Christine Bycroft

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]

Christine Bycroft
NationalityNew Zealand
Scientific career
FieldsStatistics
Demography

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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