International Association for Official Statistics (IAOS)

Welcome

Call for Papers 2012 IAOS Conference

The IAOS Executive Committee is pleased to invite you to submit proposals for Conference papers and posters.
The Conference, “Getting our messages across – Strategies and Best Practices to Ensure the Use of Statistics in Decision Making,” will focus on how statistical offices are ensuring that the key messages in their statistics are getting through to users and are adding value to decision making.

IAOS: Deciding About Specific Interventions on Ethical Issues

The document that appears below was prepared to stimulate discussion at the General Assembly of the International Association for Official Statistics (IAOS) at the World Statistics Congress in Dublin, Ireland.* Its genesis was discussions in the statistical community about whether and how the ISI and the IAOS should respond when the ISI Declaration on Professional Ethics seems to have been violated. Such discussions have a long history. The Malaguerra Report (released in 1999) reflected a fairly full consideration of this matter.

In addition to providing some background on this issue, the discussion paper raises one possible course of action. The IAOS’ Executive Committee anticipates other options being raised at the General Assembly and expects to benefit from the comments and suggestions that will be made there. The Executive Committee has not decided how to proceed, and is seeking the views of IAOS members.
*The IAOS General Assembly met at 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, August 23, 2011.