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Theme: to which extent are the NSI’s ready to meet the future challenges of dissemination?

56th SPC/91st DGINS Conference Round Table. Theme: to which extent are the NSI’s ready to meet the future challenges of dissemination? Chair: Donal Garvey, Director General, CSO. Topics. Electronic Dissemination Professional Independence also in Dissemination

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Theme: to which extent are the NSI’s ready to meet the future challenges of dissemination?

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  1. 56th SPC/91st DGINS Conference Round Table Theme: to which extent are the NSI’s ready to meet the future challenges of dissemination? Chair: Donal Garvey, Director General, CSO

  2. Topics • Electronic Dissemination • Professional Independence also in Dissemination • Statistics and the people of Europe • Communication through the Media • Integrity, Credibility and Reputation

  3. Heli Jeskanen-Sundstrom - Electronic Dissemination • In recent years there has been a significant switch by NSIs to electronic dissemination with an ever increasing scope for users to produce their own analysis from output databases. However, experience shows that communication is optimised by personal contact!

  4. Questions: • Has the switch to e-dissemination reduced the personal contact between Statisticians and the users of statistics? • Has it adversely impacted on the effectiveness of the communication process - e.g. in relation to NSI commentary? • Is there a risk of leaving behind (disenfranchising) some categories of user? • Has Statistics Finland taken any special steps to counter any adverse effect?

  5. Johann Hahlen - Professional Independence also in Dissemination • I have read the German “Law on Statistics for Federal Purposes” and, while it deals with scientific independence, it does not appear to say very much about independence in the matter of dissemination.

  6. Question: • What would you (or could you) do if your political authority asked you (for political reasons) to: • delay the release of particular statistics • change the emphasis of your commentary on particular results • provide advance access to important statistical results - i.e. in advance of the date or time set out in your publication protocol?

  7. Gunther Hanreich - Statistics and the people of Europe • The NSIs tend to see their mandate in a rather broad societal way as disseminating statistics (national, regional and international) for all stakeholders in the nation and not just for the bureaucracy. Opinion polls across different countries point increasingly to a disconnect between the EU institutions and the citizens of Europe.

  8. Questions: • What role do you think Eurostat and the ESS should play in increasing the level of understanding of European issues among the people? • Should Eurostat’s role and its relationship with the NSIs be fundamentally reviewed - and if so, in what direction?

  9. Irena Krizman - Communication through the Media • A well known Irish poet once said “think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people”(W. B. Yeats). Statisticians reach the people via Journalists so there must be effective communication between them. Yet, Statisticians thrive on numbers while Journalists thrive on words! Statisticians dislike controversy while Journalists live on controversy! Media presentation is based on sound bites while Statisticians like to explain things carefully (in painful detail?)

  10. Questions: • What strategies does Statistics Slovenia pursue to communicate effectively with print Journalists? Have any recent innovations proved to be particularly successful? • The television environment tends towards “flashy” and quick presentation. Have you developed any strategies to ensure that statistics are better communicated on television? • Can more detailed analysis improve the communication process?

  11. Gosse van der Veen - Integrity, Credibility and Reputation • Sir Claus Moser, former Director of Statistics in the UK, once observed that “Statisticians must suffer disasters as a hazard of their profession, but they should never allow disgraces to occur” and having allowed his audience a few moments of puzzlement, he went on to explain that “a disgrace is a disaster that is allowed to continue”.

  12. Question: • How does the CBS minimise the occurrence of statistical disasters and ensure that disgraces do not occur? In particular, what is your policy if an error is discovered in an important statistical series - say a week after it has been published?

  13. Questions fromthe floor

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