EVIDENCE-BASED POLICY MAKING AND STATISTICAL EDUCATION
Kyung‐Ae Park · 2014
INTRODUCTION Official statistics can play a key role in policy making of the Korean government’s 3.0 era characterized by the mottos of ‘open and sharing’ and ‘communication and cooperation’. Cooperation among agencies for utilizing data is critical because of challenges of official statistics: availability of data due to new technologies, demand of more timely statistics, competition with other providers of statistics (e.g. Big Data), budget restrictions and demand of efficiency. Producing good quality information on time is very important for policy making. However, if users do not understand the limitations of the data, risks of evidence-based policy increase tremendously. Thus, statistical education of national statistical offices should focus on narrowing the knowledge gap between producers and diverse users.