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REMINDER **************************************************************** The first seminar of the 2006/2007 season of the RSS South Wales local group wil be held on Wednesday 29th November at 5pm (Tea 4.30pm in the Foyer). VENUE: Cinema, Welsh Assembly Government Building, Cathays Park, Cardiff. Directions can be found following this link: www.wales.gov.uk/assemblybuilding/images/content/howtofind/map.pdf The speaker will be Steven Marshall (Head of Core Statistics Unit, Welsh Assembly Government) and he will be discussing the concepts, data issues and statistical methodology for the Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2005 The next meeting of the South Wales local group will be on TUESDAY 16th January at 5pm (Tea 4.30pm) at the Office for National Statistics, Cardiff Road, Newport. Please park in visitors' spaces and report to reception. The speaker will be Kim Bradford Smith (Senior Statistics Adviser, Africa Division of the Department for International Development) TITLE: The last King of Scotland, Safaris and Statistics on the Equator Abstract Snippets from a UK Government Statisticians’ experiences whilst working in Uganda As part of the UK’s aid programme to Uganda, DFID has posted a statistician in the Uganda Bureau of Statistics since 2000. The statistics office wanted help with its 2002 population and housing censuses, its economic statistics, management, planning, advocacy, paying its utility bills and developing a Plan for the National Development of Statistics. The presentation, by Kim Bradford Smith who worked in the Uganda Bureau of Statistics from 2003 to 2005, will give an insight into the challenges of working in a developing country statistics office, provide examples of statistical support provided by the UK government, and give you an opportunity to know those handy pub quiz answers about one of the small number of countries that actually lies across the equator - does water actually flow straight down the plug hole on the equator? All welcome Rebecca Rebecca Cannings-John Statistician/Department of Health fellow Department of General Practice Centre for Health Sciences Research Cardiff University 3rd Floor, Neuadd Meirionnydd Heath Park Cardiff CF14 4YS Tel: 029 2068 7150 Fax: 029 2068 7219 www.uwcm.ac.uk/study/medicine/general_practice