World Statistics Day 2010

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• An Introduction to "World Statistics Day"
• Activities to mark the first World Statistics Day (WSD)
  • Participating in the WSD exhibition launched by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP)
    • Building and consolidating the statistical infrastructure
    • Inculcating and nurturing a customer-oriented culture
  • Compiling short feature articles for publication in local newspapers
    • Living with statistics
    • Official Statistics – Progressing with the times 
  • Launching a mini-exhibition on official statistics
  • Meeting the media to publicise WSD
    • Presentation slide
  • Issuing a press release to announce the first WSD
    • Hong Kong celebrates the first World Statistics Day
  • Jointly organising the "Sub-regional Course on Measuring and Improving Survey Quality" with Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific (SIAP) in Hong Kong
  • Participating in the observance event for the first WSD and the High-Level Forum on "Population Census : Review and Prospect" jointly organised by the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) and the National Bureau of Statistics of China (NBS)
  • Jointly organising a public seminar on "Widening the Scope of General Knowledge   Recognising the Fallacies of Statistics” with the Hong Kong Statistical Society (HKSS), the Education Bureau, and the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science of the University of Hong Kong
  • Jointly organising a dinner in commemoration of the first WSD for the statistics community with the HKSS