Revised Definitions for Statistical Units – Methodology, Application and User Needs. The Main Conceptual Issues of the “Units Discussion” of the Years 2009–2014

Abstract

In the years 2009 to 2014 in the European Statistical System (ESS) modified definitions for basic statistical units have been proposed and discussed. The author took part in this discussion as regular participant in the ESS “Working Group Business Registers and Statistical Units”, as participant in the ESSnet “Profiling of large and complex multinational enterprise groups” (2009–2013) and as member of the Eurostat task force “Statistical Units” which worked from 2013 to 2015 on the main issues...

Keywords

• Statistical Units