Statystyka a etyka Autor: Bohdan Wyżnikiewicz
Artykuł opublikowany w „Annales. Etyka w życiu gospodarczym” 2015, vol. 18, nr 2, s. 105-113 Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
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Statistics and Ethics Author: Bohdan Wyżnikiewicz
Source: ‘Annales. Ethics in Economic Life’ 2015, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 105-113 Published by Lodz University Press
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Annales. Etyka w życiu gospodarczym / Annales. Ethics in Economic Life 2015 Vol. 18, No. 2, May 2015, 105-113
Bohdan Wyżnikiewicz
Central Statistical Office and Gdańsk Institute for Market Economics e-mail: b.wyznikiewicz@stat.gov.pl
Statistics and Ethics
The article concerns ethical rules complied with both by public statistics and users of public statistics. Ethical rules in statistics are partly codified in the European Statistics Code of Practice published by Eurostat, the statistical bureau of the Eu- ropean Union. Implementation of this code is subject to periodical reviews. The second part of the paper deals with various manipulations of statistical data per- formed by its users. The thesis of the paper states that if non-ethical practices appear, either in public statistics or in manipulations by users, they are relatively quickly denounced. This thesis is supported by some empirical facts.
Keywords: public statistics, Eurostat, users of statistics, manipulations on statisti- cal data
JEL Classifiation: C18
