Sustainable development has three main pillars, economic, social, and environmental. In the strive for a sustainable world, environmental and social issues must be addressed as they affect the world economy. With the past industrial revolutions and their negative effects on our world, it is...

Das Statistische Bundesamt hat den gesetzlichen Auftrag, ein Register über Unter nehmensbasisdaten für Deutschland aufzubauen. Die Inhalte und Ziele des Basisre gisters für Unternehmen werden in dem zugrunde liegenden Gesetz definiert. Diese liegen vor allem in der Konsolidierung der...

These notes address, at a preliminary level, broad planning principles that apply to many different areas of research. Anyone who has a research degree should be aware of them, whether or not they arise in their own research. They give, also, pointers that may help in getting a clear view of...

Public water utilities have increasingly turned to increasing block rate price structures to reduce water consumption and signal the high environmental costs of water supply. Hsu evaluates the impact of a new and substantially higher price block added to the existing block rate price structure...

Background. Traditional 'data-led' information systems have created excessive amounts of poor-quality and poorly utilised data. The Health Information Systems Pilot Project (HISPP), a Western Cape project that started in 1996, initiated a process in one of its three pilot sites to model an...

This report provides a mapping of existing research that employs online labour market data, covering both online job vacancies (demand side) and online applicant data (CVs) (supply side). We discuss and assess a variety of tools and empirical methods that have been used to address specific...

In this research, a new acceptance sampling plan for a truncated life test is presented, assuming that the quality characteristic follows the power Lomax distribution. The operating characteristic function values are calculated for the proposed sampling plan, jointly with the optimal sample size...

Das Statistische Bundesamt veröffentlicht seit 2020 in der Rubrik EXSTAT - Experimentelle Statistiken neue, innovative Projektergebnisse auf der Grundlage neuer Datenquellen und Methoden und nutzt dafür zum Teil externe Quellen. Eine dieser Quellen ist der Informationsdienstleister SCHUFA...

Statistical evidence from 58 countries shows that although people in rural areas are more likely to be in employment than those in urban ones, they also tend to have jobs that can put them at risk of experiencing inadequate labour protection as well as low pay. In particular, rural workers are...

This paper clarifies disparities in tourism demand of some chosen UNESCO destinations in the Czech Republic, which is located in Central Europe. The Czech Republic, despite its relatively small area, is an important destination for cultural tourism ‒ a large number of unique cultural and other...