DGINS Programme 2005:
"The Challenge of Communicating Statistics"
Annotated theme description of the four sessions is given in the document below:
DGINS 2005: The challenge of Communicating Statistics
Thursday 26 May
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Opening session
Bendt Bendtsen, Minister for Economic and Business Affairs
Jan Plovsing, Director General, Statistics Denmark |
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9:20
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Keynote address
Henning Christophersen, former Vice-President of the European Commission |
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9:50
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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 |
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| 11:00 |
Coffee |
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11:30
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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 |
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| 12:45 |
Lunch |
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| 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 |
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| 15:30 |
Coffee |
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| 16:00 |
Presentation of the Danish statistical system
Jan Plovsing, Director General, Statistics Denmark |
Friday 27 May
9:45
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Session 4: Dissemination to the news media
Part 1: Expectations of the news media
Speaker: Jim Saft, Reuters |
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| 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 |
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| 11:15 |
Coffee |
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| 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 |
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12:45
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Closing speech
Jan Plovsing, Director General, Statistics Denmark
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