Title: Big data and official statistics: Opportunities, challenges and risks. Programmable City Working Paper 9
Abstract: The development of big data is set to be a significant disruptive innovation in the production of official statistics offering a range of opportunities, challenges and risks to the work of national statistical institutions (NSIs). This paper provides a synoptic overview of these issues in detail, mapping out the various pros and cons of big data for producing official statistics, examining the work to date by NSIs in formulating a strategic and operational response to big data, and plotting some suggestions with respect to on-going change management needed to address the use of big data for official statistics.
Publication Year: 2015
Publication Date: 2015-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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