Macro- and MicroData Analyses and their Integration

The late Nancy D. Ruggles, formerly Senior Research Economist, Institute for Economic and Social Policy Studies, Yale University, US and the late Richard Ruggles, formerly Stanley Resor Professor of Economics, Yale University, US

Contents: Preface Part I: Macroanalysis 1. Recession and Recovery in the United States, 1929–74, and Sectoral Saving and Investment Accounts 2. Economic Growth in the Short Run 3. Theoretical Concepts and Empirical Measurement of Saving and Investment 4. Household and Enterprise Saving and Capital Formation in the United States, 1947–91 5. Accounting for Saving and Capital Formation in the United States, 1947–91 Part II: Microanalysis 6. An Empirical Approach to Economic Intelligence in World War II 7. A Study of Differential Fertility Based on Census Data 8. A Strategy for Merging and Matching Microdata Sets 9. Merging Microdata 10. The Analysis of Longitudinal Establishment Data Part III: The Integration of Macro- and Microdata 11. Methodological Developments 12. Macroaccounts and Microdata Sets 13. The Relation of Methodology to the Technology of Economic Research 14. The Role of Microdata in the National Economic Accounts 15. Social Indicators and a Framework for Social and Economic Accounts 16. The Measurement of Economic and Social Performance 17. The Development of Integrated Data Bases for Social, Economic and Demographic Statistics 18. The Integration of Macro- and Microdata for the Household Sector Bibliography Index