Christine Bycroft

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Christine Bycroft
NationalityNew Zealand
Scientific career
FieldsStatistics
Demography

Christine Bycroft is a New Zealand statistician and demographer. She is a principal population statistician at Statistics New Zealand, for whom she has published an analysis comparing the costs and benefits of running a full census or alternatively using a system of administrative data registers modeled after similar systems in the Nordic countries.[1]

From 2005 to 2006, Bycroft took a year away from Statistics New Zealand to work for the U.K. Office for National Statistics.[2] She was promoted to Senior Research Statistician at Statistics New Zealand in 2008.[3]

Bycroft is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute;[4] she was elected to the Institute in 2010.[5] She represents New Zealand and is one of three representatives for Oceania in the Committee on Women in Statistics of the International Statistical Institute.[6] She also served on the council of the International Association of Survey Statisticians from 2011 to 2015,[7] and on the council of the Population Association of New Zealand until 2014.[8]

References[]

  1. ^ Allison, Caleb (February 13, 2013), "Does the census matter any more?", National Business Review
  2. ^ Penny, Richard (March 2006), "Statistics New Zealand", New Zealand Statistical Association Newsletter, 63, archived from the original on 2018-02-08, retrieved 2017-11-26, Christine Bycroft is due to return soon after spending some time working for the Office of National Statistics in the UK.
  3. ^ Penny, Richard; Son, Olivia (September 2008), "Statistics New Zealand", New Zealand Statistical Association Newsletter, 68, archived from the original on 2018-02-07, retrieved 2017-11-26
  4. ^ Individual members, International Statistical Institute, retrieved 2017-11-25
  5. ^ Penny, Richard (October 2010), "Statistics New Zealand", New Zealand Statistical Association Newsletter, 72, archived from the original on 2018-02-05, retrieved 2017-11-26
  6. ^ "Country representatives", Committee on Women in Statistics, International Statistical Institute, retrieved 2017-11-25
  7. ^ President's letter (PDF), International Association of Survey Statisticians, January 2016, retrieved 2017-11-26
  8. ^ Butcher, Andrew (November 2014), "Note from the President" (PDF), Newsletter of the Population Association of New Zealand: 2


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