100th Anniversary of the Journal «Vestnik statistiki»
https://doi.org/10.34023/2313-6383-2019-26-1-13-21
Abstract
The first issue of the journal «Vestnik statistiki» («Bulletin of Statistics») came out 100 years ago. It was in print till 1929 and then from 1949 to1993. Its successor «Voprosy statistiki» has been published since 1994. This article covers the journal’s contents in its first decade. The author focuses on academic articles on statistical methodology and overviews articles addressing applied state statistics. The importance of interaction and collaboration between statisticians from the central office of the Central Statistical Board and statistical offices «in the field» is stressed. During that time the journal continued to publish translations of foreign articles along with detailed reviews of translations of books by foreign authors. The article draws attention to the formation of industrial and energy statistics, as well as the development of balance sheet and, above all, questions of the methodology and practice related to the Balance of the National Economy. Examples of delivering innovation in statistical observation - using aerial photography for the needs of agricultural statistics, are put forward. Criticism against state statisticsopenedwhen Vladimir Lenin was the Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars, which led to the gradual abolition of the analytical functions of statistics, ignoring the variation of indicators and replacing statistics with the «national economic accounting». As a result, in 1929 the publication of the journal «Vestnik statistiki» was suspended.
About the Authors
Irina I. Eliseeva
Saint-Petersburg State University of Economics
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Dr. Sci. (Econ.), Prof.; Corresponding Member of Russian Academy of Sciences; Head of the Department of Statistics and Econometrics, Saint-Petersburg State University of Economics; Chief Researcher, Sociological Institute of the Russian Academy of Science
21, Sadovaya street, St. Petersburg, 191023, Russia
Anton L. Dmitriev
Saint-Petersburg State University of Economics
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Cand. Sci. (Econ.), Docent, Department of General Economic Theory and History of Economic Thought, Saint-Petersburg State University of Economics; Docent, Department of Economic Cybernetics, St. Petersburg State University
21, Sadovaya street, St. Petersburg, 191023, Russia
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Eliseeva I.I., Dmitriev A.L. 100th Anniversary of the Journal «Vestnik statistiki». Voprosy statistiki. 2019;26(1):13-21. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.34023/2313-6383-2019-26-1-13-21
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