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It is the challenge of statistical offices to use their knowledge and innovation power to the optimal extent in order to remain able to respond pro-actively and in a creative way to these...

While constructing long and yet consistent time series or composing indicators from varying sources, several stumble blocks will have to be overcome. In the ideal case we have • Stable research...

Discussion Paper about small area estimation for detailed unemployment figures.

Within the collaboration between Statistics Netherlands and the National Statistics Office of Georgia (GeoStat) a pilot study was carried out. The study aims the improvement of quality of the...

In this paper we show that scale effects, market structure, and regulation determine the poor productivity performance of the European business services industry. We apply parametric and...

To maintain uninterrupted time series, surveys conducted by national statistical institutes are often kept unchanged as long as possible. To improve the quality or efficiency of a survey process,...

A common problem faced by statistical offices 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...

Macro-integration is widely used for the reconciliation of macro figures, usually in the form of large multi-dimensional tabulations, obtained from different sources. Traditionally these techniques...

Now that the Internet is expanding so rapidly, it has become an attractive medium for collecting relatively large amounts of data in a relatively cheap way. Not surprisingly, national statistical...

This paper by Floris van Ruth describes how the current stance of the business cycle can be derived from a mixed set containing a limited number of selected indicators. Using the Netherlands and the...

This paper investigates the noncoverage bias in CATI-surveys. This bias is introduced by the restriction of using the telephone as a communication medium. Obviously, only that part of the population...

Methods are considered to calculate a set of consistent price index numbers from an inconsistent set of chained index numbers. The inconsistencies are due to the existence of cycles in the price...

A problem with using households as sampling units in the sample design of panels is the instability of these sampling units over time. Changes in the household composition affect the inclusion...

Recently, representativeness indicators, or R-indicators, have been proposed as indirect measures of nonresponse error in surveys. The indicators employ available auxiliary variables in order to...

Since design-based methods like the generalized regression estimator have large design variances in the case of small sample sizes, model-based techniques can be considered as an alternative. In this...

In surveys persons have a tendency to round their answers. For example, in the Labour Force Survey people are asked about the period they have been unemployed. There is clearly a tendency to give...

At national statistical institutes experiments embedded in ongoing sample surveys are frequently conducted, for example to test the effect of modifications in the survey process on the main parameter...

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...

This paper by Floris van Ruth describes the concept, working and outcomes of the Statistics Netherlands export, consumption and fixed capital formation radars. These are tools for monitoring and...

An important quality aspect of official statistics produced by national statistical institutes is comparability over time. To maintain uninterrupted time series, surveys conducted by national...

Recent survey literature shows an increasing interest in survey designs that adapt data collection to characteristics of the survey target population. Given a specified quality objective function,...

In multi-mode questionnaire design, usually some consideration is given to mode-specific measurement error. Despite this consideration, however, these measurement effects can be unexpectedly large....

A common problem faced by statistical institutes is that some data of otherwise responding units may be missing. This is referred to as item non-response. Item-nonresponse is usually treated by...

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