Spanish Abstract: En este trabajo se presenta una nueva base de microdatos de empresas para estudiar la negociación colectiva en España. La fuente de datos propuesta resulta de enlazar la información proveniente de AMADEUS con la relativa a convenios colectivos del Registro Estadístico del...

Spanish Abstract: El objetivo de este estudio es analizar la calidad de la información sobre endeudamiento recogida por la Encuesta Financiera de las Familias (EFF). Para ello, implementamos un cruce de los datos de esta con los datos administrativos de la Central de Información de Riesgos...

This paper introduces an indicator of consumers' inflation expectations based on data from the National Consumer Confidence Survey of Mexico (ENCO, in Spanish), and tests its predictive power over CPI inflation and other measures of inflation that correspond to smaller baskets of consumer goods,...

This paper focuses on the development of both failure prediction models on a paired sample and a random sample of small and medium-sized firms with head offices located in the region of Castilla y León (Spain), in order to prove if the predictive power of the developed models is affected by the...

The estimation of the sample size is a crucial part of the planning process of a survey and it can be accomplished in different ways, some of them require information not available or that may be obtained with a substantial cost. The estimation of the sample size can be done by using the design...

Qualitative scales formed by linguistic terms are used by different disciplines to determine preferences and different aspects of individuals' lives. Although it is usual to assign numbers to the response categories of scales, it is not suitable when individuals perceive different proximities...

The assessment of tourism potential allows delimiting the attractiveness of tourism destinations, constituting the basis for the design of tourism products and experiences. To date, several studies have been conducted to measure destination attractiveness from a synthetic approach. However,...

Today, improving brand loyalty is an important focus for organizations. However, one way to achieve this is to improve consumer satisfaction and brand attachment. Thus, the purpose of this study is to explore the effects of consumer satisfaction and emotional brand attachment on brand loyalty....

In the estimation of proportions using simple random sampling, the maximum value of the variance can be used to compute the sample size when there is no information of the variable of interest. We extend this result to the estimation of proportions under two-stage cluster sampling with equal...