Standardization of monitoring of social processes in post-transition countries –transborder and supranational perspective

Abstract

Main thesis of this paper is that social phenomena and processes in supranational and transborder economies of post-transition countries need special international information standards and harmonized monitoring relevant for national information needs as well as for international interchange. Those standards cannot be based on transplantation of official international standards into national statistical systems of post transition countries. General international standards and so-called best practices of developed, stabilized, market economies in monitoring of social processes need creative adoption to the specificity of each post-transition country and their supranational and transborder spaces and should be dynamically adjusted to the changes of economic and social life of countries. Special attention should be paid to the elaboration and implementation of dynamic adoption of statistical standards for different types of supranational and transborder economies covering the territories of post-transition countries, with special reference to fragile national economies. The SSMDS metadata system is proposed as the tool of harmonization of statistical monitoring of social processes in supranational and transborder economies of post-transition countries.