Patricia O'Hara - Chair National Statistics Board
Patricia O'Hara serves as the Chair of the National Statistics Board and is a member of the European Statistical Governance Advisory Board. She plays a crucial role in guiding the strategic direction of the Central Statistics Office (CSO) by establishing priorities for official statistics development and ensuring resource availability. Through various initiatives and collaborations, she emphasizes the importance of trust in official statistics for democracy and advocates for professionalizing statistical standards.
- Patricia OHara
- National Statistics Board
- European Statistical Governance
- Official Statistics
- Data Sharing
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Patricia OHara, Chair National Statistics Board and Member European Statistical Governance Advisory Board (ESGAB)
NSB and ISS Trust and Quality ESS CoP and ESGAB Implementing the ISS CoP P O'Hara, NSB 2 20/11/2013
Statistics Act 1993 8 members Department of Taoiseach Guide strategic direction of CSO by Establishing priorities for the compilation and development of official statistics, ensuring that the necessary resources are available, arbitrating where necessary between CSO and other public authorities regarding extraction of statistics from records, or co-ordination of statistical activities. P O'Hara, NSB 3 20/11/2013
Strategy 2003 ISS as a system SPAR exercises, statisticians in Departments, StatCentral portal Strategy 2003- -2008 ISS as a system coordination needed 2008 coordination needed Strategy 2009 Issues of practice, capacity building Memos of Understanding Administrative Data Centre Collaboration e.g. CSO & CBFSAI Strategy 2009- -2014 Issues of practice, capacity building 2014 But barriers to progress remain Data restrictions, Quality, Unique Identifiers But barriers to progress remain - - NSB papers NSB papers NSB urged Strategic Initiative from Government to create N NSB urged Strategic Initiative from Government to create National D Data I Infrastructure (NDI) P O'Hara, NSB 4 20/11/2013
Public Sector Reform - DPER lead role in promoting data sharing Data Sharing and Governance Bill Postcode System Public authorities need to commit CSO responsible for statistical standards, so ISS CoP vital to fully professionalise ISS P O'Hara, NSB 5 20/11/2013
Trust in official statistics key to democracy Irish citizens trust - in institutions, government and media has plummeted since the crash But good level of trust in official statistics in Ireland Trust major problem in UK P O'Hara, NSB 6 20/11/2013
1. CoP only works if understood, applied and enforced ongoing assessment essential 2. Engage citizens to maintain public confidence 3. Separate oversight, scrutiny and assessment from production and delivery 4. Labelling and assessment of official statistics is difficult in practice 5. Need for data sharing culture in Departments P O'Hara, NSB 7 20/11/2013
ES CoP 15 Principles; ESGAB overview of ESS and Eurostat Annual Report to Euro Parliament & Council 7 members 5 ARs to date 44 Recommendations KEY ISSUES governance, coordination, resources KEY ISSUES - professional independence, P O'Hara, NSB 8 20/11/2013
1. Politicisation professional independence 2. Designation leadership, liaison, vigilance 3. Monitoring Compliance self assessment, peer reviews, role for NSB? 4. Legislative Review of Statistics Act 1993 5. Engagement with users and general public P O'Hara, NSB 9 20/11/2013
Statistics are above the public debate in that they must be seen to be produced impartially, free from political interference and commanding trust. Statistics are below the public debate in that they underpin decision-making, policy development and good public administration. In a nutshell, the challenge... is: get them right, get them trusted and get them used. (Tim Holt, Thirtieth Geary Lecture 1999) P O'Hara, NSB 10 20/11/2013
