Statistical Plans and Methods of the Irish National Nutrition Survey
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I propose dealing almost exclusively with some methodological aspects of the National Nutrition Survey from the narrowly statistical point of view, leaving statistical inferences and general comments on the results to other speakers. The Central Statistics Office was privileged to collaborate with the Department of Health, but not in so intimate a way as to render it unbecoming for us to congratulate the Minister, Dr Deeny and Dr Mourihane warmly on the various excellences of the inquiry or for the Office to address itself frankly to a criticism of the methods used, even though we have a measure of responsibility for these methods and the wisdom is after the event. What emerges in this short paper is commentary rather than criticism. This is a first inquiry and one of the most useful objects of a first inquiry was indicated by the late Lord Stamp to a colleague of mine when he remarked (in regard to a statistical inquiry in which Ireland was a pioneer): ‘While it is interesting to know just what you have done, it would be still more enlightening to hear what you would not do if you were repeating the inquiry.’ It is well to remember that considerable advances have been made in the sampling techniques applicable to surveys of this kind since the present survey was planned. ‘The Central Statistics Office helped in the selection of the families to be surveyed, in making the computations from the machine tabulations and in preparing the tables in the report for printing.
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Statistical plans and methods of the Irish National Nutrition Survey.
I propose dealing almost exclusively with some methodological aspects of the National Nutrition Survey from the narrowly statistical point of view, leaving statistical inferences and general comments on the results to other speakers. The Central Statistics Office was privileged to collaborate with the Department of Health, but not in so intimate a way as to render it unbecoming for us to congra...
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