For benchmarking monthly and quarterly series to annual series and to the Economic Census every five years, the U.S. Census Bureau uses an iterative, nonlinear method known as the Causey-Trager method. However, the Census Bureau's X−12−ARIMA seasonal adjustment program uses a modified Denton...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics uses state-space time series models to produce small area labor force estimates from the monthly Current Population Survey (CPS). For each area, a separate model is fitted that combines a classical components model for the unobservable population values with a...

The paper proposes a new Hierarchical Bayes method to derive high-frequency series consistent with less-frequency data, using indicators. The method allows for the prior setting of covariates between the high-frequency values and it rewards with a greater prior probability the smoothness of the...

The importance of availability of comparable real income aggregates and their components to applied economic research is highlighted by the popularity of the Penn World Tables. Any methodology designed to achieve such a task requires the combination of data from several sources. The first is...

Data validation is an essential part of work in official statistics which contributes to the assurance of high quality data and reinforces the reliability of statistics. The working paper presents an automated method for data validation in agricultural statistics. The presented methods were...

Homelessness and housing deprivation is perhaps the most extreme example of poverty and social exclusion in society today, both as a symptom and as a cause. However so far there are few official statistics on homelessness and housing deprivation, and these are rarely comparable between...

This methodological paper provides the Guidelines on Harmonised European Time Use Surveys (HETUS). The guidelines were developed by mandate of the Statistical Programming Committee (SPC in March 1998. They have been available in Eurostat since September 2000. The purpose of this publication is...

The study is designed to provide statistics which will allow: collection methods to be refined and data content improved, leading to a better statistical tool in general, the characteristics of the disabled population to be better known so that their needs can be better identified and policies...