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Statistics Netherlands has started a process to review the statistical priorities. The demands of society change, but budget restrictions and the desire to reduce administrative burden do not allow...

According to the System of National Accounts (SNA 1993) illegal activities should be registered in the national accounts, as the accounts should cover all economic activities, including those...

Measurement of labour market flows depends on three major aspects of the job definition, namely (i) the size of the job; (ii) the length of the job, and (iii) whether in accordance to national...

This paper shows that 19 relevant attributes of quality reports can be distinguished. These attributes are useful if we want to systematically manage the quality of quality reports and were...

Inventories play a crucial role in explaining business cycle turning points. Inventories contributed 0.7 percentage point to a 4 percent contraction of economic activity in 2009. In light of this,...

Over the past years, the use of administrative data in both official statistics and academic research has grown. This development has made the problem of assessing the quality of administrative...

Many surveys are repeated at regular intervals to monitor temporal change in quantities of social or economic importance. When small area estimation methods are applied in such settings, the question...

This paper presents and discusses some new results on the second-order inclusion probabilities of a systematic probability proportional to size sample drawn from a randomly ordered list, also called...

In this paper a multivariate structural time series model is described that accounts for the panel design of the Dutch Labour Force Survey and is applied to estimate monthly unemployment rates....

From July to October 2005 Statistics Netherlands conducted a pilot with basic questions for the Labour Force Survey (LFS). The basic questions consisted of all questions that are necessary to derive...

Since raw (survey) data usually has to be edited before statistical analysis can take place, the availability of data cleaning algorithms is important to many statisticians. In this paper the...

In most surveys all sample units receive the same treatment and the same design features apply to all selected people and households. In this paper, it is explained how survey designs may be tailored...

Record linkage is becoming more and more common in statistical and academic research. Linking records makes it possible to combine data from different sources to answer research questions that are...

Error localization is the problem of finding out which fields in raw data records contain erroneous values. The editrules extension package for the R environment forstatistical computing was recently...

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...

Statistical processes can be very complex, and it is not uncommon that they are designed and implemented as one big tangle of statistical activities. This paper is an initiative to structure and...

During redesigns of repeated surveys, the old and the new approach are often conducted in parallel to quantify discontinuities which are initiated by the modifications in the survey process. Due to...

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...

This paper presents the methods used for compiling physical and monetary balance sheets of oil and gas reserves in the Netherlands. Results and sensitivity analyses are shown for the period between...

The paper describes the application of the Object Oriented Quality Management model to the object secondary data sources. The results obtained are compared to those of the, independently developed,...

In this paper we study the selectivity in the recruitment of respondents for one of CentERdata’s Internet panels (the CentERpanel). This recruitment is based on a probability sample. It involves...

When monthly business surveys are not completely overlapping, there are two different estimators for the monthly growth rate of the turnover: (i) one that is based on the monthly estimated population...

Raw data records often contain missing or inconsistent items. Estimatingthe value of those items is usually complicated by restrictions imposed on possible value combinations. In this paper a method...

A common problem faced by statistical institutes is that data may be missing from collected data sets. The typical way to overcome this problem is to impute the missing data. The problem of imputing...

National statistical institutes (NSIs) fulfill an important role as providers of objective and undisputed statistical information on many different aspects of society. To this end NSIs try to...