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09:00

Welcome and practical information

09:00

Session 6: Sampling design

Chair: Thomas Zimmermann

• Arnaud Fizzala: How to deal with the changes of composition of enterprises (Paper) (Slides)

• Julia Manecke: Correction of frame errors in business surveys (Paper)

09:00

Session 11: Administrative data

Chair: Arnout van Delden

• Antonio Martinez: An innovative 2020 agricultural census in Spain (Paper) (Slides)

• Daniela Ravindra: Making best use of administrative and alternative data at Statistics Canada (Paper) (Slides)

• Agnes Andics: Challenges in using administrative cash register data in retail trade statistics (Paper) (Slides)

• Craig McLaren: Use of administrative data in the production of short-term economic indicators (Paper) (Slides)

09:15

Session 1: Sampling, estimation, validation

Chair: Paul Smith

• Thomas Zimmermann: Re-designing the mix-model of the German survey on short term statistics in the trade and service sector (Paper) (Slides)

• Haritz Olaeta: Multi domain estimation for the Survey on the Information Society - Companies (Paper) (Slides)

• Fabiana Rocci: Data validation in the Italian integrated business statistics system SINTESI (Paper) (Slides)

09:50

Session 7a: Speed session

Chair: Gary Brown

• Mark van der Loo: Application of generic data validation methodology to short term statistics (Paper) (Slides)

• Marina Enguídanos Weyler: Use of administrative data for the development of the business and establishment register in Andalucía (Spain) and its projection in the territory (Paper) (Slides)

• Elena Rosa-Perez: Using metadata in the statistical production process to communicate quality (Paper) (Slides)

• Florian Dumpert: Machine learning in official statistics (Paper) (Slides)

• Javier San Vicente: Web scraping for hotel average daily rate estimation (Paper) (Slides)

10:30

Break

10:15

Break with posters (Session 7b)

10:40

Break

11:00

Session 2: Questionnaire design

Chair: Gustav Haraldsen

• Xabier Irastorza: An international establishment survey on health and safety at work - Main challenges and opportunities. Evidence from ESENER (European Survey of Enterprises on New and Emerging Risks) (Paper) (Slides)

• Laura Requena: Measuring the service sector (Paper) (Slides)

• Ger Snijkers: Questionnaire communication to collect financial data from large non-financial enterprises - 2: The field experience (Paper) (Slides)

11:00

Session 7c: Discussion of poster presentations

Chair: Gary Brown

11:10

Session 12: Alternative data sources

Chair: Fernando Tusell

• Arnout van Delden: URL finding of business websites (Paper) (Slides)
• Heledd Thomas: Using statistical distributions to estimate weights for web-scraped data in the UK Consumer Prices Index (Paper) (Slides)
• Andrew Sutton: Faster indicators of UK economic activity (Paper)

12:15

Session 3: Panel session on intangibles

Moderator: Mojca Bavdaž

Mojca Bavdaž: Introductory overview (Paper) (Slides)

Panelists: Josh Martin, Giulio Perani, Janez Prašnikar

11:20

Session 8: Communication strategies

Chair: Mojca Bavdaž

• Paulo Saraiva: Tailoring communication in business surveys (Paper) (Slides)

• Eva Belak: Communication strategy in the monthly Business Tendency Survey (Paper) (Slides)

• Gary Brown: Stopping Adaptive Design - a SAD story? (Paper) (Slides)

• Joshua Langeland: A series of experiments with emails in establishment surveys (Paper) (Slides)

12:25

Session 13: Closing session

Chair: Paul Smith

13:15

Lunch break

13:00

Lunch break

13:00

Workshop closes

14:15

Session 4: New perspectives in establishment statistics

Chair: Boris Lorenc

• Aureo de Paula: Leveraging firm-to-firm transactions data for the estimation of production functions (Slides)

• Gert Buiten: A methodology for estimating the Dutch interfirm trade network, including a breakdown by commodity (Paper) (Slides)

• Paul Smith: The uses of longitudinal methods in business surveys (Paper) (Slides)

14:00

Session 9a: Small group discussions

14:40

Session 9b: Reports from small group discussions

Chair: Mojca Bavdaž

Reports:

• Group A: Business-to-business transactions
• Group B: Improving data collection
• Group C: Intelligent questionnaires

15:30

Break

15:00

Break with posters

16:00

Session 5: Data collection

Chair: Ger Snijkers

• Laura Šuštar Kožuh: The cost of electronic data transmission (Paper) (Slides)

• Pasquale Papa: Centralised data collection: Effects of a new administrative penalties provision procedure in business short-term surveys (Paper) (Slides)

• Pasquale Papa (for Loredana De Gaetano): Centralised data collection implementation: Effects on reduction of total survey error and on statistical output quality assessment (Paper) (Slides)

15:30

Session 10: Machine learning

Chair: Arnout van Delden

• Türknur Brand: Interpretation of “remain unchanged” answers in business surveys in comparison to administrative data (Paper) (Slides)

• Elena Goni: Tree-based models for imputation in services survey (Paper) (Slides)

• Daniela Ravindra (for Wesley Yung): Use of machine learning for economic statistics at Statistics Canada (Paper) (Slides)

• Giacomo Caterini Classifying firms with text mining (Paper) (Slides)

17:00

End of the day for the scientific programme

17:10

End of the day for the scientific programme

17:15 - 17:50

ENBES general meeting

Reception

18:00 - 19:30

Social event

Guided tour of the Guggenheim Museum

circa 21:00

Informal dinner gathering