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...

A national survey designed for estimating a specific population quantity is sometimes used for estimation of this quantity also for a small area, such as a province. Budget constraints do not allow a greater sample size for the small area, and so other means of improving estimation have to be...

The article analyses the national statistical instruments through the perspective of the European ones and offers a list of conclusions and recommendations for tusing them in the regional analyses. A particular attention is being offered to the instruments used by EUROSTAT; attention being paid...

In the present the social and economic development of regions gets a growing importance especially in the context of European integration. Linked with that is the request need for a permanent improvement of the regional information basis. The paper analyses the possibilities and boundaries of a...