The document discusses new opportunities for statistics and data production as the amount of digital information has grown substantially in recent decades. It notes that less than 20 years ago, most information was analog rather than digital. It also discusses how statistical authorities can make use of new data sources and techniques in an ethical manner to provide reliable and useful information to users, with the goal of making people's lives easier and raising awareness. Statisticians have the ability to combine different data resources to produce statistics in new ways.

1. New opportunities for
statistics and data
production
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2. Less than 20 years ago,
much of the information
generated in the world was
analog, not digital.
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3. The amount of Digital
Information has grown at
least by 60% annually
throughout the 2000s
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4. Globally two major societies
use information according to
completely different
principles than we in Europe.
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5. Ethical use of
information is a daily
practice for statistical
authorities.
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How we use the new sources of
data, combine them and provide
the reliable but also new kind of
information in a user-friendly way.

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Our goal is to make people's
lives easier and to raise
awareness.

8. Statisticians have the
capability and experience
to combine different data
resources.
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We have to flavor statistics in new
ways, even if the basic ingredients
remain the same in principle.

10. Thank you!
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