The Bureau of Transportation Statistics Priorities for the Future (1997) / Chapter Skim
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1 INTRODUCTION
1 INTRODUCTION
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BTS joins a group of agencies including the Bureau of the Census, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Energy Information Administration, the National Center for Education Statistics, and others each of which has a mission to provide data and statistics in a broad subject area for public- and private-sector decision making, program planning and evaluation, research, and general public understanding. Although USDOT has from the beginning included statistical units with specialized responsibilities for data programs such as the Safety Data Services Division in the Federal Aviation Administration, the Office of Highway Information Management in the Federal Highway Administration, the Office of Statistical and Economic Analysis in the Maritime Administration, and the National Center for Statistics and Analysis in the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration BTS is the first statistical agency established in the department with a broad mandate.
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The panel was asked to focus particularly on two areas: (1) the statistical policy functions of the agency vis-a-vis the department such as coordinating data collection programs, providing standards for data collection and reporting, and providing guidance on confidentiality issues, documentation, and quality control and (2)
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The panel obtained information on the operation of statistical programs in other parts of USDOT, learned about data needs of state departments of transportation and their assessment of BTS to date, reviewed BTS's budget and staffing plans and materials provided by BTS on its products and services and their users, and closely examined selected BTS products and services (including printed publications, CD-ROM data products, and the contents of BTS's World Wide Web site) on such dimensions as data quality and ease of use.
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; information about other statistical agencies inside and outside USDOT (Appendix B) ; a comparison of BTS with the principles and practices for a federal statistical agency expressed in a report of the Committee on National Statistics (National Research Council, 1992b)
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