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A Unified Framework to Guide Quality

Wednesday, November 18, 2015

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•The Nation relies on the flow of objective, credible statistics to inform decisions.

•Over time, there have been a number of legislative and executive actions to maintain public confidence in Federal statistics.

•Request for a “unified articulation” of the well-established responsibilities of agencies producing official statistics