The 1997–1998 break in industrial statistics

When industrial relations break down.

The Government has taken a further step towards devolving responsibility for industrial relations policy to local health authorities. New guidelines on handling industrial disputes published by the DHSS express the Government's determination to stand well back from these and not interfere: "Ministers want NHS management to know that, having issued this guidance, they would hope not to intervene...

Teaching Simulator for Industrial Statistics

Management games are well-established techniques for improving the understanding and appreciation of realistic problems. Flight Simulators, where students “fly” a particular aspect of an enterprise are particularly rewarding. The classic flight simulator is perhaps the Beer Game [1] which illustrates a simple production distribution system. It is usually played as an interactive board game wher...

Real-life Problems and Industrial Statistics

1. Introduction Modern quality theory started in the Twenties when mass production was introduced in industry. In its development three phases can be distinguished, which can be characterized by: Quality by Inspection, Quality by Process Control and Quality by Design. In this paper we give a survey of the research which was initiated by consultancy projects in Dutch industry. In the examples st...

Robust Statistics and Fuzzy Industrial Clustering

The search for groups of important sectors in an economy has been and still is one of the more recurrent themes in input-output analysis. But a sector can probably be important for some questions at the same time, to a different degree. In this direction, a multidimensional fuzzy clustering analysis gives as a result a classification of sectors illustrating the different roles that each one pla...

“Mind the Gap” in Reporting the Outdated Statistics