Survey Methodology
Comments by Françoise DupontNote 1 on “Jean‑Claude Deville’s contributions to survey theory and official statistics”

  • Release date: January 3, 2024
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Abstract

Many things have been written about Jean-Claude Deville in tributes from the statistical community (see Tillé, 2022a; Tillé, 2022b; Christine, 2022; Ardilly, 2022; and Matei, 2022) and from the École nationale de la statistique et de l’administration économique (ENSAE) and the Société française de statistique. Pascal Ardilly, David Haziza, Pierre Lavallée and Yves Tillé provide an in-depth look at Jean-Claude Deville’s contributions to survey theory. To pay tribute to him, I would like to discuss Jean-Claude Deville’s contribution to the more day-to-day application of methodology for all the statisticians at the Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (INSEE) and at the public statistics service. To do this, I will use my work experience, and particularly the four years (1992 to 1996) I spent working with him in the Statistical Methods Unit and the discussions we had thereafter, especially in the 2000s on the rolling census.

Key Words: Methodology; Calibration; Balanced sampling; Automatic coding; Harmonic analysis; Jean-Claude Deville.

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Dupont, F. (2023). Comments on “Jean‑Claude Deville’s contributions to survey theory and official statistics”. Survey Methodology, Statistics Canada, Catalogue No. 12-001-X, Vol. 49, No. 2. Paper available at http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/12-001-x/2023002/article/00014-eng.htm.

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