The purposes of the course The General Data Dissemination System (GDDS): Key to Public Sector Data Production and Dissemination are to:

• encourage participants organisations to improve data quality;
• guide public organisations in the provision to the public of comprehensive, timely, accessible, and reliable economic, financial, and socio-demographic statistics; and
• provide a framework for evaluating needs for data improvement and dissemination as well as for setting statistical priorities.

The GDDS framework comprises four dimensions described in detail ahead:

• coverage, periodicity, and timeliness of data
• Access by the public;
• Integrity of the disseminated data; and
• Quality of the disseminated data.

For each of the four dimensions, the GDDS describes good practices to serve as objectives in the development of national systems of data production and dissemination.

Course Content

• Data Coverage, Periodicity, and Timeliness: General Considerations
• Real Sector: Data Coverage, Periodicity, and Timeliness
• Fiscal Sector: Data Coverage, Periodicity, and Timeliness
• Financial Sector: Data Coverage, Periodicity, and Timeliness
• External Sector: Data Coverage, Periodicity, and Timeliness
• Socio-demographic Data
• Dissemination Standards Bulletin Board
• Reviews and Withdrawal