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Practice 9: Commitment to Quality and Professional Standards of Practice
Pages 101-104

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... ; and • develop continuing relationships with appropriate professional organizations in statistics and relevant subject-matter areas. The best guarantee of high-quality data is a strong professional staff, which includes experts in the subject-matter fields covered by the agency's program, experts in statistical methods and techniques, and experts in data collection, processing, and other operations (see Practice 11)
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... 5) ; new technologies for data collection, processing, and dissemination; and new kinds of and uses for paradata (see, e.g., National Research Council, 2013a)
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... For individual publications and reports, formal processes are needed that incorporate review by agency technical experts and, as appropriate, by technical experts in other agencies and outside the government.85 Finally, an effective statistical agency builds strong ties with relevant professional associations. It encourages professional staff to participate in relevant associations to refresh their human capital and develop networks of experts from other statistical agencies, academia, and the private sector.
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