EU - Israel Twinning Project on Statistics

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View from the RTA's office on a day with a spectacular sunset in February 2014

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The four parcipants in the study visit on Survey Methodology to Statistics Neherland's Heerlen branch: Yoel Domb, Nitzan HaCohen, Efrat Friedrich and Zohar Chessakov.

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From the study visit on Education Statistics to Statistics Denmark. Aviel Krentzler (ICBS), Susanne Mainz Sørensen and Peter Hansen (both Statistics Denmark), and Silvia Liplewski and Edna Shimoni (both ICBS) enjoying the weather on the roof top of the premises of Statistics Denmark during lunch break.

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On the study visit 28-30 April 2014 to Statistics Denmark on Welfare Accounts, Lior El-Al from ICBS borrowed a bicycle to get back to the hotel. The study visit helped put focus on the involvement of the users in the design of the new statistics, and Lior El-Al and Nava Brenner from ICBS both participated in a Quality of Life seminar at Statistics Denmark with guest speaker professor Heinz Herbert Noll from the University of Mannheim.

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The two MS Experts from Statistics Denmark, Michael Specht and Peter Linde after having just completed their 28 April-1 May 2014 mission to ICBS on issues related to electronic web-questionnaires.

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During the 13-15 May 2014 mission to ICBS on Environmental Accounting the two MS Experts, Brigitte Karigl from the Austrian Environmental Agency and Jukka Muukkonen from Statistics Finland discussed how to further develop ICBS's accounts for Waste and Air Emissions within the National Accounts framework.

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Deirdre Giesen from Statistics Netherlands giving a presentation on cognitive aspects of questionnaire design with Nitzan HaCohen taking notes during the mission 31 March-2 April 2014.

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24-26 March the Dissemination Unit of ICBS hosted the two Danish experts, Annegrete Wulff and Jesper Ellemose, for the course on best dissemination practices with focus on web dissemination.

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The topic of metadata was not originally included in the Twinning project. However, it was soon recognized as a necessary part of both the Dissemination and the Strategic Planning components. MS expert Mogens Gissel Nielsen from Statistics Denmark introduced the topic of metadata to a broad group of ICBS staff in February 2014, and the discussions were, as usual for the Twinning meetings, lively.

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Søren Schiønning Andersen from Statistics Denmark and Nitzan HaCohen from ICBS at one of the meetings at ICBS 20-23 January 2014 on response burden measurement and burden reductions

19/01/2014

Our colleague from Statistics Finland, Jukka Muukkonen