Wealth, Income and Living

Peterson, George M.

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“…In the US, the debate on the need for income statistics based on the household unit, and warnings about using inappropriate indicators, have a long history (Peterson, 1933; AAEA, 1972; Kraenzle, 2000). Attention has been drawn to the importance of the agricultural household as the basis for analysis (Offutt, 2002a,b).…”

Section: The Present State Of Statistics On Incomes In Agriculturementioning

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Some Economics of Public Statistics

Hill¹

2008

J Agricultural Economics

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Public statistics are an important part of the information needed for efficient and effective agricultural and rural policy. Experience of several decades of work at the interface of statistics and policy, in particular on income measurement in agriculture, suggests that there are systematic failures in the process by which statistics are fed into policy decisions, although their nature and extent can be expected to vary across types of policy. These failures include poor recognition of the need for information and conceptual obsolescence in methodologies. The explanations for these failures are likely to include the unwillingness of policy-makers to articulate their objectives clearly, various interests in not having better statistics, the limited independence of agricultural statisticians from departments responsible for policy, and the low level of engagement by academics. Ways of improving the situation are explored. Copyright (c) The Agricultural Economics Society. 2008.

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Section: The Present State Of Statistics On Incomes In Agriculturementioning

confidence: 99%

Some Economics of Public Statistics

Hill¹

2008

J Agricultural Economics

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“…These have often been used to imply what has been happening to the living standards of farmers, which of course they are incapable of doing when so many agricultural households have other sources of income. The issue of what is the appropriate indicator for policy purposes can be traced back at least to Peterson (1933) and has gathered momentum in the 1990s (see, for example, Hill 2000).…”

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