27.12.2012 Views

The 1995/1996 Household Income, Expenditure - (PDF, 101 mb ...

The 1995/1996 Household Income, Expenditure - (PDF, 101 mb ...

The 1995/1996 Household Income, Expenditure - (PDF, 101 mb ...

SHOW MORE
SHOW LESS

Create successful ePaper yourself

Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.

IX.I0<br />

higher quality, less costly information. In addition, there would be numerous,<br />

multiplicative benefits to freer access to information. Institutional reform in<br />

this area alone is more than a test case for openness, it is a cause celebre for<br />

progressive attitudes. Access to economic data would provide investors with .<br />

critical tools for making business decisions, provide thousands of researchers<br />

with opportunities to apply the theories they have been taught for years to<br />

real life phenomena, give the public more confidence in its institutions, and<br />

set the stage for further regulatory reform.<br />

<strong>The</strong>refore CAPMAS should draft a mission statement reiterating its<br />

responsiveness to public requests. It should draft an action plan for making<br />

available to decisionmakers, researchers, and the public, based on scheduled<br />

release and some formula for willingness to pay, the individual level data of<br />

its surveys, stripped of identifying information. It should provide along with<br />

that data all source materials related to the solicitation, processing, and<br />

validation of the survey data files (the "metadata"). It should empower its<br />

public to decide how to evaluate the economy.

Hooray! Your file is uploaded and ready to be published.

Saved successfully!

Ooh no, something went wrong!