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Date: December 5, 2024 The european micodata exchange - A new data source for international trade in goods statistics
The national statistical authorities of the EU Member States have been exchanging microdata on intra-EU exports of goods since the reference month of January 2022. This marked the first time in the history of the European Statistical System that an …
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Date: October 22, 2024 The nursing and care labour market and demographic change - Methodology and results of nursing and care staff projection
The rising number of people in need of care and the discussion surrounding the shortage of nursing and caring professionals illustrate the challenges currently facing the nursing and care segment of the labour market. Demographic change is impacting …
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Date: July 30, 2024 Enterprises engaged in foreign trade: New opportunities for analysis due to microdata linking
The analysis of the foreign trade activities of enterprises using linked datasets gives researchers and policymakers the opportunity to gain new insights. This article sheds light on various options for linking a new set of foreign trade data, the …
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Date: July 10, 2024 The role of official statistics in shaping the future - Opportunities from the data producer's perspective
The times when official statistics had a monopoly on statistical facts are over. Due to digitalisation, we are instead confronted with an exponentially growing volume of data. New data and new data providers are constantly emerging. This article …
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Date: June 16, 2023 Further development of the address register for official statistics
To prepare and produce federal statistics, the German Federal Statistical Office maintains an address register which was initially set up with data from the 2011 Census. For the development of a register census that can largely be conducted without …
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Date: February 15, 2023 Using OpenStreetMap to process data on birthplaces held in the central register of foreigners
Data on the birthplaces of foreigners create a multitude of new options for analysis in official statistics. Do Somali people seeking protection mostly come from regions that are particularly affected by climate change because of droughts and food …
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Date: October 17, 2022 Quality of mobile network data - project experience and use cases in official statistics
Mobile network data are considered a promising new data source, but its quality for use in official statistics has hitherto not been systematically studied. This article provides an overview of the projects using mobile network data which have so far …
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Date: April 19, 2022 Options for measuring the distance between two distributions in practice
Dealing with incomplete data sets is an important aspect of data processing. It is often not known for what analysis a set of data from official statistics will later be used in science and research. Therefore, it is reasonable to reproduce the …
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Date: December 14, 2021 Testing of satellite-based yield estimation for agricultural statistics - The SatAgrarStat project
Since its start, the European Copernicus earth observation programme with its Sentinel satellites has ensured the continuous monitoring of the Earth’s surface with an unprecedented level of temporal, spatial and technical quality. The remote sensing …
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Date: December 14, 2021 Ecosystem accounts – Ecosystem extent account
At the Federal Statistical Office, work on the compilation of ecosystem accounts began in August 2020. The aim of this work is to create a nationwide, spatially and temporally consistent data basis on the extent and condition of the ecosystems and …
