Statistics Korea Awards Jo Seung-yeon Highest Honor for 'Student Statistical Data Room' in Special Proposal Contest

[Asia Economy Reporter Kwangho Lee] In the '2020 Statistics Korea Special Proposal Contest' conducted by Statistics Korea, the proposal 'Proactive Provision of Customized Statistical Indicators for Elementary, Middle, and High School Students' by Seung-yeon Jo received the highest evaluation.

On the 17th, Statistics Korea held the excellent proposal presentation contest for the 2020 Statistics Korea Special Proposal Contest and announced that among the public proposal ideas, the top-rated excellent grade proposal was 'Student Statistical Data Room' by Jo, an elementary school teacher.

Jo explained, "While teaching students, I participated in the contest based on the judgment that if statistical data reflecting the lives of peers or statistics about the local area where I live were provided, it could be widely used in learning. I proposed establishing a student statistical data room on statistical portal sites with the hope of exploring various discussion topics hidden behind statistics, predicting changes from past to present, and forecasting the future."

Starting next year, Statistics Korea plans to create a statistical environment where elementary, middle, and high school students can easily and interestingly find statistical data and utilize it in educational settings through the 'National Statistical Portal (KOSIS) KIDS (tentative name)' project.

Additionally, public proposals such as improving keyword selection for national indicators, enhancing methods for online pre-survey participation prize distribution, utilizing visualization graphs to resolve questions, and providing customized services using interactive chatbots were adopted as encouragement grade proposals and will be implemented.

Statistics Korea solicited ideas from the public and public officials in April under the theme 'Innovative Statistical Administration Measures That the Public Can Feel,' and among the total 80 ideas received, 11 outstanding ideas were selected through departmental adoption reviews and expert evaluations. These were presented and judged for creative grade awards on this day.

For public officials' proposals, the final ranking was determined through proposer presentations and in-depth expert Q&A sessions. The top-rated excellent grade proposal was 'One-Stop Service for Single-Person Household Statistics Using KOSIS,' presented by Yuran Cho, a staff member of the Big Data Statistics Division at Statistics Korea.

Kang Shin-wook, Commissioner of Statistics Korea, stated, "We will continue government innovation activities to actively reflect public proposals and provide statistical services that the public can more tangibly experience."

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