Swiss Public Statistics Charter
The Charter of Public Statistics is a charter that was adopted in May 2002 by the statistical offices and services of Switzerland. The charter obliges bodies that deal with public statistics, as well as their employees, to a professional code. The code of professional ethics lists the relevance, quality and credibility of published statistical information as the main goals of public statistics.
In 2007 and 2012 the charter was revised. The current charter is in line with the European Statistics Code of Conduct. It comprises a preamble and 21 basic principles that are explained and specified more precisely using indicators. The appendix contains the scope of the charter, organizational questions relating to the charter, the mandate of the ethics council for public statistics in Switzerland and a comparison between the charter and the code of conduct for European statistics.
Sources and individual references
- FSO, Conference of the Regional Statistical Offices of Switzerland KORSTAT (ed.): Charter of Swiss Public Statistics , 3rd revised edition, Neuchâtel / Zurich 2012 (PDF)
- FSO, Swiss Public Statistics Charter
- ↑ EuroStat, Code of Conduct for European Statistics , 2011 (PDF; 700 kB) ( Memento of the original from March 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
