Call for Papers for volume 9, n° 1(17)/ 2016
ESSACHESS – Journal for Communication Studies1 www.essachess.com
Communication in Statistics: Why? When? and How (not) to do it?
Guest editors: Tudorel Andrei (Bucharest University of Economic Studies, President of National Institute of Statistics, Romania), Claudiu Herteliu (Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania)
and Bogdan Oancea (Nicolae Titulescu University of Bucharest, Romania)
The Essachess – Journal for Communication Studies invites scholars to submit original papers for a Special Issue on “Communication in Statistics: Why? When? and How (not) to do it?” This special issue co-editors are looking for papers which are analyzing all relevant matters of communication in statistics.
Scope of the Issue. Nowadays the communication issues became more and more important in almost every industry. The plan of this special issue of Journal for Communication Studies is to offer to the academia (and not only) a comprehensive description of ways in which communication interfere in statistics. It is well know that many press releases by Official Statistics Offices all around became suddenly subjects of breaking news. On the other hand there are occasions when released statistical information became subject of debates (sometimes on technicalities: how was measured? was correct measured? is the methodology uniform all around the world in order to permit international comparisons? etc.). Therefore a good communication in statistics will enhance the institutional credibility and will help further statistical inquiries to obtain much more accurate data. Because, we have to admit, that communication is not appearing only in the final stages of the statistical processes but it is connected at the early stages. Was the questionnaire well developed and the easy to communicate within the target audience? Can a good communication – at the interviews stage – to lower the rate of non-responses? Are there significant differences between different communication channels which are used in order to record statistical information? Should be a good communication between different governmental institutions a sine qua non condition in order to integrate administrative data in a deeper manner into the statistical system? Are there any significant risks when different administrative bodies are sharing too much data to each other?
Important Deadlines
– November 15, 2015: submission of the proposal in the form of an abstract of maximum 2 pages. The proposal must include a list of recent references;
– December 15, 2015: acceptance of the proposal;
– March 30, 2016: full paper submission;
– June 1st, 2016: full paper acceptance.
Papers should be between 6,000-9,000 words in length. Papers can be submitted in English or French. The abstracts should be in English and French, max. 2 pages followed by 5 keywords. Please provide the full names, affiliations, and e-mail addresses of all authors, indicating the contact author.
Papers, and any queries, should be sent to:
essachess@gmail.com
Authors of the accepted papers will be notified by e-mail. The journal will be published in July 2016.
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