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In September 2024, a delegation from the State Statistics Service of Ukraine paid a study visit to Statistics Netherlands (CBS).

We explore the added value of deep learning techniques for forecasting and nowcasting in official statistics as an alternative to classic time series models. Several neural network algorithms are...

This paper shows how Statistics Netherlands managed the unexpected loss of CAPI respondents in social surveys during COVID-19. It covers efforts to reduce response loss, quantifies the impact of...

A time series model to improve the accuracy of estimates about consumer confidence

Once every ten years, there is a special day within CBS: the day when, after a long and concerted effort, the most recent census is finalised.

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The present paper is about a particular type of price index, called the GK price index (named after Geary and Khamis) and some of its variants. Some of their properties are investigated.

Methodological description of the Consumer Confidence Survey during the Corona crisis.

Discussion paper about a method to estimate detailed figures on sickness absence for the Health and Wellbeing branch

Causal modelling is of interest to augment the interpretation of data published by national statistical institutes. An exploration of the relevant methods as well as a case study in the domain of...

Discussion paper about a method to estimate detailed mobility trends corrected for discontinuities

From July 2023, CBS will use a new method to measure business confidence based on the results of the Netherlands Business Survey (COEN).

Statistical output, e.g. totals or means of a target variable, are often published for subpopulations that are defined by categorical domain variables (such as categories of educational level,...

Analysing business production networks is a pioneering field for national statistical institutes. The application of network reconstruction methods are the main focus of this paper.

The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) recently released a new handbook, ‘Synthetic Data for Official Statistics’, to help get statistical institutes started in producing their own...

Business Confidence to sector/branches

A truly international reference work, with 36 chapters covering the latest state of play in all facets of business statistics production.

The present paper is about a concept from analysis, namely the Helmholtz decomposition of vector fields that can be translated into a similar concept for certain directed graphs, also called the...

Publications on small, special focus groups call for accurate application of statistical disclosure control. To that end, perturbative methods may be useful. Proper communication thereof is...

From June 2023, Statistics Netherlands (CBS) will employ a new method to measure the energy prices paid by consumers. The aim is to derive a more accurate inflation rate.

The international trade in goods statistics describe the monthly development of the import and export of goods.

The paper is about invariants of networks by labeling and relabeling its nodes or arcs. These invariants can be used to classify networks as to their complexity, or to distinguish non-isomorphic...

Models to transport goods or matter can also be used to disaggregate probability measures defined on 2D-tables.

About viewing a given network as a realization of a network which belongs to a certain set of networks, called an ensemble. It is comparable to viewing a population as being generated from a...

It sounds like science fiction: a ‘digital twin’ of society that policy-makers can use to resolve complex social problems.