Teaching (Official) Statistics: Faculty of Informatics and Statistics University of Economic, Prague

Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze (VŠE) University of Economics, Prague (UEP)  established in 1953  leading university in the field of management, economics and public administration in the Czech Republic  students, 650 academic staff

The six faculties Five in Prague:  the Faculty of Finance and Accounting  the Faculty of International Relations  the Faculty of Business Administration  the Faculty of Informatics and Statistics  the Faculty of Economics and Public Administration One in Jindřichův Hradec, South Bohemia region  the Faculty of Management, Jindřichův Hradec

Statistical Departments at UEP Two departments at the Faculty of Informatics and Statistics  Department of Statistics and Probability theory & methods, business & insurance applications  Department of Economic Statistics economic & social indicators, applications in official statistics and socio-economic research

Teaching Statistics at UEP  Standard undergraduate core course in statistics (part of the core curriculum, all students from all faculties)  Statistical majors Bc. (3 years): Statistical Methods in Economics, Statistics and Econometrics Master level programme (2 years): Statistics-Insurance Engineering Ph.D. level programme: Quantitative Methods in Economics – Statistics  + statistical minor specialisation blocks (Socio-economic Data Analysis, Insurance Engineering)

Master programme in Statistics Economics Economics 2 Statistical Methods Sampling theory Regression Multivariate statistics Time series analysis Probability and math.statistics 2 Economic statistics Economic and social statistics System of National Accounts Insurance engineering Actuarial demography Life insurance Material insurance + Minor specialisation block (free choice of the student) Finance & banking, Informatics, …

Courses at the Department of Economic Statistics „core courses“ Economic and Social Statistics ( 6 ECTS credits) economic and social data comparative methods labour market statistics economic output data (micro,macro level) macroaggregates (GDP, national accounts) international trade price statistics household income and income distribution household consumption System of National Accounts (7 ECTS credits) system of the accounts compilation of the SNA input-output tables satellite accounts regionalisation analysis based on SNA data

Courses at the Department of Economic Statistics supplementary courses / electives Comparative methods for economic and social data (3 ECTS credits) index theory Social Statistics (3 ECTS credits) population statistics & census methodology employment & unemployment income distribution poverty & inequality household consumption data & the HBS education statistics health statistics Research seminars: International Statistical Comparisons (3 ECTS credits) Statistical Analyses of the Czech Economy (3 ECTS credits) Survey Methodology (6 ECTS credits) {in development}

Cooperation with the Czech Statistical Office  Framework institutional cooperation agreement between Faculty of Informatics and Statistics,UEP and the Czech Statistical Office (CSU)  Forms of cooperation:  Consultancy & expertise (membership in the national Statistical Council – 2 seats, external methodological audits)  Joint research activities & projects  Ph.D. students  Master thesis  Participation of CSU experts in education  Joint post-graduate professional study programme in official statistics

Post-graduate professional programme  Programme offered as a joint project with the Czech Statistical Office  Teaching staff: UEP + selected CSU experts  Very long tradition (now in Round 23 – the project has been running now for 45 years …)  Most students are the NSI employees, but the offer is opened also to other government institutions  Prerequisities: Master level degree  Main target group: employees with other master level degrees than statistics (economics, public administration, sociology, informatics …) who want to broaden their knowledge of statistics and of the system of official statistics

Post-graduate professional programme courses (with hours of direct teaching) Economic Theory (24) Legislation in Statistics (8) Mathematics (24) General Statistical Theory (32) Data Sources in Official Statistics (16) Economic and Social Statistics (56) Probability and Statistical Inference (32) Comparative Methods for Socio- economic Data (16) Computational Statistics I+II (16+24) System of National Accounts (20) Time Series Analysis (32) Theory and Practice of Sample Surveys (24) Macroeconomic Analysis (24) Final Thesis Seminar (20) Final Thesis

Post-graduate professional programme Organizational format:  two-year (4 semesters) programme  4-5 courses per semester  taught in one-week compact sessions, 3 sessions per semester, on an outside location  16 exams/credits  final thesis focusing on application on chosen area of official statistics