65th ISI World Statistics Congress 2025

65th ISI World Statistics Congress 2025

On quality, legal and ethical aspects of ML in official statistics

Conference

65th ISI World Statistics Congress 2025

Format: IPS Abstract - WSC 2025

Session: IPS 1005 - Building Bridges Between (Official) Statistics and Machine Learning Methodology

Wednesday 8 October 10:50 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. (Europe/Amsterdam)

Abstract

Ethics makes statements about how we should act and ethical questions can arise when machine learning is used in official statistics. More generally: When methods and technologies are used to produce official statistics. The presentation deals with the interplay of such ethical risks, legal requirements and quality aspects to address the topic "Ethics of ML". This is done by referring to papers that derive quality aspects for ML and corresponding guidelines from well-known frameworks for official statistics such as the European Quality Assurance Framework.