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The Statistics and Registration Service Act
Author(s) -
Holt Tim
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2007.00264.x
Subject(s) - rss , independence (probability theory) , service (business) , official statistics , law , political science , public administration , statistics , business , computer science , mathematics , world wide web , marketing
“When we first saw the draft act, we were dismayed.” The new Act for the independence of official statistics has now passed into law. Is the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) still dismayed? Tim Holt , President of the RSS, explains the Act, its workings, how parts of it have been changed for the better and what concerns still remain.