The Guide: Implementing the Standards for Statistics on Cultural and Language Diversity

Benefits and costs

While implementation of the Standards will involve resources, it will also improve the quality of the information collected and its comparability with data collected by other organisations, especially the ABS.

Better data can add significantly to an organisation's effectiveness.

Effective and efficient governance requires that policy advisers and program managers can identify and measure the impact of policies and programs on different groups of the population, including those with various language and cultural characteristics.

Organisations can undertake meaningful assessments of the impact of government on individual cultural and language groups if they collect and analyse standardised data.

The adoption of the Standards will be of particular benefit to departments and agencies that outsource functions.

Quality data enables organisations to identify and include appropriate performance standards in contracts and memoranda of understanding.

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