统计是认识社会的有力武器和管理经济的重要工具,这早已成为大家的共识。然而,就企业统计而言,如果从实践的角度来检验这一共识的正确性,却显得有些牵强。在计划经济体制下,企业统计作为国家统计系统的基本报告单位,其活动方式、任务、指标体系、核算形式等无一不与国家的计划管理紧密相联。从这一角度来看,企业统计机构实质上是政府统计系统在生产 Statistics have long been the consensus of all of us that statistics are an important tool for understanding the powerful weapons of society and for managing the economy. However, as far as enterprise statistics are concerned, it is somewhat far-fetched to test the correctness of this consensus from a practical point of view. Under the planned economy system, as a basic unit of state statistical system, the statistics of enterprises are all closely linked with the state’s program management through its mode of activity, tasks, index system and accounting form. From this perspective, corporate statistical agencies are essentially government statistics systems in production