The international development community has used the World Bank's Statistical Capacity Index since its inception in 2004. The Sustainable Development Goals create new challenges for national statistical systems to produce high-quality and internationally comparable data. This paper reviews measurement methodologies, posits desired attributes, and presents theoretical and empirical frameworks to propose a new, improved index to monitor progress in the statistical capacity of nations. The paper illustrates the properties of the proposed index with global data from 2016.

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衡量国家的统计能力*

自 2004 年成立以来，国际发展界一直在使用世界银行的统计能力指数。可持续发展目标为国家统计系统生成高质量和具有国际可比性的数据提出了新的挑战。本文回顾了测量方法，假定了所需的属性，并提出了理论和经验框架，以提出一个新的、改进的指数，以监测国家统计能力的进展。该论文用 2016 年的全球数据说明了拟议指数的属性。