Preface
As part of its leadership role in strengthening the Official Statistics System, Statistics New Zealand is working with other agencies to develop domain plans. The plans are an important part of the Official Statistics System and stakeholders ‘own’ the development process. Statistics New Zealand and the Ministry of Education have worked together to develop the Knowledge and Skills Domain Plan.
The purpose of a domain plan is to achieve clarity and agreement from stakeholders about the main statistical priorities and the strategy for addressing these over, at least, the next five to eight years. The domain plans will give:
- a long-term picture of what is required to improve official statistics
- a coordinated plan for addressing issues
- a cross-agency approach to long-term priorities.
The process for the Knowledge and Skills Domain Plan involved consultation with a range of organisations – both producers and users of statistics. The participation of these organisations and their support for this domain plan is appreciated.
The period of public consultation ended on Friday 20 August. All submissions are currently being considered, and a revised domain plan, including recommendations, will be submitted to the Government Statistician in late 2010. Once approved, this will become the final domain plan and the Government Statistician will then consider recommendations on addressing these priorities along with those from other statistical domain plans.