Royal Statistical Society Official Statistics Section
Meeting on UK statistics, focussing on health and education statistics
as examples
23rd November, 2-5 p.m.
at the Royal Statistical Society, 12 Errol Street, London EC1Y 8LX
For directions see www.rss.org.uk
Joint with the Statistics Users Forum
and the Education and Health Statistics Users Groups
UK education statistics
Dave Walton (DfES)
International education statistics
Steve Leman (DfES)
Harmonisation of UK health statistics - what, how, and above all, why?
Myer Glickman (ONS)
Deriving perinatal statistics for the UK as part of a European project
Alison Macfarlane (City University)
In both health and education there are many differences in coverage,
time periods, classifications, coding practices, definitions, and other
issues, between the statistics produced by each UK country. These
problems become even greater when comparison is required with the
European or wider international community.
ONS and the UK government departments are committed to some degree of
harmonisation in the UKHS project. But what should be harmonised and
what should not, given the differing policy issues and health service
structures across the UK and beyond? The first three speakers address
these issues from DfES and ONS perspectives.
Alison Macfarlane will talk about the PERISTAT project which is part of
the European Health Monitoring Programme. The group designed a set of
indicators to try to compare aspects of pregnancy and its outcome in the
member states of the European Union. Compiling indicators for the UK as
a whole for the first project was challenging. Examples will be given of
the approaches taken and advances made in the second project
Europeristat-II in which statistical organisations from the four UK
countries are more actively involved.
All welcome. There is no registration fee but pre-registration is
recommended. You
can register by email: [log in to unmask] or by phone (020) 7638 8998
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Alison Macfarlane
Department of Midwifery
City University
24 Chiswell Street Email [log in to unmask]
London Tel 0207 040 5832
EC1Y 4TY Fax 0207 040 5866
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