2010 Annual conference of the Statistics User Forum
| Recession and
recovery - hard times or smoke and
mirrors? |
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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
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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.