Focusing on the statistical information, this article aims at remarking the polemics that grow around its social-political dimension which defines the demand, and technical-scientifical dimension which defines the suplly, through a historical evolution. It aims at showing that the definition and harmony between both, the demand and the suplly of statistical information, are not fixed by the market free game, natural locus of the spontaneous economical coordination, so, being absolutely necessary to have a specialized, proper and adequately institutionalized coordination in some official government level (because it comes to an output wanted as public). Therefore this institutional coordination should be up to some public agent which would act to the limits of its attributions, cosequently practicing a careful regulation of the whole social and cognitive process, based on the principles of a policy of information. In this way, the policy of information is related to the settling of polemics that may obstruct or make it difficult to turn public a certain output (in this case the statistical information), relating it in the context of some power agency (in this case a specialized coordination), establishing a six-pillar set (utility, properly, validity, visibility, continuity, integrity), able to sustain and support it.
Information policy; Statistical information; Demand of sociopolitical dimension; Tecnico-scientific supply