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Statisticians understand the term ‘harmonisation’ to mean the creation of a desired degree of comparability between statistics of different countries. Comparability is a quality criterion, meaning that it is one of many product properties striven for in drawing up statistics. Comparability may refer both to comparing statistics at different times, as well as to spatial comparison between sets of statistics across a number of regions, nations, etc.
This article is based on results of CHINTEX research project: “The change from input harmonisation to ex-post harmonisation in national samples of the European Community Household Panel — implications of data quality” (CHINTEX) is a shared-cost research project funded by the European Commission’s Fifth Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development. Information on the project can be found on the web page : http ://www.destatis.de/chintex/index.htm. I wish to thank Dr. Stefan Linz for his helpful contribution to an earlier draft of this article.
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Ehling, M. (2003). Harmonising Data in Official Statistics. In: Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik, J.H.P., Wolf, C. (eds) Advances in Cross-National Comparison. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9186-7_2
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