Partnerships with policy makers HLS on Strategic Partnerships

Partnerships with policy makers HLS on Strategic Partnerships in Official Statistics 11 -12 Apr 2018, Geneva

Users New demands Partnership by design? Funding Policies Governance Legislation

Importance

Issues

Issues Demands Openness Analysis Resources Privacy Opinion

Issues understanding demand Managing expectations Communication Statistical literacy

Issues • Fundamental principles / Code of practice • • • Independence Neutrality Privacy, confidentiality Quality aspects Re-use of microdata

Short version Statistics are the mirror through which we view society David Hand @ Royal Statistical Society 2010

Datafication Mirrors are changing Eurostat

Society is changing Eurostat

What about policy making?

What is changing in evidence-based policy making today? • on the Political Agenda in Europe and USA • EU: Data 4 Policy group in the European Commission • USA: Evidence-Based Policy Commission • This is not just another commission. It is part of a sea change in how we solve problems [Speaker Paul Ryan, July 26, 2016]

September 2017

• Data 4 Policy (EU): Corporate strategy on data, information and knowledge management – 4 Pillars of action Business intelligence – Artificial intelligence – Data management

Partnerships with policy makers • Do you have specific lessons learned through experience in creating effective partnerships with policy makers – either positive or negative? • Confidentiality and difficulties in data sharing have been identified as common challenges. With new digital data sources, traditional solutions of statistical disclosure control will come to a limit. Does anyone have practical solutions to share that have been effective in their NSO? • How have you created a productive partnership with government policy makers while maintaining an impartial public image (neutrality) and independence of the NSO?