The Chairman of the Agency reported on the results of the work in 2013 and informed on the priorities in the work for the upcoming period.
The head of state noted that reliable statistical data are necessary to take reasonable state decisions, as well as laid an emphasis on further reduction of collecting replicated statistical information.
“Timely submission of reliable statistical data, such as labour productivity, employment level and other is important for the economic development of the country. It gives the opportunity to evaluate, how the state bodies work and how effectively the state programmes are implemented,” Nursultan Nazarbayev said.
The President stressed the need to introduce up-to-date information technologies into the state statistics and to increase its quality through the improvement of methodical and methodological basis.
Nursultan Nazarbayev emphasised the importance of the policy of transparency and accessibility of the state statistics for the population and business, as well as the significance of further work with media on explanation of main regulations of the legislation relating to statistics.
Alikhan Smailov noted that a ranking of socio-economic development of the regions, in which the number of reporting indicators was reduced twofold in order to reduce the document circulation, is being made by the Agency.
Following the meeting, the head of state gave a number of specific instructions.
