Statistics of transition, transition in statistics: the Hungarian Experience

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Lendvai, János

Affiliations: Hungarian Central Statistical Office, Keleti Kàroly utca. 5–7 1525 Budapest II, Hungary

Abstract: The paper gives an overview of the Hungarian experiences in the process of the adaptation of statistical standards in the market economies. It emphasizes the conflicts between the previous practice and the new requirements in a changing environment and on the other hand the importance of the intuitive adaptation of the different methods. The semantic meaning of transition implies a passage by whatever means from one point to another. In this sense I will attempt to review, in what follows, the processes that have started in the Hungarian statistics system in the past few years.

DOI: 10.3233/SJU-1996-13101

Journal: Statistical Journal of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 1-8, 1996