Mojca Bavdaž
PhD

Mojca Bavdaž is Associate Professor of Statistics at the University of Ljubljana's School of Economics and Business. She received her PhD in 2007 (topic from survey methodology). During her undergraduate and graduate studies she studied abroad (University of Siena, University of Michigan, University of Lugano, Katholic University of Leuven). Her pedagogic work includes, besides the work at the University of Ljubljana's School of Economics and Business, work at the interdisciplinary master's programme of Applied Statistics and at the interdisciplinary doctor's programme of Statistics. Her research interests include official statistics, methods of data collection and presentation, and research methods. With her expertise, she actively participates in bodies of the Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia (member of the Statistical Council, member of the Methodological Council, president of the Business Statistics Advisory Commitee). For more than a decade, she contributed to setting up and implementing the EMOS (European Master in Official Statistics) label owned by the European Statistical System Committee. She regularly forms part of several international programme committees of scientific meetings.

• LOTRIČ DOLINAR, Aleša, POLANEC, Sašo, BAVDAŽ, Mojca
  Real-time economic indicators in NSIs
  Statistical journal of the IAOS. 2025, 41(2), 294-304.

• BOLKO, Irena, BAVDAŽ, Mojca
  Beyond the numbers : comprehension and recall in data-driven visual communication
  SAGE open, 2025, 15(4,), 1-16.

• BAVDAŽ, Mojca, KOS, Jerneja, PAVASOVIĆ TROŠT, Tamara, MARINŠEK, Denis
  Stereotypical colours in european gender statistics visualisations
  SAGE open, 2025, 15(2).

• Snijkers, G., Bavdaž, M., Bender, S., Jones, J., MacFeely, S., Sakshaug, J. W., Thompson, K. J., & van Delden, A. (Eds.). (2023).
  Advances in Business Statistics, Methods and Data Collection
  John Wiley & Sons.

• BAVDAŽ, Mojca, BOUNFOUR, Ahmed, MARTIN, Josh, NONNIS, Alberto, PERANI, Giulio, REDEK, Tjaša
  Measuring investment in intangible assets
  In: Advances in business statistics, methods and data collection. SNIJKERS, Ger, et al. (eds.) J. Wiley & Sons, 2023,79-103

• Polanec, S., Smith, P.A., & Bavdaž, M.
  Determination of the Threshold in Cutoff Sampling Using Response Burden with an Application to Intrastat
  Journal of Official Statistics, 38 (4), 1205-1234

• BAVDAŽ, Mojca, SNIJKERS, Ger, SAKSHAUG, Joseph W., BRAND, Türknur, HARALDSEN, Gustav, KURBAN, Bilal, SARAIVA, Paulo, WILLIMACK, Diane K.
  Business data collection methodology : current state and future outlook
  Statistical journal of the IAOS. 2020, vol. 36, iss. 3, 741-756.

• Mojca Bavdaž, Deirdre Giesen, Danna L. Moore, Paul A. Smith, Jacqui Jones
  Qualitative Testing for Official Establishment Survey Questionnaires
  Survey Research Methods, 13(3), 267-288