A Federal Statistics Program for the 1960's: A Study Prepared for the Subcommittee on Economic Statistics of ... by the Office of Statistical Standards, Bureau of the Budget1962 - 69 páginas |
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activity addition agencies agricultural analysis analyzing annual survey basic basis benchmark benchmark survey budget Bureau changes commodity compiled components construction consumer Consumer Price Index corporate cost coverage covered current data current population survey current statistical data are needed detail Directions for improvement Economic Statistics educational employment security establishment estimates expanded expenditures extended factors farm feasible Federal Government Federal Reserve System Federal statistical program finance financial data funds groups housing important Index of Prices industry initiated integrated Internal Revenue Service inventory labor force major ment metropolitan statistical areas monthly mortgage national accounts national economic accounts nomic obtained occupational organization output periodic censuses planning population Price Index problems procedures production published quarterly recent reporting unit residential retail trade revised RICHARD BOLLING sample service trades significant social sources statistical series tabulations tion types wholesale Wholesale Price Index WILLIAM PROXMIRE WRIGHT PATMAN
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Página 32 - to enter into contracts or jointly financed cooperative arrangements with universities and colleges and State educational agencies for the conduct of research, surveys, and demonstrations in the field of education.
Página 7 - York, before the Subcommittee on Economic Statistics of the Joint Economic Committee of the Congress of the United States...
Página 58 - ... harvest begins. The index numbers of prices received and of prices paid by farmers consist of the aggregate value of a fixed quantity of goods, based on current midmonth prices for these commodities, expressed as a percentage of the aggregate value of the same quantity of goods in the base period.
Página 7 - Committee was set up by the National Bureau of Economic Research at the request of the Office of Statistical Standards of the Bureau of the Budget...
Página 58 - The ratio of the index of prices received to the index of prices paid is known as the parity ratio and is frequently an important determinant in the formulation of the Government's agricultural policy.
Página 66 - Government." 1. A central coordinating agency to prevent duplication, achieve balance, and develop procedures for an integrated system of Government statistics. 2. General purpose statistical agencies, whose primary function is the collection, compilation and publication of statistics in specific fields for general use. 3. Analytic and research agencies, which use statistics collected by other agenices for interpretive purposes, including preparation of composite measures.
Página 26 - The Secretary shall take, compile, and publish censuses of manufactures, of mineral industries, and of other businesses, including the distributive trades, service establishments, and transportation (exclusive of means of transportation for which statistics are required by law to be filed with, and are compiled and published by, a designated regulatory body...
Página 7 - Committee has made a detailed study of the three main price indexes compiled by the Federal Government : the Consumer Price Index : the Wholesale Price Index ; and the Indexes of Prices Received and Paid by Farmers. Much of the report of the committee is concerned with detailed questions (which, however, have substantial influence in the indexes), such as the appropriate detail of specification of the commodities whose prices are collected. Portions of the Committee's recommendations...