February 24 - 26, 2010 in Vienna, Austria

The conference is in relation to the Year of Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion of the European Union.

Keynote speakers include:

• W. Grossmann, University of Vienna: Statistical Modeling and Official Statistics – Two different views on data? ( abstract )
• Y. Tillé, University of Neuchatel: Statistical Inference for the Indicators of Inequality and Poverty ( abstract )
• V. Todorov, UNIDO: Outlier Detection in Survey Data
• H. Steiner, Federal Ministry of Social Affairs and Consumer Protection, Austria. Member of the Social Protection Committee: Political Relevance of Social Indicators in the Field of the Open Method of Coordination

Sponsors:

• The European Commission under the Seventh Framework Programme
• Statistics Austria
• Österreichische Gesellschaft für Statistik

The Conference takes place in the main building (Hauptgebäude) of Vienna Universtiy of Technology from February 24 - 26, 2010.