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In this Monitor, we offer insight into what NTMs mean in general and to Dutch trade in particular; the effects of NTMs on product quality and costs, and the extent to which NTM-related costs affect...

This paper gives alternative derivations for the standard variance formulas in two-stage sampling. The derivations are based on a direct use of the statistical properties of the sampling errors in...

Big data and methodological challenges

Pulp of wood or of other fibrous cellulosic material; recovered (waste and scrap) paper or paperboard; paper and paperboard and articles thereof.

Soft edit rules, i.e. constraints which identify (combinations of) values that are suspicious but not necessarily incorrect, are an important element of many traditional, manual editing processes.

Report on experimental research on the compilation of Digital Supply and Use Tables (DSUT). Includes a description of the data sources and methodology, and provisional results for 2018.

Assessing the impact of mode effects on survey estimates has become a crucial question due to the increasing appeal of mixed-mode designs. Despite the advantages of a mixed-mode design such as lower...

Estimating discontinuities with a parallel run and a time series modelling approach

In this paper the question is addressed how alternative data sources, such as administrative and social media data, can be used in the production of official statistics. Since most surveys at...

This survey discusses the basics of productivity measurement and shows that one can dispense with most if not all of the usual, neoclassical assumptions, on which models for productivity measurement...

Paper and erratum. The results in this report are part of a study on people who start and stop claiming unemployment benefit. This report contains figures on people who stopped receiving...

Various claims have been made regarding the benefits that EnterpriseArchitecture (EA) delivers for both individual systems development projects and the organization as a whole. This paper presents...

Discussiepaper over een methode om een groot aantal hulpreeksen afkomstig uit big data bronnen te gebruiken bij het schatten van de maandelijkse werkloze beroepsbevolking.

There are various ways to approach respondents for a questionnaire-based survey: respondents can complete a questionnaire with the help from an interviewer, but they can also do it themselves....

An analysis of firm and worker contributions to the foreign acquisition wage premium in the Netherlands.

A paper and additional customised tables on the removals of households living in Amsterdam or the Amsterdam metropolitan region, by income. The tables cover the period 2001-2008. Commissioned by:...

DMK participates in a project, with the aim of implementing a new, efficient method for the benchmarking of National Accounts. Benchmarking is the process to achieve mathematical consistency between...

In the World Café, CBS presents relevant research in the field of globalization and international production chains.

This study compares two different techniques in a time series small area application: state space models estimated with the Kalman filter with a frequentist approach to hyperparameter estimation, and...

Pipelines are becoming a key form of transport.

Study of the effect of primary school peer compositions on pupils’ educational achievement in primary and secondary school.

The total value of goods from China which entered the Netherlands in 2018 stood at 113 billion euros. This was 15 percent of the value of all incoming cargo that year.

In percentage terms, the turnover increase was highest for shelf-stable products in particular, including canned goods, frozen vegetables, rice and pasta.

Changes in the survey process usually have a systematic effect on the results.

Linear structural equation models (SEMs) are widely used to assess the validity and reliability of survey variables. When population means or totals are of interest, it is also important to assess...