Author :
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,26 MB
Release : 2010-01-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
A clear and logical aid to the revised coding of industrial activities for the United Kingdom in accordance with European regulations, introduced in 2008. This volume contains a hierarchical classification of all industrial activities. Also available: Index to the UK Standard Industrial Classification of Economic Activities 2007.
Author : Ger Snijkers
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 28,13 MB
Release : 2013-08-05
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 047090304X
Designing and Conducting Business Surveys provides a coherent overview of the business survey process, from start to finish. It uniquely integrates an understanding of how businesses operate, a total survey error approach to data quality that focuses specifically on business surveys, and sound project management principles. The book brings together what is currently known about planning, designing, and conducting business surveys, with producing and disseminating statistics or other research results from the collected data. This knowledge draws upon a variety of disciplines such as survey methodology, organizational sciences, sociology, psychology, and statistical methods. The contents of the book formulate a comprehensive guide to scholarly material previously dispersed among books, journal articles, and conference papers. This book provides guidelines that will help the reader make educated trade-off decisions that minimize survey errors, costs, and response burden, while being attentive to survey data quality. Major topics include: • Determining the survey content, considering user needs, the business context, and total survey quality • Planning the survey as a project • Sampling frames, procedures, and methods • Questionnaire design and testing for self-administered paper, web, and mixed-mode surveys • Survey communication design to obtain responses and facilitate the business response process • Conducting and managing the survey using paradata and project management tools • Data processing, including capture, editing, and imputation, and dissemination of statistical outputs Designing and Conducting Business Surveys is an indispensable resource for anyone involved in designing and/or conducting business or organizational surveys at statistical institutes, central banks, survey organizations, etc.; producing statistics or other research results from business surveys at universities, research organizations, etc.; or using data produced from business surveys. The book also lays a foundation for new areas of research in business surveys.
Author : Inter American Development Bank
Publisher : Inter-American Development Bank
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 48,10 MB
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Art
ISBN :
This manual has been designed and written with the purpose of introducing key concepts and areas of debate around the "creative economy", a valuable development opportunity that Latin America, the Caribbean and the world at large cannot afford to miss. The creative economy, which we call the "Orange Economy" in this book (you'll see why), encompasses the immense wealth of talent, intellectual property, interconnectedness, and, of course, cultural heritage of the Latin American and Caribbean region (and indeed, every region). At the end of this manual, you will have the knowledge base necessary to understand and explain what the Orange Economy is and why it is so important. You will also acquire the analytical tools needed to take better advantage of opportunities across the arts, heritage, media, and creative services.
Author :
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 45,41 MB
Release : 2010-01-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
This volume is a useful and practical companion to the 'UK Standard Industrial Classification of Economic Activities 2007', offering an alphabetic and numeric index for ease of use. It is compiled by The Office for National Statistics, the UK government department. It accompanies UKSIC2007, which provides invaluable economic coding information - vital for all businesses. This volume is a useful reference tool to help you use UKSIC2007.It is a useful aid to the revised coding of industrial activities for the United Kingdom in accordance with European regulations, introduced in 2008.
Author : World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 16,90 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Business
ISBN : 0821367285
Over the next 25 years developing countries will move to center stage in the global economy. Global Economic Prospects 2007 analyzes the opportunities - and stresses - this will create. While rich and poor countries alike stand to benefit, the integration process will make more acute stresses already apparent today - in income inequality, in labor markets, and in the environment. Over the next 25 years, rapid technological progress, burgeoning trade in goods and services, and integration of financial markets create the opportunity for faster long-term growth. However, some regions, notably Africa, are at risk of being left behind. The coming globalization will also see intensified stresses on the "global commons." Addressing global warming, preserving marine fisheries, and containing infectious diseases will require effective multilateral collaboration to ensure that economic growth and poverty reduction proceed without causing irreparable harm to future generations."
Author : Daniel Lederman
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 11,93 MB
Release : 2012-06-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821384910
Does what economies export matter for development? If so, can industrial policies improve on the export basket generated by the market? This book approaches these questions from a variety of conceptual and policy viewpoints. Reviewing the theoretical arguments in favor of industrial policies, the authors first ask whether existing indicators allow policy makers to identify growth-promoting sectors with confidence. To this end, they assess, and ultimately cast doubt upon, the reliability of many popular indicators advocated by proponents of industrial policy. Second, and central to their critique, the authors document extraordinary differences in the performance of countries exporting seemingly identical products, be they natural resources or 'high-tech' goods. Further, they argue that globalization has so fragmented the production process that even talking about exported goods as opposed to tasks may be misleading. Reviewing evidence from history and from around the world, the authors conclude that policy makers should focus less on what is produced, and more on how it is produced. They analyze alternative approaches to picking winners but conclude by favoring 'horizontal-ish' policies--for instance, those that build human capital or foment innovation in existing and future products—that only incidentally favor some sectors over others.
Author : International Labour Office
Publisher : International Labor Office
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 22,86 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
The International Standard Classification of Occupations 2008 (ISCO-08) is a four-level hierarchically structured classification that covers all jobs in the world. Developed with the benefit of accumulated national and international experience as well as the help of experts from many countries and agencies, ISCO-08 is fully supported by the international community as an accepted standard for international labour statistics. ISCO-08 classifies jobs into 436 unit groups. These unit groups are aggregated into 130 minor groups, 43 sub-major groups and 10 major groups, based on their similarity in terms of the skill level and skill specialisation required for the jobs. This allows the production of relatively detailed internationally comparable data as well as summary information for only 10 groups at the highest level of aggregation. Each group in the classification is designated by a title and code number and is associated with a definition that specifies the scope of the group. The classification is divided into two volumes: Volume I presents the structure and definitions of all groups in ISCO-08 and their correspondence with ISCO-88, which it supersedes, while Volume II provides an updated and expanded index of occupational titles and associated ISCO-08 and ISCO-88 codes.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,84 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Creative ability
ISBN : 9781785841743
Author :
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 47,63 MB
Release : 2007-10-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Provides an authoritative account and explanation of the revised IMF Code of Good Practices on Fiscal Transparency (the Code), used by countries undertaking assessments of the transparency of their fiscal management practices (including so-called fiscal ROSCs), legislatures, civil society organizations, economists, and financial analysts. Supplemented by the revised Guide on Resource Revenue Transparency, it identifies numerous benefits from fiscal transparency, including providing citizens with information to hold governments accountable for their policy choices, informing and improving the quality of economic policy decisions, highlighting potential risks to the fiscal outlook, and easing a country's access to international capital markets.--Publisher's description.
Author : NA NA
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,38 MB
Release : 2007-07-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
ONS Productivity Handbook: a Statistical Overview and Guide examines the importance and relevance of economic productivity and serves as a reference on the subject. Areas covered include productivity analysis within various sectors and at firm level as well as measures of labour and capital inputs.
