The winners are ... 

The International Association for Official Statistics (IAOS) is pleased to announce the winners of the 2023 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 Canada, Australia, New Zealand and  with a special commendation to Hong Kong.

This is the first time in the history of the Prize a joint prize has been won. The quality of submissions this year has been very high and you should be proud of your achievement.

The first prize in the 2023 IAOS Prize for Young Statisticians has been awarded to 

Ms. Joanne Yoon, Lead Data Scientist, Statistics Canada for her paper Classifying Respondent Comments from the 2021 Canadian Census of Population using Machine Learning Methods. 

and to 

Mr. Nelson Chua and Mr. Benjamin Long, Methodology Futures Section at the Australian Bureau of Statistics for their paper It’s time to build: a small area estimation methodology for time-to-event data.

Mr. Ryan Covey, Data Scientist, at the Australian Bureau of Statistics has won the second prize with his paperIntegrating Big Data and Survey Data for Efficient Estimation of the Median prize.

The third prize has been won by Dr. Alba Cervantes Loreto, Design Analyst with Statistics New Zealand for her paper  Modelling Self-Identification of Māori Businesses in Aotearoa New Zealand 

The paper by Mr. Benjamin (C.H) Chan, Mr. Ian (Y.C) Ng and Ms. Natalie (K. P) Chung, Research Manager, Statistician and Statistician at the Census and Statistics Department, Hong Kong, Anomaly Detection in Trade Declarations using Deep Learning Techniques: A Risk-assessment Approach to Identify Misclassification and Incorrect Valuation 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 November.