TITLE

Statistics corner: Revising classifications of economic activity

AUTHOR(S)

Duncan, Joseph W.

PUB. DATE

January 1992

SOURCE

Business Economics;Jan1992, Vol. 27 Issue 1, p58

SOURCE TYPE

Academic Journal

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Discusses federal government efforts to revise the classification system used for measuring economic activity in the United States. Census Bureau's sponsorship of an International Conference on the Classification of Economic Activity in Williamsburg, Virginia on November 6-8, 1991; History of the standard industrial classification; Problems with industrial classification.

ACCESSION #

9609191439

Tags: UNITED States -- Economic policy;  ECONOMICS

 

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