The International Association for Official Statistics (IAOS) is excited to announce the launch of the 2025 Young Statisticians Prize (YSP) competition.
To be eligible, authors (and co-authors) must:
- Be under the age of 35 on 21 February 2025 and
- Be employed by an official statistical organisation as at 21 February 2025
The prize is awarded for the best paper on official statistics, encouraging young professionals to engage actively in this field.
Submissions must address significant methodological or strategic challenges in official statistics at regional, national, or international levels. Papers must be written in English, no longer than 4,000 words, and should not have been previously published or presented in public. A maximum of three co-authors is allowed per paper, with each author eligible to participate in only one submission.
The first-place winner(s) will receive monetary prize and travel funds to present their paper at an international conference, possibly the 2025 ISI World Statistics Congress in The Hague, Netherlands, scheduled for October 2025.
The competition deadline is 21 February 2025. For further details, visit IAOS YSP.
