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STS500 Li J.
1. Introduction
In recent years, the research on application of big data has become a hot
spot. The relevant governmental authorities are required to establish a big
data platform to integrate the information sources, realize one-stop online
government services, and improve the urban management level. However, the
research on big data and governmental statistics is relatively scarce and mainly
focuses on exploring the application of big data technology in government
statistics, which is still in the preliminary exploration stage. Actually, the
emergence of big data has brought new opportunities and challenges to
traditional government statistics. This paper aims to study how to deepen the
application of big data in government statistics, improve the level of
government statistics, better grasp the trend of social and economic
development, and make the governmental statistics really become a “think
tank” for government decision-making.
This paper includes five parts: the first is the research background, which
states the opportunities and challenges that the government statistics face in
the era of big data as well as the necessity and importance of subject selection
based on the current internal and external environments; the second is the
rational understanding of “big data”, which pays more attention to the data
processing thinking contained in the concept of big data and brings a deep
understanding of the differences between big data and government statistics
to lay a foundation for deepening the application of big data; the third is the
summarization of application characteristics of big data in enterprises, which
provides a new thinking for the application of big data in government statistics
by drawing on experience; the fourth is the analysis of application space of big
data in government statistics, which respectively analyzes the current
situations and improvement possibility from such three aspects as data
collection, data analysis and data issuing, by taking the business process of
government statistics as an entry point; and the fifth is the provision of
guarantee for the application of big data, which puts forward measures from
legal system, personnel and technology to ensure that the application of big
data is deepened in government statistics.

2. Methodology
The literature research method and qualitative analysis method are
adopted in this paper. By searching and consulting the references about the
application of big data, deeply understanding the concept of big data and
knowing the current application situations of big data in enterprises and
governments, it is found that the application of big data in enterprises is
extensive and mature but the application of big data in government statistics
is still in the preliminary mining stage. Therefore, the research area of this
paper is put forward. In other words, from the aspect of government statistics,

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