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RELIABILITY CRITERIA FOR NATIONAL ACCOUNTS
Author(s) -
Novak George J.
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
review of income and wealth
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.024
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1475-4991
pISSN - 0034-6586
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-4991.1975.tb00823.x
Subject(s) - reliability (semiconductor) , variety (cybernetics) , national accounts , economics , computer science , econometrics , reliability engineering , engineering , macroeconomics , quantum mechanics , artificial intelligence , power (physics) , physics
The reliability of national accounts is determined by the adequacy of a great variety of data sources and estimating methods. This inquiry focuses on major conceptual and methodological problems, and while it does not solve the reliability problem, it provides a framework for reliability analysis and suggests criteria for the evaluation of results; it also assists the producers of national accounts in determining the major trade‐offs between different areas of possible data improvement.