Official Statistics and Statistics Education: Bridging the Gap

“Mind the Gap” in Reporting the Outdated Statistics

Bridging the Gap Between GIS and Solid Spatial Statistics

Over the past few decades GIS and statistical spatial data analysis tools have been successfully applied in the fields of meteorology, environmental monitoring, ecological analysis, and mineral exploration (to name but a few). While these synergistic tools operate on spatial data, as yet they have not been incorporated into a single 'user-friendly' software environment. For this reason statisti...

Modernization of Official Statistics, Its Concepts and Main Components

The great progress of technology and science make societies more complicated. In this regard, budget constraints as well as the growing statistical needs of users for high quality and timely statistics, have faced national statistical offices (NSOs) with many new challenges in recent years. In other hand, emergence of multiple data sources has increased the demand of these factors, together for...

Critically review official statistics.

Determined attempts to quantify social phenomena have allowed bureaucratic organisations to collect numerical data from increasingly diverse sources, in seemingly ever increasing volume. For many, there is a certain amount of comfort to be had from columns of figures, bar charts and percentages and we take for granted that statistical data will be derived from sources such as census forms, tax ...

Differences among official statistics of mortality rates in Iran

Dear Editor, Death indicators and causes of death are both closely associated with socio-cultural, economic, and structural factors and determinants of health, with all of which being at the core of the planning, monitoring, and assessment of intervention programs in any healthcare system (1). In Iran, the diagnosis and official registration of deaths are carried out by two independent organiz...