Administrative data 8 10 18 44 56 Non administrative data 4 12 16 25 75 Sample survey 11 8 19 58 42 Data from Agricultural Census 0 15 15 0 100 Data from the Population and Housing Census 3 12 15 20 80 Reporting 1 12 13 8 92 Others 4 10 14 29 71 answered question 19 skipped question 0 Table 9. Q23: Are you planning to combine Big Data sources with existing sources? Response Answer options Yes No Yes % No % count Administrative data 17 2 19 89 11 Non administrative data 10 4 14 71 29 Sample survey 17 94 1 6 18 Data from Agricultural Census 4 8 12 33 67 Data from the Population and Housing Census 10 4 14 71 29 Reporting 3 7 10 30 70 Others 7 5 12 58 42 answered question 19 skipped question 0 Q24 shows the biggest potential of BD sources for official statistics for the following surveys: tourism, prices, followed by labour, transport, population and migration. Only 39% of respondents see the potential for agriculture surveys. However, it is quite clear that BD can be beneficial for nearly all of the statistical domains. Q25 allowed to some concerns: For the time being, only methodological pilots are carried out with the aim to investigate the potential use of BD sources for the development, production and dissemination of official statistics. For web scraping, we face several technical issues with websites, finding the most suitable IT tool for web scraping is challenging. A fully-fledged consideration of use of BD for concrete statistical operations is still pending. We are currently concentrated on the human population census and tourism statistics. Concerning questions 12, 19 and 24 that were intentionally left blank: There are ongoing pilot studies at the Federal Statistical Office as well as within the ESSnet projects, so that for many aspects, e.g. for the quality of BD sources, it is too early to provide an assessment. In case we can access the above mentioned BD sources, we will use them for all statistical domains that could possibly apply. At this the questionnaire is very difficult to be answered correctly. Summary
Administrative data 8 44 10 56 18 Non administrative data 4 25 12 75 16 Sample survey 11 58 8 42 19 Data from Agricultural Census 0 0 15 100 15 Data from the Population and Housing Census 3 20 12 80 15 Reporting 1 8 12 92 13 Others 4 29 10 71 14 answered question 19 skipped question 0 Table 9. Q23: Are you planning to combine Big Data sources with existing sources? Answer options Yes Yes % No No % Response count Administrative data 17 89 2 11 19 Non administrative data 10 71 4 29 14 Sample survey 17 94 1 6 18 Data from Agricultural Census 4 33 8 67 12 Data from the Population and Housing Census 10 71 4 29 14 Reporting 3 30 7 70 10 Others 7 58 5 42 12 answered question 19 skipped question 0 Q24 shows the biggest potential of BD sources for official statistics for the following surveys: tourism, prices, followed by labour, transport, population and migration. Only 39% of respondents see the potential for agriculture surveys. However, it is quite clear that BD can be beneficial for nearly all of the statistical domains. Q25 allowed to some concerns: For the time being, only methodological pilots are carried out with the aim to investigate the potential use of BD sources for the development, production and dissemination of official statistics. For web scraping, we face several technical issues with websites, finding the most suitable IT tool for web scraping is challenging. A fully-fledged consideration of use of BD for concrete statistical operations is still pending. We are currently concentrated on the human population census and tourism statistics. Concerning questions 12, 19 and 24 that were intentionally left blank: There are ongoing pilot studies at the Federal Statistical Office as well as within the ESSnet projects, so that for many aspects, e.g. for the quality of BD sources, it is too early to provide an assessment. In case we can access the above mentioned BD sources, we will use them for all statistical domains that could possibly apply. At this the questionnaire is very difficult to be answered correctly. Summary
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