Data Quality in Southeast Asia (eBook)

This book explores the reliability of official statistical data in the ASEAN (the Association of Southeast Asian Nations), and the benefits of a better vocabulary to discuss the quality of publicly available data to address the needs of all users. It introduces a rigorous method to disaggregate and rate data quality into principal factors containing a total of ten dimensions, which serves as the basis for a discussion on the opportunities and challenges for data quality, capacity building programs and data policy in Southeast Asia. Tools to standardize and monitor statistical capacity and data quality are presented, as well as methods and data sources to analyse data quality. The book analyses data quality in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Brunei, Laos, Cambodia, and Myanmar, before concluding with thoughts on Open Data and the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC).

 

Manuel Stagars is an economist and senior researcher at Singapore-ETH Centre (SEC), interested in the technological and institutional aspects of data and data policy with a focus on emerging and frontier economies in Southeast Asia.

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This book explores the reliability of official statisticaldata in the ASEAN (the Association of Southeast Asian Nations), and thebenefits of a better vocabulary to discuss the quality of publicly availabledata to address the needs of all users. It introduces a rigorous method todisaggregate and rate data quality into principal factors containing a total often dimensions, which serves as the basis for a discussion on the opportunitiesand challenges for data quality, capacity building programs and data policy in SoutheastAsia. Tools to standardize and monitor statistical capacity and data qualityare presented, as well as methods and data sources to analyse data quality. Thebook analyses data quality in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines,Thailand, Vietnam, Brunei, Laos, Cambodia, and Myanmar, before concluding withthoughts on Open Data and the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC).