SORS at OECD World Forum 2007

Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia takes part at the second OECD World Forum “Statistics, Knowledge and Policy” in Istanbul on 27-30th June 2007.

It is represented by Ms Irena Križman, Director-General of the Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia (SORS), who is the discussant in the workshop Adult Skills and Working oportunities.

At the exhibition “Innovative tools to transform statistics into knowledge” SORS will present the contribution entitled “Do the Slovenian Policymakers Know the Effects of the Proposed Legislation?”, which deals with the use of the microsimulation model and CGE modelling tool for analysing the effects of tax reform, for which SORS prepared all the necessary data, the model and the analysis were prepared by Institute for Economic Research.

The mission of the OECD “Statistics, Knowledge and Policy” World Forum is to foster the development of sets of key economic, social and environmental indicators and their use to inform and promote evidence-based decision-making within and across the public, private and citizen sectors, at sub-national, national and international levels. The Forum is open to all sectors of society, building both on good practices and innovative research work, organised by the OECD in co-operation with national and international organisations.

Organisers hope to foster a global conversation about what progress actually means and bring statisticians at the centre of this discussion, which will not only benefit anyone seeking to measure progress at the sub-national or national level, but will also be an important contribution to the international conversation in the run up to 2015 when a replacement set of Millennium Development Goals will be introduced.