Affiliations: Statistics Netherlands, Division of Process
Development, IT and Methodology, Heerlen, The Netherlands | Statistics Netherlands, Division of Socio-Economic and
Spatial Statistics, The Hague, The Netherlands
Note: [] Corresponding author: Menno Cuppen, Statistics Netherlands,
Division of Process Development, IT and Methodology, Postbus 4481, 6401 CZ
Heerlen, The Netherlands. Tel.: +31 45 5706152; E-mail: [email protected]
Abstract: Statistics Netherlands and its division of Socio-economic and
Spatial Statistics are facing increasing quality demands by customers and
stakeholders. Information is needed at more detailed levels and more and more
crossings need to be made among different variables of interest. Also
timeliness and coherence of statistics are important issues. Next to these
demands there is a strong incentive to collect data more efficiently and to
reduce the costs of data collection. The growing possibilities of administrative data sources, the rise of the
internet as a survey mode and the
availability of new methods and techniques provide opportunities to answer
these demands. In 2010 as part of a large scale re-engineering programme of
Dutch household surveys, an integrated design of household surveys combined
with optimal use of administrative data and mixed mode data collection was
introduced. This integrated design that consists of core questionnaire and
specific topic modules can make social statistics richer, more cost-effective
and more useful as a tool to answer policy needs.
Keywords: Household surveys integration, social statistics, mixed mode data collection, survey redesign, quality management
