Study visit on National Accounts and Non-Observed Economy

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DevStat has organised a study visit on National Accounts and Non-Observed Economy for a delegation of the Agency for Statistics of the Republic of Tajikistan to the Federal Statistical Office of Germany (Wiesbaden) and Czech Statistical Office (Prague). The study visit took place on 15-18 of August 2017 and covered topics related to the implementation of the System of National Accounts 2008, including the measurement of illegal activities (drug trafficking, smuggling of cigarettes and prostitution).

The activity takes place within the World Bank-funded project to support the implementation of the National Strategy for the Development of Statistics of this Central Asian republic.

Assistance for the organisation of the ESTP Programme

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Study visit on National Accounts and Price statistics

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DevStat has organised a study visit on National Accounts and Price statistics for a delegation of the Agency for Statistics of the Republic of Tajikistan to the Hight School of Economics of the Russian federation (Moscow). The study visit took place on 27-30 of June 2017 and covered topics related to the implementation of the System of National Accounts 2008, including the compilation of GDP on a quarterly basis, as well as methodological and practical issues of calculations of the consumer and producer price indexes.

 

The activity takes place within the World Bank-funded project to support the implementation of the National Strategy for the Development of Statistics of this Central Asian republic.

Study visit INEI Perú

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DevStat accompanies a study visit of the Cuban National Statistical office to the National Statistical Institute of Perú on business surveys.

This August 2017, DevStat has organised a study visit to the National Statistical Institute of Perú (INEI) for delegates of the National Statistical office of Cuba (ONEI).

The visit took place between the 2nd August to 4th August 2017, in the framework of a cooperation project signed between the EC and the FIIAPP (International and Ibero-American Foundation for Administration and Public Policies). Ms Paola Votta, international project consultant at Devstat, accompanied the 6 representatives from the ONEI during the whole visit.

During the three days, the ONEI delegates could see from a practical point of view, how the National Statistical Institute of Perú is managing the business surveys and how works the business register.

The visit covered issues such as: planning, sample design, training of field operators, tools and web forms for data collection and dissemination of results.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the colleagues involved in the activity.

  

The 61st ISI World Statistics Congress (WSC)

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Last month, from 16th to 21st July 2017, the 61st ISI World Statistics Congress (WSC) took place in Marrakech. The biennial WSC is the flagship conference of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) and its seven associations.

Considering the importance of the congress, DevStat decided to attend the event which brought together eminent statisticians and members of the statistical community from the five continents to present, discuss, promote and disseminate research and best practices in every field of Statistics and its applications.

We are very satisfied with our participation in the event. During the whole week, DevStat had a stand which worked as a meeting point between our CEO and staff and Directors and Senior officials from NSOs and Central Banks from Argentina, Iran, Libya, Morocco, Mexico, Malaysia, as well as many experts, to discuss future opportunities of collaboration.

Mr Jose L. Cervera (DevStat’s CEO) was honoured to be a member the Local Committee and organised a successful session on Modernisation of Statistics in development countries.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the organisers and we hope to have the opportunity of attend the next edition of the Congress (Malaysia 2019).

Development of Conceptual Elements for a Common Quality Framework in the ESS

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Development of Conceptual Elements for a Common Quality Framework in the European Statistical System (ESS)

 

DevStat in consortium with Statistics Norway has been awarded by Eurostat a contract for the “Development of Conceptual Elements for a Common Quality Framework in the European Statistical System (ESS)”. The project will contribute to developing an enhanced common quality framework, including risk management, in the ESS.

The project is part of the quality-related framework of the ESS Vision 2020 Strategy for modernisation of European statistics.

With this new project, DevStat further contributes with its experience in ESS modernisation projects, following for example the “Impact Assessment for a Framework Regulation in the area of European social statistics” or the “Cost-Benefit Analysis and Administrative Burden Reduction potential of options for Re-design of Intrastat”, and in statistical quality assurance and management practices.

The work will run from June 2017 to April 2018 and will be coordinated by Florabela Carausu.

ESTP Course on Behavioural economics

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Assistance for the organisation of the European Statistical Training Programme (ESTP) – Behavioural economics course

Within the framework of Eurostat’s European Statistical Training Programme (ESTP), DevStat in consortium with the Lithuanian Department of Statistics and the National Statistical Institute of Bulgaria held a three day course on “Management of respondent and user behaviour: towards the optimal questionnaire” in Valencia on 19th -21st June 2017.

The course was taught by Dr José Vila (course leader) and Mr Carlo Capuano and it was attended by thirteen participants from several National Statistical Institutes within the European Statistical System (ESS) and from candidate countries.

The objective of the course was to provide the participants with basic knowledge on behavioural economics (BE), understanding of the role of behavioural insights in the European Statistical System and the needed skills to apply BE good practices to enhance data collection and dissemination.

The content of the course covered the following topics: behavioural insights of respondent and users, changing respondent behaviour, behavioural economic experiments in in official statistics, behavioural insights of the use of statistical information and for questionnaire design. On the second day a BE experiment was organised for the participants.

DevStat thanks the trainers and also the participants for their commitment during the course.

DevStat at the 61st ISI World Statistics Congress (WSC)

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DevStat is very pleased to announce that our company will be attending the 61st ISI World Statistics Congress (WSC), which will take place in Marrakech next month (16 – 21 July 2017).

http://www.isi2017.org/

The biennial WSC is the flagship conference of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) and its seven associations. It brings together eminent statisticians and members of the statistical community from the five continents to present, discuss, promote and disseminate research and best practices in every field of Statistics and its applications.

During the event, DevStat will have a stand where you will always find one of us to discuss possible future collaborations or opportunities for work (Paola Votta).

On the other hand, some of our in-house experts will participate as Chair of sessions (José Cervera in Session IPS099) or presenting their papers (Flora Carausu and Margarita Rohr).

We have no doubt that taking part in ISI2017 will be a great and enjoyable opportunity for sharing experiences and networking. Please, feel free to inform us if you will also join the event. We really hope to see you there.

Best regards,

DevStat’s team

Assistance for the organisation of ESTP Courses

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Assistance for the organisation of the ESTP – Course on Machine Learning

Within the framework of Eurostat’s European Statistical Training Programme (ESTP), DevStat in consortium with the Lithuanian Department of Statistics and the National Statistical Institute of Bulgaria held a three-day course on “Machine learning econometrics” in Valencia on 12-14 June 2017.

The course was taught by Mr José Luis Cervera (course leader) together with Mr Iván Arribas and Mr Francisco Rangel and it was attended by fifteen participants from several National Statistical Institutes within the European Statistical System (ESS), but also from other Institutions.

The objective of the course was to provide the participants with innovative algorithm-based econometric techniques for data analysis, with application to datasets from official statistics as well as from other sources (Big Data, text data).

The content of the course covered the following topics: examples of use of econometric methods in Official Statistics; model-based vs algorithm based inference; machine-learning and computational issues; machine-learning linear estimation; machine-learning non-linear estimation methods; econometric analysis applied to textual data and manipulation of big data sources (SQL and NoSQL databases).

DevStat thanks the trainers and also the participants for their commitment during the course sessions.

DevStat accompanies a study visit of the Cuban National Statistical office…

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DevStat accompanies a study visit of the Cuban National Statistical office to the Danish National Statistical Institute on business registers

DevStat has organised a study visit to the Danish National Statistical Institute for delegates of the National Statistical office of Cuba (ONEI). The visit took place between the 31 May to 2 June 2017, in the framework of a cooperation project signed between the EC and the FIIAPP (International and Ibero-American Foundation for Administration and Public Policies). Ms Monica Bergamini, international project consultant at Devstat, accompanied the 7 representatives from the ONEI during the whole visit.

During the three days, the ONEI delegates could see from a practical point of view, how the Danish Statistical Institute created and manage the business register and how the main structural business statistics are compiled.

The visit covered issues such as: frozen frames, quality within the business register, imputation and estimation in survey based business statistics and short-term statistics, among the several subjects presented.