Small area estimation is a research area in official and survey statistics of great practical relevance for National Statistical Institutes and related organisations. Despite rapid developments in methodology and software, researchers and users would benefit from having practical guidelines that...

Statistics Norway has a long history of using scanner data in the Consumer Price Index (CPI). The early research - in Norway as well as internationally - was focused on supermarket data which consists largely of stable items. The attention has since gradually shifted towards the parts of...