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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,...

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...

Estimating the effect of non-sampling errors on the accuracy of mixed-source statistics is not straightforward. Here we simulate the bias and variance of the turnover estimates in car trade due to...

Feiten op een rij over watersport in Nederland. Hoeveel Nederlanders doen aan zeilsport? Waar vind je het meeste water om te zeilen? Welk aandeel hebben zeilschepen in de export van boten en schepen?...

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...

This interim report summarises the first results of the study on the sustainable energy sector (SES) 2013. The SES covers economic activities related to renewable energy, energy saving and new energy...

Modernization of official statistics leads not only to other production processes and other products but also to another way of quality approach.

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

Methodologisch handboek van de satellietrekening sport. Opdrachtgever: Ministerie van Volksgezondheid, Welzijn en Sport

In 2011, Statistics Netherlands conducted a large-scale mixed-mode experiment linked to the Crime Victimization Survey. The experiment consisted of two waves; one wave with random assignment to one...

It is not only important to produce good quality statistics, but also that the users of these statistics believe that they are of good quality. Therefore, it is necessary that the subsequent...

Monthly Short Term Business statistics at Statistics Netherlands can be based on survey data, VAT records or a combination of these two data sources. Both sources are incomplete when statistics need...

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....

Economic indicators such as exports 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...

This research programme focuses on methodology for the statistical process between input (data gathering and storage) and output (estimation, analysis and publication). This “troughput...

This papers analyses which determinants are relevant for catching up to the global and national technological frontier. We focus on innovation, human capital, technology transfers and competition as...

The system of national accounts shows a consistent quantitative overview of the economic process of a country. Consistency however is not a gurantee for good quality. In this paper an overview is...

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...

In a previous paper (discussion paper 07002, Schouten and Cobben) we introduced so-called R-indicators. These indicators attempt to measure the representativeness of the response to a survey. In the...

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. In this paper we describe...

Surveys are often kept unchanged as long as possible. When a change is proposed, it is important to minimise the impact so as to minimise the inconvenience for users. This paper sets out the steps in...

Many survey organisations focus on the response rate as being the quality indicator for the impact of non-response bias. However, it is not true in general that higher response rates imply smaller...