The Dissemination Policy of Official Statistics
The Department of Statistics (Dos) in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan provides the official statistical figures needed for planning, development, and public policy making in Jordan. DoS, also, provides the data needed for decision-makers to enhance the role of these decisions in developing local communities, and to distribute the development across all regions in line with the SDGs. Besides, DoS is in charge of providing statistical figures in the best, easiest, and fastest ways, ensuring high quality and reliability, and making them available in a timely manner without delay.
To achieve this, DoS utilizes all modern technological means to disseminate these figures and ensure their delivery to data users. Furthermore, DoS applies international standards that guarantee providing these data in a high degree of quality and reliability.
The following conditions constitute the guarantees that DoS adheres to in the dissemination process:
⦁ First: Accessibility:
DoS works to make official statistics and statistical products available and accessible to meet the needs of data users, and to maximize the benefit derived from these data.
Various pillars are considered when producing and disseminating statistics and statistical products, such as data users’ accessibility, providing data in multiple formats to meet the final user needs, and presenting the data in an easily understandable manner for all segments of data users. DoS, also, conducts various surveys to ensure that disseminated statistics meet the actual needs of data users, and to ensure the capability of using these statistics for development, planning, analytical studies, and policymaking.
⦁ Second: Partnership:
Refers to the partnership between DoS and the users of statistical data, which allows identifying the actual needs and improving the dissemination method to achieve optimal data utilization. This partnership, also, include collaborations with various institutions and ministries that produce statistical figures, to provide national statistical figures as part of implementing the national strategy for developing the statistical system. This partnership facilitates data exchange with various governmental and official bodies. Meanwhile, DoS is continuously striving to build partnerships with international organizations to exchange expertise in the field of statistical data production.
⦁ Third: Keep Pace with developments:
DoS keeps pace with developments in the statistical data production field through adopting the international methodologies, while DoS applies the international best practices in statistical data production to ensure high quality. These practice are achieved through coordination with local and international bodies to ensure the application of best practices, methodologies, international standards, expertise, and capacity building in all areas.
⦁ Fourth: Independence of Statistics:
The production and dissemination of statistical data is free from any political interference, and DoS adheres to the General Statistics Law No. (12) of 2012 in the production and dissemination of official statistics.
⦁ Fifth: Equal Access to Official Statistics:
DoS treats the users of official statistics without discrimination in terms of accessibility to statistical data and the required time. In this context, DoS is committed to disseminate the statistical data according to a previously published schedule, or according to the international calendar for disseminating economic indicators.
⦁ Sixth: Neutrality:
DoS provides and disseminates the data to all users. It doesn’t interfere in data interpretation or analysis, while DoS has the right to respond to any misinterpretation of its disseminated data.
⦁ Seventh: Confidentiality of individuals’ data:
DoS is committed to the confidentiality of individual data in accordance with Article (11)/(a) of the General Statistics Law, whereby all information and individual data related to any survey or census are considered confidential and subject to legal liability.
⦁ Eighth: The general pillars of the dissemination policy of official statistics:
- General Statistics Law No. (12) of 2012 and its related provisions.
- Code of Conduct and the Ethics of Public Service.
- National Strategy for Developing the Jordanian Statistical System 2018-2022
⦁ Ninth: Targeted Groups:
The process of disseminating statistical data targets all segments of the society through making data available via the dissemination channels used by DoS, as well as promoting them via social media, and the publication processes are also announced in the media.
⦁ Tenth: Free Data:
- DoS is committed to providing the disseminated official statistics and making them available to everyone through various publishing channels free of charge.
- The data user is obligated, under these terms of use, to cite the data source as the Department of Statistics.
⦁ Eleventh: DoS website Terms of Use:
⦁ Rights of data user
The Department of Statistics grants the right to use the data available on its website internationally, parallel, free, and irrevocably including:
- Copying, distributing, reusing, building upon, and deriving from the content.
- Editing and using the content for commercial or non-commercial purposes.
- Using and quoting the content in other publications.
⦁ Commitments and Responsibilities of DoS
DoS website is continuously updated and reviewed. Therefore, DoS does not guarantee the continuous availability of data on the website, and it has the right to delete or modify any information or part, thereof, without prior notice.
DoS is not liable for any deletion or errors resulting from technical reasons, or for the timeliness or completeness of the data available on the website for any specific purpose.
Any conclusions drawn by users from the data available on DoS website are their own opinions and are not attributed to DoS.
DoS is not responsible for any damage or harm resulting from the use of the data published on the website.
The user agrees to the Terms of Use upon receiving, downloading, or otherwise using the data.
Note: The above Terms of Use were formulated with the guidance of the Creative Commons (CC) license. [1]
[1] : https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/cclicenses/
