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...

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...

There was a discussion in the years 1964-66 in this journal about the best way to estimate growth rates. Inferential and descriptive methods were carefully carried out and discussed but the opinion of the protagonists remained different. This gap between thinking about theoretical and...