The cutbacks would have “minimal impact,” the government said, but economists warned of reduced confidence in inflation data produced by a struggling statistical system. By Ben Casselman The Bureau of ...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics is reducing or ending the collection of data that is used to calculate the Consumer Price Index. By Ben Casselman Federal Reserve policymakers have stressed that their ...

Innovative technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) are transforming and modernizing the way data is generated, collected, and analyzed across different industries and fields of study. 1 ...

As statistics continues to play an ever more important role in society, equal access to data resources in developing countries is becoming more essential. Yet the ability to collect good data, the ...

The Data Project used rankings from Open Data Watch to explore how the U.S. compares to other countries in data transparency and openness. – Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Ciano // Stacker // ...

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9, 2024 – As the nation wraps up celebrations of its birth 248 years ago, a first-ever comprehensive report about the status of the federal statistical system—informing and ...

In the mid-2000s, Argentina’s once-reliable inflation statistics became a flashpoint for controversy. Official figures started to diverge from independent estimates. At first, the discrepancies were ...

Haoyi Chen is coordinator of the Inter-Secretariat Working Group on Household Surveys, United Nations Statistics Division, New York City, USA. The world is more than halfway through the United Nations ...

Lynette Duncan didn’t expect to spend 20 hours over the past two weeks digging through a mothballed computer system, trying to retrieve admissions data from 2019. Duncan is the director of ...

Most years, U.S. News attends the Association for Institutional Research (AIR) Forum, the premier national conference for institutional researchers at colleges and universities. We go to learn about ...

P.C. Mohanan, former acting chairperson of the National Statistical Commission (NSC), said the collection of personal data ...