Incluye referencias bibliográficas.

Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Measuring the accuracy of point predictions -- 3. Macroeconomic forecasts for the Netherlands 1953-1962 -- 4. Conditional versus unconditional predictions -- 5. Predicting the future and estimating the past -- 6. Input-output predictions of intermediate demand -- 7. Further experiments input-output prediction -- 8. The information approach to the evaluation of decomposition forecasts -- 9. Miscellaneous forecasts concerning the weather and the construction sector -- 10. Two different investment surveys -- 11. The analysis of no-change and the problem of quantification -- 12. The predictive value of anticipatory data obtained from surveys -- 13. Econometric analysis of relationships based on survey data.