Programme Day One | Programme Day Two | About the Forum | Supporting Agencies
Realising the value of official statistics
24–25 March, 2010 – Te Papa, Wellington
Thank you
The Official Statistics Forum 2010 is now over. Many thanks to all contributors, delegates and sponsors.
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Programme Day One - Wednesday 24 March
8:45am - 9:00am |
Mihi whakatau, followed by a welcoming address from the Minister of Statistics, the Hon Maurice Williamson |
9:00am - 9:40am |
 Realising the Value of Official Statistics, Opening Address, Geoff Bascand, Government Statistician, Statistics New Zealand (PDF, 15pp, 238kb)
Opening Address Presentation (PDF, 10 pages, 1.28mb)
 Video of the Opening Address (WMV, 56mb)
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9:40am - 10:20am |
Keynote Address Gary Banks AO, Chairman of the Australian Productivity Commission Statistics, Productivity and Structural Reform (PDF, 20 pages, 324kb)
Video of the Keynote Address (WMV, 102mb) |
10:50am - 12:00pm |
Panel Making the most of official statistics in challenging times Dennis Trewin AO, former Australian Statistician and an Associate Commissioner at the Australian Productivity Commission (Chair and panellist) (PDF, 7 pages, 42kb) David Smol, Chief Executive, Ministry of Economic Development Sir Peter Gluckman, Chief Science Advisor to the Prime Minister Alan Bollard, Governor, Reserve Bank of New Zealand |
Session 1 1:00pm - 1:40pm |
Measuring New Zealand's Progress Using a Sustainable Development Approach: 2008 (PDF, 11 pages, 2.14mb)
Video of the presentation (WMV, 79mb) Rachael Milicich Statistics New Zealand Stream 3 - Real life |
Applicability of European and OECD environment-related concepts and indicators for New Zealand’s agriculture and forestry (PDF, 35 pages, 1.12mb)
Video of the presentation (WMV, 81mb) Susanne von Muenchhausen Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry Stream 1 - Where to next? |
Digital Continuity Action Plan – Collaborative Long-term Information and Data Management across the New Zealand Public Sector (PDF, 29 pages, 2.14mb) Euan Cochrane Archives New Zealand Stream 2 - Working smarter |
Session 2 1:40pm - 2:20pm |
Getting more out of a survey – case of the Adult Literacy and Life Skills (ALL) survey (PDF, 13 pages, 196kb)
Video of the presentation (WMV, 80mb) David Earle, Paul Satherley Ministry of Education Stream 3 - Real life |
New developments in geospatial data visualisation and analysis at Statistics New Zealand (PDF, 13 pages, 670kb)
Video of the presentation (WMV, 98mb) Rosemary Goodyear Statistics New Zealand The new dataset in town: the New Zealand General Social Survey (PDF, 18 pages, 302kb)
Video of the presentation - Conal Smith speaks from 20 minutes into this file. (WMV, 98mb) Conal Smith, Statistics New Zealand Stream 1 - Where to next? |
The Industry Skills Toolkit: Using data to better match industry demand with tertiary education and training supply - a practical tool (PDF, 12 pages, 110kb)
Video of the presentation (WMV, 82mb) Jenny Connor Industry Training Federation Stream 2 - Working smarter |
Session 3 2:20pm - 3:00pm |
The New Zealand Knowledge Economy (PDF, 26 pages, 954kb)
Video of the presentation (WMV, 88mb) Simon Brown Department of Labour Stream 2 - Working smarter |
Improving Securities Statistics – how the development of a security-by-security database can help improve the quality of New Zealand’s macroeconomic statistics (PDF, 30 pages, 1mb)
Video of the presentation (WMV, 73mb) Rochelle Barrow Reserve Bank of New Zealand Stream 1 - Where to next? |
Informing the Debate on Population Ageing in New Zealand (PDF, 20 pages, 1.08mb) Mansoor Khawaja and Bill Boddington Statistics New Zealand Stream 3 - Real life |
| Session 4 3:30pm – 4:10pm |
Making the OSS work for you including a case study from the Ministry of Tourism (PDF, 19 pages, 159kb) Stream 1 - Where to next? Bruce Bassett Ministry of Tourism Clare Ward Statistics New Zealand |
Reuse, reinterpretation and representation of government data: the Environment Ministry experience (PDF, 20 pages, 721kb)
Video of the presentation (WMV, 83mb) Todd Krieble Ministry for the Environment Stream 2 - Working smarter |
The Invisible made Visible: Application of the Non-profit Institutions Satellite
Account: 2004 by the non-profit sector, government and business (PDF, 25 pages, 939 kb) James King Office of the Community and Voluntary Sector With Dennis Trewin, former Australian Statistician and an Associate Commissioner at the Australian Productivity Commission Stream 3 - Real life |
4.10pm – 5.20pm |
Panel Microdata access in national statistical offices Chair: Arthur Grimes - Motu Economic and Public Policy Research Felix Ritchie - Senior Microeconomist and Head of Microdata Analysis and User Support, UK Office for National Statistics (PDF, 14 pages, 120kb) Philip Stevens - Chief Advisor, Economic Strategy, Ministry of Economic Development Gary Dunnet - Manager, Business Performance and Agriculture, Statistics New Zealand |
Programme Day Two - Thursday 25 March
9:00am - 10:00pm |
Panel Ethnicity in official statistics Chair: Cathryn Ashley-Jones, Deputy Government Statistician, Social and Population Statistics Tahu Kukutai - Senior Research Fellow, Population Studies Centre, University of Waikato Colin James - Political Journalist & Analyst Paul Brown - Principal Statistician, Statistics New Zealand (PDF, 9 pages, 315kb) |
10:00am - 10:20am |
Keynote Address Hon Bill English, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance The importance of official statistics and open government to New Zealand's progress |
Session 5 10:40am - 11:20am |
Easier Access to Statistical Data - Collaborating for a Common Approach (PDF, 26 pages, 438kb
Video of the presentation (WMV, 74mb) Michael Beahan Australian Bureau of Statistics Stream 1 - Where to next? |
Exploring the potential for new family statistics and new family transitions research drawing on the Household Labour Force Survey (PDF, 56 pages, 1.05mb) Moira Wilson Ministry of Social Development/Statistics New Zealand Stream 2 - Working smarter |
Geo-visualisation and policy: exploring the links (PDF, 21 pages, 1.31mb) Philip S. Morrison Victoria University of Wellington An Official Statistics Research project Stream 3 - Real life |
Session 6 11:20am - 12:20pm |
Building Statistical Capability in NSW Government - A Case Study (PDF, 15 pages, 137kb) Chris Libreri Australian Bureau of Statistics The Australian Health Survey - facing new challenges Trevor Sutton Australian Bureau of Statistics Stream 2 - Working smarter |
Employment Outcomes of Tertiary Education (EOTE) Part 1: What do students earn after their tertiary education? (PDF, 17 pages, 225kb) David Scott Ministry of Education Part 2: Does workplace-based industry training improve earnings? (PDF, 21 pages, 304kb) Sarah Crichton Department of Labour Stream 1 - Where to next? |
Why Census Matters Key users of census data discuss its use with Carol Slappendel, General Manager of the 2011 Census Ron Lovell, Ministry of Social Development (PDF, 15 pages, 302kb) Michelle Lewis, New Zealand Transport Agency (PDF, 18 pages, 711kb) Stream 3 - Real life |
1:10pm – 2.10pm |
Panel Looking beyond GDP Chair: Hon David Caygill, Chair of the Advisory Committee on Official Statistics Len Cook – Former New Zealand and UK Government Statistician Brian Pink – Australian Statistician, Australian Bureau of Statistics (presented by Trevor Sutton) ( PDF, 12 pages, 153kb) Peter Bushnell – consultant and member of the Advisory Committee on Official Statistics |
Session 7 2:10pm – 2:50pm |
Official statistics and economic policy Perspectives on Savings (PDF, 27 pages, 1.54mb) Grant Scobie, The Treasury Perspectives on Productivity (PDF, 19 pages, 107kb) Bryce Wilkinson, Capital Economics Ltd Stream 3 - Real life |
Publishing of Tax Statistics – Filling the Gap (PDF, 12 pages, 643kb) Michael Slyuzberg Inland Revenue The whole is greater than the sum of the parts: Cross agency collaboration in evaluating large scale policy initiatives (PDF, 13 pages, 162kb) Valmai Copeland Inland Revenue Stream 2 - Working smarter |
Does the current New Zealand case definition of serious non-fatal injuries miss a material number of serious injury cases? (PDF, 31 pages, 669kb) Colin Cryer Injury Prevention Research Unit, Dunedin School of Medicine, Otago University Stream 1 - Where to next? |
Session 8 2:50pm - 3:30pm |
Costs of raising children in New Zealand (PDF, 34 pages, 939kb)
Video of the presentation (WMV, 67mb) Iris Claus, Inland Revenue Stream 1 - Where to next? |
Using islands of data for town and country planning (PDF, 25 pages, 1.95mb) Kelvin Norgrove, Tony Batistich Strateg.Ease Ltd Stream 2 - Working smarter |
The use of the official statistics in health workforce modelling (PDF, 22 pages, 1.17mb) Nikolai Minko District Health Board New Zealand Stream 3 - Real life |
3:50pm - 4:50pm |
Panel Where to next? A panel discusses key themes and areas of future work identified during the preceding two days Chair: Dallas Welch, Deputy Government Statistician, Macro-Economic and Environment Statistics, Statistics New Zealand Paul Reynolds, Chief Executive and Secretary for the Environment, Ministry for the Environment Leith Comer, Chief Executive, Te Puni Kokiri Karen Sewell, Chief Executive and Secretary for Education, Ministry of Education Hon David Caygill, Chair of the Advisory Committee on Official Statistics |
4:50pm |
Thanks, acknowledgments and farewell Geoff Bascand, Statistics New Zealand |
Abtracts and biographies are available for download below.
Official Statistics Forum 2010 - Forum Handbook (PDF, 32 pages, 899kb)
About the Forum
Every few years the users and producers of official statistics meet to share their knowledge and experience of the Official Statistics System (OSS), the wealth of information it represents, and to review the user needs for such statistics.
The gathering is convened by Statistics New Zealand, the leaders of the OSS. It is an opportunity to see how well the OSS is meeting its goals by bringing together the people who produce the information with the end users of those resources.
Producers of official statistics are also able to share knowledge and innovations in the techniques used to collect, produce, store, and disseminate statistics.
Users of statistics can share the latest ideas on the way this information can be utilised, from analysis and manipulation to forecasting and modelling.
This event was held in Wellington across two days, 24–25 March 2010, with the theme of realising the value of official statistics, both in the sense of the awareness of that value, and the fulfilment of the potential of that value.
The importance of the role of official statistics is both emphasised and challenged in times of economic recession, so the timeliness of this forum is significant.
The event featured a mix of keynotes speakers, panel discussions, and concurrent sessions.
The concurrent sessions were run along three themes:
● Where to Next: Innovation, future directions and filling the gaps
● Working Smarter: Collaboration, investment, reducing overlaps and doing more with existing resources
● Real Life: Examples of the use, analysis or integration of statistics.
This event was made possible through the support of the following agencies:
