Środowisko informacyjne statystyki publicznej
Information environment of official statistics

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the paper is to examine the influence of the information environment ofa society or economy on public statistics, as well as demonstrating how official statistics canaffect the quality of information environments of modern societies and economies in the contextof global technologies and IT systems.In modern information societies and knowledge-based economies, the quality of informationenvironments in which citizens, economic entities, public administration institutionsand international organisations are functioning has a decisive influence on the political, socialand economic order. These environments are shaped by interest groups which control informationsystems and processes at the local, national, international and global levels. The above-mentioned groups take advantage of the fundamental law of information, i.e. that poor qualityinformation overrides good quality information, to eliminate any information that could makeit more difficult for them to control the behavior of people, including social groups, and entitiescreated by people, which participate in the political and economic processes.The paper examines the effects the contamination of the social information environment hason the political and social life and the economy. Attention has been drawn to the influence of thequality of information environment on official statistics and the perception of statistical data, aswell as to using reliable statistical data to disinform and contaminate social and economic informationenvironments by manipulating these data. The paper also shows how public statistics caninfluence information environments and its significance for the safety of the general public.

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