Confference of
o Europpean Sta
atistics Stakehoolders
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Methodologis
sts, Produceers and Useers of Europ
pean Statistitics
Department of S
Statistical Sciences,
S
Saapienza - Unniversity off Rome,
Rom
me, 24-25 N
November, 2014
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ORG
GANIZED BY: Federation off European National
N
Statisttical Societiess (FENStatS), EUROSTAT, European Sta
atistical Advissory
Comm
mittee (ESAC)). Local Orgaanization: Itallian National IInstitute of Sttatistics (ISTAT), Società Itaaliana di Statiistica SIS-VSP
P, Dtp
of Sta
atistical Sciennces, Sapienzaa University off Rome
The scope of the Conference is
i to enhance the dialoguee between European metho
odologists, pro
roducers, and users of Eurropean
Statisstics identifyiing the requiirements of the
t users (ES
SAC), the beest practices of
o the producction (EURO
OSTAT, NSIss), the
innov
vative ways oof visualising and communiicating statistiics, and the new
n methodological ideas ffor collecting and analysingg data
(FEN
NStatS). Speciific topics of high
h
interest regard
r
the devvelopment off the European
n Statistical SSystem toward
ds 2020. This is the
occassion to investiigate and pressent themes off research in oofficial statistiics within the scientific com
mmunity, to explore the enaabling
instru
uments such aas the Horizoon 2020 Reseaarch Framewoork Programm
me, compare and
a share besst practices off production, and a
good
d opportunity tto meet nationnal and Europeean users of sttatistics. The Conference iss an operative tool to facilitate the evoluttion of
statisstics towards tthe 2020 modeernisation targ
gets.
CAL
LL FOR PAPERS.
All sttatistics stakeh
holders (meth
hodologists, producers,
p
ussers) are warm
mly invited to
o participate to this conferrence by
subm
mitting a papeer, thus contrributing to th
he advances oof European Statistics
S
for the year to coome.
The scientific
s
proggram includes plenary, invitted and contrib
ibuted session
ns with oral preesentation.
All participants
p
aree invited to suubmit an abstract and a papeer. Contributeed papers will have both a liightning talk presentation,
p
i a
i.e.,
shortt oral presentaation and/or a poster
p
presenttation to allow
w a complete exhibition
e
of the
t scientific ccontribution.
IMPORTANT DA
ATES (INFO
O: cdss.sta.unirroma1.it)
Conttributed papeer (8 pages) submission: 10 Septemberr, 2014
Auth
hors of contribbuted papers notifications: 29
2 September,, 2014
Invitted paper (100 pages) subm
mission: 10 Seeptember, 20114
Finall version of paapers: 29 Septtember, 2014
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Registration is maandatory for all participants (limited aattendance – first come firrst served, wiith preference for presenters of
papeers); no registtration fee wiill be required
d.
A sellection of fullyy peer-review
wed papers will be publishedd in the Spring
ger Series Seleected Papers oof the Statisticcal
Socieeties (http://ww
ww.springer.ccom/series/10107).
Firstt Special Focu
us on Method
dological and
d technical dri
rivers for mod
dernisation of statistics:
- Statistics for deecision makinng: statistical products
p
and sservices for an
n informed socciety;
- What
W statistics can measure and how: defiining Europeaan statistics wiith a 2020 tim
me horizon;
- Methods
M
for annalysing Big Data
D in the con
ntext of officiaal statistics, (d
data mining, integration of data from diffferent sourcess);
- New
N methodologies for sum
mmarising large sets of indiccators (composite indicatorss,
faactorial methoods, structural equation mod
dels, PLS moddels and otherr latent variablle methods);
- Methods
M
for annalysing unstruuctured digitaal data (sentim
ment analysis, opinion minin
ng, text miningg);
- New
N methods ffor collecting data, visualisiing and comm
municating statistics in the e-society:
e
multlti-purposes co
ollection, methhods
an
nd tools.
Second Special Foocus on Euroope 2020:
- Statistics as a nnew Skill for new
n Jobs and a new Key Coompetence forr lifelong learning;
- Poverty and social exclusionn: enhancing capacity
c
to meeasure employ
yment and social developmeents;
- New
N paradigms in statistics: when researcch meets Euroopean statisticss.
Scien
ntific Steeringg Committee
Walter Radermachher, Director General
G
of Eurrostat, (Co-orgganiser),
Maurrizio Vichi, Prresident FENS
StatS, (Co-org
ganiser) ,
Annee Gégout-Petitt, President off the French Statistical Sociiety,
Giorg
gio Alleva, Prresident ISTAT,
Lean
ndro Pardo LL
Lorente, Presiddent of the Spaanish Society of Statistics and
a Operations Research.
John Pullinger, Preesident of Thee Royal Statisttical Society,
Aurel Schubert, Diirector Generaal Statistics Eu
uropean Centrral Bank,
Wolffgang Schmid,, President of the German Statistical
S
Socciety,
Inekee Stoop, membber of ESAC,
Nicola Torelli, Preesident of the Italian
I
Statistiical Society.