Special Data Dissemination Standard
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| The Data: Coverage, Periodicity, and Timeliness | |
| Coverage characteristics | 5.1.1 Statistical presentation Data are disseminated in millions of U.S. dollars covering total merchandise exports (f.o.b.) and total imports (c.i.f.).Notes: |
| Periodicity | 4.1.1 Periodicity MonthlyNotes: |
| Timeliness | 4.1.2 Timeliness Within five weeks after the end of the reference month. The data are generally disseminated on the first day of the second month following the reference month. If it is a Saturday, Sunday or any other holiday, it is released on the immediate next working day.Notes: |
| Access by the Public | |
| Advance dissemination of release calendar |
5.1.3 Advance release calendar An advance release calendar is disseminated on the DSBB and notification of this is provided in the publication Monthly Statistics of Foreign Trade of India. Flexibility Notes: |
| Simultaneous release to all interested parties |
5.1.4 Simultaneous release The data are released simultaneously to all interested parties by issuing the press release India's Foreign Trade: Provisional Estimates, which is also posted on the Internet website of the Ministry of Commerce (http://dgft.delhi.nic.in/) under the item "Press Releases". |
| Integrity | |
| Dissemination of terms and conditions under which official statistics are produced, including those relating to the confidentiality of individually identifiable information |
0.1.1 Responsibility for collecting, processing, and disseminating statistics It is the responsibility of the Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics (DGCIS) of the Ministry of Commerce to compile and disseminate merchandise trade data. |
| Identification of internal government access to data before release |
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| Identification of ministerial commentary on the occasion of statistical releases |
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| Provision of information about revision and advance notice of major changes in methodology |
4.3.1 Revision schedule The data are provisional when first released and this is indicated in the press release. The data are generally finalized eight months after the reference month, and the final data are published in the relevant issue of the Monthly Statistics of Foreign Trade of India. 1.2.4 Advance notice of major changes in methodology, source data, and statistical techniques. There are no immediate plans for revision of the methodology of compiling merchadise trade statsitics, but if any such changes were to be made at some stage in the future, the public will be advised at the time the changes are introduced. |
| Quality | |
| Dissemination of documentation on methodology and sources used in preparing statistics |
5.2.1 Dissemination of documentation on concepts, scope, classifications, basis of recording, data sources, and statistical techniques The sources and methods used to compile trade data are explained in Note on the Methodology Followed for the Compilation of Foreign Trade Statistics of India and Note on Compilation of Foreign Trade Statistics in India. Copies of these documents are available from the contact person on request. |
| Dissemination of component detail, reconciliations with related data, and statistical frameworks that support statistical cross-checks and provide assurance of reasonableness |
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