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The Journal of Official Statistics (JOS) is a quarterly peer-reviewed Open Access scientific journal published by Sage on behalf of Statistics Sweden in cooperation with Statistics Norway and Statistics Finland. JOS publishes research articles on survey methodology and other aspects of production of official statistics. The intended readers are researchers and practitioners in academia, government, business or research organisations with an interest in survey methodology and production of official statistics. View full journal description

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Measuring Risk of Re-Identification for a Nonprobability Sample Using a General Reference Sample

  • Natalie Shlomo
  • Minsun Riddles
  • Tom Krenzke
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How Does Noise Protection Affect the Accuracy of Life Expectancy and Other Demographic Indicators?

  • Fabian Bach
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A Decomposition of the Change in Total Poverty Gap

  • Andrea Marletta
  • Mauro Mussini
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Extending Cochran’s Sample Size Rule to Stratified Simple Random Sampling with Applications to Audit Sampling

  • Siyu Qing
  • Richard Valliant
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Modernizing Data Collection

  • Frauke Kreuter
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Future Research Considerations for Mixed-Mode Surveys

  • Leah Melani Christian
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Reliable Event Rates for Disease Mapping

  • Harrison Quick
  • Guangzi Song
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Small-Sample Bias Correction of Inequality Estimators in Complex Surveys

  • Silvia De Nicolò
  • Maria Rosaria Ferrante
  • Silvia Pacei
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In Likert Scale, Is Ticking Options Consecutively at Two Ends Equally Problematic as Ticking in the Middle?

  • Melissa Dan Wang
  • Kit-Tai Hau
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Design-Based Predictive Inference

  • Li-Chun Zhang
  • Luis Sanguiao-Sande
  • Danhyang Lee
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