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The Common Metadata Framework (CMF) initiative aims to assist statistical organizations in the adoption, modelling, usage, and implementation of statistical metadata systems and practices across all phases of their statistical business process.  Since the process for statistical surveys is generally the same everywhere, it is possible to build a common business process model for survey work.  As a result, the Generic Statistical Business Process Model was developed and is presented in Part C of the CMF: "Metadata and the Statistical Business Process".

While Part A of the CMF, "Statistical Metadata in a Corporate Context: A guide for managers", is focused on the corporate governance of metadata projects and its target audience is senior managers in statistical organizations, the target audience for Part B is SMS designers and experts responsible for SMS implementation.

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These functions are explained in more detail in Part A of the CMF.

To help SMS designers decide in which areas of the statistical information system metadata standards should be   implemented, the overview of existing statistical metadata standards is presented according to the following groups of standards:

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The four groups of standards above should be taken into consideration when designing and implementing an SMS. Making links to the Generic Statistical Business Process (see Part C of the CMF), the integration of standards into the SMS should be ensured in the following phases of the Generic Statistical Business Process Model:

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