AIST Submission: Measuring What Matters

AIST welcomes the Government’s new Measuring what matters Budget Statement and its stated commitment to embedding a culture of evaluation in the Australian Public Service to support better-quality Government spending and better outcomes for Australians.

AIST has previously made calls for better data collection and use of data in various submissions to wide-ranging consultations. For this reason, we reiterate some of those calls and expand on others in this submission, which can be read in conjunction with our current and recent annual Pre-Budget Submissions. Our recommendations are divided into three categories:

• Looking back: post-implementation reviews
• Extending existing data collections and
• New datasets