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2016 Q2016
2015 Quality Guidelines for statistical processes using administrative sources 2014 Start of Peer reviews 2014-2015 2014 Q2014 2012 Q2012 2011 Sponsorship on quality – QAF 2011 Guidelines Quality 2010 Italian Statistics Code of Practice 2010 Q2010 2010 Audit 2008 RPs for Editing and Imputation 2008 Q2008 2006 SIQual 2006 Q2006 2005 RPs for Questionnaire Development 2005 European statistics code of practice 2004 Q2004 2001 Q2001 2001 LEG on Quality 1995 Eurostat W.G. Quality in Statistics 1994 U.N. Principles of Official Statistics |
Q2016 (2016)
European Conference on Quality in Official Statistics (Q2016), Madrid May 31 – June 3, 2016
Available at: http://www.q2016.es/
Quality Guidelines for statistical processes using administrative sources (2015)
Available at: http://www.istat.it/en/files/2013/04/Linee-Guida-v1.1-Versione-inglese.pdf
Start of Peer reviews 2014-2015 (2014)
Peer reviews are part of the European Statistical System (EES) strategy to implement the Code of Practice (CoP).
Available at:
http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/quality/peer-reviews
Q2014 (2014)
European Conference on Quality in Official Statistics (Q2014), Vienna 2-5 June 2014
Available at: http://www.q2014.at/home.html
Q2012 (2012)
The European Conference on Quality in Official Statistics (Q2012) was held in Athens on 29 May - 2 June, 2012.
Available at: http://www.q2012.gr/
Sponsorship on quality (2011)
The Sponsorship on Quality (2009-20011) is an high level ESS Committee Task Force. Its mandate was to develop recommendations for possible modifications of the Code of Practice as well as recommendations to enhance quality-related activities.
The task force proposed some revisions of the European Statistics Code of Practice.
Moreover, the Task force provided a preliminary version of the Quality Assurance Framework for the implementation of the Code and developed recommendations on quality reporting.
The European Statistical System Committee approved the task force work and recommendations in September 2011.
Istat Quality Guidelines (2011)
English version – 2012. The document is available at:
http://www.istat.it/en/files/2011/11/QualityGuidelines_EngVers_1.1.pdf
Q2010
The European Conference on Quality in Official Statistics (Q2010) was held in Helsinki on May 4-6, 2010.
Available at: http://q2010.stat.fi/index/
Italian Statistics Code of Practice (2010)
The document is available at (Italian version only):
www.istat.it/en/files/2011/11/codice_statistica.pdf
Audit (2010)
Assessing Quality through Auditing and Self-Assessment
http://q2010.stat.fi/media//presentations/session-7/brancato-et-l_signore-assessing-quality-through-auditing-and-self-assessment_paper.pdf
Q2008
The European Conference on Quality in Official Statistics (Q2008) was held in Rome on July 9-11, 2008.
Available at: http://en.istat.it/istat/eventi/q2008/
RPs for Editing and Imputation in Cross-Sectional Business Surveys (2008)
The document is available at:
http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/64157/4374310/30-Recommended+Practices-for-editing-and-imputation-in-cross-sectional-business-surveys-2008.pdf
Q2006
European Conference on Quality in Survey Statistics (Q2006) Cardiff, UK, 24-26 April 2006
SIQual (2006)
SIQual information system on quality: http://siqual.istat.it/SIQual/lang.do?language=UK
European statistics code of practice (2005)
Revised in 2011. The document is available at:
http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/quality/european-statistics-code-of-practice
Handbook of RPs for Questionnaire Development and Testing (2005)
The handbook is available at:
http://www.istat.it/it/files/2013/12/Handbook_questionnaire_development_2006.pdf
Q2004
The European Conference on Quality and Methodology in Official Statistics (Q2004) was held 24-26 May 2004, in Mainz, Germany.
Available at: http://q2004.destatis.de/
LEG on Quality (2001)
The Summary Report from the Leadership Group (LEG) on Quality
is available at: Summary Report from the Leadership Group (LEG) on Quality
Q2001 (2001)
The International Conference on Quality in Official Statistics (Q2001), was held in Stockholm on May 14-15, 2001. The conference was jointly organised by Statistics Sweden and Eurostat.
Eurostat W.G. Assessment of Quality of Business Statistics (1995)
In 1998 W.G. "Assessment of Quality in Statistics" and then W.G. "Quality in Statistics"
U.N. Fundamental principles of Official Statistics (1994)
The document is available at: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/dnss/gp/fundprinciples.aspx
Handbooks of Survey techniques (1989)
1. Istat. Pianificazione della produzione dei dati. 1989
2. Istat. Il questionario: progettazione, redazione e verifica. 1989
3. Istat. Le rappresentazioni grafiche di dati statistici. 1989
4. Istat. Il sistema di controllo della qualità dei dati. 1989
5. Istat. Tecniche di campionamento: teoria e pratica. 1989
6. Istat. Tecniche di somministrazione del questionario. 1989
7. Istat. Tecniche di stima della varianza campionaria. 1989
The handbooks are available in the Istat Digital Library (Italian version only)
Non sampling error model (1961)
- Hansen, M.H. Hurwitz, W.N., Bershad, M.A.1961. Measurement errors in censuses and surveys. Bulletin of the International Statistical Institute, 38, Part II, 359-374.
- Hansen, M.H.; Hurwitz, W.N.; and Pritzker, L. (1964), "The estimation and interpretation of gross differences and the simple response variance," Contribution to statistics, in C.R. Rao (editor) Pergamon Press, Oxford, and Statistical Publishing Society, Calcutta, pp. 111-13
- Leslie Kish. Survey sampling. Wiley, 1965