Since 1989, Eurostat and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) have jointly organised Work Sessions on Demographic projections. The aim is to continue and intensify international co-operation in the field of demographic projections. This publication comprises the papers that...

Recently, EU Commission adopted a decision to fund a Technical Cooperation Facility for OCTs in order to improve their capacities to formulate and implement key territorial policies. Improvement in statistical capacities appeared with a high rank. Indeed, OCTs have noticed several gaps in their...

"In the decree on the integration balance it is proposed, with regard to the balances to be drawn up, to use the first two report years, 1998 and 1999, above all to gather experience. In 1999 for the first time the integration balances planned in accordance with §11 of the Social Code Volume...

Im folgenden Beitrag werden für das abgelaufene Jahr die Gründe für aufgetretene Differenzen zwischen Prognose und Wirklichkeit diskutiert. Nach den am 11. Januar 2012 veröffentlichten vorläufigen Ist-Ergebnissen hat das reale BIP im Jahr 2011 um 3,0% zugenommen. Damit fällt die...

"The basic concept of multiple imputation is straightforward and easy to understand, but the application to real data imposes many implementation problems. To define useful imputation models for a dataset that consists of categorical and of continuous variables with distributions that are...

"To protect the cofidentiality of survey respondents' identities and sensitive attributes, statistical agencies can release data in which cofidential values are replaced with multiple imputations. These are called synthetic data. We propose a two-stage approach to generating synthetic data that...

"Methods for the analysis of linked employer-employee data are not yet available in standard econometrics packages. In this paper, we make the fixed-effects methods developed orginally by Abowd, Kramarz, Margolis and others more accessible, where possible, and show how they can be implemented in...

"This paper illustrates the effects of item-nonresponse in surveys on the results of multivariate statistical analysis when estimation of productivity is the task. To multiply impute the missing data a data augmentation algorithm based on a normal/Wishart model is applied. Data of the German IAB...

Nach den am 15. Januar 2013 veröffentlichten vorläufigen Ist-Ergebnissen hat das reale BIP im Jahr 2012 um 0,7% zugenommen. Maßgeblich für den Prognosefehler in Höhe von 0,3 Prozentpunkten war, dass die Wachstumsrate für das reale BIP im ersten Quartal 2012 mit 0,5% um 0,4 Prozentpunkte...

The German Socio Economic Panel Study (SOEP) offers the rare opportunity to look at patterns of given names amongst a representative sample of more than 50,000 people born since 1900. This article develops an exemplary picture of typical frequency distributions for given names and their...