Overview of the Style Guide on the presentation of statistics

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Overview of the Style Guide on the presentation
of statistics

• UNECE Work Session on the Communication and
  Dissemination of Statistics
• Warsaw, 13-15 May 2009

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Making Data Meaningful
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What is it ?

• Product of 2008 UNECE Work Session on Statistical
  Dissemination Communication
• Guide to help bring statistics to life to
  non-statisticians
• For managers, statisticians media relations
  officers
• Focus on tables, charts, maps emerging
  visualization techniques

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Collective work

• 15 authors from
• Australian Bureau of Statistics
• Statistics Canada
• OECD
• Swiss Federal Statistical Office
• UK Office for National Statistics
• UNECE
• US Census Bureau
• US Energy Information Administration

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Challenges solutions

• Statistical organizations
• many practical cultural differences
• variety of approaches
• Style Guide provides
• guidelines suggestions examples
• no strict rules or rigid templates

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Example of a good bar chart
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Which type of chart to use ?
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Select the appropriate tool
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Good example of an area map
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Animation interactivity
Source UK Office for National Statisticshttp//w
ww.statistics.gov.uk/populationestimates/svg_pyram
id/uk/index.html
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Consultation process

• Your comments until 12 June
• Final approval by CES Bureau
• Published in print by September