Kitchin, Rob (2015) Big data and official statistics: Opportunities, challenges and risks. Programmable City Working Paper 9. Working Paper. The Programmable City, Maynooth University.

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Abstract

The development of big data is set to be a significant disruptive innovation in the production of official statistics offering a range of opportunities, challenges and risks to the work of national statistical institutions (NSIs). This paper provides a synoptic overview of these issues in detail, mapping out the various pros and cons of big data for producing official statistics, examining the work to date by NSIs in formulating a strategic and operational response to big data, and plotting some suggestions with respect to on-going change management needed to address the use of big data for official statistics.

Item Type:	Monograph (Working Paper)
Keywords:	big data; official statistics; national statistical institutions; NSIs; opportunities; challenges; risks; NIRSA; National Institute for Regional and Spatial Analysis;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Institutes > National Institute for Regional and Spatial analysis, NIRSA
Item ID:	7231
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2595075
Depositing User:	Prof. Rob Kitchin
Date Deposited:	12 Aug 2016 10:55
Publisher:	The Programmable City, Maynooth University
Refereed:	Yes
Funders:	European Research Council Advanced Investigator Award
URI:	http://www.nuim.ie/progcity/ http://ssrn.com/abstract=2595075
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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