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Micro and macro indicators of competition: comparison and relation with productivity change
This paper investigates competition and its relation to productivity growth. The results indicate that firms need time to adjust to changes in competition, raising productivity afterwards. Results...
NA/50 Quality improvement of the Dutch Quarterly Flash: A Time Series Analysis of some Service Industries
Reininga, Ted and Gerrit Zijlmans (1992).The Dutch Quarterly Flash (QF) is, just like the regular Quarterly Accounts (QA), a fully integrated statistic based on a quarterly updated input-output...
Theoretical and empirical support for adjustment of nonresponse by design
Recently, various indicators have been proposed as indirect measures of nonresponse error in surveys. They employ auxiliary variables to detect nonrepresentative or unbalanced response. A class of...
The satisfaction with life scale examining construct validity
This report describes the validity testing of a multi-item scale of global life satisfaction, namely the Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS). This scale has been proposed as an alternative to...
Error localisation using general edit operations
In this paper, a generalisation of the Fellegi-Holt paradigm is proposed that can incorporate various complex edit operations in a natural way. In addition, an algorithm is outlined that may be used...
Shifting paradigms in official statistics: from design-based to model-based to algorithmic inference
Inference in official statistics is traditionally motivated from a design-based perspective, with the model-based approach being gradually adopted in specific circumstances. We take this shifting...
Checklist for the Quality evaluation of Administrative Data Sources
Statistics Netherlands is increasingly making use of administrative and other secondary data sources for the production of statistics. This approach makes Statistics Netherlands highly dependent on...
Measuring Inequalities in the Dutch Household Sector
In recent years, the importance of the households sector in measuring economic welfare has increasingly been recognised, and the development of additional indicators to measure inequalities is...
Algorithms for correcting some obvious inconsistencies and rounding errors in business survey data
This paper describes methods for automatically detecting and correcting two systematic errors that are found in data collected for structural business statistics. It also discusses a simple heuristic...
Selectivity of Big data
Assessment of selectivity of Big data sets is generally not straightforward, if at all possible. Some approaches are proposed in this paper. It is argued that the degree to which selectivity – or its...
NA/15 Features of the hidden economy in the Netherlands
Van Eck, R. and B. Kazemier (1986).This paper presents the results of extensive and rigorous survey research into the black labour market in the Netherlands. It reveals the quantitative relevance of...
Optimal scheduling of contact attempts in mixed-mode surveys
Survey nonresponse occurs when members of a sample cannot or will not participate in the survey. It remains a problem despite the development of statistical methods that aim to reduce nonresponse. In...
On second-order inclusion probabilities and variances among large randomized PPS samples
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...
Information technology, organization change and firm productivity: A panel study of complementarity effects and clustering patterns
Organizational change (OC) is an important complementarity factor in the process of creating business value from information technology (IT) investments.. This paper investigates complementarities...
NA/60 Integrated indicators in a National Accounting Matrix including environmental accounts (NAMEA); an application to the Netherlands
De Haan, Mark, Steven Keuning and Peter Bosch (1993).In this paper, environmental indicators are integrated into a National Accounting Matrix including Environmental Accounts (NAMEA) and are put on a...
A conditions monitor for household consumption
Economic indicators such as consumption do not develop in isolation. The basic idea underlying the conditions monitors is that developments in macro-economic indicators are driven by a relatively low...
Small Area Estimation Of Turnover Of The Structural Business Survey
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...
Using response probabilities for assessing representativity
Nonresponse in surveys may effect representativity, and therefore lead to biased estimates. A first step in exploring a possible lack of representativity is to estimate response probabilities. This...
Measurement error calibration in mixed-mode sample surveys
Mixed-mode surveys are known to be susceptible to mode-dependent selection and measurement effects, collectively referred to as mode effects. The use of different data collection modes within the...
NA/72 Labour force data in a National Accounting framework
Den Bakker, Gert P. and Jan de Gijt (1994).This paper deals with the Dutch interwar labour force data. Starting with census data the estimation of the working and non-working labour force by industry...
A cross-sectional approach to business cycle analysis
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...
Sampling and estimation techniques for the implementation of the NACE Rev.2 in Business Surveys
In all European Union countries the classification of economic activities that is used in the Business Surveys is currently rebased from NACE Rev 1.1 to NACE Rev. 2. This paper describes some of the...
Standard Processes
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...
NA/49 Quality assessment of macro-economic figures: The Dutch Quarterly Flash
Reininga, Ted, Gerrit Zijlmans and Ron Janssen (1992).Since 1989-IV, the Dutch Central Bureau of Statistics has made preliminary estimates of quarterly macro-economic figures at about 8 weeks after...
Constructing a monthly indicator of fixed capital formation via high frequency interpolation. The state space approach.
In this study, a different temporal disaggregation approach is tested for producing a monthly series from a quarterly statistic when monthly observations are lacking. Monthly realisations are...