In response to Alain Marciano's query about Nancy 
Ruggles, this is rather impersonal information 
from the internet sources. I do not have much 
familiarity with the work of Nancy Ruggles, but I wish I had.

Sumitra Shah



The excerpt is from the web site about the Ruggles family:

http://www.orlinresearch.com/AboutUs.aspx

"The members of the Ruggles family have a long 
tradition of accomplishment in the development of 
statistical measures and in data management and 
dissemination. Richard and Nancy Ruggles, parents 
of Orlin’s founders, were pioneers in the field 
of national income accounting. Richard Ruggles 
was a professor of economics at Yale University 
from 1948 until his retirement in 1996, while 
Nancy Ruggles headed the National Accounts 
Division of the United Nations Statistical Office 
from 1975 to 1980, and continued her association 
with the United Nations until her death in 1987. 
Together they worked with many different 
countries on the collection and organization of 
their economic and social data. They were also 
among the first to realize the importance of 
microdata—data on individual households and 
estabblishments—in understanding economic and 
social interacttions. Much of their work from the 
late 1970s onward focused on the integration of 
newly available microdata sets with the 
macroeconomic data summarized in the national accounts. "

And this is a list of Nancy Ruggles's NBER publications:


NBER Publications by Nancy Ruggles


Books


The Role Of The Computer In Economic And Social 
Research <http://www.nber.org/books/rugg74-1>
Published in 1974 by



Working Papers and Chapters


October 1977	MERGING MICRODATA RATIONALE PRACTICE 
AND TESTING <http://www.nber.org/chapters/c10525>
with Richard Ruggles 
<http://www.nber.org/authors/richard_ruggles> , 
Edward N. Wolff <http://www.nber.org/authors/edward_wolff>
in Annals of Economic and Social Measurement, 
Volume 6, number 4 
<http://www.nber.org/books/aesm77-4> , Sanford V. Berg, editor
	
1974	Foreword to "The Role Of The Computer In 
Economic And Social Research" <http://www.nber.org/chapters/c6611>
in The Role Of The Computer In Economic And 
Social Research <http://www.nber.org/books/rugg74-1> , Nancy D. Ruggles
	
1973	A Proposal for a System of Economic and 
Social Accounts <http://www.nber.org/chapters/c3614>
with Richard Ruggles <http://www.nber.org/authors/richard_ruggles>
in The Measurement of Economic and Social 
Performance <http://www.nber.org/books/moss73-1> , Milton Moss, ed.
	
1961	Concepts of Real Capital Stocks and Services 
<http://www.nber.org/chapters/c2231>
with Richard Ruggles <http://www.nber.org/authors/richard_ruggles>
in Output, Input, and Productivity Measurement 
<http://www.nber.org/books/unkn61-1> , The 
Conference on Research in Income and Wealth
	

<http://www.orlinresearch.com/AboutUs.aspx>