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Something for nothing

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Coleman, Shirley
Copyright Year	2012
Abstract	Official statistics are an important component of the mass of publicly available data. Although well used by policy makers, planners and academic researchers, engagement with businesses is not fully developed. Both corporate and citizen users can benefit more from using these free resources. Considerable efforts are being made to engage with users, for example via the recently launched www.statsusernet.org.uk in the UK and the BLUE-ETS FP7 funded project (www.blue-ets.istat.it) in Europe. However, more can be done. Inaccurate completion of business surveys causes unnecessary expense. Motivation to complete can be improved by linking data collection with data usage. Case studies are an important mechanism for this. The UK Royal Statistical Society‟sgetstats campaign (www.getstats.org.uk) is 3 years into a 10 year programme to promote better understanding of statistics in media, politics, business and education. This will encourage greater use of statistics. Access is the first step, presentation follows and then the next step is modelling to extend the impact. Modelling can introduce statistical complications and require statistical expertise as well as enthusiasm. This paper explores the efforts being made to encourage business to engage with National Statistics Institutes and then considers statistical challenges and modelling issues involved when the data are used. Two examples are described and the paper concludes with some examples of how the corporate and citizen user can benefit from getting involved and can achieve something (of at least some importance) for nothing (except for the resources to identify, access and analyse the data).
File Format	PDF HTM / HTML
Alternate Webpage(s)	http://meetings.sis-statistica.org/index.php/sm/sm2012/paper/viewFile/2395/271
Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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