Gliederung: I. HISTORY AND DEFINITION OF INDICATORS 1. Bottani, Norberto/Tuijnman, Albert: International education indicators: framework, development and interpretation - 2. Bryk, Anthony/Hermanson, Kim: Observations on the structure, interpretation and use of education indicator systems - 3....

The output gap is a commonly used tool to assess the state of the business cycle, and as such, a key input for policy makers. In this article, we employ principal components analysis (PCA) to derive an estimate of the output gap in Finland that summarizes the information of widely used cyclical...

The main contribution of this paper is the construction of a cyclical systemic risk indicator from early warning indicators of banking crises (EWIs) used in Finland. Previous research has shown that combining EWIs can enhance their early warning properties. This study evaluates the indicator's...

This publication contains the proceedings of the World Forum on Key Indicators held in Palermo in November 2004. In it, statisticians from governmental statistical offices, international organisations, and academia explain why indicator systems are useful and how statistics can be used, how to...

Until recently, governments have measured economic progress by tallying such statistics as GDP, inflation and balance of payments. Today they agree that economic expansion should be socially and environmentally sustainable. Hence measuring progress towards sustainable development is essential to...

"The measurement infrastructure for the production of economic statistics in the United States largely was established in the middle part of the 20th century. As has been noted by a number of commentators, the data landscape has changed in fundamental ways since this infrastructure was...

Die vorliegende Veröffentlichung stellt die Ergebnisse einer Fachtagung dar, die der Ausschuß für die Hochschulstatistik beim Statistischen Bundesamt veranstaltet hat. Auf dieser Tagung wurden von verschiedenen Experten aus Hochschulplanung, -politik und -statistik Möglichkeiten und...