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Italian National Institute of Statistics
CONFERENCE OF EUROPEAN STATISTICIANS, Paris 13-15
June2006
SEMINAR ON HUMAN RESOURCES AND TRAINING Session
I Human resources as a main element of the
modern statistical office vocational training of
employees

• Luigi Biggeri
• Invited discussion on
• FORMAL TRAINING.

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The Italian Plan
Iron defense, small ideas in midfield, passes to
striker..andPenalty
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GENERAL AGREEMENTS ON SOME KEY POINTS
HR management and its integration with business
planning (In most of the papers) Expenditures
for salaries, about 80 of the Institutes budget
(Canada) In Europe both Code of Practice and
Quality Declaration of the European Systrem
expressely recognise staff, and staff training,
as the main asset of a NSO (Spain) Definition of
the necessary capabilities and competences in
order to define needs for training
(Australia) Construction of a continous
learning environment and learning organisation
model (Finland, Canada, Australia, Germany,
Ukraina, Sweden) Need for different types and
forms of competences development, from the
formal training to the on job training and so on,
up to the well-being of the staff members (Canada
and Sweden)
Luigi Biggeri, Discussion
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FORMAL TRAINING
Formal, informal training and everyday
learning Swedish paper stressed the relevance of
informal, unstructured training and everyday
learning this is important for the improvement
of the staff members competencie, because large
part of learning occurs in informal situation
BUT Good formal training is an indispensable
pre-requisite for training Canada devotes to
this about 3 of the budget Planning of training
activities All the papers present useful
descriptions of the training systems run by
themselves or by associated training institutes
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MANY TYPES OF FORMAL TRAINING
Recruitment systems and related new personnel
training Training for career starting and
promotion Training for creating specialists (at
beginning, during the work period) Training for
e-learning Training for management Training
for statistics And so on .
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ORGANISATION OF FORMAL TRAINING

• I. In which location
• In-house training
• In most of the NSIs
• Through the Institutes or Schools organised for
  that purpose
• Australia National Statistical Training
  Institute (2003)
• Canada Statistics Canada training Institute
  (1993)
• Spain Public Administration Statistics School
  (?)
• Which kind of courses
• Structured and tailored ad hoc courses
• Base courses for all
• Career-specific training programs (Finland)
• III. Programs of the courses
• General information from the papers Example can
  be found in Australian paper

Luigi Biggeri, Discussion
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THE CONTEXT OF WORK IN THE NSIs
The context in which the NSIs are reorganising
and improving their practices of HR management
are quite similar through countries Usually
Universities do no give courses for Official
Statisticians Staff retiring is
increasing Demand for specialist skills is
increasing Demand for statistics is changing
rapidly (international needs) Need for
multi-skilled personnel that can be moved to
different works ( in the past NSIs develop
subject matter specialistsnarrowly focused
(Canada) Some demands are in antithesis How
much clever the Official Statisticians must
be? Need to balance the demands, but not to easy
to manage
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SOME QUESTIONS
NSIs have to take care of statistical training
for the cadres of Public Administration staffs?
(use for the units and for the management of
administrative data and archives) Is it
necessary to have a minimum common standard
training for official statisticians? Considering
the need to partecipate in task forces and
working groups at international level How much
important is to have a specific Training
Institute for the NSIs needs? The implementation
of the training is too costly in which way the
NSIs can solve the problem? Especially for a
small Institute? Is it important to built-up
cooperation among NSIs for formal training?
Luigi Biggeri, Discussion