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Call for papers: EESW23
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
- Embedding changes due to COVID-19 in business survey processes
For more details, see the full Call for papers for EESW23.