The Statistical Journal of the IAOS – December 2022 issue –‘How can Official Statistics find a way out of the fog?”
With the release of SJIAOS December issue (Volume 38, issue 4), the Official Statistics platform launched a new discussion on the topic of ‘How can Official Statistics find a way out of the fog?
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The December issue (Volume 38, issue 4) began by stating that agencies and people active in Official Statistics currently are confused and consequently intensively debating, what role Official Statistics should play in the Data ecosystem. Many of the papers in this issue highlight many of the current challenges faced by Official Statistics in the new and emerging data ecosystem. This issue also presents the papers from the winners from the 2022 Young Statistician Prize.
The upcoming March 2023 issue (Volume 39, issue 1), online from 15 March 2023, has the theme: The challenge of the Cape Town Global Action Plan for Sustainable Development Data.
The issue starts with an editorial ‘Success, failures, challenges, and opportunities for official statistics in the development and implementation of the SDG Indicator framework’. This editorial reflects on the current state of progress with the Implementation of the indicator framework and is the base for the 15th discussion on the SJIAOS Discussion Platform, also to be launched on 15 March 2023.
The issue also contains manuscripts on Governance in Official statistics, and Data, Methodology, and Techniques. A number of these are based on presentations at the 2022 IAOS Conference (Krakow, Poland).
The March 2023 issue of the SJIAOS also launches the 15th discussion, inviting readers to react to the statement that “Official statistics, via endorsing the Cape Town Global Action Plan for Sustainable Development Data at the UNSC in 2017, on the one hand, have greatly benefited in strong support for developing new methodologies and indicators, but the other hand is confronted with unrealistic expectations concerning several other indicators, the required data, their implementation in general and regional coverage.”
Readers are invited to either react with supporting or disagreeing arguments to this statement or to contribute with suggestions on how to solve this situation.
The Editors in Chief are looking forward to meeting you at the ISI World Statistics Conference in Ottawa in July 2023. A special SJIAOS invited paper session will focus on the future of science publishing, especially in the field of official statistics.
To find out more read the issue here.
