Emerging Trends in the Production of Short-term Economic Statistics

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Emerging Trends in the Production of Short-term
Economic Statistics
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Outline of Presentation

• Background pressures
• Reflection in surveys
• Statistics New Zealand Initiatives

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Background trends

• Increased demand for statistics
• timeliness
• range
• detail
• integration/standardisation
• Quality
• fitness for purpose
• Recognition of survey/collection costs
• respondent load / provider burden / compliance
  costs
• internal costs

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Increased demand for statistics

• Adoption of standard definitions, methodologies
• SDDS
• Eurostat guidelines
• Increasing integration of subannual indicators
• e.g. ABS developments
• Expansion of range of statistics produced
• e.g. to Services areas

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Quality

• Quality assessment criteria
• development
• dissemination
• Transparency
• internal
• external
• Sample design/maintenance enhancements
• Survey imputation/estimation enhancements

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Recognition of survey/collection costs

• Increasing use of administrative data
• in business frame (register) maintenance
• in sample design
• as an alternative to survey collection
• Moves to multiple modes of delivery
• CATI
• Email
• Internet form-based collections

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SNZ Initiatives

• Progressing subannual economic collection
  strategy
• consistency of design
• extension of coverage
• increased integration with annual data
• Methodology and systems developments
• periodic reselection as opposed to maintaining a
  panel sample
• bivariate stratification
• regression imputation
• development of generic processing modules using
  common business practices
• user consultation and education
• Survey/collection efficiencies
• Use of administrative data (VAT and PAYE) to
  supplement survey collections
• developing multi-modal capabilities