Content Guidelines

This site is a personal knowledge hub on AI for Official Statistics. It should remain professional, practical and source-grounded, while clearly avoiding the appearance of an official institutional publication.

Use this disclaimer where appropriate:

Views are personal and do not represent any institution.

Front Matter

Recommended front matter for new posts:

---
layout: post
title: "Post title"
date: YYYY-MM-DD
author: Dramane Bako
description: "One concise summary sentence for cards and SEO."
lang: en
translation_key: stable-shared-key-for-english-and-french
permalink: /fr/YYYY/MM/DD/stable-slug/ # French posts only, when preserving the /fr/ URL pattern.
categories: [AI, Survey Research, Weekly Update]
tags: [AI, surveys, official-statistics, administrative-data]
coverage_period: "Month D-D, YYYY"
source_count: "6 sources"
key_takeaways:
  - "First practical takeaway."
  - "Second practical takeaway."
  - "Third practical takeaway."
why_it_matters: "Why this matters for official statistics."
practical_action: "A concrete action for statistical offices or practitioners."
last_updated: YYYY-MM-DD
toc: true
---

French posts should use the paired values:

categories: [IA, Recherche par sondage, Veille]
tags: [IA, enquetes, statistiques-officielles, donnees-administratives]
lang: fr
translation_key: same-key-as-the-english-post

Translation Pairs

Pair English and French posts with the same translation_key. The current post layout and header language switch use this field to link translations.

Keep French post URLs under /fr/YYYY/MM/DD/.../ using permalink when needed. Do not change existing post URLs unless there is a deliberate migration plan.

Tags And Categories

Current tags are intentionally broad and should not be mass-renamed because they are already used across the archive:

  • English tags: AI, surveys, official-statistics, administrative-data, plus older statistics and bilingual.
  • French tags: IA, enquetes, statistiques-officielles, donnees-administratives.
  • English categories: AI, Survey Research, Weekly Update.
  • French categories: IA, Recherche par sondage, Veille.

For future posts, prefer the current canonical tags:

  • English: AI, surveys, official-statistics, administrative-data.
  • French: IA, enquetes, statistiques-officielles, donnees-administratives.

Use _data/topics.yml for the richer editorial taxonomy. Add a post’s translation_key to a topic’s featured_posts list when the broad tags are not specific enough.

Topic Groups

The maintained topic groups are:

  • AI for surveys and censuses
  • Administrative data
  • Agricultural statistics and WCA 2030
  • AI governance, ethics and quality assurance
  • Survey methodology and machine learning
  • Data cleaning, editing, imputation and validation
  • Dissemination, dashboards, chatbots and data access
  • Tools, libraries and platforms

Summary Boxes

Use the optional fields coverage_period, source_count, key_takeaways, why_it_matters, practical_action, last_updated and toc for long monitor posts. The layout will display them automatically when present.

Tables

Use standard Markdown tables:

| Column A | Column B |
|----------|----------|
| Value    | Notes    |

Keep table cells concise. Long tables will scroll horizontally on mobile through the global CSS.

Source Sections

Prefer clear source headings such as:

  • ## Sources used this week
  • ## References
  • ## Further reading
  • ## Official sources
  • ## Papers and reports

Use source sections for official institutional pages, reports, academic papers, conference pages, tool documentation and credible organisational blogs. Do not invent sources.

Editorial Tone

Write as a knowledgeable individual practitioner. Prefer practical implications, methodological caution and source-grounded synthesis. Avoid wording that implies the blog represents FAO, the UN, a government, or any institution.