Publication Further development of European production statistics

Various methods for modernising the European production statistics (PRODCOM) were examined in a project initiated by the Statistical Office of the European Union (Eurostat).
In Germany the results of these annual statistics are based on the national data collected in the monthly and quarterly production surveys. The German surveys cover the domestic production of enterprises with 20 or more persons employed. This article describes how the value of sold production of enterprises with less than 20 persons employed is estimated using administrative data and an econometric method for the estimation of variables of new units (multilevel model). In addition, the options are shown which were tested to reduce the scope of confidential results in the relevant national and European publications.

Authors: Luis Federico Flores, Luisa Baumgärtner

Article published in "WISTA – Scientific Journal", 5-2019