Economic statistics is a new undergraduate major of the Ministry of education after 2012. It used to be a direction of statistics, but now it belongs to a major in economics.

As the name implies: economic statistics is related to both economy and statistics. Economic statistics is the application of statistical methods and theories in the field of economy to collect, sort out and analyze the data in economic activities, find out the laws of economic activities, and serve for economic and management decision-making.

What does economic statistics do? Take a simple example: stock speculation in securities investment is very familiar to all. There are too many data affecting stock prices. Economic statistics is to sort out, count and analyze a large number of data affecting stocks, and then find out the rules and predict the trend of stock prices, so as to provide investors with decision-making basis.

Economic statistics can be said to be a very important tool in economic research. National macroeconomic analysis, industrial economic analysis, and enterprise economic management have a place to play, and financial, securities, insurance and other professional work will often be used. The statistical method is also a commonly used tool in management research.