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The IAOS IPM meetings of the 55th ISI Session (Sydney, April 2005) |
It has been a standing tradition, and one with strong, general support, to conduct a forum on a subject of great current interest. The subject is determined by the President-elect of IAOS and the IPM will be organized by him/her.
IAOS FORUM : New social and economic indicators for local areas without increasing respondent burden
Several countries have begun developing new measures of economic and social activity by combining administrative records with data from censuses and surveys. The attractiveness of this new approach is self-evident: it dramatically expands the information available to decision makers by providing much more detailed local information with no increase in reporting burden and only modest increase in cost.
But this efficient use of existing data raises several issues, including possible public concern about privacy and the need for enhanced methods of disclosure avoidance.
Collaboration among statistical agencies on ways of responding to these common opportunities and challenges will enhance the contributions of each agency to improved economic and social decision making in its own country.
ORGANISER: Hermann Habermann (USA)
Impact of the "international indicators of development" movement on national statistical programme priorities
There have been a number of world summits over the last decade generating demands on countries for various sets of development indicators (the Millennium Development Goals being one such set). Countries in the European Union and its candidate countries, despite being generally with larger statistical capacities, also face high demands for producing new indicators to the extent that they find it difficult to cope.
NSO's need to enhance their programmes to provide required data on a regular basis while at the same time are faced with significant resources constraints. Issues of policy relevance of the indicators, acquisition of resources and re-prioritization of statistical programmes have to be addressed.
ORGANISER: Ada van Krimpan (The Netherlands)
Statistical measurement issues requiring collaboration among NSOs
While each NSO manages its own affairs there are issues which actually require collaboration among NSO's.
For example, statistics on multinational enterprises, environmental indicators, counter-part statistics in trade statistics( e.g. reconciliation of imports of a country vs exports of its trading partner).
ORGANISER: Richard Barnabe ( Canada)
Statistics on International Migration
The issue of international migration has become very important (The 2003 report of IOM has highlighted this).
Discussions on statistical methods for the compilation of good statistics in this area and how to promote international comparability of such statistics will be much welcome by compilers and users of these statistics.
ORGANISER: Brian Pink (New Zealand)
The role of official statistics in innovation, knowledge management and development of the new economy
The new economy on the one hand brings numerous opportunities and on the other hand requires adjustments by various players. Official statistics can contribute greatly to the development of the economy if they are used properly and effectively.
ORGANISER: Shigeru Kawasaki (Japan)
The regional and urban dimension of official statistics : small area statistics and data of particular relevance to regional and urban planning
Considerable development has been going on in the field of small area statistics. There is also increasing need of data users for statistical analysis at more detailed geographical levels. Papers can cover such issues like:
a. The methods of merging census, sample survey and administrative data (mixed modelling) to obtain small area information.
b. Access method to small area statistics.
c. Confidentiality and small area statistics.
ORGANISER: Derek Bond (UK)
Standards for regional and urban indicators
The need for establishing standards for regional and urban indicators is becoming more apparent to enable inter-city or inter-territorial comparisons.
ORGANISER: Rosa Giaimo (Italy)
It has been a standing tradition, and one with strong support by Asian statisticians, to conduct a forum on a subject of great current interest to the Asia Pacific region.
ASIAN STATISTICAL FORUM : Official Statistics in the Asia Pacific Region - New Challenges and Intra-regional Co-operation
ORGANISER: Nailin Feng (China)
Response burden and public cooperation in statistical surveys
Given the huge social cost of surveys in terms of respondent burden, before deciding on the conduct of statistical surveys and on their precise forms, critical evaluation of alternatives for obtaining the required data (or some of the required data) by way of other sources, such as administrative records, should be performed.
Having decided to proceed with a survey, good control of response burden must be ensured, as this is essential for its successful implementation. More statistical techniques and management methods should be developed in this regard, as respondents (both in business and household surveys) are now feeling more and more burden placed on them.
The goal is to present and discuss methods for improved control of response burden, and how to achieve increased cooperation.
ORGANISER : Luigi Biggeri (Italy)
Statistical methods in transportation analysis (with IASC)
(Organiser: recommendation to be communicated by IASC)
Quality Assurance in Statistical Education (with IASE)
(Organiser: to be communicated by IASE)
Promotion of statistical literacy among students (with IASE)
(Organiser: Pilar Guzman (Spain)
Educating the media on how best to report statistics (with IASE and IASS)
(Organiser: Jacob Ryten (Canada)
The development of quarterly national accounts by institutional sector (with Finance)
(Organiser : Richard Walton (UK)