BLUE-ETS Conference on
Burden and Motivation in Official Business Surveys
Statistics Netherlands, Heerlen, March 22 & 23, 2011
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A glimpse into the businesses' use of internal and external
data sources in decision-making processes
Tora Löfgren, Dag Gravem and Gustav Haraldsen
Statistics Norway, e-mail:
orl@ssb.no
,
dfg@ssb.no
,
gha@ssb.no
Abstract
The results presented in this paper are from the Norwegian interviews that have been
conducted with decision makers and business respondents in different companies. The topic
of the interviews was the use and potentials of NSI statistics. The same topic has previously
been discussed with different kinds of experts on business statistics. The results from these
expert interviews serve as a point of reference in this paper. Similar interviews to those
reported from here have also been conducted, but not yet analyzed in the Netherlands,
Sweden and in Slovenia. We suggest some conclusions that could be checked more
thoroughly in these analyses to come.
Keywords: decision-making, business statistics, business respondent incitements.
