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2018 – a trying year for Statistics Norway’s independence tema
| Dec 2018

2018 – a trying year for Statistics Norway’s independence

Dec 17, 2018 Statistics Norway (SSB) did not hold back in its description of itself in its latest annual report: “SSB acts as Norway’s first line of defence in the fight against fake news by providing objective and relevant statistics, research and analysis to help understand Norway,” it says.
Denmark leads the way on statistics using microdata tema
| Dec 2018

Denmark leads the way on statistics using microdata

Dec 17, 2018 When it comes to statistics, Denmark is leading the way in the Nordics as well as internationally. Half a century of data-gathering from personal information registers provides detailed statistics about Danes and their working lives.
Marjo Bruun: The new economy is a statistical challenge tema
| Dec 2018

Marjo Bruun: The new economy is a statistical challenge

Dec 17, 2018 Marjo Bruun, Director General for Statistics Finland, considers journalists to be the most important partners in the fight for honest words and digits.
Nordic statistics: frontline defenders of truth tema
| Dec 2018

Nordic statistics: frontline defenders of truth

Dec 16, 2018 Narrowing social gaps is what defines democracy. If the figures only reflect growth but not how it is distributed, we end up with the wrong political decisions. The five Nordic statistics central agencies work every day to show and explain how the Nordics tick. But there are many challenges when it comes to maintaining trust and creating the statistics we need.
tema
| Dec 2018

OECD: Politicians put too much trust in the GDP

Dec 17, 2018 Do we have the necessary statistics to govern our societies in the best possible way? Or is a blind trust in statistics to blame, at least indirectly, for the collapse in trust in authorities after the financial crisis? Before dismissing this as a conspiracy – the theory was presented by none other than the OECD.
nyhet
| Dec 2018

Statistics Sweden: new statistics on how different immigrant groups manage in the Nordics

Dec 17, 2018 Statistics Sweden (SCB) and its Nordic opposites have begun producing comparable statistics on how immigrants manage in the labour market, divided into country of origin.
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