Reputation, trust and official statistics

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Reputation, trust and official statistics

• Fride Eeg-Henriksen, feh_at_ssb.no
• Head of division
• Department of human resources and communicaton

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Reputation Omdømme In fashion
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Impression Trust ? Quite Good
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Visible meteorologists- badly reorganized labour
and welfare service
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Ranking depends on the calculation
Ranking of impression of Statistics Norway Relation to other government departments/agencies
According to Number
Very good and fairly good impression (58 per cent) 16
Very poor or slightly poor (3 per cent) 7
Net impression (Positive negative impression 55 per cent) 13
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Transparency and information
Equal treatment publication policy?
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Europeans opinions on official statistics
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Trust in official statistics
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Trust EU countries- and Norway

• Trust in Statistics Norway
• Trust in official statistics?
• 75 per cent 2005

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Statistics as basis for decision making
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Use EU-countries

• Norway??

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Trust and estimated use of official statistics
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The future

• Several surveys
• Synovate
• OECD group questions
• Eurobarometer
• Challenges
• Careful with rankings
• More transparency
• Use Bragging and learning

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Always look on the bright side of life