Central Statistical Board Research Articles

How Does Green Human Resources Management Practice Influence The Job Pursuit Intention of Millennial Generation in Indonesia and Malaysia?

Green Human Resource Management (GHRM) practice is a set of activities in human resources that involve environmental aspects in their implementation. In 2020, with the millennial generation making up the largest proportion of the workforce, they will wield significant influence over business trends. Previous research indicates that job pursuit intentions are influenced by organisational attributes, emphasising the need for companies to understand the important values held by their future workforce. The purpose of this study is to measure millennials' perceptions of the influence of GHRM practices on their intention to seek employment in Indonesian and Malaysian companies and to analyse the impact of the implementation of GHRM practices in the company on millennials' intention to seek employment, using pro-environmental consciousness as a moderator. The data used in this research were primary data obtained through questionnaires with the Likert scale and the scenario-based study, and secondary data from the central statistical board and other literature that supports the research. The respondents in this study were final-year students at IPB University Indonesia and University Putra Malaysia. Data were analysed using descriptive analysis, hierarchical linear regression analysis, and bootstrapping in SPSS 22. The results show that GHRM is positively significant with job pursuit intention (JPI), whereas personal pro-environmental consciousness was not given the significant effect between GHRM and JPI. Implementing GHRM practices is indispensable for companies seeking to attract millennial talent. These practices can be implemented using both push and pull strategies, embedding pro-environmental aspects.

Statistics of the USSR and Leningrad During the Great Patriotic War

The article looks at how Soviet, Russian state statistics operated during the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945). Statistical activities within both the system of state structures, led by the Central Statistical Board of the USSR State Planning Committee, and departmental statistics, organized at that time in sectoral management structures – Narkomats (People’s Commissariats). The authors show how urgent mobilization of all the nation’s resources for needs of the front led to the changes in statistical work; this was primarily related to priorities of statistical observations and time frames of statistical works.The paper analyses main directions of statistical activity on the collection and processing of information on different levels of the managerial structure and at the industry level. The authors review all advances in statistics that happened in wartime conditions urgent censuses (surveys) and operational data transfer, a system of operational accounting.In a separate section of the article using archival sources, for the first time, are considered the problems of organizing statistical activities in Leningrad, the city that found itself in the blockade ring in 1941, and ways to solve them in extreme military conditions.

The Work of the Central Statistical Committee in 1917-1918

The activity of state statistics throughout the revolutionary period of 1917 is uncharted territory in the history of Russian statistics. Using documents from the State Archive of the Russian Federation, the authors examined for the first time the last year of the Central Statistical Committee. Unlike other state structures of the previous government, it was not dissolved after the events of October 1917 and continued to operate after the Soviet government moved to Moscow. The article contains information on the first «Soviet» Head of the Central Statistical Committee of the Commissariat of Internal Affairs V.A. Algasov and outlines the work of Professor M.A. Sirinov, who was offered a position of the Head of the Central Statistical Committee by the People’s Commissar of Internal Affairs G.I. Petrovsky. Archive records helped establish the fact that both the authorities of the Central Statistical Committee and some statisticians came up with an idea of founding a new statistical service based on the Central Statistical Committee and gubernia (provincial) statistics. The authors revealed the role of V.V. Stepanov in relocating the Library of the Central Statistical Committee to Moscow. The article describes the clash of opinions that preceded the establishment of the Soviet state statistics, to be specific the inauguration of the RSFSR Central Statistical Board, which was envisaged to be an independent body, not subordinate to any agency, to ensure the independence of the country’s statistical service.

100th Anniversary of the Journal «Vestnik statistiki»

The first issue of the journal «Vestnik statistiki» («Bulletin of Statistics») came out 100 years ago. It was in print till 1929 and then from 1949 to1993. Its successor «Voprosy statistiki» has been published since 1994. This article covers the journal’s contents in its first decade. The author focuses on academic articles on statistical methodology and overviews articles addressing applied state statistics. The importance of interaction and collaboration between statisticians from the central office of the Central Statistical Board and statistical offices «in the field» is stressed. During that time the journal continued to publish translations of foreign articles along with detailed reviews of translations of books by foreign authors. The article draws attention to the formation of industrial and energy statistics, as well as the development of balance sheet and, above all, questions of the methodology and practice related to the Balance of the National Economy. Examples of delivering innovation in statistical observation - using aerial photography for the needs of agricultural statistics, are put forward. Criticism against state statisticsopenedwhen Vladimir Lenin was the Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars, which led to the gradual abolition of the analytical functions of statistics, ignoring the variation of indicators and replacing statistics with the «national economic accounting». As a result, in 1929 the publication of the journal «Vestnik statistiki» was suspended.

Pathways Out of Poverty During an Economic Crisis: An Empirical Assessment of Rural Indonesia

Most poor people in developing countries still live in rural areas and are primarily engaged in low productivity farming activities. Thus pathways out of poverty are likely to be strongly connected to productivity increases in the rural economy, whether they are realised in farming, rural non-farm enterprises or via rural-urban migration. We use cross-sectional data from the Central Statistical Board (BPS) for 1993 and 2002, as well as a panel data set from the Indonesia Family Life Survey (IFLS) for 1993 and 2000, to show which pathways out of poverty were most successful over this period. Our findings suggest that increased engagement of farmers in rural non-farm enterprises is an important route out of rural poverty, but that most of the rural agricultural poor that exit poverty still do so while remaining rural and agricultural. Thus changes in agricultural prices, wages and productivity still play a critical role in moving people out of poverty.

Bulgarian industrial growth and structure: 1970–89

THE OFFICIAL INFORMATION on industrial growth and structure in Bulgaria is prepared and published by the National Statistical Institute (NSI, the former Central Statistical Board). The information about the aggregated macroeconomic indicators of Bulgaria's economic development in the past is far from perfect. The ideologists did not overlook anything which could be interpreted ambiguously. All the figures (especially those for the growth rates of gross aggregates) were checked in advance and 'corrected' in the inaccessible rooms of the political leaders. Statistics was a science for the approval of 'the irresistible socialist progress'. Things are changing now, everything is going to find its own place (including statistics in general, as well as within statistics too), but the state of the art is still unsatisfactory. The Statistical Yearbook of the Republic of Bulgaria (Statisticheski godishnik na Republika Bulgaria) for 1990, with data up to 1989, again reproduces all the indicators calculated before. Thus one can see that the gross material product and the national income produced increased 2.7 times between 1970 and 1989 (p. 120), the consumption fund-2.4 times (p. 125), the total industrial production-2.9 times (p. 163), the total construction output-2.3 times (p. 210), the real income per capita-2.4 times (p. 79). The consumer price statistics show the reverse picture-prices increased less than 25% in 1980-88 (p. 303). This information is more than suspicious.1 We need an unbiased and objective view of the past to investigate the real economy. This requires the construction of alternative estimates.

Education of the handicapped in the USSR: Exploration of the statistical picture

The Soviet Union provides special schooling for physically or mentally handicapped children. Data on schooling for handicapped children was the only kind of systematic data found by the researchers on the provision of services for the handicapped in the USSR. The regional distribution of schooling for handicapped children is inconsistent with any plausible pattern of need. The number and regional distribution of disabled adults without public sector jobs may reflect the availability and effectiveness of vocational rehabilitation programs or other institutional factors more than it does the distribution of people with particular work-limiting conditions. Sources of systematic evidence of disabilities include journals and education statistics found in numerous volumes of statistical handbooks for the USSR and Soviet republics as well as related compendia of education statistics published by the Central Statistical Board. The published data on children in schools for the handicapped are not broken down by grade level or by king of handicap. In the USSR special schools have existed since the 1920s. After 1958-1959 there was an expansion of enrollments in special schools partly because of the 1959 Soviet Education Law. The availability of places in special schools tracks very closely the relative economic development levels of Soviet regions. 4 explanations which could account for these regional differences are 1) differential screening for learning disabilities; 2) differential selection criteria; 3) elaborateness of networks of schools; and 4) differential budgetary strain. The varied regional patterns show how diverse the Soviet Union is and warn of the danger of assuming that social policy in application follows the prescribed rules or that prescribed policy is implemented to the same extent in all regions of the country. It is important to distinguish the need for services for the disabled. Regional differences in resources and state budgets or regional differences in how disabilities are defined perhaps partly due to differences in the occupational makeup of the labor force are likely to affect both the need for services and how completely that need is satisfied.

How the Office of Statistical Standards Can Help Develop a Program

HAVE been asked by Mr. Walter Hendricks speak on how the Office of Statistical Standards can help develop a program for better and more economical crop and livestock estimates. Let me preface my remarks with a brief general description of the functions and purposes of the Budget Bureau's Office of Statistical Standards. It is, as most of you know, the successor of the Central Statistical Board established in 1933. The Act creating the Central Statistical Board had as its purpose: to plan and promote the improvement, development, and coordination of, and the elimination of duplication in, statistical services carried on by ... the Federal Government.... When the Budget Bureau was reorganized in 1939 serve as the staff arm of the President, the Central Statistical Board and these functions were transferred it.

Revision of Base Period for General-Purpose Indexes

A shift in the base period for general-purpose index numbers to the years 1947-49 has been recommended to Federal statistical agencies by the Division of Statistical Standards in the Bureau of the Budget. Agencies have been asked to adopt the new base period by January 1, 1953, or earlier if the work of revision permits. Recommendation of the shift to a postwar series of years was made after prolonged consideration with the producers and users of the indexes of the advantages and disadvantages of making a change in the base period at this time. In 1940 the Central Statistical Board (predecessor to the Division of Statistical Standards) recommended adoption of the years 1935-39 as the base period for the Government's general-purpose index numbers. The Board at that time recommended re-examination of the question of base periods before the end of another decade, and consideration of a shift to a more recent series of years. In the present recommendation of a shift to 1947-49 as the base period, the Division of Statistical Standards again suggests that provision be made for re-examination of the base periods after another decade or so. Following is the text of the statement sent to Federal statistical agencies on the recommended change:

Occupational Classification for Market Research

A S MARKET research becomes a more widely used tool of management, there is greater need for standardized terminologies and standardized techniques, so that surveys will be comparable. Because of this need, in February, 1942, Dr. Virgil D. Reed, as president of the American Marketing Association, appointed a committee on Occupational Classification, composed of D. E. Robinson, Paul W. Stewart, Raymond A. Robinson, Alba M. Edwards (non-member consultant), and the writer as chairman. The committee's instructions were study present practices in the use of occupational classifications in marketing and recommend standard procedures in tabulation, use and presentation. A first step in the committee's work was to send an inquiry to a considerable number of research men. Answers to this inquiry indicated little standardization in current occupational classification in market research; in fact, many systems of classifications reported were so vague as to be subject to frequent misunderstanding and misinterpretation. The most constructive work was found to be that of the Interdepartmental Committee on Occupations, sponsored by the American Statistical Association and the Central Statistical Board, whose conclusions formed the basis of the recommendations of the present committee. A standardized system of occupational classification suitable for wide use must have three characteristics:

Cost of Living Indexes

IN ANALYZING cost of living indexes it would seem most feasible to limit the analysis to a brief discussion of time-to-time indexes, i.e., indexes which measure changes in living costs from one period of time to another but do not measure differences in living costs between one place and another place. The two oldest and best-known national indexes, which have been available continuously over a long period of time, are the indexes prepared and published by the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics and the National Industrial Conference Board. The first to be made available for the United States was that of the Conference Board in 19181 and it was carried backward for selected dates to July, 1914; followed by that of the Bureau in 19192 which was extended backward to 1913. Numerous changes have been made in the context, coverage, and publication dates of these indexes. The situation today is this: The Bureau publishes for each quarter indexes for the United States and 34 specified cities, Milwaukee having been added to these surveys in December, and preliminary interim indexes for each month beginning with October for the large cities of the United States and 20 of these cities at the request of the National Defense Commission.3 The Bureau will shortly release quarterly indexes for 20 small cities and for cities with special problems arising out of the Defense Program and indexes of rents in Defense cities, also at the request of the Commission. The Conference Board publishes each month indexes for the United States and 56 specified cities.4 The Bureau has recently revised its indexes from 1935 to date5 and has placed them on a 1935-1939 = 100 base in line with the recommendations of the Central Statistical Board. The indexes for earlier years were linked to the new series, taking the new major budget group weights into consideration in the linking process since 1925.6 Now, the

A Standard Occupational and Industrial Classification of Workers

O CCUPATIONAL and industrial statistics of our working population collected in the past by various Federal, State, and private agencies have fallen far short of attaining their maximum usefulness. This is true in spite of the large volume and excellent quality of the data available from individual agencies. The natural tendency of each collecting agency to work independently in terms of its own immediate problems has too often made it impossible to compare data from different sources and to piece together in a systematic manner the results of related studies. In part this lack of comparability has arisen from differences in the coverage and methods of compilation of the data themselves; but a more important cause has been the absence of a uniform scheme for classifying into a few hundred manageable groups the thousands of occupational and industrial titles which are encountered in the primary data. A widespread desire to correct this situation has developed in recent years. It resulted in July I938 in the appointment by the American Statistical Association and the Central Statistical Board of a Committee on Occupational Classification, composed of representatives of Federal and non-Federal agencies collecting or using occupational data on a large scale.' The Committee was asked to prepare a list of occupational titles under which the entire working population of the nation can be classified, including titles of each of the important occupations, and excluding titles for which data cannot be presented by most agencies because of limitations in their method of gathering information. The general point of view from which the Committee worked is that an occupational classification is fundamentally an instrument for dividing a working population into groups which are more or less homogeneous with respect to the occupations in which they are or have been engaged. Such groups are often used primarily as a means of describing a population, either for statistical purposes (as in the case of the Bureau of the Census), or for administrative purposes (as in the case of a placement office). More frequently they are used for purposes of statistical analysis, in which occupation is one of a number of variables. The

Pretesting of Questionnaires

U TSE of the questionnaire appears to be steadily increasing despite the vast amount of criticism of this instrument, the growing awareness among investigators of its limitations, and the small proportion of returns commonly yielded by the questionnaire. The greatest increase in the use of this device during the past decade has not been by individual social scientists but by governmental and business organizations. Amplified employment of the questionnaire by governmental agencies is explained by the unprecedented demands upon them during these depression years and the need for gathering data quickly to formulate new programs and to check upon their effectiveness. An investigation recently completed by the Central Statistical Board provides evidence concerning the widespread use of the questionnaire by governmental agencies for these purposes.' Business corporations are making increased use of the questionnaire primarily for market research. Study of consumers' preferences by this means has been judged a profitable way to discover unexploited markets, to test the effectiveness of advertising campaigns, and more particularly to aid manufacturers in designing their products so as to maximize sales. As an example of this trend, one may cite an automobile corporation which sends fifteen or twenty questionnaires a year to potential purchasers of its products. Meanwhile, there is no evidence that social scientists have been utilizing the questionnaire less often or that they can dispense with this technique when it is necessary to gather information at low cost from a large number of people living at a distance from the investigator. The increasing use of the questionnaire by government and business, does, however, present a dual challenge to the social scientist when he finds it necessary to use this device. The social scientist must now compete with these new users of the questionnaire for the time and attention of the recipients of these inquiries, as well as against all of the other competing demands upon the time of the average man that are made by the motion pictures, the radio, the magazine, the newspaper, and the host of organizations whose existence depends upon his interest and participation. These new users seem more aware than do many social scientists of the urgency of this competition, and more cognizant of the need for making

Report of the Central Statistical Board on the Returns Made by the Public to the Federal Government.

Previous articleNext article No AccessReviews of Government Reports and Public DocumentsReport of the Central Statistical Board on the Returns Made by the Public to the Federal Government.W. McM.W. McM. Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Social Service Review Volume 13, Number 2Jun., 1939 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/632526 PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Results of Four Methods of Sampling Individual Farms

Since January, 1937, the Central Statistical Board, Bureau of the Census, and Bureau of Agricultural Economics, have cooperated in studies designed to test various sampling procedures that might be used in making surveys of agriculture. Assistance in this research on Sample Farm Census methodology has also been had from the Departments of Economics of Iowa State College and Kansas State College, from the Works Progress Administrations of Iowa and New York City, and from various State offices of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics. The plan for a sample census of agriculture originally advanced by Mr. J. B. Shepard contemplated the use of the Minor Civil Division as a sampling unit with certain restrictions and modifications.' The administrative advantages of the Minor Civil Division are undeniable. The Minor Civil Division is the smallest political unit for which U. S. Census data are tabulated. Since it is a definite geographical unit, its use as a sampling unit would facilitate the measurement of the movement of land into and out of agricultural production. Studies completed early in 1937 however indicate that, with the great amount of variability in agricultural data, the Minor Civil Division was too large a sampling unit to serve as a basis for county estimates. It could be used for estimates by areas, such as crop reporting districts or type of farming areas, on a few major items which are well distributed among farms. Even then, a 20 per cent sample was a minimum. The problem of determining the correct sampling procedure for a sample census of agriculture involves two fundamental considerations: first, the determination of the type of sampling unit which will, under a given set of conditions, give the greatest accuracy with the minimum of administrative difficulty and cost; and second, the determination of the size of sample necessary for a specified standard of accuracy. The expense of taking an annual sample census of agriculture would be difficult to justify unless such an enumerationsurvey would furnish the basic data necessary for making estimates on major agricultural items by counties, or type-of-farming areas. Accordingly, a project was outlined in September, 1937, for investigating the statistical possibilities of sampling units smaller than

Organization of the Central Statistical Board

Organization of the Central Statistical Board

A Proposal for an Integrated Program for the Reporting of Business Statistics to Government Agencies

THE multiplicity of new governmental agencies set up in the past three years has led to much duplication of effort in the compilation of economic statistics. The increase in the number of questionnaires addressed to industry as a result of the Securities Act, the A.A.A., the N.R.A., the various research projects sponsored by the F.E.R.A., etc., has been enormous, so much so in fact that the cost of preparing the required material has placed a tremendous burden on industry. The Central Statistical Board was charged with the responsibility of coordinating these various investigations and the elimination of duplication. The work of the Board in this regard is to be commended. Certainly had it not been for this organization, the burden would be far greater than it is at the present time. But even the members of the Board will admit that their efforts have not been entirely effective and that it will be a long time before a satisfactory degree of co6rdination results in eliminating the duplication which now exists and improving the quality and accuracy of the inquiries. Furthermore, there are many inquiring groups which are not subject to the jurisdiction of the Central Statistical Board so that its possible contribution to simplification remains limited. There are many State organizations not subject to the jurisdiction of that Board, in addition to a number of the Federal organizations, such as the Securities Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, etc., each of which may conduct its own inquiries without any required co6rdination with other Governmental agencies. By the spring of 1935 this situation in the automobile industry had reached the stage of a major annoyance. Finally it was proposed that whenever inquiries other than those required by law were addressed to the members of the industry they should be forwarded to the Automobile Manufacturers Association for review. This procedure revealed a startling amount of duplication. It revealed further that many of the inquiries had obviously been prepared by persons whose knowledge of the industry was quite vague. Questions were couched in unfamiliar terms and it was frequently apparent that the information requested

The Activities of the Division of Current Business Statistics of the Central Statistical Board

The Activities of the Division of Current Business Statistics of the Central Statistical Board

The Central Statistical Board

The Central Statistical Board

The Central Statistical Board

The Central Statistical Board