FENStatS News

Under a broad heading of Traditional and new data sources for establishment statistics, the workshop welcomes contributions on all topics related to establishment statistics: sample design, data collection, response process, editing and imputation, estimation, modelling, data presentation and dissemination, metadata and process data for establishment statistics, cross-national statistics, and similar. However, special invited contributions and considerations on new developments are in the following overarching areas, which can contribute to addressing some emerging research questions:

• Data collection management
  • Use of data portals
  • Automated data collection, system-to-system collection
  • Changes to data collection due to COVID-19
  • Respondent communication and care
  • Respondent burden
• Responding to demand for new outputs
  • Producing more frequent outputs, e.g. monthly STS data by combining old and new data sources (structured or unstructured)
  • Rare populations - how to measure phenomena that refer to small populations
  • How to combine administrative data with other sources?
  • How to integrate unstructured (big) data into processes?
  • How to measure the quality of administrative data or mixed data sources?
• Changing environment for business statistics
  
  • Embedding changes due to COVID-19 in business survey processes
    Responding to the availability of new data sources (structured and unstructured) and falling response rates from traditional surveys
  • Differences between the use of structured and unstructured alternative data sources
  • Rebasing challenges due to atypical economic situations in the base year
  • Seasonal adjustment during times of atypical change

For more details, see the full Call for papers for EESW23.