Q2016 - European Conference on Quality in Official Statistics - Madrid 2016

Dear Colleagues,

The organizers of the Q2016 would like to thank all participants, speakers, trainers, chairs and Committee members for being part of the 8 th European Conference in Official Statistics held in Madrid, 31st May – 3rd June 2016. Your great scientific input, fruitful discussions and scientific interaction made the conference a total success. We hope that you found the conference informative and worthwhile.

You can also find the videos of the Opening Plenary Session 1 and the Plenary Session 2.

Conference information

• Committees

  • Scientific Committee

    • Mr. Walter Radermacher, Director General, Eurostat, Co-Chair.
    • Mr. Gregorio Izquierdo, President, National Statistics Institute (INE), Spain, Co-chair.
    • Mr. Eduardo Barredo, Director, Eurostat.
    • Ms. Alda Carvalho, Director General, Statistics Portugal.
    • Mr. Miguel Ángel De Castro, Director, National Statistics Institute (INE), Spain.
    • Mr. Martti Hetemäki, Chairman, ESGAB.
    • Ms. Mariana Kotzeva, Deputy Director General, Eurostat.
    • Mr. Vijay N. Nair, President, International Statistical Institute.
    • Mr. Konrad Pesendorfer, Director General, Statistics Austria.
    • Mr. David Rios, High Council on Statistics, Spain.
    • Mr. Aurel Schubert, Director General, European Central Bank.
    • Ms. Ineke Stoop, Chairman, ESAC.

    Programme Committee

    • Mr. Jean Pierre Poncelet, Eurostat, Co-chair.
    • Mr. Agustin Cañada, National Statistics Institute (INE), Spain, Co-chair.
    • Mr. Thomas Burg, Statistics Austria.
    • Mr. Tasos Christofides, ESAC.
    • Mr. Kari Djerf, Statistics Finland.
    • Ms. Maria Dologova, Statistical Office of Slovak Republic.
    • Ms. Zsuzsanna Kovacs, Eurostat.
    • Ms. Pilar Martín Guzmán, International expert.
    • Mr. Miguel Ángel Martínez, National Statistics Institute (INE), Spain.
    • Mr. Jean-Marc Museux, Eurostat.
    • Ms. Marina Signore, Italian National Institute of Statistics.
    • Mr. Peter van de Ven, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.
    • Ms. Maria Joáo Zilháo, Statistics Portugal.

    You can also find the videos of the Opening Plenary Session 1 and the Plenary Session 2.

• Key Dates
  • • August 2015. Registration Opening
    • 12 December 2015. Deadline for submission of abstracts
    • 1 February 2016. Notification to the authors of the abstracts
    • 1 April 2016. Lower registration fee deadline
    • 30 April 2016. Deadline for submission of full texts
    • 15 May 2016. Regular registration fee deadline
    • 31 May 2016. Training courses
    • 1-3 June 2016. Q2016 Conference
• Photo Gallery

  • Download zip file with all the photos.

• Links of Interest

  • Previous Q-Conferences

    • European Conference on Quality in Survey Statistics (Q2006) | Cardiff 24-26 April 2006

    Other links

    • Eurostat

Scientific information

• Training courses
  • • Quality management in statistics – a path for implementation More information click here

      Marina Signore, (Istat). Maria João Zilhão, (INE-Statistics Portugal). Meeting Room Ramón Gomez de la Serna

    • Data Visualization for the Communication of Official Statistics More information click here

      Alberto Cairo (University of Miami).Meeting Room Antonio Palacios

    • Multisource Statistics: Quality and Statistical Methods More information click here

      Li-Chun Zhang (University of Southampton – Statistics Norway). Meeting Room Columnas

    • Big data for official statistics: Applications of machine learning for statistical production More information click here

      Luis Lago, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Gonzalo Martínez, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Meeting Room Valle Inclán

    • Modernization of production systems in Official statistics (CSPA) More information click here

      Steven Vale, UNECE. Guillaume Duffes, INSEE. Jean-Marc Museux, Eurostat.Meeting Room Sala Nueva

• Conference Programme

  • Accede al programa en pdf

• Plenary Sessions/Keynote Speakers

  • 1st June: Opening Plenary Session

    • Welcome address: Gregorio Izquierdo, President of INE- Spain; Miguel De Castro, Director INE-Spain; Mariana Kotzeva, Deputy Director General, Eurostat.
    • Keynote Speech: “Producing Good Quality Official Statistics: A Shared Experience”. Wayne Smith, Chief Statistician, Statistics Canada.

    2nd June: Plenary Session

    • Keynote Speech: “Quality of statistical processes and outputs and quality assurance”. Genoveva Ružic , Director-General, Slovene Statistical Office (SURS).

    3rd June: Closing Plenary Session

    • Chair: Eduardo Barredo, Director, Eurostat
    • Panelists: Mariana Kotzeva, Deputy Director General, Eurostat; Konrad Pesendorfer, Director General, Statistics Austria; Alfredo Cristobal, Director INE-Spain; Martti Hetemäki, Chairman, ESGAB; Juan Peñalosa,Statistics Director, Bank of Spain.
• Topics

  • The Conference encompasses relevant topics on quality – the different areas covered are as follows.

    1. Institutional environment and governance
       • Ethics in the context of evidence based decision making.
       • Implementation of the amendment to Regulation 223/2009 and the coordination role of the National Statistical Institutes.
       • The new, modernised legal framework of the ESS, using legislative framework for the different families of statistics.
       • Experiences with the Commitments on Confidence.
       • The 2013-2015 peer reviews: lessons learned and reflections on next steps.
       • Towards a second revision of the ES Code of Practice.
       • Quality in a more integrated European Statistical System, challenges faced.
       • Adequacy of resources in a competitive environment for official statistics.
       • Human resources aspects: education in statistics, networks of education facilities, training.
       • Cooperation with researchers.
       • Product list and definition of EU statistics.
    2. Quality of statistical processes and outputs, quality assurance
       • Quality: the users’ perspective.
       • New quality measurement methods; quality assessments and quality indicators.
       • Communicating quality to users, quality reporting; branding and labelling; indicator profiles.
       • Metadata standardisation and centralisation, metadata registries; paradata and quality.
       • Re-engineering and re-designing statistical production, modernisation; integrated production methods.
       • The future of standards in statistics.
       • Data confidentiality and data quality, a trade off?.
       • Quality in business statistics, trans-border statistics: global enterprises, profiling, etc.
       • Quality in social statistics, measuring quality of life, etc.
       • Comparability of European statistics.
       • Quality of census (movie/snapshot approaches); migration ; demography.
       • Quality in macro-statistics: the new production boundary and the ESA 2010; globalization and the GDP; sustainable development and GDP measures.
    3. ESS Vision 2020 and its Quality key area
       • Quality in the Vision 2020, the ESS Vision 2020 Implementation Portfolio and its quality aspects.
       • Enterprise architecture for statistical production.
       • Big data and quality.
       • Data revolution: quality challenges for tourism statistics as an example.
       • Quality and multi-sources statistics.
       • Administrative data and quality.
       • Validation.
       • Exchange of microdata: current issues.
    4. The production of official statistics: a changing landscape
       • Towards integration of statistical and geospatial information.
       • Role of data scientists in statistical production.
       • Role of official statistics in the information and knowledge-driven society.
       • Open / linked data.
       • Design versus model based inference; use of modelling in official statistics; impact on quality and Code of practice.
       • Comparability: input/output harmonisation.
       • Partnership between public/private organisations.