Measuring government outputs and productivity
One-day Conference (jointly organised by the RSS and NIESR)
03 November 2005
09:30 - 16:45 (Registration includes lunch and refreshments)
At the Royal Statistical Society, 12 Errol St, London EC1Y 8LX
Sir Tony Atkinson has recently made wide-ranging recommendations on the
measurement in the National Accounts of the output and productivity of
the public services. The purpose of this conference, organised jointly
with NIESR, is to discuss these recommendations, to examine the
methodological and practical challenges to measuring government output
and productivity, and to explore promising directions for future work.
The Conference is likely to be of interest to government statisticians
and economists, to researchers with an interest in public service
performance, and to policy makers and commentators concerned with public
service accountability.
Talks include:
Welcome and introduction TIM HOLT (RSS President)
Overview of recommendations SIR TONY ATKINSON
Recent developments at ONS JOE GRICE (ONS)
Measuring outputs: methodological issues MARTIN WEALE (NIESR)
Valuing what citizens want from public services using discrete choice
experiments MANDY RYAN (University of Aberdeen)
Measuring the value of life CAM DONALDSON (University of
Newcastle)
Measuring health output ANDY STREET (University of York)
Measuring criminal justice output STEPHEN ALMOND (Home
Office)
Measuring social services output ANNE NETTEN (University of Kent)
International perspectives on measuring government performance PETER
SCHERER (OECD)
A registration form can be downloaded from
http://www.rss.org.uk/main.asp?group=&page=1321&event=182&month=11&year=
2005&date=
Details of the recommendations on measuring public service productivity
can be found at
www.statistics.gov.uk/about/data/methodology/specific/PublicSector/atkin
son/default.asp
Paul Gentry
Theme Manager, Meetings & Conferences
Royal Statistical Society
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