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ACOS Annual Report
Advisory Committee on Official Statistics
Functions
Members of ACOS as of January 2010
Members of ACOS as of August 2008
Members of ACOS from September 2005 until July 2008
Previous ACOS annual reports
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ACOS Annual Report
The ACOS Annual Report: 2009 was presented to the Minister of Statistics by the Hon David Caygill on Wednesday, January 2010.
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.
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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.
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Membership
Members of ACOS as of February 2010
The Hon David Caygill is the Chair of ACOS. In addition to the Chair, the ten committee members are:
● Professor Richard Bedford (Professor of Population Geography and Director, University of Waikato)
● Mr Murray Bain (Chief Executive, Foundation for Research and Technology)
● Mr Bill Bayfield (Chief Executive, Environment Bay of Plenty)
● Dr Peter Bushnell (Independent consultant, former Deputy Secretary to The Treasury)
● Mr Rob Davison (Executive Director, Economic Service, Meat and Wool New Zealand)
● Ms Ria Earp (Chief Executive Officer, Mary Potter Hospice)
● Mr Don Gray (Deputy Chief Executive, Ministry of Social Development)
● Ms Kim Hill (Media commentator)
● Mr Tom Lambie (Farmer, Chancellor of Lincoln University, former National President of Federated Farmers, and current Chair of the Opuha Water Partnership)
● Professor Alan Lee (Department of Statistics, Auckland University)
● Dr Colin Tukuitonga (Chief Executive, Ministry of Pacific Island Affairs)
The Government Statistician, Mr Geoff Bascand, also joins the ACOS committee as an ex-officio member.
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Members of ACOS as at August 2008
The Hon David Caygill is the Chair of ACOS. In addition to the Chair, the ten committee members were:
● Professor Richard Bedford (Deputy Vice Chancellor, Population Studies, Waikato University)
● Dr Peter Bushnell (Deputy Secretary to The Treasury)
● Rob Davison (Executive Director, Economic Service, Meat and Wool New Zealand)
● Ria Earp (Chief Executive Officer Mary Potter Hospice)
● Don Gray (Deputy Chief Executive Ministry of Social Development)
● Dr Brian Jenkins (Chief Executive Environment Canterbury)
● Professor Alan Lee (Professor of Statistics Department of Statistics Auckland University)
● Phil O'Reilly (Chief Executive Business New Zealand)
● Roger Proctor (Group Manager Ministry of Economic Development)
● Dr Colin Tukuitonga (Chief Executive Ministry of Pacific Island Affairs)
The Government Statistician also joins the ACOS committee as an ex-officio member.
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Members of ACOS from September 2005 until July 2008
The Hon David Caygill was the Chair of ACOS. In addition to the Chair, the nine committee members were:
● 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 joined the ACOS committee as an ex-officio member.
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Previous ACOS annual reports
The ACOS Annual Report 2008 was presented to the Minister of Statistics by the Hon David Caygill on Wednesday, 25 February 2009.
ACOS Annual Report 2008 (PDF, 283KB)
The ACOS Annual Report 2007 was presented to the Minister of Statistics by the Hon David Caygill on Thursday, 14 February 2008.
ACOS annual report 2007 (PDF, 191KB)
The inaugural ACOS annual report was presented to the Minister of Statistics by the Hon David Caygill in October 2006.
ACOS annual report 2006 (PDF, 119KB)
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Adobe Acrobat download
These files are 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
● 4 March 2010
● 19 May 2010
● 18 August 2010
● 17 November 2010.