Foundations

The foundations part of the CLAMOUR project examines the fundamental building blocks of classification systems and is divided into three workpackages:

Constructing a model of the structure and activities of businesses

• Work Package Description
• A Preliminary Model to Describe the Activities of a Business
• Review of Preliminary Model to Describe the Activities of Business (89Kb pdf)
• A Model of the Structure and Activities of Businesses (894Kb pdf)
• Deliverable 10: INSEE contribution to the 'Foundations' sub-project - final (844Kb word format)

Applications of the model for classification systems

• Work Package Description
• Report with a proposal for an alternative classification system and a methodology to compare tree structures - Draft (184Kb zip file)
• Prototype to code businesses to activity classifications and to construct statistical units. An evaluation of the prototype.
• Statistical Units - Support files (1.6Mb zip file)
• Statistical Units - Manual (150Kb zip file)
• Statistical Units - Main files (5Mb zip file)
• Report with measures of heterogeneity and guidlines and how to use these and construct and maintain and activity classification (770Kb word file)
  Annex to report (48Kb word file)
• Report evaluating the measures of heterogeneity and guidelines and how to use these and construct and maintain and activity classification (526Kb word file)

Applications of the model for statistical units

• Work Package Description
• Report with algorithms to construct statistical units based on the model - Due July 2001 - Draft (50Kb zip file)
• Prototype of a tool that constructs these statistical units based on the information in the model. Evaluation of the testing of this tool (1Mb word file)

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This page last revised: Monday, 27 May 2002