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also digital, media and financial literacies, truly needed for better adoption
of Digital Society benefits in modern globalized World per se, as well.
In the future desk research, the limitations of this study may be overcome
if more variables, e.g. gender and age groups, as well as different educational
levels, should be analysed for better explanation of digital society related
indicators, additionally. Further, the impact of the NSA’s activities in the
European countries may be analysed and measured, by analysing the
existence and the efficiency of their attempts to contribute to the
improvement of statistical and related digital literacy, through promotion of
educational programs, which should nowadays be more often visible or
offered at the NSA websites. Recently, since the beginning of 2019, FENStatS
(2019) has been announcing (parallel to the announcing the courses
organized by European Courses on Advanced Statistics, ECAS), the upcoming
NSAs’ Statistical and Data Science conferences more often, which is based
on the improved overall digital skills adoption. This activity is encouraging
and supportive to the NSAs’ acting goals and efforts in the same direction to
reach better informed, “digital based” statistical literacy improved, for better
citizenship and society.
Here recognized clusters of countries, with significantly different
development levels and percentages of individuals for Y2017IntOrderGoods, and
X3_DigitalSkill, which have been taken in this research as the symbols for
digitalisation and globalisation, have also more or less active communication
habits of their NSAs. Because of the research time constrains, their activity and
communication style were not explored with full potential for this paper, but
generally speaking, each NSA's activity alone and towards the FENStatS could
be in many countries intensified through regular standardized communication
procedure and praxis, being regularly current (e.g. on quarterly or similar
basis), efficient and formalized. Proposal for a common society, such as
FENStatS, is directed to an idea of intensifying communication between NSAs
by using the existing FENStatS’ web site, based on standardized information
collection and current information refreshment, which would enable
information announcement, flow and exchange. Since such an approach
should be simple, a short standardized format could be suggested for use.
Current news of interest might include the categories: Statistical and Data
Science education and training programs; including statistical and digital
knowledge and literacy improvement possibilities; Conferences organised by
NSAs Call for Papers announcements; and Other news. This would improve
networking among the CSAs’ members and the overall importance of the
FENStatS' activity, based on practical use of available ICT with an increasing
potential for improvements in literacy and knowledge regarding Statistics and
Data Science in the World of digitalisation and globalisation.

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