Advisory Committee on Official Statistics (ACOS)

ACOS Annual Report

The ACOS Annual Report 2007 was presented to Minister of Statistics by the Hon David Caygill on Thursday 14 February 2008.

ACOS Annual Report 2007 PDF (191 KB)

Printable version

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Advisory Committee on Official Statistics

One of the recommendations of the Review of Official Statistics is to establish an Advisory Committee on Official Statistics to:

  • provide independent and reliable advice on official statistics to the Minister of Statistics and government
  • represent the wider statistical community, including users, producers and suppliers of official statistics. 

Functions

The functions of ACOS are to:

  • advise on the integrity, relevance and quality of Tier 1 statistics so they best meet the needs of users and producers
  • improve public confidence in official statistics by monitoring and reporting on standards, policies and protocols
  • provide comment to the Government Statistician on the performance of the Official Statistics Research and Data Archive Centre (OSRDAC)
  • provide comment or advice on any other matters relating to the official statistics system that is referred to it by the Minister of Statistics
  • produce an annual report on the health of the official statistics system that deals with:

 

    • the relevance and quality of Tier 1 statistics
    • any changes necessary to improve the coverage of Tier 1 statistics
    • the appropriateness of standards, policies and protocols for official statistics. 

 

Membership

The Hon David Caygill is the Chair of ACOS. In addition to the Chair, the nine committee members are:

• Professor Richard Bedford (Population Studies Centre, the University of Waikato)
• Dr Peter Bushnell (Deputy Secretary to The Treasury)
• Dr Bryan Jenkins (Chief Executive Environment Canterbury)
• Don Gray (Deputy Chief Executive Ministry of Social Development)
• Jas McKenzie (former Secretary of Labour)
• Phil O'Reilly (Chief Executive Business New Zealand)
• Roger Proctor (Group Manager Ministry of Economic Development)
• Emeritus Professor Alastair Scott (Department of Statistics, the University of Auckland)
• Professor Linda Tuhiwai-Smith (Pro Vice-Chancellor Māori, University of Waikato).
 
The Government Statistician also joins the ACOS committee as an
ex-officio member.

 

Inaugural ACOS Annual Report

The inaugural ACOS Annual Report was presented to Minister of Statistics by the Hon David Caygill in October 2006.

ACOS Annual Report 2006 PDF (119 KB)

Printable version

This file is in Adobe Acrobat format. If you do not have the Adobe Acrobat Reader you may download the reader to view or print the contents of these files.

Future meetings

  • 21 February 2008
  • 22 May 2008
  • 21 August 2008
  • 20 November 2008.