The Royal Statistical SocietyThe Royal Statistical Society
2010 Annual conference of the Statistics User Forum

Recession and recovery - hard times or smoke and mirrors?

Keynote speakers:

  • Charlie Bean
    Deputy Governor of the Bank of England
  • Ian Diamond
    Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Aberdeen
  • Robert Chote
    Director of the Institute of Fiscal Studies
  • Stephen Penneck
    Director General of the Office for National Statistics
  • Chaired by Andrew Dilnot,
    chair of the Statistics User Forum

Wednesday, 27 October 2010
10am to 4:30pm
Savoy Place, London WC2R 0BL

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"In good times, economic and social development comes slowly. In bad times, things fall apart alarmingly fast."
Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary General, ahead of the G20 summit in April 2009

One week after details of widely anticipated major cuts in public spending are set out in the coalition government's comprehensive spending review, this year's Statistics User Forum conference will probe some of the fundamental statistical issues relating to both the recession and recovery.
 
Our keynote speakers will review and comment on these issues in plenary sessions. In two parallel sessions, conference delegates will then be able to explore them further from either an economic or social perspective respectively.
 
Among the questions being addressed are:

> What lessons can be learned in considering the role of recession in long-term economic and social change?
> Do we measure 'recession' in the 'right' way and are there data gaps that need to be filled?
> To what extent did lack of the right data contribute to us being unprepared for the recession or not taking preventative action in advance?
> In what ways has this recession differed from previous ones?
> Is the public sector deficit being measured properly?
> Do we have the right data and analytic tools to enable us to measure the impact of policies to reduce the deficit?
> How will we know when recovery has arrived?

Conference fees

Early booking discount of £20 when registering by 24 September (discounted rate in brackets)
 
Full fee - £215 (£195)
RSS members - £165 (£145)
RSS Student rate - £105 (£85)
 
All rates inclusive of VAT.

 

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