DIME - Directors of Methodology

• Meetings
  • DIME ITDG Steering Group 15 June 2018
  • DIME ITDG Plenary 22/23 February 2018
    • minutes_dime-itdg_2018_plenary_final
    • item_01_agenda_dime_itdg_plenary_meeting_v4
    • item_02_serv
    • item_03_esden-deployment-of-services-v1.20
    • item_04_UNECE_Guidelines_on_data_integration
    • item_04_admin_guidelines
    • item_04_vip_admin_wp7
    • item_05_linked_open_data
    • item_05_linked_open_data
    • item_05_lod_essnet_update_2018_v2
    • item_06_statistics_and_news_some_issues_in_european_official_sources
    • item_07_dime_itdg_governance_2018_2020
    • item_07_dime_itdg_governance_2018_2020_final
    • item_08_smart_statistics_business_case
    • item_08b_google_smart_collaboration
    • item_09_it_security_assurance_scope_document_
    • item_10_experimental_statistics
    • item_11_ess_guidelines_on_temporal_disaggregation
    • item_11_ess_guidelines_on_temporal_disaggregation_15feb2018
    • item_12_big_data_urban_centre
    • item_13_access_to_european_microdata
    • item_13_access_to_microdata-fb-final
    • item_14_remote_access_to_french_microdata_for_scientific_purposes
    • item_15_minutes_wg_methodology_2017
    • item_15_quality_wg
    • item_15_wg_q_minutes_june_2017
    • item_15_wg_q_minutes_oct_2017
    • item_aob_agm_presentation
  • DIME ITDG Steering Group 10 November 2017 Dublin
    • Minutes
    • Item 0 Agenda
    • Item 0 Participants
    • Item 1 Experimental Statistics
    • Item 2 Experimental Statistics National Experience in NL
    • Item 3 Big Data and Smart Statistics
    • Item 5 DIME ITDG Governance and Functioning _current_ to be renewed in 2018
    • Item 5 DIME ITDG Governance and Functioning _final
    • Item 6 Access to microdata
    • Item 7 ESS Vision 2020 portfolio progress and next steps
    • Item 8 Revision of Code of Practice
    • Item 9 ESS Guidelines on Temporal Disaggregation
    • wrap up item 5 Governance
    • Item AoB Reference Architecture UK
    • Item 10 - Agenda Items for the DIME/ITDG plenary (22/23 Feb 2018)
    • Wrap up Item 6
    • Wrap up item 1 and 2
    • Wrap up item 3
    • wrap up item 4 PSI
  • DIME ITDG Steering Group 26 June 2017
    • Minutes DIME ITDG SG June 2017
    • Item 1 ESBRs Interoperability Pilot
    • Item 1 esbrs interoperability pilots (slides)
    • Item 2 Estimation Methods for ADMIN data
    • Item 3 SERV Roadmap
    • Item 4 IT Security (PPT)
    • Item 4 IT Security Assurance
    • Item 5 ESS Validation (Slides ESTAT)
    • Item 6 Big Data Hackathon
    • Minutes TF Temporal Disaggregation meeting (AoB)
    • Big Data Croatia (doc)
    • Big Data Croatia (slides)
    • Big Data Estonia
    • Big Data France
  • Joint DIME/ITDG Plenary 14/15 February 2017
    • Agenda
    • Minutes
    • Item 1 ESS VIP ADMIN
    • Item 2 Draft ESS strategy Linked Open Data
    • Item 2 LoD
    • Item 2_annex_1proposal_lod_ess_framework
    • Item 3 ESS vision 2020
      • ESS Vision 2020 Stock-taking
    • Item 4 Smart Statistics (slides)
    • Item 4 Smart Statistics
    • Item 6 Statistical_modelling_for_official_migration_statistics_state_of_the_art_and_perspectives
    • Item 7 ESS VIP SERV
    • Item 7 SERV_writtenconsultation.doc
    • Item 8 IT Security Assurance
    • Item 9 Quality
    • Item 10 Eurona artlicle on Globalisation
    • Item 10 Globalisation
    • Item 10 Globalisation IE
    • Item 11 DIME/ITDG SG Mandate and Composition
    • Item 12 Standardisation Process (slides)
    • Item 12 Standardisation process
    • Item 13 NTTS
    • Item AoB Blue Sky Thinking
    • Zip File with all docs for DIME/ITDG 14 and 15 of February 2017
  • DIME ITDG Meetings 2016
    • DIME ITDG Steering Group 19 October 2016
      • opinions_actions_dime-itdg_sg_oct_2016_final
      • Agenda
      • item_1_draft_agenda_for_the_february_2017_dime_itdg_plenary_meeting.doc
      • item_3_CBS_new_methodological_challenges_for_new_societal_phenomena.pptx
      • item_4_Istat_a_register_based_statistical_system_integrating_administrative_archives_statistical_surveys_and_population_sizes_estimation_final
      • item_5_hcso_transmission_and_preparation_of_data_from_secondary_data_sources_at_hcso
    • DIME ITDG Steering Group 28 June 2016
      • Opinions and Actions
      • Item 0 Agenda
      • Item 1 ESS Vision 2020 ADMIN
      • Item 2 ESS Vision DIGICOM
      • Item 3 Ess Vision2020 Validation.pptx
      • Item 4 From Indicators to synthesis
      • Item 5a Service Design Enterprise Architecture by ONS
      • Item 5b EA in ESS by Eurostat
      • Item 6 Big Data Strategy
      • Item 6 Big Data beyond 2020
      • Item 7 ESS IT security_framework_assurance_mechanism.pptx
      • Item 8 Reporting on Quality issues
      • Item 9 Dissemination of methodological work at Istat
      • all doc in 1 zip file
    • Joint DIME ITDG Plenary 24/25 February 2016
      • on the fly opinions
      • Minutes
      • Item 0 Agenda
      • Item 0 Written consultation on the agenda
      • Item 1 Presentation ESS.VIP VALIDATION
      • Item 7 Computational and Data science at Stanford
      • Item 8 Presentation ESS EA Roadmap
  • DIME ITDG meetings 2015
    • DIME plenary meeting 23 and 24 February 2015
      • Minutes_DIME-ITDG 2015 final
      • a ZIP file with all docs uploaded as of the 23 of February 2015
      • DIME_Plenary_2015_02_23 Item 01 agenda
      • DIME-ITDG_Plenary_2015_02_24 Item 01 agenda
      • ITDG_Plenary_2015_02_25 link to Agenda and Docs
    • Joint DIME ITDG Steering Group 24/25 June 2015
      • Opinions and actions
      • Item 01 Agenda
    • Joint DIME ITDG Steering Group 18 November 2015
      • zip_all docs_and slides_DIME_ITDG SG 2015 November
      • DIME_ITDG SG 2015 November Item 01 Agenda_final
      • DIME_ITDG SG 2015 November Item 02 Agenda_DIME_ITDG_FEB2016_plenary
      • DIME_ITDG SG 2015 November Item 03 ESS.VIP_Validation
      • DIME_ITDG SG 2015 November Item 03 ESS.VIP_Validation_Annex
      • DIME_ITDG SG 2015 November Item 04 ESS.VIP_DIGICOM BC-v1.0
      • DIME_ITDG SG 2015 November Item 05 Q in the ESS Vision 2020 Impl paper v1 1
      • DIME_ITDG SG 2015 November Item 05 QUAL@ESS Vision 2020
      • DIME_ITDG SG 2015 November Item 06 ESDEN-DIME-ITDG2015
      • DIME_ITDG SG 2015 November Item 06 SERV-DIME-ITDG2015
      • DIME_ITDG SG 2015 November Item 07 ESS vision 2020 Risk Management.ppt
      • DIME_ITDG SG 2015 November Item 08 EA roadmap v.1.0.pptx
      • DIME_ITDG SG 2015 November Item 08 Enterprise Architecture Roadmap
      • DIME_ITDG SG 2015 November Item 09 ESSnets.ppt
      • DIME_ITDG SG 2015 November Item 09_Annex 1 PIRs
      • DIME_ITDG SG 2015 November Item 10 IT security.pptx
      • DIME_ITDG SG 2015 November Item 11 HLG work.pptx
      • DIME_ITDG SG 2015 November Item 12 BIG Data-Short update on progress
      • DIME_ITDG SG 2015 November Item 13 ESTP
      • DIME_ITDG SG 2015 November Item 14 SIMSTAT
      • DIME_ITDG SG 2015 November Item 15 TCO mandate
      • DIME_ITDG SG 2015 November Item 15 TCOs
      • Opinions_actions_DIME-ITDG SG Nov 2015_Final.pdf
  • DIME Meetings up to 2014
    • DIME meetings 2014
      • Joint DIME/ITDG Steering Group meeting 8 December 2014
        • DIME-ITDG SG 2014_12 Item 01 Agenda
        • DIME-ITDG SG 2014_12 Item 02 DIME_ITDG SG mandate and RoP
        • DIME-ITDG SG 2014_12 minutes
      • Joint DIME/ITDG steering group meeting 18 and 19 June 2014
        • DIME-ITDG Steering Group June 2014 Final Minutes
        • DIME-ITDG Steering Group June 2014 Item01 Agenda
      • DIME & ITDG plenary meeting 26 and 27 March 2014
        • DIME-ITDG 2014 Final minutes
        • DIME-ITDG 2014 Item01 Agenda
        • DIME-ITDG 2014 Item 20 Conclusions
    • DIME meetings 2013
      • Joint DIME/ITDG steering group meeting 6 June 2013
        • Joint DIME/ITDG steering group meeting 6 June 2013 - agenda
        • Item 7 - Conclusions
        • Reference document : ESSC document May 2013
      • DIME plenary meeting 27-28 February 2013
        • DIME plenary meeting 2013 - agenda
        • DIME Plenary 2013 - Item 2 - Mandate and rules of procedure
        • DIME Plenary 2013 - Item 3 - Groupstructure_v2
        • DIME Plenary 2013 - Item 4.1 - ISTAT on Enterprise Architecture
        • DIME Plenary 2013 - Item 4.2 - ESS.VIPV
        • DIME Plenary 2013 - Item 5 - CentresOfCompetence
        • DIME Plenary 2013 - Item 5 - CentresOfCompetence-v1f
        • DIME Plenary 2013 - Item 6 - DIME WGs and TFs
        • DIME Plenary 2013 - Item 6.1 - DIME WG and TF
        • DIME Plenary 2013 - Item 6.2 - standardisation_final
        • DIME Plenary 2013 - Item 6.3 - Security Issues
        • DIME Plenary 2013 - Item 7.1 -Standardisation overview_Mag
        • DIME Plenary 2013 - Item 7.2 - Eurostat detailed replies on the revisions
        • DIME Plenary 2013 - Item 7.2 - Eurostat replies to the comments received from DIME
        • DIME Plenary 2013 - Item 7.2 - Revised handbook
        • DIME Plenary 2013 - Item 7.2 - Revision of the Handbook
        • DIME Plenary 2013 - Item 7.3 - Eurostat detailed replies on the revisions
        • DIME Plenary 2013 - Item 7.4 - Eurostat replies to the comments received from DIME
        • DIME Plenary 2013 - Item 8 - Orientations for 2014_New
        • DIME Plenary 2013 - Item 9 - ESSnet2014Pgm2012Rpt
        • DIME Plenary 2013 - Item 9 - ESSnetProgramme-v1J
        • DIME Plenary 2013 - Item 9 - FOSS_project
        • DIME Plenary 2013 - Item 9.1 - ProposalOpenSourceProject
        • DIME Plenary 2013 - Item 10 - DIME ESSnet projects
        • DIME Plenary 2013 - Item 11 - Big Data
        • DIME Plenary 2013 - Item 11 - Research
        • DIME Plenary 2013 - Item 11.1 - ResearchOpportunities
        • DIME Plenary 2013 - Item 12 - For information
        • DIME Plenary 2013 - Item 12 - HLG and GSIM
        • DIME Plenary 2013 - Item 12.2 - Sponsorship on Standardisation
        • DIME Plenary 2013 - Item 12.4 - legislation
        • DIME Plenary 2013 - Item 12.5 - Minutes-ITDG2012
        • DIME Plenary 2013 - Item 12.7 - Integration Grants 2012
        • DIME Plenary 2013 - Item 13 - Annual report to ESSC
        • DIME Plenary 2013 - Item 13 - DIME Annual Report ESSC
      • Item 2 - Reorganisation
    • DIME meetings 2011
• Written consultations
  • Written consultation on DIME-ITDG 2018 plenary meeting
    • Draft Agenda Plenary
  • Written consultation on ESDEN and SERV of ITDG/DIME before VIG
    • ESDEN project status-VIG-1.00
    • SERV project status-VIG-1.0
  • Written consultation on new Governance for DIME/ITDG (09/2015)
  • Written consultation on the new Governance for DIME/ITDG (08/2015)
  • Written DIME/ITDG consultation on the proposal for the extension of the European Statistical Programme (08/2015)
  • Written consultation of DIME on the revision of the ESS Quality Framework V1.2 (04/2015)
    • Written consultation of DIME on the revision of the ESS Quality Framework V1.2
  • Written consultation on the business case of ESS.VIP ADMIN (01/2015)
  • Written consultation of DIME on the 2015 ESSnet proposals (10/2014)
  • Written consultation of DIME on the rules of procedure of the DIME (10/2014)
  • Written consultation of ITDG on the rules of procedure of the ITDG (10/2014)
  • Written consultation on the mandate of TF on standardisation (07/2014)
    • Mandate of TF on Standardisation
    • Results on the written consultation on the mandate of the tf on standardisation
    • Written consultation on the mandate of the TF on standardisation
    • DIME-ITDG Draft Mandate of TF on Standardisation
  • Written consultation on DIME/ITDG 2014 plenary minutes (07/2014)
  • Written consultation on CPA update (01/2014)
• Working Group on Quality
• Working Group on Methodology
  • 1st Meeting 07 of April 2016 Luxembourg
    • Minutes_wg_methdology_2016
    • Item 0 agenda
    • item_0.1_dime_itdg_governance.pdf
    • item_0.1_dime_itdg_governance.pptx
    • item_1.1_PUF_Annex_4_Disclaimers
    • item_1.1_main document public use files
    • item_1.1_public_use_files_for_ess_microdata.pptx
    • item_1.2_confidentiality_charters
    • item_1.2_confidentiality_charters.pptx
    • item_1.3_confidentiality_projects
    • item_2.1_big_data_and_macroeconomic_nowcasting_slides
    • item_2.2_centre_of_excellence_on_seasonal_adjustment_FR
    • item_2.2_roadmap_on_seasonal_adjutment.docx
    • item_2.3_coe_dwh.pptx
    • item_2.4_validation
    • item_2.4_validation.pptx
    • item_2.5_admin_long.pptx
    • item_3.1_ntts_2017.pptx
    • item_3.2_h2020.docx
    • item_3.2_h2020_slides
    • item_4.1_visualisation.docx
    • item_4.2_linked_open_data.docx
    • on_the_fly_opinions_working_group_methodology
  • 2nd Meeting 05 of April 2017 Luxembourg
    • Minutes
    • Agenda
    • Item 1.1 Business Architecture for ESS Validation
    • Item 1.1 Business Architecture for ESS validation (slides)
    • Item 1.1 ESS Validation project - Progress (slides)
    • Item 1.2 BIRD-VTL (slides)
    • Item 1.3 Validation Break-out sessions
    • Item 1.3 Validation break-out sessions (slides)
      • Item 1.1b Business Architecture for validation in the ESS (slides)
    • Item 2.1 Annex 1 EBS Manual SDC
    • Item 2.1 Annex 2 EBS Manual Microdata Access
    • Item 2.1 Confidentiality and Microdata (slides)
    • Item 2.1 Report on Statistical Confidentiality
    • Item 2.2 Waivers (slides)
    • Item 2.2 Waivers
    • Item 3.1 Estimation Methods for Admin (slides)
    • Item 3.2 Selectivity in Big Data (slides)
    • Item 3.2 Selectivity in Big Data sources
    • Item 3.3 ESS Guidelines on Temporal Disaggregation (slides)
    • Item 3.3 ESS Guidelines on Temporal Disaggregation
    • Item 4.1 LOD (slides)
    • Item 4.2 NTTS debriefing
    • Minutes
    • Waiver deployment in businessstatistics 23may2017
  • 3rd Meeting 03 of May 2018 Luxembourg
    • Agenda
    • Item 1.1 Guidelines for Estimation Methods for Administrative data
    • Item 1.1 Presentation
    • Item 1.2 ESS Guidelines on Temporal Disaggregation
    • Item 1.2 Presentation
    • Item 2.1 Presentation
    • Item 2.1 Results of the ESSnet Validat Integration
    • Item 2.2 Presentation
    • Item 2.2 Results of the Task Force on Validation and state of play of the ESS Validation project
    • Item 2.3 Possible standards for ESS Validation
    • Item 2.3 Presentation
    • Item 3.1 State of play of the ESS shared services
    • Item 3.2 Use of R in ESS
    • Item 3.3 Open and shared algorithms
    • Item 3.3 Presentation
    • Item 4.1 Presentation
    • Item 4.1 Recent developments in confidentiality and microdata access
    • Item 4.2 Anonymisation rules for Farm Structure Survey
    • Item 4.2 Presentation
    • Item 4.3 Confidentiality on the fly
    • Item 4.3 Presentation
    • Item 5.1 Presentation of the MAKSWELL project
    • Item 5.2 Experimental statistics
    • Item 5.3 Presentation of the features of the revamped CROS portal
    • Item 5.4 NTTS 2019 Conference preparation
  • Task Force on Temporal Disagreggation
    • ESS Guidelines on Temporal Disaggregation (version 8, 15 February 2018)
    • ESS Guidelines on Temporal Disaggregation (version 7, 6 December 2017)
    • ESS Guidelines on Temporal Disaggregation (version 6 , 27 October 2017)
    • ESS Guidelines on Temporal Disaggregation (version 5 , 29 June 2017)
      • CBS comments to overall structure
      • Forewords chapter 1 and 2 DK
      • SE chapter 6 and 7
    • Meetings
      • Agenda TF Temporal disaggregation, Luxembourg Meeting 6 Decemebr 2017
        • Opinions and_actions_tf_on_temporal_disaggregation_06_december_2017
      • Agenda TF Temporal disaggreagtion , VC meeting 13 of Septemebr 2017
        • Opinions and actions TF on Temporal Disaggregation (Meeting 13 September 2017)
      • Opinions and actions TF on Temporal Disaggregation (Meeting 30 may 2017)
  • Workshop on Small Area Methods and living conditions indicators in #European poverty studies in the era of data deluge and #Bigdata
  • Public use files background
  • Members of WG Methodology
• Working Group on Standards
• Working Group on IT
• Annual ESSnet Assessments
  • Documents
    • CoE Assessment 2015
    • ESSnet assessment 2015
    • Centres of Excellence assessment report 2014
    • ESSnet assessment report 2014
    • 2011 ESSnet assessment report
• Methodological handbooks
  • Handbook on Methodology of Modern Business Statistics
    • Preface
    • Introduction
    • General Observations
      • Methods and Quality (Theme)
      • Quality and Risk Management Models (Theme)
      • Logging (Theme)
      • Different Types of Surveys (Theme)
      • The European Statistical System (Theme)
      • GSBPM: Generic Statistical Business Process Model (Theme)
    • User Needs
      • Specification of User Needs for Business Statistics (Theme)
    • Overall Design
      • Overall Design (Theme)
    • Repeated Surveys
      • Repeated Surveys (Theme)
    • Questionnaire Design
      • Questionnaire Design - Main Module (Theme)
      • Electronic Questionnaire Design (Theme)
      • Editing During Data Collection (Theme)
      • Testing the Questionnaire (Theme)
    • Statistical Registers and Frames
      • Statistical Registers and Frames - Main Module (Theme)
      • The Populations, Frames, and Units of Business Surveys (Theme)
      • Building and Maintaining Statistical Registers to Support Business Surveys (Theme)
      • Survey Frames for Business Surveys (Theme)
      • The Design of Statistical Registers and Survey Frames (Theme)
      • The Statistical Units and the Business Register (Theme)
      • Quality of Statistical Registers and Frames (Theme)
    • Derivation of Statistical Units
      • Derivation of Statistical Units (Theme)
    • Dynamics of the Business Population
      • Business Demography (Theme)
    • Sample Selection
      • Sample Selection - Main Module (Theme)
      • Balanced Sampling for Multi-Way Stratification (Method)
      • Subsampling for Preliminary Estimates (Method)
      • Sample Co-ordination (Theme)
      • Sample Co-ordination Using Simple Random Sampling with Permanent Random Numbers (Method)
      • Sample Co-ordination Using Poisson Sampling with Permanent Random Numbers (Method)
      • Assigning Random Numbers when Co-ordination of Surveys Based on Different Unit Types is Considered (Method)
    • Data Collection
      • Data Collection - Main Module (Theme)
      • Design of Data Collection Part 1: Choosing the Appropriate Data Collection Method (Theme)
      • Design of Data Collection Part 2: Contact Strategies (Theme)
      • Mixed Mode Data Collection (Theme)
      • Techniques and Tools (Theme)
      • CATI Allocation (Theme)
      • Collection and Use of Secondary Data (Theme)
    • Response
      • Response Process (Theme)
      • Response Burden (Theme)
    • Micro-Fusion
      • Micro-Fusion - Data Fusion at Micro Level (Theme)
      • Object Matching (Record Linkage) (Theme)
      • Object Identifier Matching (Method)
      • Unweighted Matching of Object Characteristics (Method)
      • Weighted Matching of Object Characteristics (Method)
      • Probabilistic Record Linkage (Theme)
      • Fellegi-Sunter and Jaro Approach to Record Linkage (Method)
      • Statistical Matching (Theme)
      • Statistical Matching Methods (Method)
      • Reconciling Conflicting Microdata (Method)
      • Prorating (Method)
      • Minimum Adjustment Methods (Method)
      • Generalised Ratio Adjustments (Method)
    • Coding
      • Coding - Main Module (Theme)
      • How to Build the Informative Base (Theme)
      • Manual Coding (Method)
      • Automatic Coding Based on Pre-coded Datasets (Method)
      • Automatic Coding Based on Semantic Networks (Method)
      • Computer-Assisted Coding (Method)
      • Different Coding Strategies (Theme)
      • Measuring Coding Quality (Theme)
    • Statistical Data Editing
      • Statistical Data Editing - Main Module (Theme)
      • Deductive Editing (Method)
      • Selective Editing (Theme)
      • Automatic Editing (Method)
      • Manual Editing (Method)
      • Macro-Editing (Theme)
      • Editing Administrative Data (Theme)
      • Editing for Longitudinal Data (Theme)
    • Imputation
      • Imputation - Main Module (Theme)
      • Deductive Imputation (Method)
      • Model-Based Imputation (Theme)
      • Donor Imputation (Theme)
      • Imputation for Longitudinal Data (Theme)
      • Little and Su Method (Method)
      • Imputation under Edit Constraints (Theme)
    • Weighting and Estimation
      • Weighting and Estimation - Main Module (Theme)
      • Design of Estimation - Some Practical Issues (Theme)
      • Calibration (Method)
      • Generalised Regression Estimator (Method)
      • Outlier Treatment (Method)
      • Preliminary Estimates with Design-Based Methods (Method)
      • Preliminary Estimates with Model-Based Methods (Method)
      • Small Area Estimation (Theme)
      • Synthetic Estimators for Small Area Estimation (Method)
      • Composite Estimators for Small Area Estimation (Method)
      • EBLUP Area Level for Small Area Estimation (Fay-Herriot) (Method)
      • EBLUP Unit Level for Small Area Estimation (Method)
      • Small Area Estimation Methods for Time Series Data (Method)
      • Estimation with Administrative Data (Theme)
    • Quality Aspects
      • Quality of Statistics (Theme)
      • Revisions of Economic Official Statistics (Theme)
    • Macro-Integration
      • Macro-Integration - Main Module (Theme)
      • Manual Integration (Theme)
      • RAS (Method)
      • Stone's Method (Method)
      • Denton's Method (Method)
      • Chow-Lin Method for Temporal Disaggregation (Method)
      • Asymmetry in Statistics - European Register for Multinationals (EGR) (Theme)
    • Seasonal Adjustment
      • Seasonal Adjustment - Introduction and General Description (Theme)
      • Seasonal Adjustment of Economic Time Series (Method)
      • Issues on Seasonal Adjustment (Theme)
    • Statistical Disclosure Control
      • Statistical Disclosure Control - Main Module (Theme)
      • Statistical Disclosure Control Methods for Quantitative Tables (Theme)
    • Dissemination
      • Dissemination of Business Statistics (Theme)
    • Evaluation
      • Evaluation of Business Statistics (Theme)
    • Glossary
  • The treatment of large enterprise groups within Statistics Netherlands