  In 2022, the American Statistical Association revised its Ethical Guidelines
for Statistical Practice. Originally issued in 1982, these Guidelines describe
responsibilities of the 'ethical statistical practitioner' to their profession,
to their research subjects, as well as to their community of practice. These
guidelines are intended as a framework to assist decision-making by
statisticians working across academic, research, and government environments.
For the first time, the 2022 Guidelines describe the ethical obligations of
organizations and institutions that use statistical practice. This paper
examines alignment between the ASA Ethical Guidelines and other
long-established normative guidelines for US official statistics: the OMB
Statistical Policy Directives 1, 2, and 2a NASEM Principles and Practices, and
the OMB Data Ethics Tenets. Our analyses ask how the recently updated ASA
Ethical Guidelines can support these guidelines for federal statistics and data
science. The analysis uses a form of qualitative content analysis, the
alignment model, to identify patterns of alignment, and potential for tensions,
within and across guidelines. The paper concludes with recommendations to
policy makers when using ethical guidance to establish parameters for policy
change and the administrative and technical controls that necessarily follow.
