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The 2024 IAOS General Assembly will be held on 16 May 2024, from 8 – 9 am local time (CST) during the IAOS- ISI Conference to be held in Mexico City, Mexico between 15 – 17 May 2024.

IAOS members are reminded that March 15, 2024, is the closing date for all IPS Proposals for the 2025 WSC.

IAOS joins the international official statistical community in acknowledging the huge contribution of Katherine Wallman who passed away on January 17, 2024, at the age of 80. Katherine was a giant in the international and American statistical communities and a cherished friend to many.

IAOS congratulates Gemma Van Halderen, for her Public Service Medal awarded in the 2024 Australian Day Honours. Gemma was recognised for outstanding public service in delivering significant statistical developments for better use of data for public policy purposes, both in Australia and internationally. Part of the award is in recognition of Gemma’s work in nurturing and developing early career statisticians and data professionals.

The ESSnet Web Intelligence Network (WIN) project, will host its next webinar on 5 March 2024 on the topic of Measuring the quality of large-scale automated classification systems applied to online job advertisement data.

We are happy to inform you that the article of Mr. Misha Belkindas, Ms. Lilia Saetova and Mr. Pieter Everaers entitled ‘International Association for Official Statistics: Mission, Vision, and Strategic Plan’ was accepted for publication in Wiley StatsRef: Statistics Reference Online (ISBN 9781118445112) and was published online.

The National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) of Mexico, the International Association of Official Statistics (IAOS) and the International Institute of Statistics (ISI) are pleased to announce the Call For Papers.

IAOS 2024 Young Statistician Prize – Easy to print posters available in all UN languages

The IAOS is pleased to announce the launch of the 2024 YSP competition. Entries close on 10 February 2024.

The ESSnet Web Intelligence Network (WIN) project was launched by Eurostat in 2021 and aims to develop and nurture a network of like-minded individuals to have access to the Web Intelligence Hub, where they will be able to explore an array of non-traditional data sources to accelerate the modernisation of the European Statistical System (ESS).