91st DGINS Conference 2005

25 - 27 May 2005 Copenhagen, Denmark

DGINS Programme 2005:
"The Challenge of Communicating Statistics"


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Annotated theme description of the four sessions is given in the document below:
DGINS 2005: The challenge of Communicating Statistics

Thursday 26 May

9:00  Opening session 
                   Bendt Bendtsen, Minister for Economic and Business Affairs 
                   Jan Plovsing, Director General, Statistics Denmark
   
9:20
Keynote address  
                   Henning Christophersen, former Vice-President of the European Commission
   
9:50
Session 1: Professional user requirements of statistical dissemination
Chair:           Luigi Biggeri, President, ISTAT, Italy 
                   What is important when using official statistics in government analysis?
Speaker:
      Ulrik Nødgaard, Deputy Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Economic and
                   Business Affairs, Denmark 
                   Meeting users' demands for truly European statistics
Speaker:
     Steven Keuning, Chief Statistician, ECB
Discussant:  Heinrich Brüngger, Director, UNECE Statistical Division
   
11:00  Coffee
   
11:30 

Session 2: Researcher requirements of statistical dissemination
Chair:           Carmen Alcaide Guindo, President, INE, Spain
                   Disseminating statistics to the research community
Speaker:
      Pedro Diaz Munoz, Director, Eurostat 
                   European data sources - an opportunity and a challenge 
Speaker:
      Niels Ploug, Research director, The Danish National Institute of Social Research 
                   National statistical systems and researchers
Speaker:
      Svante Öberg, Director General, Statistics Sweden
Discussant: Ullrich Heilemann, Vice-President of CEIES

   
12:45  Lunch
   
14:15  Session 3: Non-professional user requirements of statistical dissemination

Chair:           Tadeusz Toczynski, President, Central Statistical Office of Poland 
                    Focusing on non-professional data users
Speaker:
       Aija Zigure, President, Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia 
                    After "Free Dissemination", an integrated communication strategy
Speaker:
       Michel Glaude, Director, Eurostat 
                    Official statistics - can they be used more efficiently?
Speaker:
       Gunnar Sahlin, National Librarian, Sweden
Discussant:  Hallgrimur Snorrason, Director General, Statistics Iceland 

   
15:30  Coffee
   
16:00  Presentation of the Danish statistical system
                    Jan Plovsing, Director General, Statistics Denmark



Friday 27 May 

9:45
Session 4: Dissemination to the news media
Part 1: Expectations of the news media
Speaker:       Jim Saft, Reuters 
   
10:05 

Part 2: The national statistical institutes and the requirements of the news media
Chair:            José Mata, President, National Statistics Institute of Portugal 
                    Communicating with the press
Speaker:       Len Cook, Director General, ONS, United Kingdom 
                    21st Century statistics please - From counting pigs to measuring knowledge
Speaker:
       Leif Beck Fallesen, Editor-in-Chief, Dagbladet Børsen, Denmark 
Discussant:   Péter Pukli, President, Hungarian Central Statistical Office

   
11:15 Coffee
   
11:45 Round table
Theme:        To which extent are the NSI's ready to meet the future challenges of dissemination?

Chair:          Donal Garvey, Director General, Central Statistics Office, Ireland
Participants:  
                     Günther Hanreich, Director General, Eurostat 
                     Johann Hahlen, President, Statistischen Bundesamtes, Germany 
                     Heli Jeskanen-Sundström, Director General, Finland 
                     Irena Krizman, Director General, Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia 
                     Gosse van der Veen, Director General, CBS, the Netherlands 

12:45 
Closing speech
                    Jan Plovsing, Director General, Statistics Denmark