The international development community has used the World Bank’s Statistical Capacity Index since its inception in 2004. The Sustainable Development Goals create new challenges for national statistical systems to produce high-quality and internationally comparable data. This paper reviews...

The international development community has used the World Bank's Statistical Capacity Index since its inception in 2004. The Sustainable Development Goals create new challenges for national statistical systems to produce high-quality and internationally comparable data. This paper reviews...

I The Finger on the Pulse of the Economy -- How it Started -- On the Special Nature of the Surveys -- Construction and Development of the Surveys -- Lines of Scientific Development -- Worldwide Diffusion -- Summary -- Notes -- II The Business Situation: On the Meaning of an Undetermined Survey...