Is the Statistics Authority another factory inspectorate? |
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| Authors: | Ian Maclean |
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| Institution: | Has run his own company supplying marketing data for 25 years. He has a deep interest in the role of statistics for decision making and was awarded an MBE in 2004 for "services to official statistics". He has been chairman of the Industrial Marketing Research Association, the Statistics Users Council, and the Dissemination Committee of the EU Statistics Advisory Council, and vice president of the International Association for Official Statistics. |
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| Abstract: | It is a year since the Statistics Authority came into being. Official statistics are now supposed to be independent and on course to be trustworthy—and transformed to serve not just government but society as a whole. Has it all worked out? Ian Maclean of the Statistics Users Forum says a start has been made, but progress has been slower than hoped. |
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