Consumer consent regulation is the cornerstone of modern data privacy regulation such as the European GDPR and the Californian CCPA. By ensuring that consumers can reject any harmful data collection, the regulation seems an effective tool for protecting consumers against price discrimination. By...

This study examines how consumers' personal data management affects firms' competition in the data collection and data application markets and welfare outcomes. Consumers purchase products from differentiated firms in two markets. Firms compete to collect consumer data first to predict their...

The emergence of mobile applications (apps) that utilize sharing economy concepts has revolutionized multiple industries, including transportation, accommodation, healthcare, and other sectors. With the nature of massive data collection and sharing policies, these platforms create serious...

Africa's rapidly increasing population, expanding economies, and changing climate are driving increased water demand, while outdated data systems hinder effective management. Remote sensing technology offers a solution by providing continuous, reliable data for water planning and monitoring. The...

Commission Decision of 25 February 2016 setting up a Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries, C(2016) 1084, OJ C 74, 26.2.2016, p. 4-10. The Commission may consult the group on any matter relating to marine and fisheries biology, fishing gear technology, fisheries economics,...

This compilers' manual is meant to serve as a practical reference document for all national statistical authorities involved in the compilation of EU statistics on trade in goods by invoicing currency (TIC). As such, it provides the necessary definitions and practical instructions regarding the...

This compilers' manual is meant to serve as a practical reference document for all National Statistical Authorities involved in the compilation of aggregated data on EU international trade in goods statistics. As such, it provides the necessary definitions and practical instructions regarding...

Um den weltweiten Klimawandel einzudämmen spielt der Gebäudesektor eine entscheidende Rolle. In Deutschland werden zur energetischen Bewertung von Gebäuden verbrauchs- oder bedarfsorientierte Energieausweise ausgestellt. Diese Arbeit untersucht den Unterschied der beiden...

Probabilistic editing has been introduced to enable valid inference using established survey sampling theory in situations when some of the collected data points may have measurement errors and are therefore submitted to an editing process. To reduce the editing effort and avoid over-editing, in...

Taking a simplified approach to statistics, this textbook teaches students the skills required to conduct and understand quantitative research. It provides basic mathematical instruction without compromising on analytical rigor, covering the essentials of research design; descriptive statistics;...

This book is a comprehensive guide to aligning your marketing strategies with business objectives while embracing the latest innovations in data and AI-driven analytics. You’ll cover topics such as: aligning measurement to business goals by distinguishing between business and marketing KPIs...

Supervisory data are typically not conceived for statistical purposes or considered "official statistics", but they are disclosed to the public, either directly by the supervised institutions or indirectly by the competent authorities. This disclosure is required under Pillar 3 of the Basel...

This research harmonizes Philippine Census of Population and Housing (CPH) data from 1970 to 2020 to address data consistency challenges across five decades. The study systematically reconciles evolving variable definitions, classification systems, and measurement scales to create a unified...

Developing policies to foster inclusive rural transformation processes requires better evidence on how climate change is affecting the livelihoods and economic behaviours of vulnerable rural people, including women, youths and people living in poverty. In particular, there is little comparative,...

This manual complements the legislative framework for European Business Statistics with guidance on how to interpret it in a practical and ever-changing setting. While the essential concepts and definitions are laid down in law, the manual provides further guidance on how to turn theory into...

This manual on European Structural Business Statistics is an important milestone for SBS compilers in the European Statistical System. It complements the legislative framework for European Business Statistics with guidance on how to interpret it in a practical and ever-changing setting. While...

This document presents Eurostat's assessment of the quality of national and regional accounts data submit-ted by the EU Member States, as well as Iceland, Norway and Switzerland, in 2023. It also includes information on the quality of key European aggregates published by Eurostat. The euro area...

These guidelines are intended for statisticians who need to protect detailed census and demographic outputs. After overview and brief comparison of SDC methods, and respective software implementations, the guidelines discuss consistency and disclosure risk issues. Finally, they present some...

Access to high quality microdata is a precondition for the empirical investigation of many interrelationships in the economic and social sciences. Therefore, well-functioning research data infrastructure is a cornerstone of a successful science location. While other countries in Europe, such as...

Research and experimental development (R&D) comprise creative and systematic work undertaken in order to increase the stock of knowledge - including knowledge of humankind, culture and society - and to devise new applications of available knowledge. R&D statistics play a central role in...

This report outlines for case collection in the Public Sector Tech Watch observatory. It encompasses the taxonomy designed to categorise collected use cases of emerging technologies, alongside the protocols established for data gathering and dataset maintenance. Under development by the Joint...

This study aims to deliver one of the key actions of the EU Data Strategy: the creation of a framework to measure data flows and estimate their economic value within Europe, as well as between Europe and the rest of the world. The study focuses on data flows triggered by enterprises that use...

The EBS compilers' manual for PRODCOM statistics provides methodological guidance and practical information to the data compilers, on how to compile statistics on the production of manufactured goods carried out by enterprises on the national territory of the reporting countries. It contains in...

The purpose of this publication is to provide the compilers and users of European statistics on international trade in goods with sound information on the nomenclature used to classify the reporting and partner countries. Besides including the latest version of the nomenclature of countries and...

This manual seeks to serve statistical experts and users alike as a comprehensive reference to the world of foreign affiliates statistics (FATS). It provides an overview of FATS population, statistical units, concepts and variables while highlighting the features introduced by a new regulatory...

This Report provides qualitative information on the international trade in goods statistics (ITGS) disseminated by Eurostat for the Member States of the European Union (EU), the members of the European Free Trade Association (hereinafter referred to as EFTA countries) and the EU enlargement...

The EuroGroups Register (EGR) plays a central role, contributing to consistent statistical output when measuring global activities of European enterprises that form part of multinational enterprise groups. It contains structural economic information on multinational enterprise groups operating...

This paper presents the overview quality report on: balance of payments (BOP) statistics, international investment position (IIP) statistics, international trade in services statistics (ITSS), and foreign direct investment (FDI) statistics. These statistics are being provided by Member States of...

The purpose of this publication is to provide the compilers of European statistics on international trade in goods (ITGS) with clarifications on how to apply the EU legal provisions. With the help of concrete examples, clear text, definitions and systematic legislative references, the Manual is...

This compilers' manual is meant to serve as a practical reference document for all National Statistical Authorities involved in the compilation of aggregated data on EU international trade in goods statistics. As such, it provides the necessary definitions and practical instructions regarding...

This compilers' manual is meant to serve as a practical reference document for all National Statistical Authorities involved in the compilation of EU statistics on trade in goods by invoicing currency (TIC). As such, it provides the necessary definitions and practical instructions regarding the...