The Use of Statistics for Policy Advising: Colin Clark in Queensland, 1938–52

George Kenwood

Chapter 6 in National Income and Economic Progress, 1988, pp 107-122 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Colin Grant Clark took up his appointment with the Government of Queensland as Director of the Bureau of Industry, State Statistician, and Financial Adviser to the Treasury in May, 1938. Formerly a Lecturer in Statistics at the University of Cambridge, he had been given study leave in 1937 by the University and had been offered a visiting lectureship at the University of Melbourne by Professor Douglas Copland. He also gave some lectures in Sydney, where he worked with John (later Sir John) Crawford on a study of the Australian national accounts. An invitation from the Queensland public servant, James Brigden,1 to visit the state was gratefully accepted by Clark because his father had spent a great deal of time in Queensland as one of the first settlers in Townsville in 1878 and later as a businessman in Brisbane. Clark was also interested in visiting Queensland because it was the only Australian state with unemployment insurance records at a time when the only other readily available data on unemployment were the very unreliable trade union statistics.2

Keywords: National Income; Economic Progress; Financial Adviser; Secondary Industry; Economic News (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1988
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-19340-0_7

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