Core Support for the Committee on National Statistics

国家统计委员会(CNSTAT)是国家科学院的一个常设委员会。它成立于1972年，是在总统联邦统计委员会的建议下成立的，目的是填补联邦政府高度分散的统计系统的综合力量的关键空白。委员会致力于改进有助于公共政策研究和决策的数据和分析方法。在这一赠款期间，委员会将在联邦统计机构面临越来越大挑战的领域举行公开研讨会并开展研究，包括：保护机密性和隐私与提供数据研究访问之间的紧张关系；遏制针对政府调查的下降；衡量不断变化的经济；优先追求创新和协调，而不是现状。委员会还将对赞助机构提出的具体研究请求作出回应。目前和预期的一些项目包括：衡量粮食不安全和饥饿；2010年人口普查的居住规则和覆盖面评估；新的美国社区调查的估计问题；关于小企业动态和创新的联邦企业统计数据的充分性；国家健康账户的设计；以及为联邦统计机构更新委员会的白皮书、原则和做法。与国家科学院其他单位的联合项目包括国家弹道成像数据库的可行性，以及数据挖掘和信息融合在公共卫生、恐怖主义预防和其他政府职能中的应用。国家统计项目委员会的设计目的是在具体问题之外具有广泛的应用。许多研究有助于改善政府的政策和运作。几乎所有机构都以这样的方式为社会、行为和经济科学做出贡献：改善许多社会科学研究所依赖的联邦赞助的数据收集；进一步发展和使用政策和方法研究的统计方法；为智力交流和考虑系统范围内的问题提供论坛，例如社会科学研究的人类研究参与者保护；以及促进国家科学院内的社会、行为和经济科学，并通过委员会与国会、OMB以及联邦研究和项目机构的关系。许多项目还通过改善关键国家指标(如贫困衡量、消费者价格指数)以及关键数据集的质量、相关性和可获得性，促进公众更好地了解。

The Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT) is a standing committee of the National Academies. It was established in 1972 at the recommendation of the President's Commission on Federal Statistics to fill a critical gap as an integrative force for the federal government's highly decentralized statistical system. The Committee works to improve the data and analytic methods that contribute to public policy research and decision-making. During this grant period, the Committee will hold public seminars and develop studies in areas of increasing challenge for federal statistical agencies, including: the tension between protecting confidentiality and privacy and providing research access to data; stemming the decline in response to government surveys; measuring the changing economy; and pursuing innovation and coordination in preference to the status quo. The Committee also will respond to requests for particular studies from sponsor agencies. Some current and expected projects include: measurement of food insecurity and hunger; residence rules and coverage evaluation for the 2010 census; estimation issues for the new American Community Survey; the adequacy of federal business statistics on small business dynamics and innovation; the design of national health accounts; and an update of the Committee's white paper, Principles and Practices for a Federal Statistical Agency. Joint projects with other units in the National Academies include the feasibility of a national ballistics imaging database and applications of data mining and information fusion for public health, terrorism prevention, and other governmental functions.Committee on National Statistics projects are designed to have broad application beyond the specific issues covered. Many studies help improve government policy and operations. Almost all contribute to the social, behavioral, and economic sciences in such ways as: improving federally sponsored data collections on which much social science research depends; furthering the development and use of statistical methods for policy and methodological research; providing forums for intellectual exchange and consideration of system-wide issues, such as human research participant protection for social science research; and advancing the social, behavioral, and economic sciences within the National Academies and through the Committee's relationships with Congress, OMB, and federal research and program agencies. Many projects also contribute to better public understanding by improving key national indicators (e.g., the poverty measure, the Consumer Price Index) and the quality, relevance, and accessibility of key data sets.