Newsletter 2018-06

Dear ENBES member,

With this message we would like to call your attention to the following two subjects:

ENBES contributes to the Methodology of Longitudinal Studies conference MOLS2

There seems to be potential for greater links between business surveys and longitudinal surveys, and ENBES has taken the opportunity presented by the Methodology of Longitudinal Studies conference MOLS2 https://www.mols2.org.uk/ in Colchester, Essex, UK 25-27 July 2018 to propose some sessions. The organisers found this very helpful, but decided to split up the papers so that there would be more opportunity for interactions between the business surveys and household surveys perspectives. Indeed there are some contributions related to business surveys which did not go through ENBES – see https://www.mols2.org.uk/programme/day1 for the detailed programme. We hope to see some ENBES participants there, and encourage you to participate in linking these branches of statistics.

Proceedings of the EESW17 workshop

The fifth biennial European Establishment Statistics Workshop, EESW17, was held in Southampton, UK, on August 30 - September 1, 2017. The EESW17 program included 35 papers and posters in 12 sessions, with a total of 48 participating business survey methodologists from official statistics, academia and the private sector. The papers are available at EESW17 Programme. We, at ENBES, aim at bringing into focus knowledge and know-how in the field of business statistics and bringing them closer to the larger public and that is why the Scientific Committee of EESW17 has engaged in working towards an edited proceedings volume with a selection of papers presented at the workshop. The volume is now in its final phase of preparation for publication later in 2018 and we expect to submit it to the publisher by the end of June.

We would be happy to receive your feedback on our current activities and even better your proposals on how you would like ENBES to bring you increased value in your experience in establishment statistics. We think that in-between workshops, our collaboration should be in constant progress and we are currently thinking about the possibility of organising a one-day seminar before EESW19. We are in search of possible relevant topics which may be of interest to a broad spectrum of specialists and methodologists from the academia, national statistical institutes or the private sector. Thus, any idea or suggestion is quite welcome.

We thank you for your continued interest in ENBES activities.

With kind regards, on behalf of the ENBES Steering Committee,

Desislava Nedyalkova