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Improving Population and Household Statistics - the Role of Government, Academia and Local Partners

Improving Population and Household Statistics - the Role of Government, Academia and Local Partners

List of Presentations

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Presentation

Author

Introduction to the Day

Kirsty Maclachlan, National Records of Scotland (NRS)

The Government Economic Strategy and the population growth target

Neil Hastie and Euan Carmichael of Economic Strategy Directorate

Migration Statistics Improvement Programme: an overview

Steve Smallwood, ONS

Migration research within the Centre for Population Change

James Raymer, University of Southampton

Improving population statistics in Scotland: the work of NRS

Cecilia Macintyre, NRS

Using administrative data to estimate local populations and some applications

Steve McCarthy and Sam Waples of Mayhew Associates

Small area population estimates: lessons from pooling information

Harvey Snowling, NRS

Developments in household information

Martin MacFie, NRS

The importance of population statistics to local authorities

Paul Davison, LARIA in Scotland

Capacity building in local authorities

Robert Raeside, Napier University