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    • A Two-Stage Bennet Decomposition of the Change in the Weighted Arithmetic Mean 

      von Brasch, Thomas Rolf Lydersen Lystad; Grini, Håkon; Johnsen, Magnus Berglund; Vigtel, Trond Christian (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      The weighted arithmetic mean is used in a wide variety of applications. An infinite number of possible decompositions of the change in the weighted mean are available, and it is therefore an open question which of the ...

    • Comment [about "Can a statistician deliver? by Platek and Särndal] 

      Nordbotten, Svein (Journal article, 2001)
      "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 ...

    • Identifying and reducing response burdens in internet business surveys 

      Haraldsen, Gustav (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2004)
      Response burden is of great concern in survey data collection activities. Despite extensive efforts on the part of data collection agencies to reduce the burden the problem seems to prevail. In this article we discuss how ...

    • Neural network imputation applied to the Norwegian 1990 population census data 

      Nordbotten, Svein (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 1996)
      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 ...

    • Quality Issues at Statistics Norway 

      Sæbø, Hans Viggo; Byfuglien, Jan; Johannessen, Randi (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2003)
      Statistics Norway has like other National Statistical Institutes (NSIs) worked with quality for many years, but we have now started a systematic approach, inspired by the TQM principles and the work on this in several NSIs. ...

    • Using register data to evaluate the effects of proxy interviews in the Norwegian labour force survey 

      Thomsen, Ib; Villund, Ole (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      We combine data from the Norwegian Labour Force Survey with register data in order to evaluate the impact of proxy interviews on the survey-based employment rate estimates. The method compares estimates under different ...