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Aims and Scope

The Journal of Official Statistics is published by Statistics Sweden, the national statistical office of Sweden. The journal publishes theoretical and applied articles on survey methodology for statistics production within official statistics, policy decision making, and the economic and social sciences. It is an open access journal, which gives the right to users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of all articles.

We encourage articles on the following topics:

Methodologies and policies for the collection, processing, analysis, presentation, and distribution of statistics based on surveys, censuses or registers. Examples of such topics are: sampling design; questionnaire design and evaluation; measurement process; estimation; analytical uses of data; index methodology; time series analysis; quality control within official statistics production; confidentiality; total survey error; systems and architectures for statistics production; ethics; dissemination; presentation of quality; training of statisticians; the role of statistics in today's society; the relations between producers, users, and respondents; intra-organization collaboration; international statistical cooperation; and evaluation and identification of statistical needs. Articles may present theoretical contributions, interesting applications of existing methods, comparisons of different methods, or authoritative reviews.

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

The Special Notes section welcomes notices and announcements of upcoming events, conferences, calls for papers, or anything that can be considered news for the statistical community.

There is a Book and Software Review section and an Index that appears at the end of every volume.