It will be discussed if the confidence in the results of the production of economic and social data will be justified. Probability based conclusions are possible concerning the sampling error. In order to quantify the non-sampling error an accuracy check is necessary which causes practical...

In order to judge the quality of survey data it is necessary above all to estimate the size of the individual error components, i. e. the systematic and the random errors in the responses (survey data) of the surveyed units and, if feasible, to determinate their true value. This paper develops...

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...

This paper considers popular methods for the quantification of survey expectations.We investigate the asymptotic properties of two variants of the probability approach originally suggested by Carlson and Parkin (1975). It is argued that the traditionalmethod can be interpreted as an instrumental...

In most of the occidental countries the national statistical agencies have growing difficulties to justify and raise the budget necessary for a complete enumeration of the population. Destatis Germany which did not conduct a traditional census since 1987 tries to test a register-based procedure....

The scientific use file of the German Microcensus now provides sample information which enables its users to calculate the variance of population estimates. However, not all relevant information on clustering and stratification is at hand. A solution is presented which uses the information of...

Household Surveys of the official statistics refer actually in Germany on a coordination of Mikrozensus, Laufende Wirtschaftsrechnungen and Einkommens- und Verbrauchsstichprobe. The two last mentioned surveys should be organised as a rolling sample; the Mikrozensus, a 1 %-sample of the...

The index of inconsistency is outlined as a special statistic for judging the reliability of survey data classified by size classes. The index estimates take on, as a rule, values between 0 and 1 according to a previously definded restriction for dichotomized proportions in the estimation...

The paper analyzes effects of randomized response with respect to some binary dependent variable on the estimation of the probit model. This approach is used in interviews when asking sensitive questions or if a respondent erroneously chooses the wrong category in an interview leading to...

Based on an extended game-theoretic innovation-race model, we derive some Schumpeterian hypotheses of the impact of technological rivalry, market power, technological opportunities and demand expectations on the timing of product and process innovations. Using innovation data at the firm level...