About the Author

The Author: Peter von der Lippe received his doctorate in economics in 1971 from Marburg University and became a professor of statistics at the University of Essen in 1976; he also teaches econometrics at the University of Duisburg-Essen. He has published around one hundred articles and many books, including a book on Official Statistics that has become well known and been translated into Russian and Chinese. For over ten years, he served as trainer and course leader in the framework of the Eurostat TES-Programme (teaching staff members of European National Statistical Offices NSOs) and was a member of several committees of TES in Luxembourg. He has also delivered courses in the NSOs of most of the former Soviet Union countries on behalf of the German Statistical Office. Website: www.von-der-lippe.org