
- Good practice guidelines for the development and reporting of indicators To help ensure the integrity, quality and transparency of indicator reports, Statistics New Zealand (2009) has produced a set of good practice guidelines. The guidelines are a web-based product and provide practical advice on the factors that should be addressed in developing indicator reports and the characteristics of good practice. They also include case studies and links to relevant resources where further information can be obtained. The guidelines are structured into five sections which represent the five main stages in the development and reporting of indicators: i) Establishing the purpose of the indicators; ii) Designing the conceptual framework; iii) Selecting and designing the indicators; iv) Interpreting and reporting the indicators; and v) Maintaining and reviewing the indicators. This report summarises the characteristics of good practice associated with each of these stages in indicator development and reporting, and illustrates them with case studies of indicator initiatives in New Zealand and Australia.
You may also be interested in a related page in the knowledge management section with links on how best to develop conceptual models. Another related page in this section provides a number of links outlining how to develop programme-based outcomes models, also called intervention logic models.