Venue:
Crowne Plaza Hotel - Le Palace
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Tel: +32 2 203 62 00
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The objective of the joint EC- OECD workshop was to foster harmonization of business and consumer opinion surveys. It also provided a forum to exchange knowledge and discuss the current challenges and prospects in the field.
14 November |
UN Handbook: State of affairs - Mauro Politi (ISTAT, Italy) |
Quality of BCS data: Results of Task Force 1 on sample frames - Jonathan Wood (CBI, United Kingdom) |
Analysis of sampling frames in CS - Krzysztof Puszczak (GfK, Poland) |
UN Handbook Ch. 4, Survey frame and sample design: recommendations on sampling frames, sampling methods and sample sizes - Sidney Vergouw (CBS, Netherlands) |
Task force on sample sizes:
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Task force on sampling methods: combined presentation on business and consumer surveys - Raquel Garcia (Simple Logica, Spain) |
UN Handbook Ch. 7, Managing sources of non-sampling error: recommendations on response rates - M.Politi (ISTAT, Italy) |
Task force on response rates on business surveys - Gerhard Schwarz (WIFO, Austria) |
Task force on response rates on consumer surveys - Pertti Kangassalo (Statistik Finland) |
Tailored design method: application to response rates in Spain - José Manuel Almendros Ulibarri (MINETUR, Spain) |
UN Handbook Ch. 5 Estimation procedure and accuracy: recommendations on weighting approaches - Sidney Vergouw (CBS Netherlands) |
Task force on weighting approaches for business surveys - Catherine Renne (INSEE, France) |
Task force on weighting approaches for consumer surveys - Michail Vassileiadis (IOBE, Greece) |
Task force on volatility analysis of individual questions - Andreas Reuter (European Commission)
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15 November |
ECB Indicator on Euro Area Industrial New Orders - Heinz Dieden (ECB) |
A Monthly Indicator of Economic Growth - Leendert Hoven (CBS Netherlands) |
OECD Composite Leading Indicators for G7 Countries: a Comparison of the Hodrick-Prescott Filter and the Multivariate Direct Filter Approach - Pierre-Alain Pionnier (OECD) |
Debate: The most adequate way of presenting forecast data - Daphna Aviram-Nitzan (MAI Israel) |
The KOF Barometer Version 2013 - Jan-Egbert Sturm (KOF) |
Measuring the True Threshold of Consumer Sentiment in Mexico - Esperanza Sainz López (INEGI Mexico) |
Recent Improvements of BOK Consumer Surveys: Adjusting for non-response - Jang Youn Kyung (BoK, Korea) presentation |
Proxy Measures of the Level of Capacity Utilisation for non-manufacturing sectors - Viviane Seda Bittencourt (FGV Brazil) |
Participants' papers can also be accessed via the EC website
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