JOINT COMMITTEE ON THE ECONOMIC REPORT Printed for the use of the Joint Committee on the Economic Report 54-603 49377 UNITED STATES WASHINGTON: 1954 JOINT COMMITTEE ON THE ECONOMIC REPORT (Created pursuant to sec. 5 (a) of Public Law 304, 79th Cong.) RALPH E. FLANDERS, Vermont, Vice Chairman Barton, Samuel G., president, Market Research Corp. of America Belcher, Donald R., Assistant Director, Bureau of the Budget, accom- panied by Stuart A. Rice, Assistant Director for Statistical Stand- ards, and Peyton Stapp, Assistant Chief, Office of Statistical B. Tabular summary of statistical costs and services_ Agency statements___. Advisory committees to Federal statistical agencies. Bratt, Elmer C., professor of economics, Lehigh University (sub- 335 8, 145 163, 170 Improvements in existing data.. Congress of Industrial Organizations__ Colean, Miles L., consulting economist, Washington, D. C... Commerce, United States Department of, program of improved con- 351, 355 275, 287, 331 III Statement of-Continued Economic Indicators, letters on.. Fishman, Leo, professor of economics and finance, West Virginia Page 182 360 308, 332 Friend, Irwin, professor, University of Pennsylvania. 200, 268 Kellogg, Lester S., director of economic research, Deere & Co... Kyrk, Hazel, Washington, D. C., formerly professor of economics, Roos, Charles F., president, the Econometric Institute, Inc. (sub- Rosenbaum, Arthur, manager, economic research department, Sears, 337 295, 323 Ruttenberg, Stanley H., director, and Ellickson, Katherine P., asso- 341 217, 270 221 Seidman, Bert, economist, American Federation of Labor Simonson, Henry J., Jr., president, National Securities & Research Representatives of statistics producing agencies and Bureau of the Budget, Clague, Ewan, Commissioner, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department 361 265, 322, 333 Burgess, Robert W., Director, Bureau of the Census, Department Paradiso, Louis, Assistant Director and Chief Statistician, Office of Business Economics, Department of Commerce_ Rice, Stuart A., Assistant Director for Statistical Standards, Office of Statistical Standards, Bureau of the Budget____ Riefler, Winfield W., assistant to the Chairman, Board of Governors of Wells, Oris V., Administrator, Agricultural Marketing Service, Depart- |