Affiliations: European Commission, Eurostat, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Correspondence:
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Corresponding author: Martin Karlberg, European Commission, Eurostat, L-2920 Luxembourg, Luxembourg. Tel.: +352 4301 35934; E-mail:martin.karlberg@ec.europa.eu
Abstract: This paper presents key methodological results from a
project on streamlining and integrating sample survey programmes. More
specifically, it: Proposes a general modular framework and integrated survey systems (in
concrete terms, i.e. with a specific set of surveys as the point of
departure); Presents a toolbox (covering estimation, sample allocation and instrument
composition) to deal with the methodological challenges associated with such
integrated systems; and Indicates possible steps to upgrade statistical production systems from a
collection of uncoordinated surveys to a harmonised integrated system of
surveys. A concrete application of the `instrument composition' part of the toolbox
demonstrates how the EU Labour Force Survey, the EU Survey on Income and
Living Conditions and the EU Adult Education Survey could be combined so as
to improve flexibility (responding to new user needs), efficiency (greater
precision or reduced costs) and transversality (capacity to combine
variables from different statistical domains).
