The winners are ... 

The International Association for Official Statistics (IAOS) is pleased to announce the winners of the 2024 IAOS Young Statisticians Prize. This international prize encourages young statisticians to take an active interest in official statistics and is awarded for the best paper in the field of official statistics written by a young statistician.

The winners are from the Netherlands, Canada, Germany and the Philippines. 

The first prize in the 2024 IAOS Prize for Young Statisticians has been awarded to Ms. Manel Sloken, Mr. Jel Vankan and Mr. Peter-Paul de Wolf, Statistics Netherlands, for their paper ‘From COACH to COACH+: Automating Output Checking with Human-in-the-Loop’.

Mr. Alexander, from Statistics Canada, has won the second prize with his paper ‘Including Non-Binary Gender in the Calibration Strategy for the Canadian Long-Form Sample Survey Weights’

The third prize has been won by Mr. Adrian Urban and Mr. Simon Rommelspacher from the Federal Statistical Office of Germany for their paper ‘RUMS – how to compare structures of enterprise groups?’

The paper by Ms. Carmelita G Esclanda-Lo, Ms. Chelsea Anne Ong and Mr. Gabriel Masangkay, from Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, the Philippines, ‘E-Commerce Price Index Prediction with Time Series Mining and Automated Machine Learning’ received a special commendation for a paper from a developing nation.

Warmest congratulations to all these winners.

In addition to the monetary prizes, the first-place winner(s) receive travel funds to present their paper at an international conference. Interviews with the prize winners will be published in the journal in a a next issue.