Radical
Statistics
Gender Figures and Community Counts
26th ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE RADICAL STATISTICS GROUP
Arts and Resources Centre, Bradford
Saturday February 26th 2000
Friday 25th of February
For those arriving in Bradford on Friday we are meeting at the 1-in-12 club from 8pm onwards (see booking form)
Saturday 26th of February
Bradford Arts and Resources Centre
10am registration and coffee
10.30am - 1pm (with coffee break) 'Gender figures' How do global social statistics represent and misrepresent women and the world in general? How can official ONS statistics be improved? Might women's employment statistics and unpaid domestic activity be better measured?
Four contributors will provoke you to address those questions: Denise Lievesely, Director Institute for Statistics UNESCO (and president of the Royal Statistical Society), Linda Murgatroyd, Central Support Statistics, The Cabinet Office, Irene Bruegel, South Bank University, and Sue Himmelweit from The Open Univsersity
1.00pm - lunch
2.00pm - 3.30pm - 'Community Counts' Is there a 'community agenda' for research? How is it different from central and local government agendas? How can it be achieved?
Four contributors will provoke you to address these questions: Mike Quiggin, Bradford Resource Centre information worker, Jeff Evans, author of 'Using statistics in everyday life: from barefoot statisticians to critical citizenship', Charles Richie, ex-Director of the Community Operations Research Unit, Debs Harkin, community activist and senior Health Authority researcher
3.30pm - Tea
4.00-4.30 pm - Radical Statistics AGM
