The Survey Statistician

Focus and Scope:  The Survey Statistician is the newsletter of the International Association of Survey Statisticians (IASS). It includes general information about the activities of the Association (meetings, seminars, etc.) and about meetings arranged by other organizations around the world that are likely to be of interest to its members. It contains various technical sections on issues related to surveys (e.g., survey terminology, bibliographies, summaries of papers or books). The newsletter also welcomes overview of survey topics, overview of the work done by the project participants or workshop participants and original research work. All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the Editors. If found suitable for further consideration, some of the papers are subject to the single blind peer review; other materials go for publication straightly.

The aim of the newsletter: To provide a platform for survey statisticians for exchange of news, information, experience, new and emerging methods and list the latest relevant publications in other journals.

Publication frequency: Two issues per year.

Language: The newsletter accepts articles in English.

Open Access Policy. Our periodical is an open access newsletter. All content is freely available without charge to users or their institutions. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles in this journal without asking prior permission of the publisher or the author. The journal does not charge fees for article processing or submission. Articles published in the journal are distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) license.

Latest Issue! The Survey Statistician

The Survey Statistician Complete Issue

Letter from the Editors, Letter from the President, Report from the Scientific Secretary, News and Announcements

Early Scandinavian Contributions to Survey Sampling, by Thomas Laitila

New and Emerging Methods: From Traditional to Modern Machine Learning Estimation Methods for Survey Sampling, by Camelia Goga

Early Career Survey Statistician: The Use of New Data Sources in Small Area Estimation, by Camilla Salvatore and Angelo Moretti

Book Review: Sampling and Estimation from Finite Populations by Yves Tillé, reviewed by Angelo Moretti

Software Review: Inference with Non-probability Surveys, by Beatriz Cobo, Ramón Ferri-Garcia, Jorge L. Rueda-Sánchez and Maria del Mar Rueda

Country Reports (Argentina, Canada, Croatia, Estonia, Hong Kong S.A.R.,Hungary, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Poland, Ukraine, United States), Upcoming Conferences and Workshops, In the Journals, Welcome New Members, IASS Executive Committee, Institutional Members

The Survey Statistician Complete Issue

Letter from the Editors, Letter from the President, Report from the Scientific Secretary, News and Announcements, Reports from Conferences

A Tribute to the Centenarian Statistician C. R. Rao, by Arni S. R. Srinivasa Rao, T. Krishna Kumar and Pramod Kumar Pathak

The First Fifty Years of the IASS, Some Thoughts, by Carl-Erik Särndal

Past Presidents Testimonials on IASS

Ask the Experts: What is the state of play on statistical matching with a focus on auxiliary information, complex survey designs and quality issues? by Marcello D’Orazio, Marco Di Zio and Mauro Scanu

New and Emerging Methods: Social big data to enhance small area estimates, by Stefano Marchetti and Francesco Schirripa Spagnolo

Early Career Survey Statistician: The growth of new researchers in the era of new data sources, by Veronica Ballerini and Lisa Braito

Book Review: A Course on Small Area Estimation and Mixed Models Methods, Theory and Applications in R by Domingo Morales, Marıa Dolores Esteban, Agustın Perez and Tomas Hobza, reviewed by Caterina Giusti

Software Review: SAE models for indicators in the unit interval: The tipsae R package and its Shiny interface, reviewed by Silvia De Nicolo and Aldo Gardini

Country Reports (Argentina, Canada, Fiji, Finland, France, Hong Kong S.A.R., Netherlands, New Zealand, Peru, Switzerland, United States), Upcoming Conferences and Workshops, In the Journals, Welcome New Members, IASS Executive Committee, Institutional Members

The Survey Statistician Complete Issue

Letter from the Editor, Letter from the President, Report from the Scientific Secretary

The 50th Anniversary of IASS. Collection of Articles.

Some Memorable Recollections of IASS First Meeting, by J. N. K. Rao

Survey Sampling During the Last 50 Years, by Ton de Waal and Sander Scholtus

Historical Overview of Small Area Estimation in the 50th Birthday of the IASS, by Isabel Molina and J. N. K. Rao

Is it Time for Young Survey Statisticians to Shine in the Society? by Mahmoud Torabi

Cochran-Hansen Prize – Memories from the Beginning, by Maiki Ilves, Kristiina Rajaleid and Imbi Traat

The History and Impact of the Survey Methodology Journal, by Jean-François Beaumont

50 Years of Keeping Survey Statisticians of the World Informed: The Survey Statistician, by Eric Rancourt

Survey Sampling History at Iowa State University, by Jae Kwang Kim

Sample Surveys in Post-Apartheid South Africa, by Jairo Arrow

Development of Sample Surveys in Australia and New Zealand over the Last 50 Years, by Dennis Trewin

The Contributions of Italian Statisticians to the Development of Survey Statistics, by Luigi Biggeri

The IASS – 50 Years of Activity, by Danny Pfeffermann

Ask the Experts: Doubly and Multiply Robust Procedures for Missing Survey Data, by Sixia Chen and David Haziza

New and Emerging Methods: Calibration Techniques for Model-based Prediction and Doubly Robust Estimation, by Changbao Wu

Book review: “Sampling: Design and Analysis, Third Edition” by Sharon L. Lohr and reviewed by Camelia Goga

Software Review: The Survey Package for R, 15 Years on, by Thomas Lumley

Country Reports: Argentina, Australia, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, Fiji, France, Kenya,The Netherlands, Peru, Poland, Switzerland, Uruguay, United States; Upcoming Conferences and Workshops; In other Journals; Welcome New Members; IASS Executive Committee Members; Institutional Members

The Survey Statistician Complete Issue

Letter from the Editor, Letter from the President, Report from the Scientific Secretary, News and Announcements

Ask the Expert: Mixed mode official surveys. Current status and near future, by Barry Schouten, Jan van den Brakel, Dierdre Giesen, Annemieke Luiten and Vivian Meertens

New and Emerging Methods: Using Social Media to Enhance Survey Data, by Annamaria Bianchi, Camilla Salvatore and Silvia Biffignandi

Book review: Book review: Multiple Imputation of Missing data in Practice, Basic Theory and Analysis Strategies, by Yulei He, Guangyu Zhang and Chiu-Hsieh Hsu. Reviewed by Maria Michela Dickson

Software review: Multiple Imputation of Missing Complex Survey Data using SAS®: A Brief Overview and An Example Based on the Research and Development Survey (RANDS). Reviewed by Yulei He and Guangyu Zhang

Country Reports: Argentina, Australia, Canada, Croatia, Estonia, France, Germany, Netherlands, New Zealand, Peru, Portugal, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Ukraine, United States; Upcoming Conferences and Workshops; In Other Journals; Welcome New Members!; IASS Executive Committee Members; Institutional Members

The Survey Statistician Complete Issue

Letter from the Editor, Letter from the President, Report from the Scientific Secretary, News and Announcements

Ask the Expert: How to Measure Disclosure Risk in Microdata? By Natalie Shlomo

New and Emerging Methods: Tree-Based Machine Learning in Small Area Estimation. By Patrick Krennmair, Nora Wu ̈rz, and Timo Schmid

Book review: M. S. Diallo. Samplics: A comprehensive library for survey sampling in Python. By Mamadou S. Diallo

Book review: Silvia Biffignardi and Jelke Bethlehem (2021). Handbook of Web Surveys, Wiley. Reviewed by Gaia Bertarelli

Country Reports: Albania, Argentina, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, Ethiopia, Fiji, France, Kenya, Malaysia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Spain, United States, Uruguay; Upcoming Conferences and Workshops; In Other Journals; Welcome New Members!; IASS Executive Committee Members; Institutional Members

The Survey Statistician Complete Issue

Letter from the Editor, Letter from the President, Report from the Scientific Secretary, News and Announcements

Ask the Expert: Data Sources for Business Statistics: What has Changed? By Stefan Bender and Joseph W. Sakshaug

New and Emerging Methods: A Gentle Introduction to Data Integration in Survey Sampling by Jae Kwang Kim

Book review: Big Data Meets Survey Science. A Collection of Innovative methods (eds. Craig A. Hill, Paul P. Biemer, Trent D. Buskirk, Lilli Japec, Antje Kirchner, Stas Kolenikov, and Lars E. Lyberg) Reviewed by Alina Matei

Country Reports: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, United States

The Survey Statistician Complete Issue

Letter from the Editor, Letter from the President, Report from the Scientific Secretary, News and Announcements

Machine Learning from the Perspective of Official Statistics by Marco J. H. Puts and Piet J. H. Daas

Reducing non-sampling errors to improve the measurement of poverty and social exclusion in Europe by Peter Lynn

Standardisation and Statistics by Walter J. Radermacher

Book Review of Changbao Wu and Mary E. Thompson (2020) Sampling Theory and Practice by Jae-Kwang Kim

Country Report: Argentina, Canada, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Spain, United States

The Survey Statistician Complete Issue

Letter from the Editor, Letter from the President, and Report from the Scientific Secretary, News and Announcements

Pitfalls of making inferences from nonprobability samples: Can data integration through probability samples provide remedies? By Jean-Francois Beaumont, and J. N. K. Rao (reviewed paper)

Official Statistics at the Crossroads: Data Quality and Access in an Era of Heightened Privacy Risk, by John M. Abowd (reviewed paper)

Graph sampling: An introduction, by Li-Chun Zhang (reviewed paper)

Country Reports: Argentina, Australia, Canada, Fiji, and New Zealand

The Survey Statistician Complete Issue

Sevgui Erman. Why machine learning and what is its role in the production of official statistics?

Vera Toepoel, Peter Lugtig, and Barry Schouten. Active and passive measurement in mobile surveys

James Brown, Christine Bycroft, Davide Di Cecco, Joane Elleouet, Gareth Powell, Viktor Račinskij, Paul Smith, Siu-Ming Tam, Tiziana Tuoto, and Li-Chun Zhang. Exploring developments in population size estimation

Andrius Čiginas. Review of a book by Seppo Laaksonen (2018) Survey Methodology and Missing Data, Springer

The Survey Statistician Complete Issue

Peter G. M. van der Heijden and Marten Cruyff. Wider applications for dual and multiple system estimation

Siu-Ming Tam and Anders Holmberg. New Data Sources for Official Statistics – A Game Changer for Survey Statisticians?

Gabriele Ascari, Karin Blix, Giovanna Brancato, Thomas Burg, Angela McCourt, Arnout van Delden, Danutė Krapavickaitė, Niels Ploug, Sander Scholtus, Peter Stoltze,Ton de Waal, Li-Chun Zhang. Quality of Multisource Statistics – the KOMUSO Project

Stanislav Kolenikov, Brady T. West and Peter Lugtig. Documentation for Public-Use Complex Sample Survey Data Sets

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