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Practice 7: Coordination and Collaboration with Other Statistical Agencies
Practice 7: Coordination and Collaboration with Other Statistical Agencies
Pages 79-84
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Such collaboration is essential not only for smaller statistical agencies with limited staff and resources but, equally, for larger agencies so that they do not overlook useful innovations outside their own agency. When possible and appropriate, federal statistical agencies should collaborate not only with each other but also with policy, research, and program agencies in their departments, with state and local statistical agencies, and with foreign and international statistical agencies.
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. The chief statistician chairs the ICSP, which consists of the heads of the principal statistical agencies and statistical officials, to coordinate federal statistical programs and activities across the federal government (see Appendix B)
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These forums produce regular products that draw data from a wide range of agencies to provide a broad description of their population of interest in publications and materials that are easily understood and used by a broad audience. A common bilateral arrangement is an agreement of a program agency to provide administrative data to a statistical agency to use as a sampling frame, a source of classification information, a summary compilation to check (and possibly revise)
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Many other agencies' staffs participate in a wide variety of activities in collaboration with other national statistical offices, such as working groups sponsored by the United Nations Statistical Commission or the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. These activities include participating in the development of international standard classifications and systems; supporting educational activities that promote improved statistics in developing countries; and learning from and contributing to the work of established statistical agencies in other countries in such areas as survey methodology, record linkage, confidentiality protection techniques, and data quality standards.
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The National Health Interview Survey of NCHS serves this function for the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Similarly, the American Community Survey serves this function for the National Survey of College Graduates, which the Census Bureau conducts for the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (see NRC, 2008b)
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Both the BLS and the Census Bureau maintain business establishment lists, but each of the lists derives from different sources (state employment security records for BLS and a variety of sources, including federal income tax records, for the Census Bureau)
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