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Part of APDU’s Public Data University series, this webinar serves as a baseline learning experience and systematic overview of economic statistics at the Bureau of Economic Analysis. This presentation will explore the following questions:
- What data are collected? Who are the primary users?
- What research questions are most frequently answered with the agency’s data set?
- How are the data collected? What are their strengths and weaknesses?
- How frequently are the data updated? At what level geography are they collected?
- What is the delay between the reference period and publication?
- How are the data disseminated? How is the agency’s web delivery system structured?
- Who can the user contact if they want to know more about the data program?
Speaker:
Ian Mead, Economist, Bureau of Economic Analysis, Department of Commerce
Course:
Bureau of Economic Analysis Economic Statistics 101 (Introduction to Data Sets)
Cost:
Free, APDU & C2ER members and LMI Institute member states
$50, nonmembers