In this article we analyse the causes for some complaints about statistical education. We also present some suggestions how to improve the situation. The deficiencies mentioned are: <UnorderedList Mark="Bullet"> <ItemContent> Job candidates which have passed a study in Economics reveal a substantial weakness or inability to deal with...</itemcontent></unorderedlist>

Demands of regional statistics combined with pressure to reduce costs and response burden have lead to great interest in Small Area Estimation. Both researchers and practitioners take part in a largely very successful development that still is moving rapidly. However, the National Statistical...

The System of National Accounts (SNA) as well as the Boskin Report inconclusively discarded the idea of pure price comparison in favour of index formulas for which a meaningful interpretation is difficult to he found. The shortcomings of the "economic theory" approach followed in the Boskin...

Just 13 years passed away since a complete census was hold in Germany. The struggling discussions in the German public about the last census in 1987 had a long lasting effect on politics that there was no desire to renew this debate. In 1997 EUROSTAT advised the members of the European Union to...

The massive reconfiguration of the world economy over the next decade will lead to a New Economic Order by 2020. China will displace the U.S. as the world's leading economy and India will overtake Japan. This will shift the balance of the G20 from the leading industrialized economies of the G7...