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...

The accuracy of recent applications in small area statistics in many cases highly depends on the assumed properties of the underlying models and the availability of micro information. In finite population sampling, small sample sizes may increase the sensitivity of the modeling with respect to...

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...