This year the fundamental principles of statistical work prepared by the United Nations Statistical Commission will be 30 years old. Over the years, their importance has grown in society. The fundamental principles provide a sound basis for the management and dissemination of information, especially in the public sector.
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The UN's Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics instruct statistical authorities to describe in detail how statistics have been compiled. The principle can also be used to assess the reliability of other data generated in society.
We aim to reflect the objective truth with statistics. As not everything can be calculated using statistical methods, statistics still include many characteristics of art.
Information collected by statistical interviewers is intended for all of us. People who are selected for interviews of Statistics Finland help us draw a more accurate picture of our time and its characteristics.
The description of global value chains advances as international statistical projects are completed. According to the preliminary results of the OECD and WTO’s joint initiative TiVA (Trade in Value Added), Finland's dependency on international trade does not differ much from other OECD countries.