Press Release: Mauritius Subscribes to the IMF’s Special Data Dissemination Standard

IMF News, February 28, 2012

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Press Release No. 12/62
Date: February 28, 2012
Mauritius subscribed to the IMF’s Special Data Dissemination Standard (SDDS) on February 28, 2012.
Number of SDDS subscribing countries after Mauritius’s subscription: 70.
Mauritius is the 11th country to graduate to the SDDS from the IMF’s General Data Dissemination System (GDDS).
Mauritius participated in the GDDS since September 21, 2000.
Mauritius is the second Sub-Saharan African country to subscribe to the SDDS.

Mauritius benefitted from participation in the Department for International Development (DFID) Enhanced Data Dissemination Initiative, financed by the government of the United Kingdom, which aims, inter alia, to assist countries to graduate from the GDDS to the SDDS.
The National Summary Data Page for Mauritius is maintained by Statistics Mauritius and is hyperlinked from the IMF’s Dissemination Standards Bulletin Board (DSBB).

Subscription to the SDDS is described as a major step forward for official statistics in Mauritius and for users of those data.
Subscription underscores Mauritius’s commitment to transparency and implementation of internationally accepted best practices in statistics.
Subscription is expected to enhance the availability of timely and comprehensive statistics, contributing to:
- the pursuit of sound macroeconomic policies, and
- the improved functioning of financial markets.

The SDDS was established by the IMF in March 1996.
Purpose: to guide members in the provision of their economic and financial data to the public.
Dimensions of data dissemination identified by the SDDS:
- the data coverage, periodicity, and timeliness;
- access by the public;
- the integrity of the disseminated data; and
- the quality of the disseminated data.
Subscription to the SDDS is voluntary, but a subscribing member commits to observe the standard and to provide information (metadata) to the IMF about its data dissemination practices.
The metadata and documentation provided by subscribing members are made publicly available on the IMF's Dissemination Standards Bulletin Board (DSBB).

The DSBB provides comprehensive documentation in English on the statistical practices of Mauritius for SDDS data categories, hyperlinked to actual country data included in the mandatory National Summary Data Page, maintained by Statistics Mauritius.

Source: IMF Press Release, February 28, 2012.