Reconciliation of labour market statistics using macro-integration

摘要

Macro-integration techniques are used for the reconciliation of macro figures, usually in the form of large multidimensional tabulations, obtained from different sources. Traditionally these techniques have been extensively applied in the area of macro-economics, especially in the compilation of the National Accounts. Methods for macro-integration have developed over the years to become very versatile techniques for integration of data from different sources at the macro level. Applications in other domains than macro-economics seem promising. In this paper we present an application to labour market data from two sources, an administrative one and a survey, with slightly different definitions and different frequencies of reporting (monthly, quarterly). The purpose is to combine these estimates to form a single monthly estimate. Depending on the specification of the macro-integration model several alternatives for obtaining such estimates are derived.