Statystyka a etyka

Abstract

The article concerns ethical rules complied with both by public statistics and users
 of public statistics. Ethical rules in statistics are partly codified in the European
 Statistics Code of Practice published by Eurostat, the statistical bureau of the European
 Union. Implementation of this code is subject to periodical reviews. The
 second part of the paper deals with various manipulations of statistical data performed
 by its users. The thesis of the paper states that if non-ethical practices
 appear, either in public statistics or in manipulations by users, they are relatively
 quickly denounced. This thesis is supported by some empirical facts.