The advancement of information technologies such as Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing and the increasing deployment and use of the Internet of Things have promoted the capture, processing and storage of data over the last few years at a rate not seen before. The amount of data that are created,...

This Review and Inputs paper covers the following UNSD publications:(pp. 2-6)1/ Issues and Opportunities. Notes on the revision of the Principles and Recommendations for a Vital Statistics System. The Hague, July 2020Re: Principles and Recommendations for a Vital Statistics System, Revision 3...

How costly will rising temperature due to climate change be for the U.S. economy? Recent research has used the well-identified response of output to weather to estimate this cost. But agents may adapt to the new climate. We propose a methodology to infer adaptation technology from the...

The American Community Survey (ACS) is the largest household survey in the United States and indispensable for detailed analysis of specific places and populations. This paper introduces a technique to produce “small area” (e.g. census tract) estimates of any person- or household-level...

To compare distributions of ordinal data such as individuals' responses on Likert-type scale variables summarizing subjective well-being, we should not apply the toolbox of methods developed for cardinal variables such as income. Instead we should use an analogous toolbox which takes account of...

The aim of this paper is to derive the main factors that separate cryptocurrencies from the classical assets, by using various classification techniques applied to the daily time series of log-returns. In this sense, a daily time series of asset returns (either cryptocurrencies or classical...

Several diagonal-based tail dependence indices have been suggested in the literature to quantify tail dependence. They have well-developed statistical inference theories but tend to underestimate tail dependence. For those problems when assessing the maximal strength of dependence is important...

Investment statistics of the People's Republic of China are a source of many puzzles. Some investment data are of dubious quality, while the particular concepts of investment and their changing definitions over time are often poorly understood. Fixed asset investment, a remnant of the planned...

Investment statistics of the People's Republic of China are a source of many puzzles. Some investment data are of dubious quality, while the particular concepts of investment and their changing definitions over time are often poorly understood. Fixed asset investment, a remnant of the planned...