Special IAOS Meeting

on Fundamental Principles, Population Censuses

and Misuse of Statistics

An in-person meeting (by invitation of IAOS President only) 

April 25, 2022

A day before the 18th IAOS Conference

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Programme

Programme Committee – Misha Belkindas and Hermann Habermann

8:30 – 9:00 Registration

9:00 – 9:20 Opening

Misha Belkindas – President, IAOS

Dominik Rozkrut – President, Statistics Poland

Agnieszka Szlubowska – Director, Statistical Office in Kraków

9:20 – 12:30 The first session “Fundamental Principles – history, relevance, and the future”

Chair Misha Belkindas

History of the FPOS

Józef Oleński –  former President of Statistics Poland, professor at Lazarski University

Jean Louis Bodin – former President of ISI and IAOS

Hermann Habermann – former Chief Statistician of USA, former Director UNSD

View from UNSD

Stefan Schweinfest – Director, UNSD

What future holds

Gabriella Vukovich – President, Hungarian Central Statistical Office            

Gero Carletto – Manager DECDG, World Bank

Jon Clifton – Global Managing Partner, Gallup

Ola Awad – President, Palestinian Bureau of Statistics

Rafael Diez de Medina – Director, Statistics Department, ILO

Gerry Clancy – GIS Executive Consultant, ESRI

Discussion and summing up – Misha Belkindas

12:30 -14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 – 16:30 The second session “Conducting Census in uncertain times and usage of results”

Chair – Hermann Habermann

Overview of the 2022 Census round

Jean Michel Durr – Consultant, former Project Director, INSEE

Views from Countries

INSEE France – Jean Michel Durr, former Project Director

Statistics Poland – Dominik Rozkrut, President

CBS Israel – Danny Pfeffermann, National Statistician and CBS Director

Discussion and summing up – Hermann Habermann

16:30 -17:00 Coffee Break

17:00 – 18:00 The third session “Use, misuse, and trust in statistics”

Chair Misha Belkindas

Framework for IAOS work

Martine Durand – former OECD Chief Statistician and Member of the French Statistical Authority
and Jan Robert Suesser, Member of IAOS Executive Committee and Member of ISI Advisory Board on Ethics, IAOS Reference group co-leads

Links with work of the ISI Advisory Board on Ethics

Walter Radermacher – Retired Director-General, Eurostat, President of Federation of European National Statistical Societies, Chair of ISI Advisory Board on Ethics

Discussion and suggestions for the future IAOS work in this area – Misha Belkindas

19:00 – 22:00 Reception