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Factor Structural Time Series Models for Official Statistics with an Application to Hours Worked in Germany

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Language: English
Page range: 265 - 301
Submitted on: Aug 1, 2015
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Accepted on: Oct 1, 2017
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Published on: Mar 1, 2018
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