals create new challenges for national statistical systems to produce high-quality and internationally comparable data. This paper reviews measurement methodologies, posits desired attributes, and presents theoretical and empirical frameworks to propose a new, improved index to monitor progress in the statistical capacity of nations. The paper illustrates the properties of the proposed index with global data from 2016.
        KW  - statistical capacity
KW  - statistical indicators
KW  - statistical index
KW  - national statistical system
KW  - data
KW  - measurement
        ER  -