Statystyka a etyka
Abstract
The article concerns ethical rules complied with both by public statistics and users
of public statistics. Ethical rules in statistics are partly codified in the European
Statistics Code of Practice published by Eurostat, the statistical bureau of the European
Union. Implementation of this code is subject to periodical reviews. The
second part of the paper deals with various manipulations of statistical data performed
by its users. The thesis of the paper states that if non-ethical practices
appear, either in public statistics or in manipulations by users, they are relatively
quickly denounced. This thesis is supported by some empirical facts.
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