TRUSTED SMART STATISTICS - Discussions on Web Intelligence at the 2024 European Conference on Quality in Official Statistics

On 4-7 June 2024, the 11th European Conference on Quality in Official Statistics (Q2024) was held in Estoril, Portugal. Bringing together a wide range of stakeholders, Q2024 aimed to enhance cooperation between official statistics and the scientific community to foster closer dialogue between users and producers. The use of web data for European statistics was discussed in Q2024 dedicated sessions.

date: 30/09/2024

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The Q2024 conference was co-organised by Statistics Portugal and Eurostat. During the four-day event, representatives of national statistical offices, academia and users discussed various topics related to quality in official statistics in the EU and beyond.

Presentations on Eurostat’s Web Intelligence Hub (WIH) were covered in two dedicated sessions of the conference: Session 8 related to the quality of web-based data and Session 12 related to the WIH’s most well-developed use case – online job advertisements.

Below is a selection of the topics presented at the conference related to Web Intelligence or use of online data. Descriptions of all papers featured in the conference can be found in the Book of Abstracts. We strongly encourage you to read papers or review slides prepared for the following Q conference contributions:

Session 8 – Quality of web-based data

Improving quality of web-based data: Human Role in production of Consistent Labour Market intelligence – for the paper, see here
Statistical scraping: informed plough begets finer crops – for the paper, see here; for the slides, see here
From Web Content to Quality Data: Rules, Roles, and Reliability in the Web Intelligence Hub – for the slides, see here
Web data vs. traditional data sources on real estate – augmenting official statistics – for the slides, see here
Integrating Social Media and Administrative Data for the Real-Time Prediction of the Consumer Confidence Indicator – for the paper, see here; for the slides, see here

Session 12 – Online job advertisements

Combining Online Job Advertisements with Probability Sample Data for Enhanced Small Area Estimation of Job Vacancies – for the paper, see here; for the slides, see here
Innovative Approaches to Enhance Data Quality in Official Statistics: A Case Study on Online Job Advertisement Data – for the paper, see here; for the slides, see here
Experimental OJA based indicators on labour demand changes: opportunities and challenges – for the paper, see here; for the slides, see here

Contributions to other sessions

Updating of Statistical Register by Web Scraping – for the paper, see here; for the slides, see here
Using cloud based flexible environment for training on open-source tools and development of new statistics using data from the web – for the slides, see here
Qualitative Assessment of Wikipedia-Sourced Big Data on Enterprises – for the paper, see here; for the slides, see here
Twitter as a data source for Official Statistics: analyzing Italian conversations on the Russia-Ukraine war – neither paper nor slides published as yet on the conference webpage
Papers on classification and machine learning – see under Session 13, Session 23 and 37 of the conference

For more information, please visit the Q2024 website where you can read more about the papers presented in the full Book of Abstracts and look up relevant papers and slides under sessions of your interest in the conference programme.

You can also check out the best moments and highlights from the conference here.