METHODOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES OF MODERN STATISTICS
The article emphasizes the role of statistics as an important source of knowledge. The relevance of the study and development of the methodology of statistical science and its principles is argued. The research is based on a theoretical scientific method and its elements such as the historical approach, logic, deduction, classification are used. The modern methodological principles of statistical science are formulated. The practical significance of the methodological principles is shown through their consistency with the fundamental principles of official statistics. The classification of the principles of official statistics by the directions of influence on statistical information is presented. It is summarized that the methodological principles of statistics determine the basic scientific approaches and requirements for conducting statistical research. Their implementation allows you to get truthful information about socioeconomic and environmental phenomena and processes, the relationships and trends of their development, to build projections of the future.