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Current Projects
Panel on Reviewing Federal Business Statistics
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Background
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation has requested the Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT) to conduct a review and assessment of federal data collection and analysis and federal static and longitudinal databases used in federal business statistics. The purpose of the study will be to evaluate the accuracy, currency, coverage, and reliability of information on business formation and growth, employment flow, revenue and investment, and contribution to economic growth. CNSTAT proposes to establish a panel to conduct such a study. The goals of this study will be to assess the current individual static and longitudinal databases on businesses; examine current data collection and analysis pertaining to the role of new business units entering the economy and their life cycles; examine the contribution of these data files to address special issues including the self-employed and woman-and minority-owned businesses; compare U.S. data sets and methodologies with those of other OECD countries; and make recommendations for improving the current system.
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Roster
- JOHN HALTIWANGER (Co-Chair), Department of Economics, University of Maryland
- LISA LYNCH (Co-Chair), Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
- JOHN ABOWD, Cornell University
- PATRICIA M. ANDERSON, Department of Economics, Dartmouth College
- MATTHEW BARNES, Regulatory Impact Unit, Cabinet Office
- STEVEN DAVIS, University of Chicago
- TIMOTHY DUNNE, Department of Economics, University of Oklahoma
- ROBERT GROVES, Survey Research Center, University of Michigan
- SUSAN HANSON, School of Geography, Clark University
- ROBERT McGUCKIN, The Conference Board
- PAUL D. REYNOLDS, Paul Reynolds and Associates
- MARK ROBERTS, Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University
- NIELS WESTERGARD-NIELSEN, Aarhus School of Business
- KIRK WOLTER, National Opinion Research Center, University of Chicago
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Staff
- Christopher Mackie, Study Director
- Marisa Gerstein, Research Assistant
- Allison Shoup, Senior Program Assistant
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