The existing statistical systems are designed for satisfying conditions which are changing rapidly today. The most marked feature of the existing systems of many countries is their extensive periodic surveys. The surveys ...

"Can a statistician deliver?" by Platek and Särndal is one of the important recent articles on the activities of national statistical institutes (NSIs). Their discussion covers many questions, including statistics disseminated ...

Hullkortmaskinen ble oppfunnet av den amerikanske statistiker Herman Hollerith og det var problemer i forbindelse med de amerikanske folketellingene i 1890 og 1900 som førte til at han ga seg i kast med a konstruere slike ...

As most firms and agencies, a statistical office has an administrative need for measuring and describing its own activities in different ways to predict future needs for resources, allocate resources and control ...

Abstract: When adequate administrative registers are available, population censuses can be carried out by supplementing the administrative data with data compiled from sample surveys. A problem is, however, to obtain ...

Early in the history of program controlled computer application, users learned that programming efforts might be saved if programs and subroutines were written to satisfy certain criteria as to general use, and the ...

The development of an Integrated System for Editing and Estimation (ISEE) is an important part in Statistics Norway's strategic plans for improvement of statistical production processes and more efficient use of available ...

This paper is based on the assumption that the society shall continue to grow both in size and complexity. The condition lor growth in a wanted direction is, however, that the decision-making units will at any time ...

The rolls, from which conscripts were called for working on the pyramids, may have been among the first administrative data sources for preparing statistics. Later rulers enrolled males for recruiting members to their ...