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The INE has published the Spanish Statistical Magazine since 1958 with the intention of stimulating and disseminating statistical research from all Spanish scientists. As with any human work, various types of viscissitudes have been experienced over its more than forty years of existence. In a brief summary of its history three stages may be differentiated: The first dates back to 1987 in which the initial management was assigned to the Head of the Studies Service. The first head writer was José Luis Sánchez-Crespo; the second, includes the period 1987-1995 in which Daniel Peña was designated as Director of the Magazine; the third, ranges from 1995 up to 2001, a period in which for various circumstances there was no director of the magazine which, among other consequences, led to a lack of regularity in publishing the magazine. Faced with this situation, the INE's Management Board decided in February to nominate the Director of the Magazine and a new writing board.

As for its editorial line, in an attempt to synthesise the ideas set out in the presentations of different stages of the magazine the following basic guidelines are summarised:

Image: ball Methodological articles related with statistical projects, either because they are researching economic and social aspects which have not yet been studied or because they signify substantial modifications with respect to the existing, among other causes due to necessities of statistical harmonisation between EU member states due to comparability demands of their results.

Image: ball Articles whose content is the analysis of new statistical models and examples of their practical applications.

Image: ball Articles on the history of the statistic.

The objective of the Spanish Statistical Magazine is twofold: on the one hand, this is conceived as a means of communication so that users of official statistics know the methodology on which their elaboration is based at depth and on the other hand, as an analysis forum and discussion of statistical methodology and its applications.

In another order of ideas, the magazine is offered as a dissemination vehicle so that authors can publish their research work although following the general criteria of magazines of this nature, they will go through an anonymous evaluation process. The periodicity of the magazine will be quarterly.

Finally, readers are requested to collaborate to the magazine. This is expressed via the suggestions and critics that we receive.

Antonio Martínez López (Acting Director) (National Statistical Institute)

1. Articles must be sent to the Magazine Director, INE, Paseo de la Castellana, nº 183 28071 Madrid. The magazine understands that the work is original, in other words, that the work has not been published previously or is in the process of publication elsewhere. The original and two copies will be sent and the magazine will always confirm receipt within thirty days.

2. Articles must be double spaced and not exceed 30 pages (10.000, 12.000 words, with font between 11 and 12 points) including graphs, tables and bibliography (this should be single spaced). The first page should include exhaustively the title of the work and the name, complete address and phone number of the author. In the case of various authors the person whom correspondence should be addressed will be included. The second page will only contain the title and summary of the work with a maximum of 100 words, followed by 3-5 keywords and the AMS classification of the article. The text of the work will start on the third page and sections will be listed consecutively. The last page of the original will contain the title of the article in English, a summary of this under the heading summary and the keywords.

3. All diagrams or graphs will be listed successively and their position in the text with the name of the figure will be indicated and placed at the end of the manuscript. The bibliographical references will go at the end of the work under the heading References, alphabetically by authors and according to the following order: surname, author's name, year of publication (in brackets , title of the article or book (in speech marks), name of the magazine (in italics), place of publication and editorial (in the case of a book), volume and number of the magazine and finally the number of referenced pages.

4. Work will be subjected to a process of evaluation (two evaluators) guaranteeing maximum anonymity both for the author and the evaluators; the intention of the magazine is that the author receives information on the result of the evaluation in a maximum period of four months.

5. When work is accepted for publication, the author or authors will receive two sets of tests for corrections, one of which should be returned corrected to the magazine within a week from its receipt, accompanied by a disk processing the texts in Word 97 or previous version. As for the tables the programs to use will be Excel or Word and the graphs will preferably be in Excel or Corel Draw v.10 or previous.