The Educational Ambassador Program was launched in 2005 to annually recruit an educational ambassador from foreign countries. This lasting collaboration between the ASA and other international statistical societies promotes permanent exchanges of knowledge and enhances statistical literacy.
Argentina
Price Index Row Costs Statistician Her Job, Yet Again
Having been dismissed from her job in 2007 for refusing to bend to government pressure to tweak the consumer price index, Graciela Bevacqua returned to find the CPI “destroyed” by political interference.
Argentine Statistics Making Turnaround
Graciela Bevacqua was recently announced as the technical director for the Argentine National Institute of Statistics and Census (INDEC), the agency from which she was fired in 2007 under the previous government for defending the integrity of INDEC inflation data.
Politics and Statistics Collide in Argentina
In 2007, when the government of Argentina fired the staff of the National Institute of Statistics and Census division responsible for compiling consumer price indices, few organizations and fewer news outlets took notice of the politically motivated move. Here, William Seltzer and Jay Kadane discuss how the ASA became involved and how you can get involved, too.