Journal of Official Statistics

The March Issue 2023 is now online.

Call for papers to the special issue on integrating data from multiple sources for production of official statistics.

The Journal of Official Statistics has the pleasure to announce an upcoming special issue on integrating data from multiple sources for production of official statistics from a methodological perspective. We welcome manuscripts on statistical methods related to incorporating data from new sources, such as:

• web-scraped data from online platforms and open data;
• travel surveys by GPS;
• smartphone data and data obtained by other handheld devices;
• data integration techniques for combining probability samples, non-probability samples, big data samples and similar;
• administrative data and data in public domain;
• methods for data integration such a small area & domain estimation, calibration mass imputations etc. ;
• building up infrastructure and frameworks for data integration;
• quality issues related to integrating data from multiple sources;
• and other related methods and topics.

The Guest Editors for the special issue are Johan Fosen (Statistics Norway), Anders Holmberg (Australian Bureau of Statistics), Ingegerd Jansson (Statistics Sweden), Danutė Krapavickaitė (formerly at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University), and Ton de Waal (Tilburg University).
The deadline for submission is June 30, 2023.

Call for papers to the special issue on time series analysis in official statistics

The Journal of Official Statistics has the pleasure to announce a coming special issue on time series analysis in official statistics in a broad perspective. Very welcome are research work on time series modelling with potential applications in official statistics; seasonal adjustment and related subjects; forecasting and backcasting using time series models; impact of shocks to time series caused by for example pandemics, wars, or other causes; time series break with redesign of surveys; temporal or contemporaneous disaggregation and reconciliation; analysis of high frequency data or other type of time series data; time series privacy; and other related topics.

The Guest Editors for the special issue are William R Bell (U.S. Census Bureau), Tommaso Di Fonzo (University of Padova, Italy), Dominique Ladiray (INSEE and Eurostat, France), Tucker McElroy (U.S. Census Bureau), and Paul Smith (University of Southampton, UK).

The deadline for submission to this special issue is September 30, 2023.

The Journal of Official Statistics (JOS) is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by 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.

Articles on the following topics are included:
methodologies and policies for the collection, processing, and analysis of data and the presentation and dissemination of statistics, based on traditional surveys, censuses, registers, or new and emerging types of data sources. Articles may present theoretical and methodological contributions, relevant applications of existing methods, comparisons of different methods, or authoritative reviews.

Such topics include:

• survey design;
• questionnaire design and evaluation;
• measurement error;
• estimation and inference;
• data collection;
• analytical uses of data;
• computer intensive methods;
• imputation;
• index methodology;
• time series analysis;
• quality aspects of official statistics production;
• confidentiality;
• total survey error;
• systems and architectures for statistics production;
• the role of statistics in today's society;
• the relations between producers, users, and respondents; and
• evaluation and identification of statistical needs.

Apart from research articles, the journal also considers research notes, comments on recent articles, and other communications in a shorter format for publication.

Research notes report interesting findings ready for publication. They should be shorter than regular articles. The requirements for completeness and detail in the analysis and presentation are less strict, but are subject to the same high standards as for other articles and the same review process applies.

Letters to the editor provides a forum for airing opinions on issues pertinent to the statistical community or commentaries on articles that have appeared in the journal.

JOS has a book review section and an index that appears at the end of every volume.

Rejection Rate

• 67%

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