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An interview with Benjamin Long and Nelson Chua, first prize winners in the 2023 IAOS Prize for Young Statisticians with their paper ‘It’s time to build: a small area estimation methodology for time...

Turning big data into accurate official statistics. An interview with Ryan Covey, second prize winner in the 2023 IAOS Prize for Young Statisticians with his paper Integrating Big Data and Survey Data...

An interview with Joanne Yoon, first prize winner in the 2023 IAOS Prize for Young Statisticians with her paper Classifying Respondent Comments from the 2021 Canadian Census of Population using...

This interview is with Dominik Rozkrut, the incumbent IAOS President (2023-2025). After two years as president select (2021-23), Dominik Rozkrut took over during the 2023 ISI WSC as IAOS president...

On the interaction of Politics, Official Statistics, and Ethical Principles

Take your knowledge of data to the next level!

The 15th discussion invites to react to the statement that official statistics, on the one hand, have greatly benefited in strong support for developing new methodologies and indicators, a renewed...

You are invited to reflect on the role and value of (statistical) data, their role as a public good and the role of the UN  member states, the International Statistical Organizations and the UN...

There seems to be currently a situation of confusion on which direction official statistics should develop. Discussions and presentations from conferences, several manuscripts that are submitted to...

Calling all Young Official Statisticians

Papers must be submitted before 11:59 pm (UTC) on 10 February 2024