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Work done

frecce 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

1989 Manuali di tecniche di indagine

1961 Non sampling error model


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