This manual on European Structural Business Statistics is an important milestone for SBS compilers in the European Statistical System. It complements the legislative framework for European Business Statistics with guidance on how to interpret it in a practical and ever-changing setting. While...

Broad, long-term financial and economic datasets are a scarce resource, in particular in the European context. In this paper, we present an approach for an extensible, i.e. adaptable to future changes in technologies and sources, data model that may constitute a basis for digitized and...

"A comprehensive and engaging textbook that presents the fundamentals of statistical analysis using Excel and its application in business. Business Statistics Using Excel is an invaluable companion to a business student beginning to use Excel for statistical analysis as well as a reader more...

Big data are changing the way we work as companies face an increasing amount of data. Rather than replacing a human workforce or making decisions obsolete, big data are going to pose an immense innovating force to those employees capable of utilizing them. This book intends to first convey a...

Big data are changing the way we work. This book conveys a theoretical understanding of big data and the related interactions on a socio-technological level as well as on the organizational level. Big data challenge the human resource department to take a new role. An organization’s new...

The survey of foreign assets and liabilities of enterprises in Nigeria was conducted in 2015 to determine the stock of foreign assets/liabilities of Nigerian enterprises as at end 2014. The survey collected relevant information from 740 enterprises while the analysis of survey data was done...

The survey of foreign assets and liabilities of enterprises in Nigeria was conducted in 2014 to determine the 2013 stock of foreign assets/liabilities of Nigerian enterprises, as well as receiving sectors and origination/destination regions. The survey collected relevant information from 740...

Business Statistics with Solutions in R covers a wide range of applications of statistics in solving business related problems. It will introduce readers to quantitative tools that are necessary for daily business needs and help them to make evidence-based decisions. The book provides an insight...

Die Verbundaktivitäten deutscher Unternehmen gewinnen seit geraumer Zeit an Bedeutung. Darin schlägt sich nieder, dass sie funktional stärker differenziert und spezialisiert sowie zunehmend internationalisiert sind. Nachdem sich die globale Arbeitsteilung geändert hat, stößt die klassische...

Die Verbundaktivitäten deutscher Unternehmen gewinnen seit geraumer Zeit an Bedeutung. Darin schlägt sich nieder, dass sie funktional stärker differenziert und spezialisiert sowie zunehmend internationalisiert sind. Nachdem sich die globale Arbeitsteilung geändert hat, stößt die klassische...

The 2013 survey of foreign assets and liabilities of enterprises in Nigeria was conducted to determine destination sectors of foreign private capital flows and economies where such investments originate. The survey covered 649 large establishments in Nigeria with 87.4 per cent response rate. The...

In order to better understand the interdependencies between trade and investment in global value chains (GVCs), the OECD has developed a new dataset on the Activities of Multinational Enterprises (AMNE). This dataset starts from official AMNE statistics and combines the information with...

Using the OECD analytical AMNE database, this paper provides new evidence on the services activities of multinational enterprises (MNEs) and discusses the relationship between cross-border trade in services and the production of services through foreign affiliates (“mode 3” trade in services...

The 2011 survey of foreign assets and liabilities (SOFAL) of enterprises in Nigeria was conducted in June/July 2012 by the Statistics Department of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in conjunction with the Nigerian Export Processing Zone Authority, Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission and...

This paper analyzes the process of creative destruction across 24 countries and 2-digit industries. This approach harmonizes firm level data across countries, enabling international comparisons and the identification of country-specific as opposed to sectoral and time effects factors. All...

1. Characterizing and defining statistical data -- 2. Presenting and organizing data -- 3. Essentials of probability and counting rules -- 4. Discrete data and probability -- 5. Continuous distributions and probability -- 6. Methods and theory of statistical sampling -- 7. Estimating population...

1. Getting started with IBM SPSS statistics -- 2. Descriptive analysis -- 3. Exploratory factor analysis -- 4. Cluster analysis -- 5. Hypthesis testing -- 6. Correlations -- 7. Regression analysis -- 8. Moderation and mediation analysis.