Advances in Business Statistics, Methods and Data Collection

1Advances in Business Statistics, Methods and Data Collection: Introduction

Ger Snijkers¹, Mojca Bavdaž², Stefan Bender^3,4, Jacqui Jones⁵, Steve MacFeely^6,7, Joseph W. Sakshaug^8,9, Katherine J. Thompson¹⁰, and Arnout van Delden¹

¹Department of Research and Development (Methodology), Statistics Netherlands, Heerlen/the Hague, The Netherlands

²Academic Unit for Mathematics, Statistics, and Operations Research, School of Economics and Business, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

³Data Service Center, Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt, Germany

⁴School of Social Science, University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany

⁵Macroeconomic Statistics Division, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Canberra, ACT, Australia

⁶Department of Data and Analytics, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

⁷Centre for Policy Studies, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

⁸Statistical Methods Research Department, Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg, Germany

⁹Department of Statistics, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany

¹⁰Associate Directorate for Economic Programs, U.S. Census Bureau, Washington, DC, USA

1.1 The ICES‐VI Edited Volume: A New Book on Establishment Statistics Methodology

In 2021, when ICES‐VI took place, almost 30 years had passed since ICES‐I, which yielded the edited volume “Business Survey Methods” (Cox et al. 1995), the first reference book covering this topic. During these three decades much has changed with regard to establishment statistics, methods, ...