The Use of Economic Statistics

Conrad Blyth

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9780815350996
• eBook ISBN: 9781351140904
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Business General
• Index: Business

Originally published in 1960 and 1966. This is an elementary introduction to the sources of economic statistics and their uses in answering economic questions. No mathematical knowledge is assumed, and no mathematical symbols are used.

The book shows - by asking and answering a number of typical questions of applied economics - what the most useful statistics are, where they are found, and how they are to be interpreted and presented. The reader is introduced to the major British, European and American official sources, to the social accounts, to index numbers and averaging, and to elementary aids to inspection such as moving averages and scatter diagrams.

INDEX

See also Reference Table, pp. 226-41

Account

appropriation, 105-6

balance of payments of UK, Chapter 7 passim, 197-9

capital, 105-6

balance of payments, long-term, 142-5, 147

combined, 118-20

of companies, 116, 131-4

of persons, 112, 128-31

current, 105-6

income/expenditure, 105-6

of firms, 106-11

of Government, 111-13

of persons, 111-13

of rest of world, 113-15

operating, 105-6

production, 105-6

revenue, 105-6

savings/investment, 105-6

social, of UK, 122-5

sources and uses of funds, 105-6

of quoted companies, 132-4

trading, 105-6

Agricultural statistics, 162

Allen, G. C, 18

Allen, R. G. D., 77

Annual Abstract of Statistics, 17

Annual Statement of Trade, 28

Arithmetic mean, 62-5

Assets

and liabilities in social accounts, 118-20

current and liquid, 133-4

depreciation of, 135-6

of persons, 128-31

of quoted companies, 132-4, 139

Automobile, see Motor car

Averages, 62-5, 71

and weighting, 67-71

moving, 165-74

Average value index, 75

Balance of trade, 141

Balance of payments, Chapter 7 passim

and imports, 197-9

balancing item, 143-7

deficit on current account in 1955, 149

regional, 145-6

statistics: sources, 142

and trade statistics, 149

UK current account since 1946, 145-9

United States, 218, 225

Balance sheets

of firms, 106-11

of quoted companies, 132-4, 139

Bank

deposits, 131, 208

overdrafts of quoted companies, 134

treatment in social accounts, 106, 118-20

Beer, fall in consumption of, 83

Belgium, 156

Board of Trade, 35, 132, 172

Board of Trade Journal, 35, 54-6

British Commonwealth, trade statisti...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Preface
• Contents
• List of Tables
• List of Charts
• Warning
• I Production and Employment in the Cotton Industry Since the War
• II The Slump in the Motor Industry 1956-7
• III How Much Have Prices Risen Since Before the War?
• IV Changes in Incomes
• V The Social Accounts
• VI Who Saves and Invests?
• VII United Kingdom Transactions with the Rest of the World
• VIII International Comparisons of Income and Output
• IX Trend and Seasonal Movements in Fruit and Vegetable Prices
• X The Productivity of British Industries
• XI The Dependence of the United Kingdom Economy upon Imports
• XII Fluctuations in American Business Activity 1947-58
• Reference Table of United Kingdom Economic Statistics
• Index