Dear all,

The Official Statistics Section of the Royal Statistical Society now has a 
JISCmail list which will be used primarily to advertise meetings of the 
Section but also to post other items of interest relating to official 
statistics. I am writing to invite you, as a member of the Social 
Statistics Section list, to join our new mailing list. You can join the 
mailing list by clicking on the following link or pasting the URL into your 
internet browser:

http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa.exe?SUBED1=official-statistics&A=1

More information on the work of the Official Statistics Section is 
available on the RSS website at http://www.rss.org.uk/main.asp?page=2799

The next meeting of the Official Statistics Section is today at 5pm:

Environmentally sustainable population - why the statistics matter 

19 April 2007 17:00 Registration and tea from 4.30pm 
The Royal Statistical Society, 12 Errol Street, London EC1Y 8LX  
 
Rosamund McDougall and Martin Desvaux (Optimum Population Trust).  
Rosamund McDougall will cover the ways in which population statistics are 
gathered globally and in the UK and how they are interpreted, used, and 
abused in policy formulation. She will explore the reasons for persistent 
UK government failure to consider population policy as part of 
environmental strategy and suggest how this might change in the future. 
Martin Desvaux will describe population development since 10,000 BCE and 
factors which controlled them. He will discuss how ecological footprint 
statistics can be used to assess sustainable population sizes. Possible 
scenarios will be examined to underline the challenges facing the 
development of sustainable populations. 

Kind regards

Ross Young
Official Statistics Section secretary