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Are you a Young Statistician? Do you know someone who's a Young Statistician? Young statisticians are studying statistics, or have graduated in the last five years and are working or studying in an area related to statistics
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Are you a Young Statistician? Do you know someone who's a Young Statistician? Young statisticians are studying statistics, or have graduated in the last five years and are working or studying in an area related to statistics Join us on Wednesday 23rd May 5pm for an interesting seminar, some networking with fellow Young Statisticians and free snacks!! Come to our Young Statisticians gathering What: Presentation by Sonya McGlone and Chen Chen (Analysts from Statistics New Zealand) on the Christchurch Retail Trade Indicator Series - Networking - Free snacks!! When: Wednesday 23 May 5pm Where: University of Canterbury Room Erskine 031 For more information, please contact Catherine Cumpstone – ph. 964 8383 or catherine.cumpstone@stats.govt.nz Seminar abstract: Stats NZ has just released an experimental Christchurch retail trade indicator (CRTI) series to provide information on the state of the Christchurch retail trade industry following the Canterbury earthquakes. The series has been constructed using Goods and Services Tax (GST) sales data from Inland Revenue, supplemented with retail trade survey data. The series has incorporated the new methodologies under development by Statistical Methods and other subject matter experts. In this presentation we explain how the CRTI series was created, discuss issues in the development and production of the series, and also talk about the first release and the media conference held in Christchurch