Research on a new possibility of official statistics in the information era

我们在这两年的研究阐明了以下几点：(1)即使是现在的信息和通信(IT)技术也使官方统计调查结果的快速公布成为可能。然而，快速出版需要在数据收集和数据处理阶段更有效地利用IT技术，特别是网络技术。(2)应大力提倡将行政记录用于统计目的。丹麦已经采用了这种制度，并公布了基于登记册的统计数据。行政档案的利用将减轻统计对象的负担。(3)由于目前隐私意识的提高，统计调查的环境变得越来越艰难。因此，从官方统计数据制定者的角度来看，提高调查效率至关重要。(4)实现更有效率的统计调查的途径之一是各种调查的数据联动。数据链接是一种新的统计技术，将不同部委和机构的统计部门收集的各种微观数据联系起来。但是，为了拥有这样的数据，我们必须构建一个新的业务框架和各部委之间一致的编码体系，这是统计理论的新前沿。经过两年的研究，我们意识到更多的理论调查和官方统计制定者和使用者之间的合作是非常重要的。

Our research during these two years has clarified the following points : (1) Even the present information & communication (IT) technology makes possible speedy publications of theresults of official stattistical surveys. Speedy publications, however, requires to make use of IT technology, particularly that of network, more efficently at the stage of data colle-ction as well as data processing. (2) The utilization of administrative records for statis-tical purposes should be strongly recommended. Denmark has already adopted such a kind of system, and published register-based atatistical data. The utilization of administrative records would reduce the burden of the objects of statistical sueveys. (3) Because of the present raise of privacy consciouness, the environment of statistiscal surveys is getting harder and harder. Therefore, from the makers' viewpoint of official statistics, it is vitally important to make surveys more efficient. (4) One of the ways to realize more efficient statistical surveys is data-linkage of various surveys. The data-linkage is a new statistical technique to link variou smicro data collected by statistics divisions of different ministries and agencies. But, in order for us to have thi skind of data, we have to construct a new business-frame and a consistent coding system in common among ministries and agencies, which are new fronties to statistical theory.After the two years research, we realized that more theroretial investigations and cooperations between makers and users of official statistics are very important.