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Remembering Sylvia Ostry: a podcast by Statistics Canada

In 1972, 50 years ago, Sylvia Ostry was appointed Canada’s first and only female chief statistician. Widely recognized as one of the leading...

Dr. Erin Lundy (Statistics Canada) won the 1e Prize in the 2022 IAOS YSP Competition with her paper: Predicting the quality and evaluating the use of administrative data for the 2021 Canadian Census...

Mr. Juan Carlos Galvez Sainz de Cueto, Mr. Jorge Fernandez Calatrava and Mr. Lasai Barrenada Taleb (Statistics Spain) won the 2nd Prize in the 2022 Young Statisticians Prize Competition with their...

In April 2022, during its annual Conference, the IAOS has formally established the “Krakow Working Group” whose aim is to contribute to the collective reflection on the challenges that our “datafied”...

This interview is with Misha Belkindas, the incumbent IAOS president (2021-23). After two years as president-elect (2019-21), Misha Belkindas took over during the 2021 ISI WSC as IAOS president from...

This discussion will focus on the four inter-related and mutually reinforcing building blocks of the emerging new statistical business model for economic statistics: outreach and user consultation...

Closed: The fourth discussion on the SJIAOS discussion platform centers around manuscripts and statements taken from the ISI WSC 2019 session nr 285 on Pre-release of Official Statistics.

The Statistical Journal of the IAOS, Volume 37/3, on ‘New Developments in Training in Official Statistics’  discusses in 22 manuscripts the recent trends in training in official statistics. See https...

The 8^th discussion focuses on the UN Fundamental Principles for Official Statistics (UNFPOS). See: https://unstats.un.org/unsd/dnss/gp/fundprinciples.aspx
 

The seventh discussion focuses on Misuse of Statistics. It aims to center around the need for trustworthy information to guide decision making and enable citizens to understand issues that affect...