{"id":5755,"date":"2015-11-09T09:02:23","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T07:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?p=5755"},"modified":"2015-11-09T09:02:23","modified_gmt":"2015-11-09T07:02:23","slug":"the-importance-of-data-in-decision-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?p=5755","title":{"rendered":"The Importance of data in decision-making"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>05 November 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>MEDIA INVITE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Importance of data in decision-making<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Statistician General Pali Lehohla will brief the media on the importance of data in decision making and will be joined by the President of the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS)\/ President of the International Association for Official Statistics (IAOS) and Mr Ola Rosling, CEO &amp; Co-Founder of Gapminder Foundation and expert on data visualization. They will highlight issues around the pattern of data use and make compelling illustrations why data should not be ignored in policy-making<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0<strong>\u00a0 :<\/strong> 11 November 2015<br \/>\n<strong>Time<\/strong>\u00a0 <strong>\u00a0 :<\/strong> 11:H00<br \/>\n<strong>Venue :<\/strong> GCIS, Tshedimosetso House 1035 Frances Baard Street (corner Festival Street) HATFIELD, Pretoria<\/p>\n<p>NB: There will be a video link to Imbizo Media Centre, 120 Plein Street, Parliament, Cape Town<\/p>\n<p>RSVP:<br \/>\nFelicia Sithole<br \/>\nTel: (012) 339 2401<br \/>\nCell: 076 430 0693<\/p>\n<p>Media Enquiries:<br \/>\nMs Lesedi Dibakwane<br \/>\nTel: (012) 310 8578<br \/>\nCell: 082 805 7088<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:lesedid@statssa.gov.za\">lesedid@statssa.gov.za<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>05 November 2015 MEDIA INVITE The Importance of data in decision-making Statistician General Pali Lehohla will brief the media on the importance of data in decision making and will be joined by the President of the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS)\/ President of the International Association for Official Statistics (IAOS) and Mr Ola Rosling,&nbsp; &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?p=5755\" class=\"btn btn-mini btn-info pull-right\" style=\"margin:10px 30px;\">read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,43,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-notices","category-press-statements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5755"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5765,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5755\/revisions\/5765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}