Sharleen Forbes is Adjunct Professor of Official Statistics in the School of Government, Victoria University of Wellington, and General Manager, Statistics Education, at Statistics New Zealand. She has been a member of the International Statistics Institute's Committee on Women in Statistics, President of the New Zealand Statistics Association, and Vice-Director of the International Statistical Literacy Project. Her current research interests include the uses of data visualisation tools for teaching and dissemination of official statistics, and the history of, and influences on, these statistics. Antong Victorio is a Senior Lecturer in Economics and Public Policy at Victoria University of Wellington. He has an Honours degree in Economics from Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines, and a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard. His research interests include the use of quantitative models in public policy; non-market insurance, altruism and intergenerational contracts; micro-simulation models in public economics; housing demand and urban economics; the economic consequences of school-leaving; and currency crises.