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FIG Office has received this book from our Mexican member INEGI. This remarkable work tells the story of the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), from the perspective of the role performed by information agencies in our societies and why professional indepencence is fundamental to fulfil their mission.

Beyond a chronology of events, this book raises two needs that have marked the Institute's evolution: the first, to properly measure the many components of reality, whether social, economic or natural; and the second, decisive for the public's trust and whose absence would invalidate the purposes of the previous need, to preserve the information form any consideration, other than strictly professional, in all stages of its production and dissemination.