Call for Papers - EESW23

ENBES is pleased to invite you to the eighth European Establishment Statistics Workshop (EESW23). The workshop will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, on 19-22 September 2023. It will be hosted by Statistics Portugal. The first day is devoted to short courses, followed by a two-and-a-half-day workshop. 

EESW23 is devoted to furthering the understanding of topics in designing, collecting, analysing and using statistics about and for businesses and other organisational entities. EESW23 will continue the workshop series, a prime European opportunity for official statistics methodologists, academic researchers and private sector professionals in the fields of business, economic and other areas of establishment statistics to exchange experiences, share new methods and findings, learn from each other, and create opportunities for deeper collaboration. 

Under a broad heading of Traditional and new data sources for establishment statistics, the workshop welcomes contributions on all topics related to establishment statistics: sample design, data collection, response process, editing and imputation, estimation, modelling, data presentation and dissemination, metadata and process data for establishment statistics, cross-national statistics, and similar. However, we especially invite contributions and considerations on new developments in the following overarching areas, which can contribute to addressing some emerging research questions:

Data collection management

• • Use of data portals

  • Automated data collection, system to system collection

  • Changes to data collection due to COVID-19

  • Respondent communication and care

  • Respondent burden

Responding to demand for new outputs

• Producing more frequent outputs e.g. monthly STS data by combining old and new data

• sources (structured or unstructured)

• Rare populations - how to measure phenomena that refer to small populations

• How to combine administrative data with other sources?

• How to integrate unstructured (big) data into processes?

• How to measure quality of administrative data or mixed data sources?

Changing environment for business statistics

• Embedding changes due to COVID-19 in business survey processes

• Responding to the availability of new data sources (structured and unstructured) and

• falling response rates from traditional surveys

• Differences between the use of structured and unstructured alternative data sources

• Rebasing challenges due to atypical economic situations in the base year

• Seasonal adjustment during times of atypical change

To submit a formal application for presentation of a paper/poster, please use the on-line registration form, with a deadline of April 7th, 2023. At the time of registering, please also send an abstract of max. 300 words - as an attachment in pdf format - to eesw@enbes.org, with the subject line the same as the abstract title. Decisions on acceptance will be made by the end of April 2023.

As in previous workshops, the number of registered participants will be limited to 55 in order to facilitate interaction. Authors of accepted abstracts will have priority for registration. All accepted authors will be requested to provide a paper, to be circulated to the participants well in advance of the workshop, to aid their preparations. The draft paper should be between 3 and 5 pages long and use font size 11 or 12. The authors will be free to use a template they prefer. Pdfs of final papers will be made publicly available after the workshop, by publishing them in the ENBES scientific repository.

The EESW23 Programme Committee

Jillian Delaney (chair)

Arnout van Delden

Paulo Saraiva

Paul Smith

A pdf version of the initial call, for download, can be found here.

A pdf version of the reminder call, for download, can be found here.