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International Association for Official Statistics (IAOS) events at World Statistical Congress, Marrakech, Morocco 16 - 21 July 2017
24 May 2017
Dear IAOS members and supporters
Thank you again for your strong support for IAOS activities. This newsletter focuses on the key IAOS related activities that will take place during the World Statistical Congress (http://payment.isi2017.org/) in Marrakech in July.
Administrative Meetings
The IAOS General Assembly will be held on Monday 17 July, from 12.30 - 2pm . The papers for the meeting, including the 2017-2019 Strategic Plan will be available on the IAOS website in June. Check the conference program for the venue.
ISI & Association Awards Ceremony - which includes Awards for the IAOS 2017 Young Statistician Prize winners will be held on Friday 21 July between 4 and 4.45 pm (16:00-16:45)
Scientific Programme
IAOS sponsored ISPs
The IAOS has sponsored a large number of ISPs. The list as at 24 May is listed below. (For details of time and venue, see the conference programme.)
IPS |
Title |
Session Organiser |
148 |
IAOS Presidential Address - The transformation of IAOS 1985-2015: the past, the current and the future |
Ola Awad, IAOS President 2015- 2017 |
149 |
Session of the Statistical Journal of the IAOS (SJIAOS) |
Fritz Scheuren, SJIAOS |
8 |
Peace, Justice and strong Institutions: Measuring SDG16 |
Mr Mario Palma, National Institute of Statistics and Geography, Mexico |
9 |
Looking for the Holy Grail: measuring income, consumption, and wealth simultaneously at the household level |
Perez-Duarte, Sebastian. ISI |
11 |
Synthetic Datasets for Statistical Disclosure Control ? Research and Applications Around the World |
Dr Jörg DRECHSLER, Institute for Employment Research, Germany |
13 |
Challenges and Lessons Learned: Implementing Changing Methodologies and Technologies in the 2020 Round of World Censuses |
Ms Arona PISTINER, US Census Bureau IAOS |
17 |
How to Geo-Enable Official Statistics? - the global Statistical Geospatial Framework. |
Mr Ekkehard PETRI, Eurostat |
18 |
Mission completed? Delivery and deployment of modernisation results in official statistics |
Martina Hahn, Eurostat |
39 |
Global, regional, national and thematic monitoring of the SDGs |
Tiina Luige, UNECE |
43 |
The Future of the Social Sciences and Statistics |
Dr Gentry WHITE, Queensland University of Technology ISI-IAOS-IASE-IASS |
53 |
Does the production of official statistics need to be a separate branch of government or should it remain within the executive branch of government? |
Dr Andreas Georgiou Vasilios, Official Statistics Consulting, Greece ISI-IAOS |
66 |
The renewed/modernised institutional framework of the National Statistical Systems in the enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) countries |
Claudia Junker, Eurostat |
68 |
New challenges to disseminate statistical literacy and problem-solving skills among people by Statistics Bureaus of Governments in "Open Data and Big Data" era |
Dr Hiroe TSUBAKI, The National Statistics Center of Japan |
76 |
Policy use of macroeconomic indicators |
Mr John VERRINDER, Eurostat IAOS |
78 |
Innovative Approaches to Addressing (or Avoiding) Survey Non-Response |
Dr Linda YOUNG, USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service US, |
79 |
Global Value Chain measurement and its importance for developing countries |
Mr Houssain OULJOUR, Dir Stat Department, Office d'Echanges, Morocco. |
80 |
Sub-national Purchasing Power Parities (PPPs): Different Methods of Estimation and Application to China, India, Indonesia and Vietnam |
Prof Luigi BIGGERI, Univ of Florence, Italy |
81 |
Developing Composite Indicators: from academics to practice |
Prof Stefan SPERLICH Univ Geneva |
82 |
Using web scraping for data collection in official statistics ? challenges and opportunities |
Bernd Stoerzbach ISI-IAOS |
85 |
UN Sustainable Development Goals: The Implications for Statistics at a Sub-National Level |
Mr. Jagdev VIRDEE, VCS Ltd UK |
89 |
Improvements of the quality of population and housing censuses in the 2020 round |
Mrs Francoise DUPONT, INSEE France |
92 |
Do modern statistical institutes need modern legislation? |
Ms Gemma VAN HANHALDEREN, ABS Australia IAOS |
95 |
Measurement of decent work, quality of employment and job quality: Comparisons of international frameworks and national experiences. An IAOS Invited Paper Session |
Ms Monica Castillo, International Labour Organization IAOS |
97 |
GDP and beyond: recent developments in measuring and analyzing well-being |
Albert Braakmann, Bernd Stoerzbach ISI-IAOS |
99 |
Modernisation of official statistics: how developing and transition countries can benefit of the existing initiatives |
Mr José CERVERA-FERRI, DevStat Spain |
100 |
Development and Application of International Guidelines for Statistical Business Registers |
Mr. John MICHAEL, Michael Colledge Statistical Consulting, Australia IAOS |
102 |
Disability Statistics and Measurement in the Context of the SDGs and the 2020 World Population and Housing Census Programme |
Dr. Margaret MBOGONI, UNSD |
104 |
Sexual Harassment and Gender-Based Violence in Selected Nigerian Universities |
Adedayo Adepoju |
109 |
Recent Advances on stochastic differential equations |
Prof. Mamadou DIOP, Université Gaston Berger, Senegal |
Co-sponsors are also shown in the table.
Lunchtime Roundtable Sessions (asat 24 May)
The following sessions are sponsored by IAOS , or concern topics related to Official Statistics. Remember to separately register for these.
Day |
Number |
Title |
Organiser |
*Monday 17 July |
LRTD018 |
The Global Statistical Geospatial Framework and the importance of Integration |
Rolando Ocampo |
Tuesday 18 July |
LRTD010 |
How Do We Reshape a Post-Truth World? |
Jim Ridgway |
Tuesday 18 July |
LRTD003 |
The Scope for South-South partnerships for advancement of statistical capacity |
Bhaswati Ganguli |
Tuesday 18 July |
LRTD005 |
Why should a Statistical Agency engage its Experts in Providing Training for External Users of Statistical Information? |
Petteri Baer |
Wednesday 19 July |
LRTD031 |
Microdata for counterfactual impact Evaluation |
Numo Crato |
Wednesday 19 July |
LRTD008 |
Big Data from Electronic Health Record systems: challenges and opportunities for statisticians |
Ling Li |
Wednesday 19 July |
LRTD022 |
Empowering Women in Statistics and Data Sciences |
Shil Lin |
Wednesday 19 July |
LRTD012 |
Misinterpretation of agricultural research due to communication gap between agricultural scientists and statisticians |
Muhammad Amim |
Thursday 20 July |
LRTD020 |
Official Statistics - How do we ensure their future |
Nancy McBeth |
Thursday 20 July |
LRTD015 |
Leave no one behind? How to make the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicators relevant for people living in urban and rural areas? |
Teodora Brandmuller |
Thursday 20 July |
LRTD007 |
Social Media Presence and blogging among statistical experts; how to convince the audience |
Ari Tykko |
Friday 21 July |
LRT004 |
Role of official statistics in fragile countries, regions and sectors of economy |
Jozef Olenski
|
Friday 21 July |
LRT006 |
Open-plan office: new opportunities and challenges for the organization of work? |
Ari Tykko |
Friday 21 July |
LRT010231 |
Training the Trainers: How to build institutional capacity for statistics capacity building? |
Eric Vance |
Friday 21 July |
LRT |
Do we need to revise the ISI Declaration on Professional Ethics |
Stephen Penneck |
* Clash with the IAOS General Assembly.
IASE-IAOS Satellite Conference
Reminder too that the 2016 Satellite Conference will be held in Rabat, Morocco from July 11-14, 2017, just before the WSC. The theme is Teaching Statistics in a Data Rich World. See http://iase-web.org/conference/satellite17/.
WSC Registration
A reminder too that Registration for the WSC is still open - see http://payment.isi2017.org/register/
We look forward to seeing you in Marrakech
Ola Awad, President 2015-2017
Mario Palma, President Elect
Contact names and email addresses:
Ola Awad (President) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Mario Palma (President Elect) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Kirsten West (Editor-in-Chief, SJIAOS) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Rolando Ocampo (IAOS representative on the 2017 WSC) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Nancy McBeth (IAOS Website Editor) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.