Written by the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics (ICBS)
Continued completing the course of MEDSTAT on C4S (Communication for Statistics), ICBS began the process of building a new course. The purpose of the course is to improve communication between information producers on subjects of wages and employment data on one hand and journalists covering these subjects on the other hand.
The course is scheduled to begin in early October 2018. The course program was approved by Sandrine Beaujean (MEDSTAT Lead Expert for Training) and Thierry Paccoud (MEDSTAT Team Leader) according to the subjects studied in the C4S course. The course program deals mainly with:
1. Rewriting the press releases on wages and employment data. This will be done by Professional support of an expert in the Hebrew language.
2. Presentation to the journalists of main subjects of wages and employment data.
3. Presentation to the journalists on using Excel and how to use it to calculate basic calculations like median, average wages etc.
4. Open discussion between the journalists and the Producers
5. External lectures We expect that as a result of this course press releases published by ICBS on subjects of wages and employment data will be more clearly and understandable to the journalists.
