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Suggested Citation:"Appendix A Workshop Agenda and Attendees." National Research Council. 2006. Improving Business Statistics Through Interagency Data Sharing: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11738.
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Appendix A
Workshop Agenda and Attendees

Workshop on the Benefits of Interagency Business Data Sharing

October 21, 2005

The Keck Center of the National Academies

Room 100

500 Fifth Street, NW

Washington, DC

Welcome and Introductory Comments

9:00 am

Background, Workshop Goals, and Agenda

 

Charles Schultze, workshop chair (Brookings Institution)

9:10

Welcome from the Sponsor

 

Steven Landefeld, Dennis Fixler (BEA)

Benefits of Data Sharing to the Statistical Agencies

9:15

Improving Business Lists: The Business Register Comparison and Reconciliation Projects

 

Jim Spletzer (BLS); Paul Hanczaryk (Census Bureau)

9:45

Open Discussion

10:15

An Overview of IRS Data: Data-Sharing Arrangements, and Data Needs of Primary Customers and Researchers

 

Mark Mazur, Nick Greenia (IRS)

10:45

Open Discussion

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A Workshop Agenda and Attendees." National Research Council. 2006. Improving Business Statistics Through Interagency Data Sharing: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11738.
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11:15

An Overview of the Role of Data Sharing in the Production of Federal Statistics

 

Steven Landefeld, Dennis Fixler (BEA)

11:45

Open Discussion

12:00 pm

Lunch and Discussion

 

Recent Developments in Data-Sharing Regulations and Legislation

 

Katherine Wallman (OMB)

Research and Policy Perspectives on the Benefits of Data Sharing

1:00

Introduction to the Session

 

Charles Shultze

1:15

Monetary Policy and Research at the Federal Reserve

 

Carol Corrado (Federal Reserve Board)

1:45

Open Discussion

2:00

Productivity and Real Output Measurement

 

Dale Jorgenson (Harvard University)

2:30

Open Discussion

2:45

Break

3:00

Tax Data Needs for Improving Estimates of Corporate Profits

 

George Plesko (University of Connecticut)

3:30

Open Discussion

3:45

The Importance of Accurate Data and Data Sharing for Budget Forecasting

 

Douglas Holtz-Eakin (CBO)

4:15

Open Discussion

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A Workshop Agenda and Attendees." National Research Council. 2006. Improving Business Statistics Through Interagency Data Sharing: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11738.
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Conclusions: Data Sharing, Data Quality, and Informed Policy

4:30

Key Points from the Presentations: Directions for the Future

 

Robert Parker (federal statistics consultant)

 

Concluding Remarks from the Statistical Agencies

 

Kathleen Utgoff (BLS); Howard Hogan (Census Bureau); Rosemary Marcuss (BEA)

5:30

Adjourn

ATTENDEES

(* indicates a presenter)

Thomas Anderson, Bureau of Economic Analysis

Stephen Andrews, Bureau of Economic Analysis

Anthony Apostolides, Bureau of Transportation Statistics

Lisa Blumerman, Census Bureau

Ruth Bramblett, Bureau of Economic Analysis

Stephanie Brown, Census Bureau

Carolyn Carroll, STAT TECH, Inc.

Chris Chapman, Bureau of Labor Statistics

Constance Citro, National Research Council

Carol Corrado, Federal Reserve Board*

Ruth Detlefsen, Census Bureau

Chris Ellis, RTI International

Joel Elvery, Bureau of Labor Statistics

Vincent Fang, MacroSys Research and Technology

Daniel Feenberg, NBER (steering committee member)

Jason J. Fichtner, Joint Economic Committee

Dennis Fixler, Bureau of Economic Analysis*

Lucia Foster, Census Bureau

Charles Funk, Census Bureau

John Galvin, Bureau of Labor Statistics

Gerald Gates, Census Bureau

John Golmant , Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts

Nancy M. Gordon, Census Bureau

Nick Greenia, Internal Revenue Service*

Keith Hall, Department of Commerce

John Haltiwanger, University of Maryland (steering committee member)

Charlie Han, Bureau of Transportation Statistics

Paul Hanczaryk, Census Bureau*

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A Workshop Agenda and Attendees." National Research Council. 2006. Improving Business Statistics Through Interagency Data Sharing: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11738.
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Brian A. Harris-Kojetin, Office of Management and Budget

Maurine Haver, Haver Analytics

Brian Higginbotham, Joint Economic Committee

Tina Highfill, Bureau of Economic Analysis

Paul L. Hsen, Census Bureau

Howard Hogan, Census Bureau*

Brian Holly, Census Bureau

Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Congressional Budget Office*

Ned Howenstine, Bureau of Economic Analysis

Ron Jarmin, Census Bureau

Dale Jorgenson, Harvard University*

Arthur Kennickell, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Sanders Korenman, Baruch College, CUNY

Meredith Krug, Federal Reserve Board

Caryn Kuebler, National Research Council

Herbert Lacayo Jr., Environmental Protection Agency

Steven Landefeld, Bureau of Economic Analysis*

Timothy (Bogong) Li, Bureau of Labor Statistics

Juanita Tamayo Lott, Census Bureau

Christopher Mackie, National Research Council

Rosemary Marcuss, Bureau of Economic Analysis*

Sandra Mathieson, Census Bureau

Mark Mazur, Internal Revenue Service*

Thomas Mesenbourg, Census Bureau

Harry Meyers, National Academy of Public Administration

Kimberly Moore, Census Bureau

Brent Moulton, Bureau of Economic Analysis

Patrick Mullen, Government Accountability Office

Sue Okubo, Bureau of Economic Analysis

Robert Parker, federal statistics consultant*

Thomas Petska, Statistics of Income, Internal Revenue Service

George Plesko, University of Connecticut*

Thomas Plewes, National Research Council

Dylan Rassier, Bureau of Economic Analysis

Ralph Rector, The Heritage Foundation (steering committee member)

Brooks Robinson, Bureau of Economic Analysis

Ruth Runyan, Census Bureau

Ken Ryder, National Academy of Public Administration

Hossain Sanjani, Bureau of Transportation Statistics

Charles Schultze, Brookings Institution (steering committee member)

Molly Shannon, Bureau of Labor Statistics

Gerald Silverstein, Treasury Department

Michael Siri, National Research Council

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A Workshop Agenda and Attendees." National Research Council. 2006. Improving Business Statistics Through Interagency Data Sharing: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11738.
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Timothy Slaper, Joint Economic Committee

Jim Spletzer, Bureau of Labor Statistics*

Bryce Stephens, National Academy of Public Administration

Miron Straf, National Research Council

Ovuokerie Ubogu, Temple University

Kathleen Utgoff, Bureau of Labor Statistics*

Katherine Wallman, Office of Management and Budget*

Diane Willimack, Census Bureau

Ewen Wilson, Census Bureau

Henry Wulf, Census Bureau

Qingshu Xie, MacroSys Research and Technology

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A Workshop Agenda and Attendees." National Research Council. 2006. Improving Business Statistics Through Interagency Data Sharing: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11738.
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U.S. business data are used broadly, providing the building blocks for key national—as well as regional and local—statistics measuring aggregate income and output, employment, investment, prices, and productivity. Beyond aggregate statistics, individual- and firm-level data are used for a wide range of microanalyses by academic researchers and by policy makers. In the United States, data collection and production efforts are conducted by a decentralized system of statistical agencies. This apparatus yields an extensive array of data that, particularly when made available in the form of microdata, provides an unparalleled resource for policy analysis and research on social issues and for the production of economic statistics. However, the decentralized nature of the statistical system also creates challenges to efficient data collection, to containment of respondent burden, and to maintaining consistency of terms and units of measurement. It is these challenges that raise to paramount importance the practice of effective data sharing among the statistical agencies.

With this as the backdrop, the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) asked the Committee on National Statistics of the National Academies to convene a workshop to discuss interagency business data sharing. The workshop was held October 21, 2005.

This report is a summary of the discussions of that workshop. The workshop focused on the benefits of data sharing to two groups of stakeholders: the statistical agencies themselves and downstream data users. Presenters were asked to highlight untapped opportunities for productive data sharing that cannot yet be exploited because of regulatory or legislative constraints. The most prominently discussed example was that of tax data needed to reconcile the two primary business lists use by the statistical agencies.

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