Some questions for the Conference

Some questions for the Conference

• Are SDIs the “way forward”?• Policy makers appropriately establish “the

indicators”, but:– what role should they play in how these should be

measured?– can indicators exist in isolation from a supporting

system of measurements?– what if indicators “indicate” something but we don’t

understand what?– can indicators be meaningful without a drill-down

capacity?

Some questions for the Conference• If the answers to even some of my

questions are yes, then what do we need to do:– to ensure that statisticians design the

measurement systems for the indicators selected by decision makers?

– to develop a measurement system to support SDIs?

– to ensure that the three legs of SDI can analytically be connected – e.g. to answer “what if” questions?