STATISTICS IN THE MEDIA

HANDBOOK ON BEST PRACTICES FOR STATISTICAL OFFICES IN DEALING WITH THE MEDIA

Chapter 3. Organisational and technical aspects of communication between statistical offices,

the press and other media

- Working Paper No. 6 – O94 Mass media in the function of statistical dissemination (Some experiences from Slovenia) (Central Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia, I. Trsinar)

3.1. Shifting from print to electronic products – how and when?

- Working Paper No. 2 – O94 Media relations at Statistics Canada: an overview (Statistics Canada, W.R. Smith)

- Working Paper No. 3 – O94 Information at your fingertips; online and offline dissemination of statistical information from Statistics Norway (Statistics Norway, M. Prerovska)

- Working Paper No. 11 – Ot 97 Statistics Canada’s Intranet: a road under construction (Statistics Canada, W. Smith)

- Working Paper No. 3 – C98 Shifting to electronic products – keeping strategies consistent with other preferences (Statistics Denmark, H. Hornum)

- Working Paper No. 15 – C98 Building the future: taking Statistics Canada’s Daily from print to electronic (Statistics Canada, W. Smith)

- Working Paper No. 17 – C98 Shifting from print to electronic products: two U.S. experiences (U.S. Energy Information Administration and the Bureau of the Census, J. Weiner and La Verve V. Collins)

3.2. Costs and benefits to consider when planning to outsource public and media relations work:

3.2.1. Experiences with having media relations work prepared outside the office versus within the office

- Working Paper No. 10 – V00 Can a public relations firm help a statistical agency (U.S. Census Bureau, L.V. Collins, B.-L. Sha and CBS of Israel, Y. Nathan)

3.3. How to establish fixed release dates for major indicators and how to meet them.

- Working Paper No. 5 – Ot97 Data dissemination media: how to establish fixed release dates from major indicators and how to meet them (Central Bureau of Statistics of Israel, Y. Nathan)

3.4. Making an effective WWW site for information media, including metadata adapted to the needs of media and public; “What is a good web site?”

- Working Paper No. 6 – Ot97 Internet services of the Turkish State Institute of Statistics (Turkish State Institute of Statistics, H. Melih Aral)

- Working Paper No. 8 – Ot97 The principles of selecting material for the internet at Statistics Finland (Statistics Finland, J. Melkas)

- Working Paper No. 14 – Ot97 Statistics on the Web-data offered by the Federal Statistical Office on the Internet (Federal Statistical Office of Germany, A. Schaff)

- Working Paper No. 4 – C98 National Statistical offices and administrations, and the web: a survey (Centre of Educational Sociology, U-ty of Edinburgh, UK, J. Lamb)

- Working Paper No. 16 – C98 The use of Internet for the dissemination of statistical information (Eurostat, M. Pellegrino)

- Guidelines for statistical metadata on Internet (UNECE Secretariat)

- Best practices in designing Websites for dissemination of statistics (UNECE secretariat)