Well-being is an important value for people's lives, and it could be considered as an index of
societal progress. Researchers have suggested two main approaches for the overall …

The availability of massive digital traces of human whereabouts has offered a series of novel
insights on the quantitative patterns characterizing human mobility. In particular, numerous …

Federal government statistics provide critical information to the country and serve a key role
in a democracy. For decades, sample surveys with instruments carefully designed for …

Praise for the First Edition" This pioneering work, in which Rao provides a comprehensive
and up-to-date treatment of small area estimation, will become a classic... I believe that it has …

Administrative data are becoming increasingly important. They are typically the side effect of
some operational exercise and are often seen as having significant advantages over …

Survey samplers have long been using probability samples from one or more sources in
conjunction with census and administrative data to make valid and efficient inferences on …

Big Data offer nowadays the potential capability of creating a digital nervous system of our
society, enabling the measurement, monitoring and prediction of relevant aspects of socio …

The generation of realistic spatio-temporal trajectories of human mobility is of fundamental
importance in a wide range of applications, such as the developing of protocols for mobile …

The increased availability of online information in recent years has aroused interest in the
possibility of deriving indications for many kinds of phenomena. In the more specific …

An intriguing open question is whether measurements derived from Big Data recording
human activities can yield high-fidelity proxies of socio-economic development and well …