This new guideline outlines general principles on how to design and create SDMX artefacts in a statistical domain, following a step-by-step approach to design based on the SDMX information model, while also complementing the existing guidelines on Data Structure Definitions and Code Lists.

A poster highlighting the various steps of the process is annexed to the document.

The document includes how to determine the number of Data Structure Definitions (DSDs) for a subject-matter domain, and recommends that this decision should come after the discussion on all parameters of the data collection exercise.