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Economic Statistics

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Introduction

In this article, we regard economic statistics as a branch of applied statistics which deals with the following topics: (1) collection of statistics on socioeconomic conditions, (2) compilation of surveys and registered records to produce various economic indicators, such as consumer price index or GDP, (3) evaluation of economic indicators from the viewpoint of reliability.

Economic statistics is closely related to official statistics, since most of the statistics of the society and economy are provided by official organizations like national statistical offices or intergovernmental organizations such as United Nations, OECD, and World Bank. On the other hand, economic statistics is different from econometrics in a narrow sense. Typically, objective of econometrics lies in developing the theory and its applications to various economic data. In contrast, economic statistics places more emphasis on quality of data before applying sophisticated methods to analyze them. In...

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  1. College of Economics, Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan

    Yasuto Yoshizoe

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  1. Yasuto Yoshizoe
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  1. Department of Statistics and Informatics, Faculty of Economics, University of Kragujevac, City of Kragujevac, Serbia

    Miodrag Lovric

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Yoshizoe, Y. (2011). Economic Statistics. In: Lovric, M. (eds) International Encyclopedia of Statistical Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04898-2_221

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