Definition: Revision policy

Category: OECD - Data and Metadata Reporting

A policy or set of policies, aimed at ensuring the transparency of disseminated data whereby preliminary data are compiled that are later revised when more and better source data become available. http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/ramon/coded_files/OECD_data_metadata_report_handbook_EN.pdf
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International Monetary Fund (IMF), 2001, "Quarterly National Accounts Manual", IMF, Washington D.C. [quoted in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), "Data and Metadata Reporting and Presentation Handbook", OECD, Paris, 2007]
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