This is a session of Topic 5: Statistics education in the disciplines and the workplace

In search of evidence: exploring the relationship between real workplace based data and statistics education

Organizer

• Sharleen Forbes (New Zealand) : Session chair

Abstract

Many people are required to make evidence based recommendations or decisions as part of their everyday work. As an example, Government policy advisers need to access and consider a wide range of information before making recommendations to Ministers. Where and how do they find and evaluate the evidence they need? Data is also used within the workplace to improve efficiency and help make business plans and strategic decisions. This session will focus on how to access and evaluate sources of data so that informed decisions can be made. The sources of data may include in-house administrative data sets, external data sets such as official statistics or publicly available data in, for example, research reports. Papers may focus on issues related to access (for example, access only to aggregate data) and/or issues related to quality of the available data or its fit with the problem being addressed.

Papers