Progress on Presenting Derived Statistics and Coefficients of Variation.

摘要

The Committee on National Statistics recommended that Governments Division add value to their data by presenting more derived statistics, such as estimates of change. In this paper we discuss possible derived statistics and the metadata that must accompany the release of such statistics. Plans for future releases as well as derived statistics that are currently being released are discussed along with the coefficients of variation of those statistics. In the 2007 release of the Committee on National Statistics (CNStat) report entitled State and Local Government Statistics at a Crossroads, the Committee recommended that the Census Bureau add value to the data that are released by providing simple derived measures, such as per capita expenditures and taxes, more explanatory material, and comparative contextual analyses--for example, of trends by type of government and region.