The availability of large transaction level datasets, such as retail scanner data, provides a wealth of information on prices and quantities that national statistical institutes can use to produce more accurate, timely, measures of inflation. However, there is no universally agreed upon method...

The JRC was invited to statistically audit the 2023 ICT Development Index developed by The International Telecommunications Union which aims to assess economies on their level of meaningful and universal connectivity as defined by the United Nations. The audit covers the data quality and...

In Turkey, the housing market is affected by various factors, and housing prices are shaped according to current conditions. In this study, the relationship between the housing price index (HPI) and economic variables (inflation and exchange rate) in Turkey was investigated. We used a 10-year...

This research paper introduces a methodology to assess the robustness of the Global Innovation Index (GII), by comparing the rankings provided in it with those achieved using alternative data-driven methodologies such as data envelopment analysis (DEA) and principal component analysis (PCA)....