Chile: Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes: Data Module, Response by the Authorities, and Detailed Assessment Using the Data Quality Assessment Framework (DQAF)
IMF Staff Country Reports, September 17, 2007
Source details
- Canonical URL
- Chile: Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes: Data Module, Response by the Authorities, and Detailed Assessment Using the Data Quality Assessment Framework (DQAF)
Other formats
Bibliographic details
- Published: September 17, 2007
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451951523.002
Overview and Main Assessment
- This Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes data module assesses Chile’s macroeconomic statistics against the Special Data Dissemination Standard (SDDS).
- The assessment is complemented by an assessment of data quality based on the IMF’s Data Quality Assessment Framework (DQAF).
- Principal finding: Chile’s macroeconomic statistics are timely, generally of high quality, and adequate to conduct effective surveillance.
- Institutional finding: There is a high degree of quality awareness among Chile’s statistical managers and a reputation of integrity of the statistical institutions and processes among data users.
- Caveat: There is scope for improvement in some areas (no further specifics provided in the source content).
Data Quality and Institutional Features
- Timeliness: Statistics are characterized as timely (no specific lags or periodicities provided).
- Quality awareness: High degree of quality awareness among statistical managers.
- Integrity: Reputation of integrity of statistical institutions and processes among data users.
- Framework used: Assessment uses the Special Data Dissemination Standard (SDDS) and the IMF’s Data Quality Assessment Framework (DQAF).
Subjects and Technical Scope
- Subjects listed in the source:
- Consumer price indexes
- Economic and financial statistics
- Government finance statistics
- Monetary statistics
- National accounts
- Prices
- Producer price indexes
- Keywords included in the source (verbatim):
- balance of payments, BCCH, Caribbean, central bank, central government, Consumer price indexes, core inflation, CR, Government finance statistics, hard copy, INE, information, ISCR, law revision, Monetary statistics, Producer price indexes, statistics