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References for Part II

All URL addresses valid as of April 2017. Please note that, as of February 2017, U.S. Office of Management and Budget documents previously on the main whitehouse.gov site were relocated to an archived site. Wherever possible, a citation is provided to a stable site such as federalregister.gov.

Childs, J. H., R. King, and A. C. Fobia (2015). Confidence in US federal statistical agencies. Survey Practice 8(4). Available: http://www.surveypractice.org/index.php/SurveyPractice/article/view/314/html_38.

European Statistical System Committee (2011). European Statistics Code of Practice for the National and Community Statistical Authorities. Luxembourg: Eurostat. Available: http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-manuals-and-guidelines/-/KS-32-11-955.

Martin, M. E. (1981). Statistical practice in bureaucracies. Journal of the American Statistical Association 76(373), 1–8. Available: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01621459.1981.10477593.

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (2016). Reducing Respondent Burden in the American Community Survey: Proceedings of a Workshop. T.J. Plewes, rapporteur. Committee on National Statistics. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. Available: https://doi.org/10.17226/23639.

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (2017). Innovations in Federal Statistics Using New Data Sources While Respecting Privacy. Panel on Improving Federal Statistics for Policy and Social Science Research Using Multiple Data Sources and State-of-the-Art Estimation Methods, R.M. Groves and B.A. Harris-Kojetin, eds. Committee on National Statistics. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. Available: https://doi.org/10.17226/24652.

National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research (1978). The Belmont Report: Ethical Principles and Guidelines

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for the Protection of Human Subjects of Research. Bethesda, MD: U.S. Government Printing Office. Available: http://archive.org/details/belmontreporteth00unit.

National Research Council (1993). The Future of the Survey of Income and Program Participation. Panel to Evaluate the Survey of Income and Program Participation, C.F. Citro and G. Kalton, eds. Committee on National Statistics. Washington, DC: National Academy Press. Available: https://doi.org/10.17226/2072.

National Research Council (1995). Modernizing the U.S. Census. Panel on Census Requirements in the Year 2000 Census and Beyond, B. Edmonston and C. Schultze, eds. Committee on National Statistics. Washington, DC: National Academy Press. Available: https://doi.org/10.17226/4805.

National Research Council (2004). The 2000 Census: Counting Under Adversity. Panel to Review the 2000 Census, C.F. Citro, D.L. Cork, and J.L. Norwood, eds. Committee on National Statistics. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. Available: https://doi.org/10.17226/10907.

National Research Council (2007). Using the American Community Survey: Benefits and Challenges. Panel on the Functionality and Usability of Data from the American Community Survey, C.F. Citro and G. Kalton, eds. Committee on National Statistics. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. Available: https://doi.org/10.17226/11901.

National Research Council (2009). Ensuring the Quality, Credibility, and Relevance of U.S. Justice Statistics. Panel to Review the Programs of the Bureau of Justice Statistics, R.M. Groves and D.L. Cork, eds. Committee on National Statistics and Committee on Law and Justice. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. Available: https://doi.org/10.17226/12671.

National Research Council (2013a). Benefits, Burdens, and Prospects of the American Community Survey: Summary of a Workshop. D.L. Cork, rapporteur. Committee on National Statistics. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. Available: https://doi.org/10.17226/18259.

National Research Council (2013b). Nonresponse in Social Science Surveys: A Research Agenda. Panel on a Research Agenda for the Future of Social Science Data Collection, R. Tourangeau and T.J. Plewes, eds. Committee on National Statistics. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. Available: https://doi.org/10.17226/18293.

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Triplett, J. (1991). The federal statistical system’s response to emerging data needs. Journal of Economic and Social Measurement 17(3–4), 155–201. Available: http://content.iosPress.com/articles/journal-of-economic-and-social-measurement/jem17-3-4-03.

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Publicly available statistics from government agencies that are credible, relevant, accurate, and timely are essential for policy makers, individuals, households, businesses, academic institutions, and other organizations to make informed decisions. Even more, the effective operation of a democratic system of government depends on the unhindered flow of statistical information to its citizens.

In the United States, federal statistical agencies in cabinet departments and independent agencies are the governmental units whose principal function is to compile, analyze, and disseminate information for such statistical purposes as describing population characteristics and trends, planning and monitoring programs, and conducting research and evaluation. The work of these agencies is coordinated by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget. Statistical agencies may acquire information not only from surveys or censuses of people and organizations, but also from such sources as government administrative records, private-sector datasets, and Internet sources that are judged of suitable quality and relevance for statistical use. They may conduct analyses, but they do not advocate policies or take partisan positions. Statistical purposes for which they provide information relate to descriptions of groups and exclude any interest in or identification of an individual person, institution, or economic unit.

Four principles are fundamental for a federal statistical agency: relevance to policy issues, credibility among data users, trust among data providers, and independence from political and other undue external influence.Β Principles and Practices for a Federal Statistical Agency: Sixth Edition presents and comments on these principles as they’ve been impacted by changes in laws, regulations, and other aspects of the environment of federal statistical agencies over the past 4 years.

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