Modern household surveys increasingly provide information on subgroups as defined by content or regions. This kind of information, in general, is gained from censuses every ten years. Within the current European census round, some countries have decided to implement new methods which do not rely...

Modern survey sampling methods generally deal with improving estimators with respect to available prior information. An increasingly important source of prior information is data from registers. In some countries, e.g. Canada, The Netherlands, and the Scandinavian countries, personal...

According to the Bologna process, new bachelor and master studies are currently developed or to be developed at the faculty IV in Trier. The aim of the new studies is to avoid transforming the old diploma concepts directly into bachelor and master studies. In fact, new innovative and independent...