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The growing demand for statistics: challenges and
opportunities
Pilar Martin-Guzman
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
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Significant increase in the demand for statistical
information
• A challenging issue for official statisticians
• But every challenge is an opportunity
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Statisticians have taken advantage of these
opportunities
• Statistical information has improved
• A “silent revolution” (Domingo Solans)
• But, do current statistics satisfy the users?
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The demand increases
• Traditional users grow and expand their fields of interest
• New users join in
• The scenario changes
• Users are more exacting on quality issues
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Traditional users
• International organisations (IMF)
• Governments
• Market players and enterprises
• Researchers
• Public at large
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Three groups of countries
• Well established democracies with market economies
• Countries in transition from non-democratic regimes with centrally planned economies
• Consolidating democracies
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Some newcomers
• Supranational organisations (ECB)
• Decision makers at regional and local level
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Changes in the scenario
• Globalisation
• The ICT revolution
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Some challenges from globalisation
• Massive migration inflows
• Internationalisation of the markets
• New interest in remote countries
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Some challenges from the ICT revolution
• New indicators are necessary
• Some of the present statistics become irrelevant
• Frequent up-dating of definitions and classifications
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The elements of quality
• Relevance
• Coherence
• Timeliness
• Interpretability
• Accessibility
• Accuracy
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Perception of the user
• Not necessarily coincident with the opinion of the producer
• It depends very much on expectations (statistical literacy)
• The impossibility to replicate surveys
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Decision makers and market players
• Accuracy versus timeliness
• What is really important about accuracy is not so much increasing it as measuring it (Sir Claus Moser, 2003)
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Researchers
• Consistency of time series
• Accessibility versus confidentiality
• Statistics used in new research fields: risks and opportunities.
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Groups deserving special attention
• The new decision makers
• The media
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Conclusions
• For a positive perception of the users, improving the statistical production is important:
• This is the task of official statisticians
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Conclusions
• But improving the statistical liteacy of the users is also important
• And this is a task for all statisticians