Subject: GENDER FIGURES AND COMMUNITY COUNTS

26th ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE RADICAL STATISTICS GROUP
Arts and Resources Centre, Bradford,  Saturday February 26th 2000

Friday 25th of February: For those arriving in Bradford on Friday we are
meeting at the 1-in-12 club from 8pm onwards (see booking form)

Saturday 26th of February, Bradford Arts and Resources Centre

10am registration and coffee

10.30am - 1pm (with coffee break) 'Gender figures' How do global social
statistics represent and misrepresent women and the world in general?
How can official ONS statistics be improved? Might women's employment
statistics and unpaid domestic activity be better measured?
  Four contributors will provoke you to address those questions: Denise
Lievesely, Director Institute for Statistics UNESCO (and president of
the Royal Statistical Society), Linda Murgatroyd, Central Support
Statistics, The Cabinet Office, Irene Bruegel, South Bank University,
and Sue Himmelweit from The Open Univsersity.

  1.00pm  lunch
  2.00pm - 2.30pm  Radical Statistics AGM

 2.30pm - 4.30pm (with tea break) 'Community Counts' Is there a
'community agenda' for research? How is it different from central and
local government agendas? How can it be achieved?

 Four contributors will provoke you to address these questions: Mike
Quiggin, Bradford Resource Centre information worker, Jeff Evans, author
of 'Using statistics in everyday life: from barefoot statisticians to
critical citizenship', Charles Richie, ex-Director of the Community
Operations Research Unit, Debs Harkin, community activist and senior
Health Authority researcher.

6pm - Curry in the centre and bar (Vinceremos, see booking form)

8pm onwards - 'Salsa dance night in the Centre - by the Cuba Solidarity
Campaign'.

Sunday 27th of February: Five miles walk across Ilkley Moor, (longer if
you want, and Wi' or Ba't'at). Leaving 9.30am Bradford Interchange on
the 660 bus to arrive Baildon Towngate at 10.10am. Walk to arrive for
lunch at 1pm at Ilkley's Pizza Margarita (it has a bar). Trains leave
Ilkley taking 30 minutes to get to either Leeds (hourly from 14.22) or
Bradford (every 2 hours from 13.54). If driving meet at Baildon Towngate
at 10.15

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Booking Form for 26th Annual Conference of the Radical Statistics Group

Please give your name, address and telephone number:

Name_______________________________________________________

Address_____________________________________________________

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Fee
inclusive of coffee, lunch and tea (Please tick as appropriate):
For members: £20 waged / £10 unwaged
Non members: £25 waged / £12 unwaged (includes one year's membership;
you receive the Radical Statistics Newletter free for one year)

Please tick if you plan to be at the 1-in-12 club on Friday night (to
give us an idea of numbers, 8pm onwards, food available to buy): 

Please tick if you would like information on accommodation on Friday or
Saturday nights (we will then send you a list of possible hotels, B&Bs
and/or friends of Radstats floors!): 

Please tick if applicable:
I'd like a list of paying accommodation 
I'd like accommodation near Bradford at a friend of RadStats 
I can offer accommodation to other conference-goers 

Please tick if you would like dinner on Saturday night (cost £10;
includes Salsa night) __ and if vegetarian __

Please tick if you would like a place for a child at the creche on
Saturday (10am-5pm), must book by January 21st (no cost - we pay, no
children under 6 months; the creche is run by experienced staff)  __

Please tick if you would like to come walking in the moors on Sunday (no
cost, must pay own bus fair 

Please make cheques payable to 'Radical Statistics'

Please note: the Arts and Resource Centre is fully wheelchair accessible
with lifts.

Please send form and cheque to: Radical Statistics, 10 Ruskin Avenue,
Heaton, Bradford, BD9 6ER.

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