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 ...

On 22 December 2003, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted by consensus a resolution entitled “In-depth study on all forms of violence against women” (A/RES/58/185). The resolution ...

Collage illustration with magnifying glass over US map and world map. From the Bureau of Labor Statistics to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the United States has numerous statistical ...

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 ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. Yet the ability to collect good data, the capacity to derive insights from it and the skills to turn those insights into change aren’t ...

In 1997 the United States Office of Management and Budget issued its Statistical Policy Directive No. 15, defining the federal standards for collecting data on race and ethnicity. The document details ...

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Propelled by a fast-growing economy and by reforms which have strengthened several public programs including its legislature and judiciary, Kenya is poised to take on the role of commercial gateway to ...

Initiatives that encourage or mandate collecting LGBTQ+ data could provide a plethora of benefits for clinicians and health care providers, from identifying disparities to creating stronger, more ...

The processes used by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) to collect data for the jobs report have been under scrutiny after last week's disappointing jobs report, and one of the agency's former ...