261 List of Authors Corrado Abbate Istat - Istituto Nazionale di Statistica,Via Rava 150, 00142 Roma, Italy [email protected] http://www.istat.at Rossella Bardazzi Dipartimento di Studi sullo Stato, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Via delle Pandette 21, 50127 Firenze, Italy [email protected] Michaela Denk ec3 – E-Commerce Competence Center, Donau-City-Straße 1, A-1220 Vienna, Austria [email protected] Martha Fair Occupational and Environmental, Health Research Section, Health Statistics Division Main Building, Room 2200, Section G, Statistics Canada, Tunney’s Pasture, Ottawa, Ontario Canada K1A 0T6 Contact Information (after January 14, 2004) 3 Carter Court, Tottenham, Ontario L0G 1W0, Canada [email protected] Danila Filipponi Istat - Istituto Nazionale di Statistica, Via Rava 150, 00142 Roma, Italy [email protected] Dr. Karl A. Froeschl ec3 – E-Commerce Competence Center, Donau-City-Straße 1, A-1220 Vienna, Austria [email protected] Leicester Gill Unit of Helth-Care Epidemiology, Department of Public Helth and Primary care University of Oxford, Old Road Campus, Headington, Oxford OX3 7LF, Great Britain [email protected] Peter Hackl Department of Statistics, WU Wien, Augasse 2-6, A-1090 Vienna, Austria [email protected] Alois Haslinger Statistics Austria, Guglgasse 13, A-1110 Vienna, Austria [email protected] 262 Frank Linder Statistics Netherlands, Division for Social and Spatial Statistics, Unit Statistical Analysis, P.O. Box 4000, 2270 JM Voorburg, The Netherlands [email protected] Filippo Oropallo Istat - Istituto Nazionale di Statistica,Via Magenta 2, 00185 – Roma, Italy [email protected] Valentino Parisi Dipartimento di Economia e Territorio, Università di Cassino, Via Mazzaroppi snc, 03043 Cassino (FR), Italy [email protected] Maria Grazia Pazienza Dipartimento di Studi sullo Stato, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Via delle Pandette 21, 50127 Firenze, Italy [email protected] Susanne Rässler Institute for Employment Research of the Federal Employment Service, Competence Centre Empirical Methods, Regensburger Straße 104, 90478 Nürnberg, Germany [email protected] Felix Ritchie Business Data Linking, Office for National Statistics,1 Drummond Gate, London SW1V 2QQ, Great Britain [email protected] Paolo Roberti Istat - Istituto Nazionale di Statistica, Via Cesare Balbo 16, 00184 – Roma, Italy [email protected] Rainer Schnell Research Methods in Public Policy and Administration Science, University of Koblenz, P.O. Box 5560, 78434 Konstanz, Germany [email protected] Caterina Viviano Istat - Istituto Nazionale di Statistica, Via Tuscolana 1776, Roma