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Date(s) - 10/01/2025
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

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IASS Webinar:    Professional Ethics for Statistical Practices

 

Speaker:  Walter J. Radermacher

Chair of the ISI Advisory Board on Ethics and (honorary) Professor at the Statistical Institute of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich

 

Friday, 10 January 2025   at 2pm – 3:30pm (CET)

 

All are invited to the webinar, organised by the International Association of Survey Statisticians.

 

Please register for the IASS Webinar at:

https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/4017303882413/WN_qSskE2TNTaSq3HeH5AJBlw#/registration

 

 

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. There will be time for questions. The webinar will be recorded and made available on the IASS and ISI web site. See below for the abstract and biography of the speakers.

 

Webinar Abstract

 

Ethics play an important role in the practice of all professions. The best known of all is probably the Hippocratic oath in medicine. But what if a doctor relies on data and statistics to diagnose and treat his patients? If his work involves collecting, analysing, interpreting and drawing conclusions from data, the doctor becomes a statistical practitioner and is expected to follow the values and principles that apply to this profession. Professional ethics for statistics is application-oriented and committed to the goal of guiding statistical practitioners to act responsibly and to ensure the trustworthiness of statisticians and thus also of the statistics they produce. Alongside integrity and professionalism, the third value of professional statistics is respect, both in dealing with confidential data and with the impact of statistics on the communities affected. Respect, professionalism and integrity are the three components of the ‘statistical oath’. However, there is a long way to go from theory to practice. In this webinar, we will explore different paths we can take towards improving the knowledge and application of these professional ethics in areas of applications and forms of statistical practice.

 

Biography

Dr. Walter J. Radermacher was Director General of Eurostat and Chief Statistician of the European Union from 2008 to 2016. He worked at Destatis, the German Federal Statistical Office, for 30 years, ultimately as its President. He was the first Chair of the UN Committee of Experts on Environmental-Economic Accounting (UNCEEA) from 2005 to 2008 and a member of OECD’s High-Level Expert Group on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress from 2013 to 2018. Since 2023 he is the Vice President of FENStatS, the Federation of European National Statistical Societies, after having been its President since 2017. Since 2022 he is Chair of the ISI Advisory Board on Ethics and (honorary) Professor at the Statistical Institute of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. Walter Radermacher is Honorary Fellow 2023 of the Royal Statistical Society.

 

Book: Radermacher, Walter J. 2020. Official Statistics 4.0 – Verified Facts for People in the 21st Century (Springer Nature, Heidelberg) https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030314910