美国能源信息局简介

本文介绍美国能源信息局的职能、机构组织和人员、经费预算、数据质量要求以及当前面临的挑战等情况。     

美国劳工统计局简介

介绍：本文介绍美国劳工统计局的职能、机构组织和人员、经费预算以及承担的统计调查项目和数据质量要求等情况。     

透视美国普查局

本文介绍关国普查局的职能、机构组织和人员、经费预算以及承担的统计调查项目、数据质量要求以及当前面临的挑战等情况。     

美国国民收入与生产核算：回顾与展望

本文对美国国民收入与生产核算的历史进行了回顾,就国民收入与生产核算对经济稳定和增长的贡献进行了概述.并在此基础上对美国国民收入与生产核算的未来做出了展望。     

美国主权债务危机与四川经济

“投资拉动、产业支撑”是四川经济增长的主要着力点。如果美国经济进入第二次衰退,我国加快结构调整的步伐将进一步加快,东部地区产业将加快向中西部地区转移。因此,四川经济仍保持平稳较快发展。     

美国的经济普查

普查目的。经济普查是美国最重要的普查之一，是反映美国经济结构状况的主要数据来源，其目的和作用是提供美国经济的综合概况，产生最不可缺少的经济统计资料，为国会与联邦政府、各州和地方政府部门的经济政策制定者提供基础经济数据，以计划和评估各类经济项目、制定经济发展规划，满足企业了解市场、制订发展计划、规范竞争、吸引投资、管理销售和提高效益、进行行业及其分布比较的需要，为GDP的测算和追踪、再就业培训以及其他经济项目执行当中的司法诉讼提供依据。经济普查还为许多投资者、行业协会和经济研究者分析与预测经济形势提供官方信息。     

美国经济分析局战略规划对我国的启示

与中国的统计体制不同,美国的统计体制以部门统计为主,联邦政府没有设置单独的统计部门,统计机构分布在农业部、商务部、劳工部、运输部、卫生部等12个部门中。美国经济分析局(以下简称BEA)隶属于商务部,它的基本职能是国民经济核算,包括国内生产总值核算、投入产出核算、国际收支核算和地区生产总值核算。同时,BEA利用国民经济核算资料和各部门统计资料进行经济分析,为社会公众提供服务。BEA每五年制定一次战略规划,以指导其不断改进国民经济核算数据的时效性、可靠性和准确性。2004年,BEA制定了2005—2009财政年度战略规划(以下简称…     

2005上半年美国经济形势及全年展望

一、上半年美国经济增长较快上半年美国经济保持了稳定的增长态势,失业率持续下降,价格水平在有限范围内波动,贸易逆差继续扩大,美元贬值的势头有所缓和,股市总体表现平稳。(一)经济增长较快,增速略微放缓。按季节调整后2000年不变价的折合年率计算,上半年前两季度美国国内生产总值分别为10.999和11.092万亿美元,环比折年率增长分别为3.8%和3.4%。同一季度相比,二季度增速虽然比一季度回落0.4个百分点,但仍属较快增长。按同比计算,今年一季度和二季度均增长3.6%,而去年一至四季度增长4.7%、4.6%、3.8%和3.8%。因此自2003年四季度增长4.0%以…     

The Hausdorff Space and Applied Statistics: A View from the U.S.S.R.

The article focuses on the debate in the pages of the Soviet statistical journal Vestnik Statistiki as to the existence and relevance of applied statistics as a separate scientific discipline. The contents of four letters to the editor and relevant editorial comments that appeared in this journal between October 1985 and July 1987 are analyzed.     

美国统计高等教育的现状及其发展趋势

统计学专业已经成为当今美国最热门的专业之一。美国统计学会的最新报告详细介绍了统计学和生物统计学专业的科研经费、学生就业及薪金水平等情况。美国国家卫生研究院于2001年和2003年先后两次召开专题会议,研讨生物统计学专业人才的培养、美国学界呼吁：加强下一代统计和生物统计专业人才的培养,特别要重视多重背景高层次统计学专业人才的培养。     

Reply

Beginning with the 1990 Census and the January 1992 Current Population Survey (CPS), the Bureau of the Census changed the emphasis of its educational-attainment question from years of education to degree receipt. Using a matched sample from the 1991 and 1992 March CPS, this article addresses how to reconcile the old and new questions. The effects of those methods on the estimated return(s) to education are then examined. Both the estimated linear return and the estimated college–high-school wage differential are slightly larger using information from the new question.     

U.S. Institutional Representation on Editorial Boards of U.S. Statistics Journals

This article presents two different, but similar, rankings of U.S. statistics faculties according to their current representation on editorial boards of 14 U.S. statistics journals. The data show that there is a widespread balance of individuals, institutions, and geographical locations in the U.S. with respect to publication officers.     

Problems with the Federal Economic Statistical System and Some Alternatives for Improvement

This article identifies four problems with the present federal statistical system for economics: (1) lack of comparability of data series; (2) fragmentation and poor data quality; (3) nonoptimal funding patterns; and (4) susceptibility of the system to politicization. Full centralization of the system appears to be both impractical and undesirable as a solution; however, considerable consolidation in the statistics collection process and a substantial increase in the number and professional quality of personnel devoted to planning, developing, and coordinating the federal statistical system are recommended.     

中国对美国农产品出口持续时间研究

 本文利用1989-2008共20年中国出口到美国农产品高度细分的贸易数据,通过引入生存分析来研究中国对美国农产品出口持续时间。研究发现这一贸易关系的持续时间很短,HS10分位农产品的平均生存时间为3.9年,中位生存时间为2年,生存时间众数为1。稳健性检验表明产品分类的不同层次对结果的影响不显著。在此基础上提出政策建议和研究的不足。     

A Dynamic Analysis of Prices in the U.S. Rice Marketing Channel

Granger causality tests and dynamic multipliers are used to explore the dynamic relationship among prices in the U.S. rice marketing channel. The dynamic multipliers provide information about the speed and magnitude of dynamic price adjustments that is not provided by the Granger causality tests. This information is shown to be useful in explaining the underlying economic relationship among the time series of prices.     

Forecasting Accuracy of Alternative Techniques: A Comparison of U.S. Macroeconomic Forecasts

This article introduces and discusses a new measure of the relative economic affluence (REA) between income distributions with different means. The REA measure D is applied to the U.S. white and black household income distributions of 1967 and 1979. The measure D shows that the REA of the white households with respect to the black households decreased from 1967 to 1979. This conclusion contrasts with those obtained by applications of distance or quasi-distance functions. It is shown in this study that REA measures and distance functions address different and relevant issues. An REA measure deals with the relation “more affluent than” and defines a partial strict ordering over the set of pairs of income distributions—that is, the relation is asymmetric and transitive—whereas a distance function accounts for the dissimilarity between distributions without imposing an ordering relation and hence fulfills the symmetry property.     

Improving the contributions of technology assessment to the health care system of the U.S.A.

Summary Based on 14 case studies of highly effective therapies and the reasons they succeeded less frequently than they could, we propose a variety of steps to improve the health care system of the U.S.A. Whatever proposal emerges from current national debates until innovations are shown to be safe and effective, they should not be supported; when slightly better technologies are much more expensive than other good ones we need to consider appropriate choices carefully; simplified billing and bookkeping would reduce our costs; when a technology is rapidly introduced cautionnary measures may be needed; tracking immunization and repairing their omissions requires a new system; educational programs such as seen effective in hypertension should be applied in other areas such as vaccination; in organ transplantation the nation should consider “presumed consent”; our payment system sometimes creates perverse incentives and therefore needs review; and the preferences of the public in allocation of health resources need to be discovered once the public is informed about the issues. Research supported by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.