Ljubljana, 11 Mai 2011UNECE Work session on SDE Topic (vii) New and emerging methods 1 Topic (vii): New and emerging methods Introduction Session organizers: Rudi Seljak / SORS Daniel Kilchmann / SFSO

Ljubljana, 11 Mai 2011UNECE Work session on SDE Topic (vii) New and emerging methods 2 Background This topic aims to bring together contributions that contain innovative applications and new theory related to aspects of edit and imputation. Contributions can highlight progress and advancements in developing new theory and techniques, present empirical comparison studies and evaluations and report on the impact of new edit systems on data quality.

Ljubljana, 11 Mai 2011UNECE Work session on SDE Topic (vii) New and emerging methods 3 Topic contents 1.Editing and imputation with the aim of guaranteeing hard edits (e.g. balance edits) including soft edits in imputation choosing the most reliable method in terms of accuracy in the case of imputation of binary variables Guaranteeing consistency in the use of different sources. 2.Outlier detection for compositional data. 3.Software of E&I: R-package for selective editing TEIDE2 – donor imputation based on Fellegi-Holt methodology

Ljubljana, 11 Mai 2011UNECE Work session on SDE Topic (vii) New and emerging methods 4 Summary of the presentations Presented papers –WP.40 (Netherlands, Norway) – Partial (donor) imputation with adjustments –WP.41 (Italy) – A forward search algorithm for compositional data –WP.42 (Netherlands) – Automatic editing with soft edits. –WP.43 (Sweden) – On imputation of binary variables in registers –WP.44 (Israel) – Imputation and editing of income from the administrative file in the Census –WP.45 (Italy) – An R package for selective editing based on latent class model Paper not presented –WP.46 (Spain) – TEIDE2: new improvements and new results