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> H-ASIA
> February 5, 2013
>
> Query on Chinese agricultural statistics - response
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> From: "Arunabh Ghosh" <ag2451@columbia.edu>
>
> Hi all,
> A brief follow-up to Neil Diamant's email. From sources I have consulted,
> by 1957 there were about 650 personnel in the Beijing office of the State
> Statistics Bureau (SSB). Other materials from 1957 claim a national work
> force of approximately 200,000--this includes statisticians at various
> levels of the statistical apparatus (center, province, and county, but
> possibly no deeper) as well as in various government bureaus and
> industrial
> units. But as Neil points out, skilled statisticians were in short supply.
> Even at a place like Renmin University in Beijing, the center of
> statistical education and research, less than a third of the students
> trained through the 1950s received the equivalent of a BA. Leave alone
> university level training, the vast majority of the claimed 200K did not
> even receive short term (3-6 month) training at specialized vocational
> schools (zhuanke xuexiao). By 1957, the SSB was advocating 'self-study'
> while on-the-job as a means of bridging this ever-widening gap. Morale was
> another problem--no one seemed to want to do any statistical work!
>
> Arunabh Ghosh
> Columbia University
> ________________
> Arunabh Ghosh
> PhD Candidate in Modern Chinese History
> Columbia University
> ag2451@columbia.edu
>
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