Q2014 - European Conference on Quality in Official Statistics

Opening Address (Konrad Pesendorfer, Director General, Statistics Austria)

Session 6: Quality in Income and Wealth Surveys:

• Estimation of Poverty in Small Areas
• The Calibration of Weights Using Calmar2 and Calif in the Practice of the Statistical Office of the SR – Statistical Office of Slovak Republic
• What is new in French Wealth Survey wave 2010 ? – European Central Bank
• On cost efficiency – Tracking and tracing in the Norwegian EU-SILC – Statistics Norway 

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Session 16: New Methods of Data Collection

• The role of Statistical Computing in delivering quality – ONS
• Data collection in the Middle East – GeoX Ltd.
• Maintaining high quality surveys with optimized interviewers‘ replacements: the new French sample monitoring strategy – INSEE 

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Session 1: Quality of Administrative Data 1

• Quality Guidelines for statistical processes using administrative data – ISTAT
• Istat’s new strategy and tools for enhancing statistical utilization of the available administrative databases – ISTAT
• Administrative data – a dangerous gold mine in official statistics – Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention
• Longitudinal Quality of Administrative Data Bases – ISTAT

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Session 38: Special Session: Beyond GDP

• Exploiting crowd sourced platforms for statistical purposes – ISTAT
• Bes: Equitable and sustainable well-being in Italy – ISTAT
• Eurostat’s framework for measuring Quality of Life – Eurostat
• Quality and weighting issues in GDP and beyond: insights from the OECD Better Life Initiative – OECD

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Session 26: Quality Assessment

• Quality Assessment and Improvement Methods in Statistics – What works? – Statistics Norway
• The application of Value Engineering tools to risk assess the outputs of an NSI – ONS
• How to maintain high quality in times of diminishing resources – Statistics Denmark
• Bringing DESAP self-assessments back into use: advancement of the check-list and employment in Germany – Destatis
• Implementing ‘quality assurance procedures’ in monetary and financial statistics – European Central Bank

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Session 19: Questionnaire Design

• Harmonising Standard Questions, Classifications and Concepts at the ONS – ONS
• Questionnaire Test Using Cognitive Approach:Lessons Learned – Statistics Korea
• Immigrant respondents and quality in population surveys: coverage & questionnaire design – Statistics Finland
• Toward harmonisation of survey questions on housing – Statistics Austria
• Standardisation of questionnaire design for health indicators – Statistics Norway

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Session 3: Register Based Statistics

• New paradigm in statistics and population census quality – Poznan University of Economics
• (Re)designing administrative data – towards register based census. Estonian experience – Statistics Estonia
• Post Enumeration Survey – A measure of the quality of the 2013 Census of Population, Households and Dwellings in Bosnia and Herzegovina – Agency for Statistics of Bosnia and Herzegovina
• The new multiple-source system for Italian Structural Business Statistics based on administrative and survey data – ISTAT

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Session 35: Special Session: Consistency of Concepts and Applied Methods in Business Statistics

• The system aspect of statistical quality – Statistics Austria, University of Innsbruck
• The statistical units’ definition and implementation as core element to guarantee the consistency of the ESS – ISTAT
• Improving Consistency in the ESS with Respect to Target Populations, Sampling Frames and Reference Periods – Statistics Sweden
• A system of variables as an example for a systematic approach – Destatis
• Quality assurance for Business Statistics in Europe through the ESS.VIP.ESBRs project: the example of automatic profiling – Eurostat

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Session 24: Quality Management 1

• Quality Management of Statistics at the Bank of Japan – Bank of Japan
• Implementation of quality management models and strategies in Croatian CBS –Croatian Bureau of Statistics
• Continuous improvement and Lean thinking in Statistics Norway – Statistics Norway
• Implementation of Eurostat Quality Declarations at Statistics Denmark with costeffective use of standards – Statistics Denmark
• The final steps of the journey towards an ISO certification – Statistics Sweden

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Session 18: Modernising and Improving Statistical Processes

• How to prepare statistical process design? – Statistics Netherlands, Eurostat
• Quality Challenges in Modernising Official Business Statistics – Statistics Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and Universtity of Southhampton
• A mixed strategy for an efficient Editing and Imputation design: the Italian SES experience – ISTAT
• Centralize data collection: Does it worth? – Statistics Portugal

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Session 7: Metadata Role for Data Production and Quality Improvement

• Better data quality through global data and metadata sharing – Eurostat
• Metadata in the modernization of statistical production at Statistics Canada –Statistics Canada
• Reference metadata: a step towards greater accessibility and clarity of statistical data – INE
• The SMS Quality: project and application focused on metadata on statistical quality – Czech Statistical Office
• Standardization: quality assurance by standardization, use of common methods and tools – Polish experience – Central Statistical Office of Poland

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Session 37: Special Session:Quality Assurance Measures in the European System of Central Banks

• The ESCB merits and costs procedure – One procedure to achieve several targets – Banque de France
• High output quality monitoring via the ECB quality reports on statistics – Banco de España
• The quality framework of European statistics by the ESCB – European Central Bank

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Session 21: Non-Sampling Errors

• Improving the quality of European monthly unemployment statistics – Eurostat
• Constructing Confidence Intervals based on Register Statistics – Örebro University and Statistics Sweden
• Measuring data quality by using a routinely test-retest module. Experiences from the Norwegian European Social Survey – Statistics Norway
• Beat the Heap – An Imputation Strategy for Valid Inferences from Rounded Income Data – University of Applied Sciences, Regensburg

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Session 11: Quality Reporting and Communication

• A Review of Statistics Finland Quality Descriptions – Statistics Finland
• Corporate Solutions to Erroneous Dissemination in the Census Bureau – U.S. Census Bureau
• Pure data vs. analytical interpretation? Considerations of a State Statistical Institute – Ministry of the Interior and Sports Berlin
• Summary quality report as a way for making statistical data accessible and more useful for all users – Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics, Egypt
• Typology of Products in Official Statistics – Statistics Austria, University of Vienna

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Session 12: Standardisation and Modernisation

• The ten commandments of process and product quality in official statistics – Statistics Netherlands, Eurostat
• Enhanced Generic Models to Support the Standardisation of Statistical Production – UN/ECE
• Process description and quality guidelines – Two birds with one stone – Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia
• A Business Architecture Model to foster Standardisation in Official Statistics – ISTAT

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Session 29: User Perception

• Development of the model for measuring the satisfaction of official statistics users – Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia
• Multi- source tools for assessing the perception on statistical quality. How to understand user needs. The Spanish experience – INE
• Changing the perspective: Users’ involvement in prioritising official statistics needs in the Italian National statistical programme – ISTAT
• Evaluation in Public Finance Statistics – Results of a Survey among Expert Users – Destatis

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Session 23: Coordination and Governance

• Coordination of the national statistical service from quality perspective – Statistics Finland
• New models of governance and coordination in complex statistical systems – Statistics Belgium
• The Master Plan for Official Statistics and the PDCA Cycle in Japan – Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Japan
• QM Implementation based on CoP, PDCA and GSBPM – Statistics Iceland

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Session 15: Quality in Social Surveys

• Whom are we talking about? Exclusion, noncoverage and nonresponse in social statistics – The Netherland Institute for Social Research
• Interviewer’s Influence on Bias in Reported Income – IAB, LIfBi, NEPS
• Quality of education data collected in Surveys in Europe: Comparing LFS, SILC, ISSP, EVS and ESS – Leibniz Institute for the social science
• Survey data quality for persons over 79 years – Statistics Norway

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Session 17: Enhancing Quality by New Responsive Designs and the Use of Paradata

• Stop the madness: use quality targets – Statistics Canada
• A Quality Driven Approach to Managing Collection and Analysis – Statistics Canada
• Response Quality in the Structural Business Survey Questionnaires – Statistics Netherlands
• Effect of cross validation in online questionnaires on subsequent data editing – Improving data quality in business surveys for National Statistics – Statistics Denmark

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Session 33: Special Session: Big Data

• Use of web scraping and text mining techniques in the Istat survey on “Information and Communication Technology in enterprises” – ISTAT
• Quality Approaches to Big Data in Official Statistics – Statistics Netherlands
• Web scraping techniques to collect data on consumer electronics and airfares for Italian HICP compilation – ISTAT
• New challenges for modelling Big Data – Sapienza University of Rome
• On representativity and quality of Big Data for Real Estate Market in Poland – Poznan University of Economics

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Session 27: Quality Measurement

• Pushing forward with ASPIRE – Statistics Sweden
• Development of a Quality Framework and Quality Indicators at the Bureau of Labor Statistics – U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Quality reporting: The Introduction of Quality Input Papers in a National Federal Statistical System – Destatis
• Lean Coaching Principles: Using Lean and Coaching to Improve Quality of Outputs – ONS
• Quality indicators and quality measurement to foster and enhance cooperation between users and producers – Banco de Portugal

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Session 31:Quality Aspects when using Administrative Sources

• Using Administrative Data Sources to Develop Real Estate Price Statistics: The case of Portugal – Statistics Portugal
• Census Statistics – ensuring quality in a time of major change – Eurostat
• Quality assessment for register-based statistics - Results for the Austrian census 2011 – Statistics Austria, Vienna University of Economics
• The e-census challenge: how web affects quality. The Italian experience with a local focus on Tuscany – ISTAT

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Session 20: Quality of Data Collection

• Does mixed-mode data collection have influence to the quality of data of LFS? –Statistics Finland
• The Labor Force Survey as a web questionnaire: Results of the German pretest within the ESSnet DCSS project – Destatis
• Measuring the actual and perceived response burden of Economic Surveys which were implemented by PCBS in 2013 – Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
• Measuring non-response bias in a cross-country enterprise survey – European Central Bank

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Session 39: Special Session: Enhancing Relevance of Official Statistics by Georeferencing

• More and better – Improvement of official statistics through the Swedish Geodata Cooperation – Statistics Sweden
• Benefits from geocoding information collected in statistical surveys – Central Statistical Office of Poland
• Enabling a national road and street database in population statistics – Statistics Finland
• Improved Modal Split Indicators for transport statistics based on an effective distance matrix – Eurostat

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Session 2: Enhancing Quality by using Administrative Data

• Improved input data quality from administrative sources through the use of quality indicators – Statistics Norway
• A comparison of sample and register based survey: the case of labor market data – ISTAT
• The usefulness of quality frameworks when deciding on replacing surveys with administrative registers – Swedish Board of Agriculture
• Using Global Positioning System (GPS) to Detect and Prevent Data Falsification – US Bureau of the Census

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Session 25: Quality Management 2

• Quality assurance issues: conceptual approach and practical issues (Azerbaijan experience) – State Statistical Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan
• Quality management in the Statistics Department of Morocco – Statistics Department of Morocco
• Improving the Quality Management System: Projects at Hungarian Central Statistical Office – HCSO
• Mission Assurance at National statistical Office (NSO): A New Framework for Survey Quality – Statistical Research and Training Centre, Iran

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Session 36: Special Session: Governance and Quality Management in the Enlargement and ENP Countries

• Key components of quality management system and further challenges – State Statistical Office of Republic of Macedonia
• The role of quality declarations in quality management system – National Statistical Service of the Republic of Armenia
• A tool for a snapshot assessment of a national statistical system – Eurostat
• Implementation of the EFQM excellence model in ICBS – Israel Central Bureau of Statistics
• Quality Assurance Framework Applications in Turkish Statistical System – Turkish Statistical Institute

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Session 4: Integrated Producion and Data Modelling

• Quality issues of integrated statistical repositories – University of Poznan
• Towards a more efficient system of administrative data management and quality evaluation to support statistics production in Istat – ISTAT
• It’s confidential – how to avoid the brickwall of confidentiality when linking micro data – Statistics Denmark

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Session 9: Statistical Literacy

• The Public Perception of official statistics publications – Ministry of the Interior and Sports Berlin
• Statistical literacy – Statistics Portugal approach to improve it – Statistics Portugal
• Building strategic partnerships: Improving statistical education and statistical literacy in Ireland – Central Statistics Office Ireland, Centre for Policy Studies, University College Cork
• Statistical Education: The Teaching Concept of Pseudo-Populations – Johannes Kepler University Linz
• Statistics for evidence-based policy – Polish experience with STRATEG system – Central Statistical Office of Poland

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Session 13: Standardising Methods and Infrastructures

• ESSNet on Standardisation project – HCSO CBS
• The Common Statistical Production Architecture: An Important New Tool for Process Standardisation – UN/ECE
• The ESS.VIP Validation and its implementation in Waste Statistics – Eurostat
• Handbook on Precision Requirements and Variance Estimation for ESS Household Surveys – Eurostat
• Good governance in statistics: The development of a revision policy for the German Federal Statistical Office in European context – Destatis

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Session 30: Quality Assurance of Main Indicators and other Methodological Applications

• Quality Assurance for Consumer Price and MIP Statistics – Eurostat
• Incident reporting and continuous improvement in the Swedish CPI – Statistics Sweden
• Reducing statistical difference between direct and indirect GDP – Statistics Netherlands
• Quality in Seasonal Adjustment: Confidence Intervals – Turkish Statistical Institute
• From Micro-Data to Macro-Data: Symbolic Data Analysis – University of Porto

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Session 28: Quality of Administrative Data 2

• Quality Assessment Tool for Administrative Data – U.S. Census Bureau
• DARCAP: a tool for documenting the information content and the quality of the available administrative databases – ISTAT, Top Network
• Assessing quality of income data in a survey vs an administrative source – Israel Central Bureau of Statistics
• Assessing the accuracy of different models for combining aggregate level administrative data – University of Southampton
• Improving the quality of administrative registers – better Social Welfare Statistics? – Statistics Norway

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Session 10: Methodology (Estimation)

• Instrument Variable Selection in the Calibration Estimator under Nonresponse – Örebro University and Statistics Sweden
• Robust calibration estimators in surveys with outliers – Central Statistical Office of Poland
• When adjusting for bias due to linkage errors: a sensitivity analysis – ISTAT
• Quality aspects of rounding of statistical results – Statistics Sweden

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Session 5: Multi-Source Data Production

• The converging pattern between Business statistics and Administrative data: towards an “industrialized” statistical production process – ISTAT
• The use of quality procedures through the example of a statistic based on registers – Federal Statistical Office (FSO) Switzerland
• Quality of linked firm level and microaggregated datasets: The example of the ESSLait Micro Moments Database – Statistics Norway, Statistics Sweden, University of Ljubljana
• Assessing and improving the quality, analytic potential and accessibility of data by linking administrative, survey and open data – Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg

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Session 34: Special Session: Serving Policy Makers with International Statistics – Use of Non-Official Sources in International Statistics

• The use of official and non-official statistics: an issue of quality or process? – United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
• Use of non-official sources for transforming national data into an international statistical product – UNIDO’s experience – UNIDO
• Use of Non-Official Sources for International Food Security and Agricultural Statistics – FAO
• The use of non-official sources in official international economic and financial statistics – European Central Bank
• Quality assurance in the global statistical system - the role of CCSA – Eurostat

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Session 14: Quality in Income Statistics (EU-SILC)

• Continuous improvement of EU-SILC quality: standard error estimation and new quality reporting – Eurostat
• Model based estimation of indicators of poverty and social exclusion – Statistics Austria
• Comparing Income data from survey and register – Statistics Austria
• Measuring “total net household income” in interviews with an emphasis on comparative social surveys – CEPS-INSTEAD, University of Giessen

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Session 8: Visualisation

• Improving visualization tools in EUSTAT: Explaining the data – EUSTAT, University of Basque
• Interoperable Visualization Framework and open Data Movement – Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
• sparkTable: Generating Graphical Tables for Websites and Documents with R – Statistics Austria
• Apply Regional Economic Account using Data Visualization program in Egypt – Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics, Egypt

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Session 22: Code of Practice Implementation and Evaluation

• Spreading the word: Implementation of the Code of Practice in a decentralised system – Statistics Sweden
• Safeguarding trust in Irish Official Statistics - A Code of Practice for the Irish Statistical System – Central Statistics Office, Ireland
• The 20th anniversary of the Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics: Further promotion of worldwide compliance with professional, scientific and quality standards – Destatis
• Peer Review from a national perspective – preparation, procedure, consequences – Destatis

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Session 32: Special Session: Statistics beyond Survey and Administrative Data

• Will ‘big data’ transform official statistics? – Eurostat
• Statistics and Big Data: Quality with uncontrolled inputs – Statistics Netherlands
• On the use of data mining methods for imputation – Eurostat
• Quality indicators for statistics based on multiple sources – Eurostat

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