This paper shows how Danish administrative register data can be combined with survey data at the person level and be used to validate information collected in the survey. Register data are collected by automatic third party reporting and the potential errors associated with the two data sources...

Non-compliance of firms with tax regulations is a major constraint on state capacity in developing countries. We focus on an arguably under-appreciated dimension of non-compliance: under-reporting of wages by formal firms to evade payroll taxes. We develop a simple partial-equilibrium model of...

Regular statistics on the production and management of waste from businesses and private households are collected from Member States and published every two years following common methodological recommendations. With the growing experience some shortcomings of the original legislation and the...

The "Study on missing children: mapping, data collection and statistics on missing children in the European Union" was conducted by Ecorys on behalf of DG Justice from July 2012 to June 2013 and had two main objectives: to collect and analyse data and to develop the basis to improve the...

The aim of the study is to review data collection activities related to gender-based violence by EU bodies and other international organisations as well as some European-wide civil society organisations. It also contains the assessment of planned activities addressing this subject. The study was...

Data sets of spatially irregular meteorological observations interpolated to a regular grid are not only important for climate analyses but are also essential in order to derive climatologies for rainfall-runoff models which require meteorological data sets as input forcing. For example, in the...

In a panel survey the participation behavior in later waves is different from that at the start. With register data that cover also the information for non-respondents one can observe a fade away of the distributional differences between the full sample, including nonresponders, and the...