Official Statistics 4.0

Dr. Walter J. Radermacher was Director General of Eurostat and Chief Statistician of the European Union from 2008 to 2016. He worked at Destatis, the German Federal Statistical Office, for 30 years, ultimately as its President and Federal Returning Officer. He was the first Chair of the UN Committee of Experts on Environmental-Economic Accounting (UNCEEA) from 2005 to 2008. Since 2017 he has been a Researcher at the Department of Statistical Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, and the President of FENStatS, the Federation of European National Statistical Societies.

Preface.- Official Statistics - An Introduction.- Official statistics - Public Informational Infrastructure.- Science and Society: A Reflexive Approach to Official Statistics.- Official Statistics 4.0: The Era of Digitisation and Globalization.- A Confident Look into the Future of Official Statistics.

"I highly recommend this book. The topic of official statistics might seem dry and uninteresting to some, but this author provides a unique perspective that students and practitioners will find useful. Plenty of figures, illustrations and flowcharts (in colour) are used to show the concepts. Many references are included at the end of each chapter for those readers who want to delve into the topics in more depth." (Wendy L. Martinez, International Statistical Review, Vol. 89 (3), 2021)

“I highly recommend this book. The topic of official statistics might seem dry and uninteresting to some, but this author provides a unique perspective that students and practitioners will find useful. Plenty of figures, illustrations and flowcharts (in colour) are used to show the concepts. Many references are included at the end of each chapter for those readers who want to delve into the topics in more depth.” (Wendy L. Martinez, International Statistical Review, Vol. 89 (3), 2021)