Open AccessStatistical and data literacy in policy-making
Author(s) -
Gaby Umbach
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
statistical journal of the iaos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.286
H-Index - 16
eISSN - 1875-9254
pISSN - 1874-7655
DOI - 10.3233/sji-220962
Subject(s) - session (web analytics) , literacy , policy making , relevance (law) , politics , statistical analysis , statistics education , computer science , political science , data science , mathematics education , public administration , statistics , psychology , world wide web , law , mathematics
This introduction offers conceptual reflections to frame the special stream on statistical and data literacy in policy-making. It discusses the relevance of the use of statistics and data in politics and highlights their impact on policy-making. It underlines the need for and identifies key meanings of statistical and data literacy in policy-making. It also highlights how statistical and data literacy in policy-making is specific. Finally, it presents the individual contributions to the special stream that originate from the 2021 ISI World Statistics Congress Invited Paper Session on ‘Statistical and Data Literacy in Policy-Making’. The session was co-organised together with the Director of the IASE’s International Statistical Literacy Project (ISLP), Reija Helenius, to whom we are extremely grateful for linking our activities to the ISLP.