Geography plays a fundamental role in today’s interconnected world. Financial flows operate within a multitude of regulatory and supervisory parameters often heavily influenced by regional factors. While deposit insurance is one factor affecting these flows, it too has been influenced by...

To date the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) lacks a consistent and reliable set of methods to model design effects from past survey data in order to assess the sampling error properties of proposed household surveys. This paper articulates the key challenges in modelling robust design...