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The 3rd OECD World Forum on Statistics, Knowledge and Policy will address some crucial questions that today have become more important than ever. This OECD World Forum, focuses on Charting Progress, Building Visions, Improving Life and will attract very high level participants with a mixture of politicians and policy makers, opinion leaders, Nobel laureates, statisticians, academics, journalists and representatives of civil society from all over the world. Please see the Agenda.
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| | | The 3rd OECD World Forum is organised by the OECD and the Government of Korea (Statistics Korea KOSTAT) in co-operation with the United Nations, the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, the European Commission and the World Bank, as well as other sponsors and partners.
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| October 27, 2009 | 4:10 AM |
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New U.S. Gross National Happiness Index Implemented!
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We've talked about Bhutan's Gross National Happiness Index before. Now we have a Gross National Happiness Index for the United States, updated on a daily basis, brought to us free ... by Facebook. Here's how it works: Every day, millions of people share how they feel with the people who matter the most in their lives through status updates on Facebook. These updates are tiny windows into how people are doing. They're brief, to the point and descriptive of what's going on this week, today or right now. Grouped together, these updates are indicative of how we are collectively feeling. Measuring how well-off, happy or satisfied with life the citizens of a nation are is part of the Gross National Happiness movement. When people in their status updates use more positive words--or fewer negative words--then that day as a whole is counted as happier than usual. (To protect your privacy, no one at Facebook actually reads the status updates in the process of doing this research; instead, our computers do the word counting after all personally identifiable information has been removed.) The New York Times quotes Adam D. I. Kramer, the creator of the index, as saying: “When people in their status updates use more positive words — or fewer negative words — then that day as a whole is counted as happier than usual.” Adam explains the methodology for the index in this Facebook blog post. Check it out and see what you think. (Hat tip: ISQOLS)
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| October 19, 2009 | 8:10 AM |
Free PPMRN/GASB Webinar
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Share your comments on the Proposed GASB SEA GuidelinesTues., Oct. 20 12:30-2:30pm (ET) The Public Performance Measurement and Reporting Network (PPMRN) will host a FREE online webinar / audio-conference featuring members of the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) team who will answer questions about the Proposed Voluntary Service Efforts and Accomplishments Reporting Guidelines. PPMRN hopes to encourage wide participation and to provide constructive feedback to GASB on the content of this proposal. Please pass this information along - participants do not have to be PPMRN members.We ask that participants read and be familiar with the entire document prior to the webinar.For more information about this webinar, including a link to the document and instructions on how to register for this free event, please visit the PPMRN website at: http://www.ppmrn.net/resources/articles/5749.
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| October 15, 2009 | 1:10 AM |
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Portraits of Peel
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I first met Srimanta Mahonty some years ago at a CIC Conference and was impressed by the work he'd been doing. He was analyzing a set of quality-of-life factors by population group within Peel, Ontario, Canada, and was demonstrating the inequities and resilience of a range of immigrant populations. His thinking helped me in the growth and development of our own Race Relations Progress Report. His work has continued. He just sent out this note on his new, updated website: The Portraits of Peel website provides three types of information:- Portraits of Peel Online Database (Population data from 1996, 2001 and 2006 Census at the Peel Neighbourhood level)
Available On-line at: http://www.portraitsofpeel.ca/pop.php - Target Group Profiles (for example: Seniors, Recent Immigrants, South Asian, Chinese, Blacks and other communities)
Available On-line at: http://www.portraitsofpeel.ca/tgp.php - Peel Statistics from different sources (for example: Region of Peel, Peel Police, Statistics Canada, HRDC, Health Canada, etc.)
Available On-line at: http://www.portraitsofpeel.ca/peelstatistics.php
Please forward this information to your networks as appropriate.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Srimanta Mohanty, Ph.D.
Director of Research & Administration
The Social Planning Council of Peel Take a moment and check it out!
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| October 14, 2009 | 7:10 AM |
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Call for Papers: Housing Data
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From: American Housing Survey (AHS) ListServ <ahs@huduser.org>:
Cityscape is a scholarly journal published three times per year by the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development's Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R). You can read more about it an access past issues at http://www.huduser.org/periodicals/cityscape.html . I am the editor of the Data Shop department, which publishes short (3000 word) articles on the use of data in housing and urban research. Data Shop articles are aimed at researchers in these fields and intended to alert them to new data, novel applications of existing data, and the operational difficulties of data use. The official description of the department runs:
"Data Shop, a department of Cityscape, presents short articles or notes on the uses of data in housing and urban research. Through this department, PD&R introduces readers to new and overlooked data sources and to improved techniques in using well-known data. The emphasis is on sources and methods that analysts can use in their own work. Researchers often run into knotty data problems involving data interpretation or manipulation that must be solved before a project can proceed, but they seldom get to focus in detail on the solutions to such problems."
If you are interested in contributing such a note, please send me an abstract by November 13 in order to be considered for the July 2010 issue. The timeline would be I would notify you of selection by December 1, and I would want a draft by February 1, with a final version by February 19. If you are interested in making a contribution but cannot meet these deadlines, please send me an abstract for possible publication in later issues.
Dav Vandenbroucke
Senior Economist
U.S. Dept. HUD
david.a.vandenbroucke@hud.gov
202-402-5890 (Hat tip: Glenn Brown)
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| October 14, 2009 | 2:10 AM |
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