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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 …
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Date: December 15, 2020 Seasonal adjustment of the monthly cash tax revenue
In the context of the coronavirus pandemic, the Federal Statistical Office published the new calendar and seasonally adjusted monthly cash tax revenue for the first time in August 2020. They are important indicators for fiscal policy and short-term …
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Date: December 15, 2020 Workshop Report: Georeferencing in the German official statistics network
The integration of statistical and geospatial information is becoming increasingly important. The German official statistics network is actively working on the creation of a sustainable infrastructure for the permanent implementation of the …
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Date: August 12, 2020 EXDAT – experimental data and methods for innovative statistics
In its new "EXDAT - Experimental Data" section at www.destatis.de, the Federal Statistical Office has regularly published new and innovative project results since the beginning of 2020. These are obtained by using new data sources and methods. Both …