Planning and Design of the Survey
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                                                                            Statistic 
                    General                                                 Statistic 
                    General                                                 specific 
                      Parts                                                 specific 
                      Parts                                                   part
                                                                              part
                                                             Labour        Structural 
             „Your          „Cross-         Census           Labour        Structural 
             „Your          „Cross-         Census           Force          Business       Agriculture       Prices
            Institute“      domain“          2011            Force          Business       Agriculture       Prices
            Institute“      domain“          2011            Survey          Survey
                                                             Survey          Survey
                                                           Sheets
                                                           Sheets
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       Planning and Design of the Survey
            General parts of the questionnaire
             „Your Institute“ to capture contact information and 
                general background on organizational matters of 
                official statistics in a country
             „Cross-domain“ refers to the general usage of 
                validation methodology, services and technology in 
                an institute across statistical domains
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       Planning and Design of the Survey
            Statistic specific part of the questionnaire
             One statistic specific sheet duplicated for 5 
                domains (Census, LFS, SBS, Agriculture, Prices):
                          Questions about the validation process
                          Questions about validation rules
                          Question concerning the workload of validation
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         Results of the Survey
               Response
                      Total Response rate: 83%
                      Response rate of the domains between 67% and 
                       80% 85%
                                     80%
                                     75%
                                     70%
                                     65%
                                     60%
                                              Census         LFS          SBS       Agriculture    Prices
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       Results of the Survey
            General parts: Centralization (1)
             Question: How do you organize validation 
                methodology in your institute?
                       Half of the responding NSIs do not take a 
                       centralized approach:
                                                                      There is one cen-
                                                       3              tral methodolog-
                                                                      ical unit
                                              8                       Methodology is 
                                                                      handled per 
                                                                      domain or sur-
                                                                      vey
                                                                      Mixed approach: 
                                                        11            There is a central 
                                                                      unit, but the do-
                                                                      mains take part
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