WISTA – Scientific Journal
WISTA is a scientific journal regularly published by the Federal Statistical Office Germany. It offers articles on topics relating to official statistics. They mainly focus on the analysis of statistical data and on the documentation of methodological aspects and developments – both at national and international level.
WISTA is mainly a German language publication, but occasionally English articles are also included. As of 2015, every article starts with a short abstract in English. WISTA is published on a bi-monthly basis.
WISTA edition 2/2018
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WISTA 2/2018 (publication mostly in German language)
- Christian Blaudow, Florian Burg:
Dynamic pricing as a challenge for consumer price statistics - Lucia Maier:
Raw materials from all over the world used in Germany - Katharina Schlesag:
Environmental protection expenditure: new EU requirements - Dr. Stefan Linz, Hans-Rüdiger Möller, Peter Mehlhorn:
Rebasing the short-term indices for industry to the year 2015 - Sarah Kienzle:
New methods for measuring research and development performed at higher education institutions - Thorsten Haug:
Pension entitlements in national accounting - David Bretschi, Miriam Pfahl:
Questionnaire "MOT" testing – Evaluating the questionnaire for the household sample survey of the 2011 Census - Nadin Sewald, Julia Koch:
Price development in 2017 Patricia Dörr:
Improving current estimates through previously taken samples – A comparison of methods
Articles published in English
- 2017-06New trends in communication: branding and content marketing
- 2017-03Poverty Estimation Methods: a Comparison under Box-Cox Type Transformations with Application to Mexican Data
- 2016-07Migrants on the European labour market - Some results from the European Labour Force Survey ad hoc module 2014
- 2016-052030 Agenda for Sustainable Development – implications for official statistics
- 2016-05National implementation of the new international classification of crimes for statistical purposes (ICCS)
- 2016-04ESS Vision 2020
- 2016-02Challenge and potential of linking microdata in business statistics
- 2016-02The German Mittelstand in the age of globalisation
- 2014-09The 20th anniversary of the Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics – Further promotion of worldwide compliance with professional, scientific and quality standards
- 2014-06The Labor Force Survey as a web questionnaire: Results of the German pretest within the ESSnet DCSS project
- 2014-04Automated price collection via the internet
- 2014-01The economic importance of small and medium-sized enterprises in Germany
- 2013-04Coverage of Listed Housing Unit Frames
- 2013-02What effects does childbearing postponement have on cohort fertility in western and eastern Germany?
- 2012-05The German Employment Accounts for National Accounts and Labour Market Statistics – Experiences and findings of six decades
- 2012-02Birth order and birth interval – new data and findings
- 2011-11Opportunities and limitations of indicator-based market monitoring, using the example of the “Europe 2020” strategy
- 2010-01Selected results on small and medium-sized enterprises in Germany 2007
- 2009-07The new producer price indices for advertising and market research
- 2008-08The Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices for Germany – Differences between the Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices and the Consumer Price Index for Germany
- 2008-08New producer price indices for post and telecommunications
- 2007-11The new producer price indices for goods transports and logistics
