Economic census would violate at least two Danish laws | Government | Economy

The National Urban Economic Census (Cenu) is one of the most important undertakings of the National Government and aims to understand the current state of the Colombian economy, examining the different production units, both formal and informal, This work has not been carried out for more than 34 years and is expected to reach every corner of the country.

This statistical work is very important, and over the past year or so, the National Bureau of Statistics has made full progress in the formulation of the overall work plan and the formulation of requirements. Such a difficult task was required. However, its execution was carried out without adequate preparation.

As Portafolio already revealed in the first part, this action was started without fully completing the methodology document, which was changed and corrected at dates after the start of the self-examination phase and is still under review. The document produced by the Danish team responsible for the census has not yet been finalized.

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These modifications are for points related to the manager rolecounting operations, Cenu collection methods, primary and secondary sources of data, political administrations to be used and strategic objectives. Dane confirmed this, saying that “it is under constant construction and the initial version is under review”.

After consulting several experts on statistical issues and reviewing the standards promulgated in Denmark that regulate these tasks, Portafolio found that it would be counterproductive to launch an economic census when the methodological documents are not fully prepared. A resolution and the provisions of the Official Statistics Act itself, which are approved at the end of 2023.

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Before turning to the criteria, it is necessary to consider that, since methodological design is the documentation of methods and activities developed in the statistical process that presents to users in a clear and precise manner, according to the sources, implementation should not have started without a census. This has not been done as it would compromise the fidelity of the information obtained.

In order to fully understand the first rule that the Danes will not follow, it should be noted that in December 2019, version 2.0 of the Guidelines on Statistical Processes in the National Statistical System was published, followed by May 2020, the same year, when the entity formally adopted it through Resolution No. 0560 as a roadmap for any such process.

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Now, under these regulations, these are the current regulations During Dane’s four years, the statistical process was divided into 8 phases and 51 sub-processes, defining the requirements specification, design, construction, collection, processing, analysis, dissemination and evaluation phases of information, both of which were discharged as well as the data collected during each exercise.

“The statistical process follows an ordered structure, although the subprocesses are not necessarily linear, since it is possible to perform certain activities simultaneously, skip them or return to them. It must be taken into account that the results generated by each subprocess constitute the input of another subprocess,” says the technical document that has gained standard force through Resolution No. 0560.

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But according to For the methodology document, this guideline considers that it must be completed from the design stagespecifying the entry and exit codes, Section 2.5.2 is “Method File (Preliminary)” and Section 2.6.2 is “Method File (Complete)”. All this must be clear even before the “design of production systems and workflows,” according to regulations on the subject.

“The construction of the new statistical process guide is based on the General Statistical Process Model (GSBPM) version 5.1 and the 2017 Statistical Process Guide published by the Statistics Division of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE). The National Statistical System of Denmark 2017,” the report states.

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With this in mind and based on Dane’s response of June 19, in which it was noted that the methodology document was still under review, since “it is a continuous process developed in parallel with statistical operations” and that it would go against what was established, not only in the “Statistical Guidelines for the Statistical Process of the National Statistical System”, but in Resolution No. 0560 of May 2020, which adopted this model by regulation.

As the National Urban Economic Census begins, without yet finalizing the methodological document, the second norm that could be overlooked is Law 2335 of October 2023, better known as the Official Statistics Law, which establishes in its provisions the technical statistical principles of strictness.

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“The production of statistical information will be carried out in accordance with the technical and scientific norms of statistical activities and in accordance with the prescribed quality standards. This law of the Republic states that it is “made by the National Statistics Agency – DANE”.

At this point we must return to Resolution 0560 of May 2020, which stipulates that “the use of the statistical production model described in the document “Second edition of the Guidelines on Statistical Processes of the National Statistical System” is mandatory for all entities of the National Statistical System (SEN) that produce and disseminate statistical data, pursuant to article 155 of Law 1955 of 2019. ”

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This means that the principle of technical rigor of the Statistics Act Officials are constrained by the parameters already mentioned and therefore will not be met, which for the analysts who spoke to Portafolio about this also raises questions about the quality of the information collected and what will be processed subsequently.

Finally, it is important to remember that errors related to the methodology documents are not the only ones in the process, as alerts were issued in April, May and June, which have been resolved in some cases but persist in others, even with dates after the start of the self-regulatory phase, in applications belonging to street vendors and commercial establishments.

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The warnings, generated by the National Urban Economic Census team, are related to issues, failures in validator and capture application processes that may have resulted in errors in the collector. These errors are corrected over time and it is surprising that they are repeated in one report in another.

Another point that has attracted attention in the alert sent to the Census Center is related to the security of the data, since a report submitted by the Census Leadership Group on May 4 this year warned that there is a risk of SMC management in this area. , because the information obtained will not be properly protected.