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{"title":"It all starts with the data: Keynote speech by David Dodge, Governor of the Bank of Canada, to the Conference of European Statisticians Geneva, Switzerland (via videoconferencing), 11 June 2003.","authors":"D. Dodge","doi":"10.3233/SJU-2003-20210","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/SJU-2003-20210","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85585,"journal":{"name":"Statistical journal of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe","volume":"11 1","pages":"155-161"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83295190","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Statistical stories – and the right channels for them","authors":"Jouni Kotkavuori","doi":"10.3233/SJU-2004-21103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/SJU-2004-21103","url":null,"abstract":"Statistical stories can paint an integrated picture in two ways. The writer can draw conclusions ready for the reader or put statistics side by side and let the reader draw his or her own conclusions. Both ways require analysis from the writer’s part; the latter only respects the reader more, but also requires more of him or her. Different kinds of stories need different channels. Official numbers need official channels, but statistical experts, at least the best of them, know more than can be put under the tag “official statistics”. Statistics Finland wants to serve the tax payers and the media by giving them, not only the official numbers, but also the unofficial understanding of what the numbers mean. In making a clear distinction between the official and unofficial the old-fashioned print magazine is quite a good medium. There is no ready formula for a good statistical story, but ideas could travel: a story line from one country could be adapted to another.","PeriodicalId":85585,"journal":{"name":"Statistical journal of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe","volume":"112 1","pages":"17-22"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79346521","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Record linkage of hospital discharge register with population register: Experiences at Statistics Netherlands","authors":"A. Bruin, J. Kardaun, Fred Gast, E. D. Bruin, M. V. Sijl, G. Verweij","doi":"10.3233/SJU-2004-21104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/SJU-2004-21104","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the first-time linking by Statistics Netherlands of the hospital discharge register (HDR), held by Prismant, with the population register (PR). This linkage is the first step in building an integrated population-based health statistics dataset at individual level, using existing register data as much as possible. The linkage of the HDR with the PR has proved to be successful: 87.6% of the HDR records could be uniquely linked to a person record in the PR, 8.7% were multiply linked, and 3.6% of the records could not be linked. The multiple linkages are a natural result of the limited resolution power of the linkage key (date of birth, sex, postal code). The 3.6% non-linkages are also plausible, given a rate of approximately 2% administrative errors in both registers. The quality of the linkage was further studied by estimating the level of mismatches (false positive linkages): this rate was estimated to be in the order of magnitude of approximately 1%, and in any case less than 3%. It was concluded that the linkage of the Dutch HDR with the PR is of good quality and that it forms an adequate basis for statistical analyses.","PeriodicalId":85585,"journal":{"name":"Statistical journal of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe","volume":"73 1","pages":"23-32"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84308839","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"\"Outsourcing\" measures to improve plausibility","authors":"E. Wein","doi":"10.3233/SJU-2004-21108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/SJU-2004-21108","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85585,"journal":{"name":"Statistical journal of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe","volume":"120 1","pages":"75-84"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87891119","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Measuring client servicing in the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) – a balanced scorecard approach.","authors":"S. Tam, Teresa Dickinson","doi":"10.3233/SJU-2004-21102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/SJU-2004-21102","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes how the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), Australia’s National Statistics Office, is using the balanced scorecard to measure client servicing for its four client segments. This has required some adaptation of the scorecard dimensions to suit the particular circumstances of this organisation, although the four key areas of balanced scorecard measurement, namely financial, clients, staff and process are retained. The paper also presents information about the overall ABS approach to client servicing, some results of the measurements and the setting of client servicing performance targets. 1. ABS dissemination and ABS clients The ABS is Australia’s official statistical agency. Its mission is to assist and encourage informed decision making, research and discussion within governments and the community, by providing a high quality, objective and response national statistical service. An effective dissemination of statistics to clients is an essential ingredient to achieving the ABS mission. Statistics are made available to clients using a number of dissemination mechanisms including hard copy and electronic publications; spreadsheets and data cubes available on our website (www.abs.gov.au); through our telephone enquiry service and by undertaking consultancies whereby data is extracted for clients on a cost recovery feefor-service basis. The ABS also runs a Library Extension Programme for free public access to ABS statistics electronically through the participating libraries. ABS has identified four client segments, namely: 1) key/lifeline clients (a range of Government Departments important to the future of the ABS); 2) specialist Sectors such as media, education and libraries; 3) professional/regular clients and 4) ad hoc clients. Approaches to client management have been developed for each client segment. Table 1 highlights the characteristics and approaches associated with each segment. An earlier version of this paper was previously presented by the second author at the 54th Session of the International Statistical Institute in August 2003. Views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Where quoted or used, they should be attributed clearly to the authors. 0167-8000/04/$17.00  2004 – IOS Press and the authors. All rights reserved 8 T. Dickinson and S.-M. Tam / Measuring client servicing in the ABS Table 1 ABS Market Segments","PeriodicalId":85585,"journal":{"name":"Statistical journal of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe","volume":"398 1","pages":"7-16"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83475230","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Editing by respondents and data suppliers","authors":"Orietta Luzi, N. Shlomo","doi":"10.3233/SJU-2004-21106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/SJU-2004-21106","url":null,"abstract":"This paper contains an analytic summary of the content of the session Editing by respondents and data suppliers of the UNECE Work Session on Statistical Data Editing (SDE) held at the National Statistical Institute of Spain, Madrid in October 2003. The aim of the session was to collect information about recent trends in data editing. Statistical agencies are changing their traditional view on editing as a post-data collection phase under the control of survey methodologists. Instead, they are moving some of the editing processes to the respondents and data suppliers to prevent and eliminate errors. The session focused on the integration and optimisation of data editing in the collection phase, and the harmonisation of editing processes performed at both the data capturing and data editing stages by balancing expected levels of quality, time and available resources. The session also considered data editing when administrative or external sources of data are used for statistical purposes. A new \"mixed\" perspective is emerging where editing and imputation is spread over the entire survey process. In particular, the paper concentrates on the following aspects: evaluating data editing effectiveness when editing is spread over different survey phases; managing survey processes when multiple sources of information (statistical or administative) are used; rationalizing survey processes when different modes of data collection are combined; and improving cooperation with data providers.","PeriodicalId":85585,"journal":{"name":"Statistical journal of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe","volume":"4 1","pages":"53-65"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74251420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Service improvements in Statistics Canada","authors":"W. M. Podehl","doi":"10.3233/SJU-2004-21101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/SJU-2004-21101","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85585,"journal":{"name":"Statistical journal of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe","volume":"29 1","pages":"1-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79732156","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Using an access panel as a sampling frame for voluntary household surveys.","authors":"Thomas Körner, A. Nimmergut","doi":"10.3233/SJU-2004-21105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/SJU-2004-21105","url":null,"abstract":"Voluntary household surveys are currently faced with a number of serious challenges. These challenges include the increasing reluctance to participate in surveys, the necessity to use probability sampling as a standard practice, and the steadily growing demand for statistical information. It is argued that new approaches of survey design have to be developed in order to cope with this problem. Establishing an access panel of households ready to respond in surveys constitutes one possible solution: According to the access panel concept, households having participated in surveys based on highly reliable random samples of official statistics (like the German microcensus) should be recruited for regular participation in voluntary surveys of official statistics. These households \"ready to respond\" are included in the access panel, which then would be available as a sampling frame for random samples. The general readiness of these households to co-operate with official statistics would permit to achieve relatively high response rates. At the same time, it would be possible to react more flexibly than in the past to new data demand. This contribution outlines the concept of an access panel in official statistics and summarises the most important results of a large-scale pilot study carried out in the German statistical system from late 2000 to 2003.","PeriodicalId":85585,"journal":{"name":"Statistical journal of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe","volume":"1 1","pages":"33-52"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88629565","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Purchasing power parities v. exchange rates in international comparisons","authors":"M. Ward","doi":"10.3233/SJU-2002-19403","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/SJU-2002-19403","url":null,"abstract":"The scope and use of purchasing power parities (PPPs) to analyse real economic conditions in an international perspective is examined. The respective applicability of PPPs and exchange rates to different questions of comparative economic progress is described. The paper identifies where PPP adjusted nominal values are to be preferred over exchange rates as indicators for determining differences in levels of development and general human welfare. The choices are reviewed in a number of different policy situations. The arguments suggest that PPPs provide a reliable basis for strengthening economic policies to promote wide-scale international development and human progress. For international portfolio and financial transactions, asset and liability transfers (including debt settlements), however, exchange rates remain the appropriate conversion factors. Thus, there are comparisons where PPPs should be applied but elsewhere, as in most financial transactions, only exchange rates matter. But, in a wide range of policy contexts, such as marginalization and polarization, the nature of the analytical relationships cannot be properly understood without looking at PPPs and exchange rates together. This enables users to gain a fuller appreciation of the economic issues and to mine the potential richness of the data available.","PeriodicalId":85585,"journal":{"name":"Statistical journal of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe","volume":"98 3","pages":"261-276"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3233/SJU-2002-19403","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72413475","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Measuring human rights: The challenges for the information society","authors":"P. Garonna, E. Balta","doi":"10.3233/SJU-2002-19404","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/SJU-2002-19404","url":null,"abstract":"The trend towards extending human rights policies beyond civil and political rights and embracing social and economic rights, including the so-called ‘right to development’ appears in contradiction to the increasing demand for concrete results and effective action for enforcement and progressive realisation. This paper argues that an evidence-based and sciencedriven approach to human rights can be the most appropriate response to this contradiction. By measuring through facts and figures what is the state of human rights, what inputs policies make to their enhancement, what outcomes public and private initiatives have, the credibility of national and international programs in this field can be restored, and all the relevant players can be made accountable with respect to their constituencies, public opinion, and the communities themselves whose human rights are at stake. The production and use of statistics in decision-making, their accessibility and responsiveness to users’ requirements, and the development of indicators and benchmarks, contribute to bringing about the political benefits of the information age and its technological potential. The paper reviews some basic trends in the information society and their impact on human rights and human rights policies. Then, we focus on statistics, the emerging need for new statistical tools and a wider use of good data, particularly for policy monitoring and benchmarking. Finally, we identify the main challenges involved in setting up effective statistical systems in support of human rights policies. We conclude by pointing out the importance of quality in statistics for improving the policy dialogue and decision-making on human rights situations in the information society.","PeriodicalId":85585,"journal":{"name":"Statistical journal of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe","volume":"53 1","pages":"277-294"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88421299","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}