Commission Decision of 25 February 2016 setting up a Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries, C(2016) 1084, OJ C 74, 26.2.2016, p. 4-10. The Commission may consult the group on any matter relating to marine and fisheries biology, fishing gear technology, fisheries economics,...

This compilers' manual is meant to serve as a practical reference document for all national statistical authorities involved in the compilation of EU statistics on trade in goods by invoicing currency (TIC). As such, it provides the necessary definitions and practical instructions regarding the...

This compilers' manual is meant to serve as a practical reference document for all National Statistical Authorities involved in the compilation of aggregated data on EU international trade in goods statistics. As such, it provides the necessary definitions and practical instructions regarding...

Walter Andrew Shewhart is regarded as the founder of Statistical Quality Control (SQC), an approach to production inspection based on the application of statistical theory. He developed SQC in the 1920s while working at Bell Telephone Laboratories. During this period, he was tasked with training...

Recent rises in macroeconomic volatility have prompted the introduction of quantile vector autoregression (QVAR) models to forecast macroeconomic risk. This paper provides an extensive evaluation of the predictive performance of QVAR models in a pseudo-out-of-sample experiment spanning 112...

We propose an observation-driven dynamic common factor model for missing value imputation in high-dimensional panel data. The model exploits both serial and cross-sectional information in the data and can easily cope with time-variation in conditional means and variances, as well as with either...

Sample R is a refreshment sample of the SOEP-Core. We apply a stratified two-stage sampling design to draw a sample of anchor persons from the population register. We oversample former lignite mining regions (brown coal) all over Germany as well as the younger part of the general population aged...

This paper provides details on the sampling design, the fieldwork, as well as nonresponse and population adjustments for the 2022 sample M8b. The survey is conducted in cooperation between the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) and the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Sample M8b contributes to...

Probabilistic editing has been introduced to enable valid inference using established survey sampling theory in situations when some of the collected data points may have measurement errors and are therefore submitted to an editing process. To reduce the editing effort and avoid over-editing, in...

Measurement errors in macroeconomic aggregates such as GDP have been widely lamented, particularly in low-income contexts. This study investigates the reliability of one component of national accounts, agricultural sector output. Focusing first on the case of Mozambique, we use a series of 12...

This note presents findings of a Statistical Needs Assessment (SNA) of the Statistical Institute of Belize (SIB). The aim of the assessment is to inform efforts to enhance the national statistical system for data driven decision-making. Belize has shown good progress in the development of its...

Association rules can offer a human-interpretable insight extracted from data. The lift measures used for evaluating association rules in classical Association Rule Mining (ARM) contexts are mainly based on traditional and well-known ones but suffer from interpretation inadequacy when dealing...

This paper studies linear time‐series regressions with many regressors. Weak exogeneity is the most used identifying assumption in time series. Weak exogeneity requires the structural error to have zero conditional expectation given present and past regressor values, allowing errors to...

Der weit verbreitete Eindruck der Uneinheitlichkeit von statistischen Informationen zur (beruflichen) Weiterbildung dürfte zu einem Teil auf Unterschiede in Erhebungskonstrukten zurückzuführen sein. Denn was unter (beruflicher) Weiterbildung verstanden wird und wie Weiterbildungsaktivitäten...

Recent studies use names—first and surnames—to estimate intergenerational mobility in sources that lack direct family links. While generating novel evidence on intergenerational transmission processes, it remains unclear how different estimators compare and how reliable they are. This paper...

This research harmonizes Philippine Census of Population and Housing (CPH) data from 1970 to 2020 to address data consistency challenges across five decades. The study systematically reconciles evolving variable definitions, classification systems, and measurement scales to create a unified...

Researchers may want to know whether an observed statistical relationship is either meaningfully negative, meaningfully positive, or small enough to be considered practically equivalent to zero. Such a question can not be addressed with standard null hypothesis significance testing, nor with...

The present 2024 Annual Report emphasises the importance of professional independence and impartiality and objectivity for statistical bodies, highlighting the need for robust legal provisions to ensure that statistical authorities operate free from external influence and in an impartial and...

This manual complements the legislative framework for European Business Statistics with guidance on how to interpret it in a practical and ever-changing setting. While the essential concepts and definitions are laid down in law, the manual provides further guidance on how to turn theory into...

The 2024 Commitment to Reducing Inequality (CRI) Index is a multidimensional index which ranks 164 countries for their policy performance across three pillars covering public services, progressive taxation and labour rights.

This manual provides the guidelines for data providers when transmitting data to Eurostat on Causes of Death (COD) in the statistical collection with the same name. The manual covers both the mandatory and voluntary data collection. This is not a legally binding document but is intended as an...

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...

This document presents Eurostat's assessment of the quality of national and regional accounts data submit-ted by the EU Member States, as well as Iceland, Norway and Switzerland, in 2023. It also includes information on the quality of key European aggregates published by Eurostat. The euro area...

These guidelines are intended for statisticians who need to protect detailed census and demographic outputs. After overview and brief comparison of SDC methods, and respective software implementations, the guidelines discuss consistency and disclosure risk issues. Finally, they present some...

The main aim of INFORM Risk is to provide information on the risk of countries to humanitarian crises caused by hazards and people's exposure to them including all main type of natural and human hazards, vulnerability and resources available to help people cope. The Competence Centre on...

This report provides a quality assessment of European population and migration data from 2020-2022, aligning with ESS standards. It evaluates statistics based on relevance, accuracy, timeliness, accessibility, comparability, and coherence, providing insights on factors influencing data quality...

Access to high quality microdata is a precondition for the empirical investigation of many interrelationships in the economic and social sciences. Therefore, well-functioning research data infrastructure is a cornerstone of a successful science location. While other countries in Europe, such as...

Eurostat, the OECD and 48 participating countries work together in establishing purchasing power parities, or PPPs, in order to compare the price and volume levels of GDP. This programme is called the Eurostat- OECD PPP Programme. The Methodological Manual, 2023 edition, gives a complete,...

Eurostat, the OECD and 48 participating countries work together in establishing purchasing power parities, or PPPs, in order to compare the price and volume levels of GDP. This programme is called the Eurostat- OECD PPP Programme. The Methodological Manual, 2023 edition, gives a complete,...

The European Dactyloscopy Database (Eurodac) is the large-scale IT system used in the EU for managing asylum applications within the EU+2, as illustrated in Figure 1. The system allows fingerprint comparison and storage, and therefore supports the effective implementation of Regulation (EU) No...

Public health policies need reliable data on health status, health care use and health determinants from population surveys for all Member States. The European Health Interview Survey (EHIS) is the instrument to collect such information. The first wave of EHIS level was launched under a...

Research and experimental development (R&D) comprise creative and systematic work undertaken in order to increase the stock of knowledge - including knowledge of humankind, culture and society - and to devise new applications of available knowledge. R&D statistics play a central role in...