With the development of socialist market economy, the market scale is expanding and the market competition is becoming more and more fierce. Enterprise management decisions are increasingly dependent on statistical information, which plays a key role in the development and success of enterprises. From the perspective of internal production process, statistical information refers to an important means of imposing production and feeding back the production process, such as raw material inventory, statistical information of products in process, semi-finished products and finished products, which reflects the quantitative characteristics of continuous sections in the production process. The production plan is made in strict accordance with the production process, and its basis is also the statistical information in the production process; In actual production, even if the production plan is strictly formulated at the beginning, due to the complexity of the actual production process, there is often production disharmony between the working procedure and the workshop. Taking measures in time is the main content of production scheduling. The basis of production scheduling mainly comes from the timely feedback statistical information in the production process. From the outside of the enterprise, many aspects of statistical information are also the key to the success or failure of the enterprise. For example, the market information of product sales includes the product sales information of this enterprise, the product sales information of similar enterprises and the statistical information of the spatial distribution of market share. From the further market information, the content of statistical information is more extensive, such as the information of users on enterprise product development; The main influencing factors of demand change, etc. Consumer goods market, means of production market, capital market, securities market, labor market, technology market, real estate market and information technology market are equal to statistical information related to enterprise production process, and also play a key role in enterprise management decision-making.
(b) The role of statistical information in displaying market signals
Opposing monopoly and protecting equal competition in the market are important aspects to improve social and economic efficiency. The fundamental way to protect fair competition in the market is to increase market transparency, that is, to establish a perfect market statistical information system. Under the comprehensive, accurate and timely market statistics such as market share statistics, commodity supply and demand statistics, market price statistics, commodity quality statistics and enterprise and product development statistics, enterprises can only participate in the competition of similar products on their own, so that the product cost of enterprises can be reduced and the product quality can be improved in the competition. Market statistical information is not only an important basis for enterprise decision-making, but also an important basis for macro-control. Therefore, it can also be said that statistical information plays the role of market signal display.
(c) The important role of statistical information in macroeconomic management
1. The role of statistical information in industry management and regional management decision-making.
Industry and regional management is an important part of national economic management, and industry statistical accounting and regional statistical accounting are important parts of the new national economic accounting system. From the management of national economy industries and regions, strengthening statistical information and regional management is manifested in the following aspects: first, strengthening statistical accounting of national economy industries and regions, and giving play to the decisive role of statistical information in the formulation of national economy industries and regions. Secondly, give play to the role of statistical express information in the regulation and management of industries and regions. Third, strengthen the investigation of the development intention of industries and regions, and give play to the important role of statistical information in monitoring the development decisions of industries and regions in the national economy. Fourth, strengthen the role of typical enterprise statistics in industry and regional development decision-making.
2. The role of statistical information in national economic management decision-making
Statistical information has become an important basis for national economic management decisions, and some statistical information has become an important reference for decision-making or consultation. The main manifestations are as follows: ① Statistical analysis of national economy has become an important basis for macroeconomic decision-making and regulation. ② Strengthen input-output statistics and give full play to the important role of statistical information in the comprehensive balance of the national economy. (3) Strengthen statistical expression and improve the consulting and decision-making role of statistical information in macro-control. Sri Lanka should strengthen statistical early warning and monitoring, and give full play to the important role of statistical information in judging the macroeconomic situation and making decisions on macroeconomic operation.