Volume 40, Issue 4 of the SJIAOS, available here in mid-December, is a special issue focusing on the measurement of the informal economy and informal employment, (ie the international standards for identifying forms of employment where workers lack formal contractual and social protection). All eleven papers in this section of the Journal are free access.
The issue also offers several other papers filled with thought-provoking content and innovative research, comprising
- The editorial which discusses Data Equity and Official Statistics in the Age of Private Sector Data Proliferation
- Winning papers from the 2024 IAOS Young Statistician Prize – exploring new frontiers in official statistics
- Complemented by five other papers showcasing innovative research in official statistics from survival models for analysing infant and child mortality, dynamic microsimulation models for official population projections; symbolic data analysis approach to analyse the profile of immigrant groups, tourism satellite accounts to measure changes in tourism employment; and applying interregional input-output tables to understand the regional interconnectivity of the food and beverage industry.
Nancy McBeth
IAOS
