Affiliations: [a] Central Bank of Suriname, Paramaribo, Suriname | [b] Bank for International Settlements, Basel, Switzerland | [c] Statistics Department, Central Bank of Suriname, Paramaribo, Suriname | [d] Statistics and Research Support, Central Bank Statistics (BIS), Basel, Switzerland | [e] Irving Fisher Committee (IFC), Central Bank Statistics (BIS), Basel, Switzerland
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Corresponding author: Bruno Tissot, Bank for International Settlements, Switzerland. E-mail: [email protected];[email protected].
Abstract: Official statisticians managed to quickly adapt to the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. Looking forward, an important issue is whether, and how, one should be fundamentally rethinking the way to produce and consume data in a “new normal” state of the world. The pandemic underlined that data producers have to provide more and more varied types of information to their users. It was also a reminder that the statistical landscape has to permanently evolve. As regards central banks’ statisticians, this calls for relying more heavily on data science, making a better use of the large amount of micro-level information available in today’s modern societies, adapting statistical frameworks to meet evolving policy objectives and user needs, and continuing to closely cooperate with other relevant stakeholders
Keywords: COVID-19, statistical infrastructure, central banking, innovation, micro data, international cooperation, data science, data sharing
