When elected officials dismiss data collection and statistics that have met the test of time yet tell a story that they ...

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 ...

Most statistical agencies lost 20% to 30% of their staff this year, and the Trump administration is pursuing further workforce cuts at these agencies.

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 ...

Statistical officials from Sub-Saharan Africa are advocating for the adoption of the Agricultural Sciences and Technology Indicators (ASTI), a globally recognized program designed to collect, compile, ...

The data that does exist is sometimes unreliable but is used anyway because there is no alternative. Several important data sets are released with a huge time lag. Others are missing granular district ...

The Ghana Statistical Service and the Bloomberg Data for Health Initiative have conducted a workshop for officers of the Ghana Police Service on accurate data collection on mortality resulting from ...

MINSK, 20 June (BelTA) – Belarus' approaches to statistical data collection merit attention, Gerry O'Hanlon, a leading expert with the first mission of Global Assessment of the National Statistical ...

The Statistical & Data Sciences (SDS) Program links faculty and students from across the college interested in learning things from data. At Smith, students learn statistics by doing—class time ...