International Steering Group
The International Steering Group was formed in May 2022. The group’s role in Scotland’s Census 2022 was to:
- provide assurance that the census programme was ready to move on from the collect phase
- provide direction and support to National Records of Scotland as we implemented our statistical design after the collection phase
- propose amendments or changes for us to consider, including accessing additional administrative data
Read more on the group's Terms of Reference.
In June 2022 the group made a statement on their confidence to proceed to the next stage of the census, the Census Coverage Survey.
Membership
The group included census, coverage and administrative data experts. The members were:
- Professor James Brown, ABS Professor of Official Statistics at University of Technology (Chair)
- Professor Sir Ian Diamond, UK National Statistician
- Professor David Martin OBE
- Owen Abbott OBE, Deputy Director, Methods and Statistical Design at ONS
- Abby Morgan, Senior Design Analyst, Stats New Zealand
- Alastair McAlpine, Interim Chief Statistician, Scottish Government
- Professor Andrew Morris, Director, Health Data Research UK
- Roeland Beerten, Chief Statistician, Flanders
Although National Records of Scotland was not formally on the steering group, officials supported the group’s work.