Tenth Meeting of the National Development Council Summary Record, May 1958

Abstract

The Chairman sail that the Planning Commission had. for a short time a Perspective Planning Division which had done useful and important work in regard to the collection of man-power statistics. It had made studies about scientific and engineering personnel of various types and it was extraordinarily interesting how modern techniques had been employed in these studies. The Planning Commission had also set up an Agricultural Personnel Committee. All this was interesting because planning was based not only on certain objectives but on statistical data. Their food statistics should be uniform so that there was a common measuring rod for statistics in the different States. They had to go pretty far in applying the sample survey method which was a modern method of getting information. It was an expensive method but compared to vast amounts of money spent on food imports, every method that tried to solve that problem and reduce food imports was worth while and inexpensive.