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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 Direct Tel. (020) 7614 3918 Fax. (020) 7614 3905 > Join the Royal Statistical Society today. For more details go to > http://www.rss.org.uk/join > >