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Fenwick, David and Graham Tippen. "Quality Management Using ISO 9000 for Price Indices in the UK." Journal of Official Statistics, 19:4 (2004) 365-382. Available at: http://www.jos.nu/

 

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Frale, Cecilia and Valentina Raponi, “Revisions in Official Data and Forecasting”, Ministry of Economy and Finance, Working Papers, March 2012. Available at:  http://www.dt.tesoro.it/export/sites/sitodt/modules/documenti_it/analisi_progammazione/ working_papers/WP_N._3-2012.pdf

 

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Jacobs, Jan and Jan-Egbert Sturm, “A real-time analysis of the Swiss trade account,” July 2006. Available at:  http://repec.org/mmf2006/up.10144.1159525837.pdf

 

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Kishor, N. Kundan, “Data Revisions in India and its implications for monetary policy”, Journal of Asian Economics, Volume 22 Issue 2, April 2011. Available at:  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1049007810001028

 

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Oller, Lars-Erik and Alex Teterukovsky. "Quantifying the Quality of Macroeconomic Variables." International Journal of Forecasting, Volume23, Issue 2, April-June 2008, Pages 205-217. Available at:  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169207007000076

 

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Virola, Romulo A., "Quality of Official Statistics in the Philippines", Paper presented at the Joint Conference of the International Association of Survey Statisticians and the International Association for Official Statistics, Mexico, September 1998.

 

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