Transcript United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Statistical Division Future Work UNECE Work Session on Statistical Dissemination and Communication.

United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
Statistical Division
Future Work
UNECE Work Session on Statistical
Dissemination and Communication
History….
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Meeting since 1994
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Jessica Gardner - UNECE Statistical Division
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Next meeting
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May 2009?
Volunteers to host outside of Geneva?
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2001
2004
2005
http://www.unece.org/stats/publ.htm
Selection and ranking of proposed future products
A style guide for the presentation of data and
graphics
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Update the "Best Practices in Designing Web sites
for Dissemination of Statistics" publication
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A new publication on the conduct and analysis of
user surveys
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Update the "Communicating with the Media" guide
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Repository of thesauri of statistical terms /
glossaries
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0
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Number of respondents
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60
Other ideas (1) ….
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New guides / recommendations / info on
• Educational products
• Writing analytical notes
• Developing interactive graphs and maps
• Disseminating microdata
• Maintaining consistent metadata
• Communicating quality
• Preventing and minimising errors
• Building relationships within the
organization
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Other ideas (2)…..
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Russian – English glossary of statistical
terms
DissComm Wiki for statistical terms
Method for sharing of software and tools
Doubts about the usefulness of updating
existing guides
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Style guide
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Lots of existing material (collection of
references?)
What do you want from this product?
How will you use it?
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Work starts Saturday
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Small group from the Steering Group
and other interested participants
Aim to finalize by the end of 2008
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Future topics
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Educational products and strategies
Access License for statistics
Charge or not statistics?
More on managing communication
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