Statistics Seminar（2015-16）

Topic:Methodological Issues and Challenges in the Production of Official Statistics

Speaker:Danny Pfeffermann, Government Statistician of Israel

Time:Friday, 23th October, 14:00-15:00

Location:K01 of Guanghua Hotel

Abstract:The big advancement in technology, coupled with increased availability of 'big data', and yet increased demand for more accurate, more detailed and more timely official data with tightened budgets, places enormous challenges to producers of official statistics across the world. In this presentation I shall discuss some of the major challenges as I see them and in some cases offer ways of dealing with them. Examples include the potential use of big data; privacy and confidentiality; possible use of data obtained from web-panels; accounting for mode effects; and the integration of administrative data and small area estimation for future censuses. In the last part of my talk I shall confront the question of whether universities train their students to work at National Statistical Offices.