The fundamental objective of statistical standardisation is to contribute to the creation of a coherent statistical system, with concepts, variables classifications and statistical units harmonised on a national and international level. Thus, reliable and comparable information in relation to the different sector fields and relevant topics for statistical analysis is guaranteed.

Statistical classifications

Standards

  • Standard lists approved by the National Statistics Institute
    • In order to aid statistical use of information provided by citizens and companies to the different public administrations, it is a good idea for definitions and encoding of certain variables to always be the same. In order to achieve a gradual standardisation, the variables of statistical interest for which a standard list is available will be added on this page.

  • Standard for statistical variables used by the National Statistics Institute
    • In order to aid statistical use of information provided by citizens and companies to the different public administrations, it is a good idea for definitions and encoding of certain variables to always be the same. In order to achieve a gradual standardisation, the variables of statistical interest for which a standard list is available will be added on this page.

  • Standard for adjusting seasonal and calendar effects in short-term series
  • Methodological information standard for online dissemination
  • Standard for documenting the production process of statistical operations of the INE
    • The standardised documents of the process metadata constitute the INE standard to document the production processes of the statistical operations it compiles. The information compiled by means of these reports will also allow furthering the knowledge, assessment and standardisation on how to produce statistical information.
      This standard was approved by the Governing Board of the INE on 7 April 2015, and implies an adaptation to the international reference standard GSBPM (Generic Statistical Business Process Model) adopted by the United Nations in April 2009 and whose current 5.1 version was revised in January 2019.
      The process metadata standard of the INE is configured in a task structure within each sub-process that constitutes a third -level breakdown of the GSBPM.

  • Concept glossary