This paper examines whether data from business tendency surveys are useful for forecasting the macro economy (GDP, unemployment, price and wage inflation, interest rates, exchange-rate changes etc.) in the short run. The starting point is a so-called dynamic factor model (DFM), which is used...

FRA’s Second European Union Minorities and Discrimination Survey (EU-MIDIS II) surveys around 26,000 individuals from different ethnic minority and immigrant backgrounds across all 28 EU Member States. This technical report presents a detailed overview of the research methods used by FRA when...

Da kaum vergleichbare Daten über die Wahrung, den Schutz und die Verwirklichung der Grundrechte von Lesben, Schwulen, Bisexuellen und Transgender-Personen (LGBT) verfügbar waren, ließ die Agentur der Europäischen Union für Grundrechte (FRA) eine EU-weite Online-Erhebung über die...