Institutional and methodological foundations of economic and social statistics

In recent years, the research focus has been on the institutional and methodological foundations of economic and social statistics, including a comparison of official statistics in Germany, France and the Netherlands, the methodological relevance of the adequacy problem in economic and social statistics and the didactic and systematic aspects of its teaching (see publications).

Subject didactics

Subject-specific didactic interests were reflected in the writing of teaching experience in textbooks on statistical methods for the basic study programme and on multivariate statistics for the advanced study programme (cf. publications) and in the development of the teaching/learning platform "Virtual Learning Spaces in Statistics" (cf. ViLeS).

Labour market statistics

The practical economic and social statistical research activities are focused on current labour market statistical problems, in particular on the appropriateness of current employment statistics concepts in the face of the dwindling importance of normal employment relationships and on the actual comparability of "internationally comparable" unemployment rates (cf. publications).

Official Statistics in the Second Modern Age

Lectures as part of the event series "Ambiguity as a Challenge" of the sub-project "Official Statistics in the Second Modern Age" of the Collaborative Research Centre "Reflexive Modernisation" at the LMU Munich:

Conference 02/03. 2007: "Risiko, amtliche Statistik und Wahrscheinlichkeit",
Topic of the lecture: "Amt und Erkenntnis - institutionelle und methodologische Aspekte amtlich-statistischer Begriffsbildung und Datenproduktion " (cf. publications)

Workshop 08.11. 2008: "Von der nationalen zur globalen Statistik",
Topic of the lecture: "Von nationalen zu globalen Konzepten der Wertrechnung" ( cf. publications)