Three young Filipino statisticians won third place in the 2025 Young Statisticians Prize competition, an international contest organized by the International Association of Official Statistics (IAOS).
The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) announced that Maynard Anthony Acosta, Joermine Elaine Robredo and Naha Marie Bañoc were recognized for their paper, Real-time Monitoring of Household Final Consumption Expenditure of Pinoys Using Google Trends.
Their paper was among 24 submissions from 44 authors across 19 countries.
IAOS said Hanan Ather from Statistics Canada won first place, and Francesco Ortame and Francesco Isidori from the Italian National Institute of Statistics took second.
Achmad Fauzi Bagus Firmansyah of Statistics Indonesia received a special commendation for a paper from a developing nation.
“It is Canada’s fifth time winning the IAOS YSP Prize, and Italy’s first medal,” the IAOS said. “The Philippines and Indonesia add to their medal haul, with the Philippines moving up 6 places on the medals table.”
Winning papers are eligible for publication in the Statistical Journal of the IAOS and will be presented at an international conference.
The IAOS noted that the third-place win for the Philippines, a developing country, along with the special commendation for Indonesia, also a developing country, “is a very good indication of the quality of these papers.”
