Procedures for linking international comparisons

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Szilágyi, György¹

Note: [1] György Szilágyi joined the Hungarian Central Statistical Office in 1960. He has been head of Section of International Comparisons since 1967 and senior adviser since 1980. He is also professor of the University of Economic Sciences in Budapest. He got his academic doctor's degree in 1982. Secretary of the Statistical Commission of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In 1968 he was staff member on short-term appointment to the UN Statistical Office. Invited speaker and discussant at various UN and IARIW meetings. In 1986 he joined the Statistical Division of UN Economic Commission for Europe.

Abstract: Problems of linking international comparisons became significant with the growing number of regional projects and the wish to compile intra- or intercontinental or even worldwide results from the regional exercises. The related tasks and methods of linking can be systematized with the help of some basic notions, like closed system, chain-linking, etc. Starting from simple cases (inclusion of an additional country in an existing comparison, linking two comparisons), more complicated procedures (linking several regions, etc.) can be explored.

DOI: 10.3233/SJU-1986-4205

Journal: Statistical Journal of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 165-181, 1986