A statistician in transition: differences between an official statistician in a planned economy and a market economy

摘要

This chapter is basically a personal observation, gathered from three years of work in the Czech Statistical Office after 24 years of experience at Statistics Canada. Some of the following points may be more common than others; some may actually spring from different traditions, rather than the communist experience of Czechoslovakia; or they may be too subjective. During this time, however, I have often been asked to compare may experiences. The following is the result of my trying to answer such questions.