Christine Bycroft | |
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Nationality | New Zealand |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Statistics Demography |
Christine Bycroft is a New Zealand statistician and demographer.[1]
Bycroft is a principal population statistician at Statistics New Zealand, for whom she has published an analysis comparing the costs and benefits of running a full census or alternatively using a system of administrative data registers modeled after similar systems in the Nordic countries.[2]
From 2005 to 2006, Bycroft took a year away from Statistics New Zealand to work for the U.K. Office for National Statistics.[3] She was promoted to Senior Research Statistician at Statistics New Zealand in 2008.[4]
Bycroft is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute[5] she was elected to the Institute in 2010.[6] She represents New Zealand and is one of three representatives for Oceania in the Committee on Women in Statistics of the International Statistical Institute.[7] She also served on the council of the International Association of Survey Statisticians from 2011 to 2015,[8] and on the council of the Population Association of New Zealand until 2014.[9]