Improving business statistics through interagency data sharing : summary of a workshop / Steering Committee for the Workshop on the Benefits of Interagency Business Data Sharing, Committee on National Statistics Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council of the National Academies, Caryn Kuebler and Christopher Mackie, rapporteurs.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kuebler, Caryn.

Mackie, Christopher D.

National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on National Statistics.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Commercial statistics--Congresses.

Commercial statistics.

United States--Statistical services--Congresses.

United States.

United States--Commerce--Statistics--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 143 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : National Academies Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

U.S. business data are used broadly, providing the building blocks for key national-as well as regional and local-statistics measuring aggregate income and output, employment, investment, prices, and productivity. Beyond aggregate statistics, individual- and firm-level data are used for a wide range of microanalyses by academic researchers and by policy makers. In the United States, data collection and production efforts are conducted by a decentralized system of statistical agencies. This apparatus yields an extensive array of data that, particularly when made available in the form of microdata, provides an unparalleled resource for policy analysis and research on social issues and for the production of economic statistics. However, the decentralized nature of the statistical system also creates challenges to efficient data collection, to containment of respondent burden, and to maintaining consistency of terms and units of measurement. It is these challenges that raise to paramount importance the practice of effective data sharing among the statistical agencies. With this as the backdrop, the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) asked the Committee on National Statistics of the National Academies to convene a workshop to discuss interagency business data sharing. The workshop was held October 21, 2005. This report is a summary of the discussions of that workshop. The workshop focused on the benefits of data sharing to two groups of stakeholders: the statistical agencies themselves and downstream data users. Presenters were asked to highlight untapped opportunities for productive data sharing that cannot yet be exploited because of regulatory or legislative constraints. The most prominently discussed example was that of tax data needed to reconcile the two primary business lists use by the statistical agencies.

Contents:

FrontMatter

Preface

Contents

Part I Workshop Summary

1 Introduction

2 The Benefits of Data Sharing to the Statistical Agencies

3 Research and Policy Perspectives on the Benefits of Business Data Sharing

4 Key Points from the Presentations: Directions for the Future

References

Appendix A Workshop Agenda and Attendees

Appendix B Recent Legislation Governing Data Sharing and Access to Federal Tax Data

Part II Background Papers

5 Data-Sharing History and Legislation: Background Notes

Robert P. Parker

6 IRS Data, Data Users, and Data Sharing

Nick Greenia and Mark Mazur

7 The Importance of Data Sharing to Consistent Macroeconomic Statistics

Dennis Fixler and J. Steven Landefeld

8 Using Tax Return Data to Improve Estimates of Corporate Profits

George A. Plesko.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0-309-18035-X

1-280-60448-4

9786610604487

0-309-66282-6

OCLC:

923277112