While Business Intelligence (BI) initiatives have been a top-priority of CIOs around the world for several years, accounting for billions of USD of IT investments per annum (IDC), academic research on the actual benefits derived from BI tools and the drivers of these benefits remain sparse. This...

This paper focuses on fraud detection in surveys using Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data as an example for testing newly methods proposed here. A statistical theorem referred to as Benford's Law states that in many sets of numerical data, the significant digits are not uniformly distributed, as...

Die Coronakrise hat den Bedarf an schnell verfügbaren Daten zur Beschreibung der aktuellen wirtschaftlichen Lage stark ansteigen lassen. Dazu zählen auch Informationen zu kurzfristigen Entwicklungen auf dem Arbeitsmarkt. Das Statistische Bundesamt befasst sich bereits seit einiger Zeit damit,...

This paper focuses on fraud detection in surveys using Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data as an example for testing newly methods proposed here. A statistical theorem referred to as Benford's Law states that in many sets of numerical data, the significant digits are not uniformly distributed, as...

The EU's Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC), launched in 2003, was the first micro-level data set to provide comprehensive data on incomes and other social and economic domains over the enlarged EU. This paper draws on two programmes of research to ask how well the EU-SILC has...

The article presents a conceptual model for data quality management treated as the usability or the compliance of the data product with its specification. The proposed model refers to the well-known TDQM model of Wang based on the Deming's quality improvement cycle. However, the TDQM model does...

A number of empirical analyses of interbank lending rely on indirect inferences from individual interbank transactions extracted from payments data using algorithms. In this paper, we conduct an evaluation to assess the ability of identifying overnight U.S. fed funds activity from Fedwire®...