Arts and Resources Centre,
Bradford
Saturday February 26th 2000

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?

Five 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,
• Jay Ginn, Surrey University and
• Alison Macfarlane, Oxford University.

1.00pm - lunch 2.00pm -
2.30 pm - Radical Statistics AGM

2.30pm - 4.30pm (with tea break) -
'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

6pm - Curry in the centre and bar (Vinceremos, see booking form)
8pm onwards - 'Salsa dance night in the Centre - by the Cuba Solidarity Campaign'.
Sunday 27th of February Five miles walk across Ilkley Moor, (longer if you want, and Wi' or Ba't'at).