On the consistency between integral and differential cross section data

This document is an invited paper for the IAEA Advisory Group Meeting on Nuclear Data for Reactor Dosimetry, held at Vienna, 13 - 17 November 1978. It describes the present status of the confrontation of measured cross section values averaged over a benchmark neutron spectrum, with the calculated values, derived from evaluated cross section data and the best available numerical benchmark spectrum data. Information is collected on three aspects of the comparison: the uncertainty in the measured cross section values; the accuracy (or bias) of the cross section values; the consistency of the observed values. Available numerical data are presented in a series of tables