Federal statistical coordination today: a disaster or a disgrace?

The aim of central coordination of federal statistical policy is to assure the most efficient use of the resources of a very decentralized statistical system. This goal has become more elusive over the past thirty years, even as the need for standards and order in data bases among public and private...

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Published inMilbank Memorial Fund quarterly. Health and society Vol. 62; no. 1; p. 1
Main Author Bonnen, J T
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 1984
Subjects
Government Agencies - organization & administration
Information Systems - organization & administration
Public Policy
Statistics as Topic
United States
United States
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Summary:The aim of central coordination of federal statistical policy is to assure the most efficient use of the resources of a very decentralized statistical system. This goal has become more elusive over the past thirty years, even as the need for standards and order in data bases among public and private decision makers has increased--in health, energy, justice, environmental, and various other regulatory policy areas. Shortsighted dislocations and political interference have deprofessionalized and decimated our ability to control, rather than to destroy, the governance of bureaucracy.
ISSN:0160-1997
DOI:10.2307/3349889