## Thailand: Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes: Data Module, Response by the Authorities, Detailed Assessments Using the Data Quality Assessment Framework (DQAF)

_IMF Staff Country Reports, April 20, 2006_

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## Bibliographic details
- Published: April 20, 2006
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451836844.002

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### Summary and scope
- The report examines the Data Module, response by the authorities, and detailed assessments using the data quality assessment framework.
- Thailand possesses "a well-developed macroeconomic statistical system, with much strength that spans all of the datasets assessed in this report."
- "The government clearly recognizes the importance of good statistics for effective decision making in all sectors of the economy, and it is well accepted at all levels of the statistics-producing agencies that quality builds trust and, thus, is a cornerstone of statistical work."

### Major datasets and subject coverage
- Balance of payments statistics
- Economic and financial statistics
- Government finance statistics
- International trade
- Monetary statistics
- Trade balance

### Key findings and analytical observations
- The statistical system is characterized as well-developed and strong across the assessed datasets.
- Institutional recognition: government-level acknowledgement of the role of good statistics in effective decision making.
- Cultural/institutional norm: at all levels of statistics-producing agencies, quality is accepted as fundamental and as building trust.

### Policy implications and response by the authorities
- Emphasis on maintaining and strengthening statistical quality as a cornerstone of statistical work.
- Continued government support and recognition of statistics' role in policymaking implied as critical for sustaining system strengths.

### Publication and metadata (preserve exact values)
- Publication date: April 20, 2006
- Pages: 123
- Volume: 2006
- Issue: 140
- Series: Country Report No. 2006/140
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451836844.002
- Stock No: 1THAEA2006002
- ISBN: 9781451836844
- ISSN: 1934-7685

*International Monetary Fund. "Thailand: Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes: Data Module, Response by the Authorities, Detailed Assessments Using the Data Quality Assessment Framework (DQAF)", IMF Staff Country Reports 2006, 140 (2006).*

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