Statistics Making an Impact

Pullinger, John

doi:10.1111/rssa.12023

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“…Adrian Smith focused on mathematics education in schools, David Hand discussed the statistical education from the next generation of statisticians through to the lay public, and Valerie Isham had a strong focus on education and the need for nurturing the discipline. John Pullinger regarded statistical education and literacy as essential for impact, and Peter Diggle noted 'We are what we teach' and emphazised especially the role of design (Smith, 1996;Hand, 2009;Isham, 2012;Pullinger, 2013;Diggle, 2015).…”

Section: Building Statistical Capacitymentioning

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Pigeonholes and Mustard Seeds: Growing Capacity to use Data for Society

Ashby

2019

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society

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Summary The Royal Statistical Society was founded to address social problems ‘through the collection and classification of facts’, leading to many developments in the collection of data, the development of methods for analysing them and the development of statistics as a profession. Nearly 200 years later an explosion in computational power has led, in turn, to an explosion in data. We outline the challenges and the actions needed to exploit those data for the public good, and to address the step change in statistical skills and capacity development necessary to enable our vision of a world where data are at the heart of understanding and decision making.

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Section: Building Statistical Capacitymentioning

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Pigeonholes and Mustard Seeds: Growing Capacity to use Data for Society

Ashby

2019

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society

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“…This is particularly true for official statistics which aim to monitor changing economic, social and cultural aspects of society and which are central to effective government [12]. Thus, there is a need for developing suitable organizational structures and legal frameworks [13]. Statistical data can generally be seen as a product with producers and consumers, and therefore also associated costs and value [5].…”

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Innovative methods in European road freight transport statistics : A pilot study

Fürst

Oberhofer

Vogelauer

et al. 2019

Journal of Statistics and Management Systems

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By using innovative methods, such as the automated transfer of corporate electronic data to National Statistical Institutions, official transport data can be significantly improved in terms of reliability, costs and the burden on respondents. In this paper, we show that the automated compilation of statistical reports is possible and feasible. Based on previous findings, a new method and tool were developed in cooperation with two business partners from the logistics sector in Austria. The results show that the prototype could successfully be implemented at the partner companies. Improved data quality can lead to more reliable analyses in various fields. Compared to actual volumes of investments into transport, the costs of transport statistics are limited. By using the new and innovative data collection techniques, these costs can even be reduced in the long run; at the same time, the risk of bad investments and wrong decisions caused by analyses relying on poor data quality can be reduced. This results in a substantial value for business, research, the economy and the society.

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“…Moreover, the importance of cooperation between statisticians and academics has been recognized. For example, [8] mentions the importance of having (at minimum) statistical literacy and the fundamental role to be played by statisticians. Another example can be found in [9], which presents the successful cooperation between official and academic statisticians in the development of a statistical seasonal adjustment project.…”

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An exploratory study of how undergraduate students use official statistics as a source of information for their academic assignments

Silva¹,

Aguilar²

2018

SJI

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The official statistics generated by government offices and ministries are fundamental to guide actions in the decisionmaking process within a country. For example, official statistics could be used to promote and allocate public goods like local, regional and national budgets. Moreover, due to the high quality standard required to generate official data, such information is ideal to promote a better understanding about the important facts in economic, sociodemographic, geographic, environmental and governmental management issues. However, it has been observed that many undergraduate students do not use such data in an extensive manner, and they reveal limitations in accessing, analyzing and extrapolating such information to their benefit, both in academic and personal settings. The aim of this work is to describe to what extent Mexican undergraduate students use official statistics as part of their academic assignments, and to identify the main obstacles they encounter when trying to access and use official statistics.

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Statistics Making an Impact

Cited by 17 publications

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Pigeonholes and Mustard Seeds: Growing Capacity to use Data for Society

Pigeonholes and Mustard Seeds: Growing Capacity to use Data for Society

Innovative methods in European road freight transport statistics : A pilot study

An exploratory study of how undergraduate students use official statistics as a source of information for their academic assignments

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