Study on short-term economic indicators for the Arab region

"The purpose of this publication is to outline international statistical guidelines and standards for use by national statistical agencies in the Arab region for the production and dissemination of a proposed core set of priority short-term economic indicators of appropriate quality and timeliness, together with their related metadata. Guidelines contain recommendations on key methodological issues that impact various dimensions of the quality of those indicators, including their periodicity, timeliness, accessibility, accuracy and coherence. The report also offers guidelines on the provision of methodological information (metadata) by national agencies. The overall aim of this publication is to help national agencies develop the capacity to compile priority short-term and other economic indicators in accordance with existing international statistical standards and recommended practice." --p. vii.