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Transparency Standardization Comparability. Competitive Industrial Performance Index. Described a measure of "capacity to produce and compete" Strengths and pitfalls of composite measures well articulated. Is index proliferation a concern? Is it be timely enough?
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Transparency Standardization Comparability
Competitive Industrial Performance Index • Described a measure of "capacity to produce and compete" • Strengths and pitfalls of composite measures well articulated. • Is index proliferation a concern? • Is it be timely enough? • Ranking is a sensitive business - you really need to construct it well. • Transparency very important • I wonder about capacity of small countries to ensure they are fairly represented.
G-20 Data gaps SDDS Plus • Strengthened surveillance as a response to crisis. • SDDS Plus intended to apply to a subset of economies - those with "systemic" impact. • Will the ones that caused the problem participate? Can they produce all the data required? • Do you track the burden you impose?
Use of non-official sources in international statistics • International agencies have to "pave over the cracks" in statistical systems • Use national statistics but adjustments, footnotes, other sources may be required. Transparency key. • Please consult/ advise when you use another number - it has consequences for us that you may not appreciate. • Know which national agencies are the authoritative source. • Could international collection and aggregation be more efficiently arranged - for all parties? • Is attribution fair? Could NSIs be more recognised as official source. "Sourced from x produced by y"?
Reviving Statistical Year Books • Interesting to hear about state of play. Not at all surprising that the books differ from agency to agency. • ABS has skipped some Year Book editions due to budget pressures. • Could international organisations do more to help NSIs organise analytical web content along thematic lines? Include international comparison data on NSI sites? Could this be a win-win? • Could we move from competition to collaboration in dynamic, user friendly, ways of presenting data? Innovation is good but we spend to much re-inventing the wheel • The value of year books is the textual and analytical content. • There is a romantic attachment to Year Books but are they really the future? • Will we be overtaken by Google? • We have a great party at the launch - people like the book
Supplying comparable international statistics to professional users • Like international organisations, Haver is also in the business of "paving over cracks" in our statistical system. Same challenges - inconsistent concepts, standards, production capacity. • Haver meets a demand that is difficult for NSOs to service - approximate answers to important questions for informed users • Commercial aggregators appear to have some strengths: user-centric perspective and ability to detect quality issues • Could there be more collaboration?
Politics and Statistics - a happy marriage? • a plea for an adequately rich picture of our economies • administrative use of statistical data • scope for "creative accounting" • too much weight placed on impact on (single) indicators can lead to poor policy • do we need to boost statistical literacy of policy makers?