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Wednesday, 01 July 2009 - Friday, 31 July 2009
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| Wednesday 15 July 2009 | Organiser | Location |
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| Seminar on Innovative Approaches to Turn Statistics into Knowledge
While dynamic graphics and communication tools are at the heart of the seminar, we also want to focus on a broader range of tools. The seminar will also include the use of videos, as explored by GapMinder and others, and participative approaches, as seen in some web 2.0 initiatives; and – although innovative tools are themselves of great interest, and worthy of being presented at the seminar – the focus of the seminar will be on innovative applications of tools, for example, so-called story-telling applications. |
US Census Bureau and the OECD | Washington, DC |
| Thursday 23 July 2009 | Organiser | Location |
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| Measuring subjective well-being: an opportunity for National Statistical Offices?
Enhancing societal progress needs timely and reliable data that allow policy makers and the public at large to understand and interpret the dynamics of social change. While this task has traditionally relied on objective measures, subjective measures of people’s attitudes, experiences and feelings are playing an increasingly important role in recent discussions among economists, psychologists and policy makers. These discussions |
International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies (ISQOLS) | Florence, Italy |
