Publication Methods - Approaches - Developments, Issue 1/2018

The catchword

• Progress made, and challenges to be met, in web scraping - automation of
  web-based price collection

Methods of federal statistics – Further development

• JDemetra+ - new software for seasonal adjustment of short-term statistics in the
  service sector
• Longer or shorter working hours? – Questions and answers in the microcensus
  and the SOEP
• Financial accounts of health expenditure in Germany

Events

• Conference on "Measuring Prices" .
• National accounting specialist committee
• 26th scientific colloquium on "Wage inequality - Facts, data, analysis"
• Federal Statistical Office grants the 2017 Gerhard Fürst Award