Improving Population and Household Statistics - the Role of Government, Academia and Local Partners

09:15	Registration and Coffee
09:45	Introduction to the Day	Kirsty Maclachlan, GROS
10:00	The Government Economic Strategy and the population growth target	Neil Hastie and Euan Carmichael of Economic Strategy Directorate
10:30	Migration Statistics Improvement Programme – an overview	Richard Pereira, ONS
11:00	Migration research within the Centre for Population Change	James Raymer, University of Southampton
11:30	Coffee
11:50	Improving population statistics in Scotland - the work of GROS	GROS
12:10	Using administrative data to estimate local populations and some applications	Steve McCarthy and Sam Waples of Mayhew Associates
12:40	LUNCH
13:40	Workshop
14:30	Small area population estimates - lessons from pooling information	Cecilia Macintyre, GROS
14:50	Developments in household information	Martin MacFie, GROS
15:10	The importance of population statistics to local authorities	Paul Davison, LARIA in Scotland
15:30	Coffee
15:50	Capacity building in local authorities	Robert Raeside, Napier University
16:20	END