Definition: Professional independence

Category: Quality, Description, Principles; Peer reviews

The characteristic of a statistical institute or authority to develop, produce and disseminate statistics in an independent manner, particularly as regards the selection of techniques, definitions, methodologies and sources to be used, and the timing and content of all forms of dissemination, free from any pressures from political or interest groups or from European Union (EU) or national authorities, without prejudice to institutional settings, such as EU or national institutional or budgetary provisions or definitions of statistical needs. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv:OJ.L_.2009.087.01.0164.01.ENG Eurostat, "European Statistics Code of Practice", Luxembourg, 2017