Register-based Statistics, Third Edition - Registers and the National Statistical System

Register-based statistics is a powerful tool that can be used to improve administrative systems, estimation methods, and the introduction of register-statistical issues. The Third Edition of Register-based Statistics: Registers and the National Statistical System provides a comprehensive exploration of how register-based statistics can be used to its fullest potential. It discusses the problems new register countries face, how registers will improve the efficiency of the national statistical system, and how to create a statistical population register. It is perfect for staff at national statistical institutes, administrative and ministerial authorities, undergraduate and graduate students, survey researchers, and practitioners.

Format: Hardback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 24 March 2022
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Rediscover this authoritative guide to register-based statistics, filled with significant new improvements! In the newly revised Third Edition of Register-based Statistics: Registers and the National Statistical System, Anders Wallgren and Britt Wallgren deliver a robust exploration of how register-based statistics can be used to its fullest potential. The authors describe how statistical institutes can work on long-term projects to improve administrative systems, as well as estimation methods that can improve the quality of statistical estimates based on registers with quality problems. Readers will also discover how to improve the ways register-statistical issues are introduced, as well as how to create population registers.

Finally, the authors draw on their experience from teaching and consulting in several countries to explain how to implement register-based statistics.

Key features of the third edition:

Discusses the problems new register countries face.

Explains how registers will improve the efficiency of the national statistical system.

Clarifies the importance of the system approach.

Describes how a statistical population register can be created.

Registers-based statistics require new skills and understanding of new concepts.

Many important quality indicators are described.

Explains difficult topics in a pedagogic way.

Perfect for staff at national statistical institutes and administrative and ministerial authorities belonging to national statistical systems, Register-based Statistics will also prove to be an indispensable resource for undergraduate and graduate students in statistics programs and courses, as well as survey researchers and practitioners.

Weight: 700g
Dimension: 175 x 251 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781119632375