IAOS to Award Prizes to Young Statisticians

The International Association for Official Statistics (IAOS) is sponsoring a competition for the best paper in the field of official statistics written by a young statistician. In addition to the monetary prize, the first-place winner will receive travel funds to present their paper at a session during the IAOS conference in Paris, France, September 19-21, 2018.

Submitters are encouraged to address and propose solutions to pressing methodological or strategic issues in official statistics at the regional, national, or international level.

To be eligible, authors and co-authors must be under the age of 35 and employed by an official statistical agency on December 31, 2017.

Papers must be submitted by December 31, 2017. Details and submission instructions are available on the IAOS website.