This report summarises the methodologies used in the fourth wave of the Eurosystem Household Finance and Consumption Survey, which provides household-level data collected in a harmonised way in all 19 euro area countries, as well as in the Czech Republic, Croatia and Hungary. The total sample...

At the beginning of the 20th century, there was an active debate about random selection of units versus purposive selection of groups of units for survey samples. Neyman's (1934) paper tilted the balance strongly towards varieties of probability sampling combined with design-based inference, and...

The EBS methodological manual for R&D statistics aims to provide users and producers with an overview of the methodology used to compile R&D statistics. With the help of explanations and legal references, the Manual is meant to serve as a practical reference document for National Statistical...