On the day itself the global statistical community will carry out various promotional activities and events showcasing the role of official statistics and statistical agencies. For example, here are just a few of the many events taking place on 20th October:
Statistics Views and Wiley are sponsoring a data visualization competition
Destatis, Germany’s national statistical office, will launch its new online portal “StatistikCampus”
The Swiss Statistical Society will celebrate greece rcs data World Statistics Day with a seminar on “Better data. Better lives.”
The Royal Statistical society is hosting a WSD event that will include short speeches by the National Statistician John Pullinger and Claire Melamed from the Overseas Development Institute
Following the launch of the Sustainable Development Goals at the UN Summit at the end of September and to celebrate World Statistics Day, the UK Data Service has launched a new ‘Explore our data on Sustainable Development Goals’ section on UKDS.Stat – the data delivery system for international data. The Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development includes 17 Sustainable Development Goals (aka Global Goals) and 169 targets which build on the Millennium Development Goals. ‘Leaving no one behind’, the SDGs are intended to inspire action over the next fifteen years in areas of critical importance for people, the planet and prosperity. At the UK Data Service, we’re keen to engage with and support the development agenda and one way we can do this is to raise awareness of the SDGs. To do so, we have chosen a number of SDG related time series indicators to visualise within UKDS.