Note: This is a comment letter signed by 87 economists and addressed to the House and Senate Appropriations Subcommittees on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies. The American Enterprise ...

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 ...

Reliable, accurate, and timely data are the foundation of sound policy, business strategy, and public trust. For generations, the U.S. federal statistical system has been the global benchmark, ...

Reliable, usable, high-quality statistics are vital for global prosperity and progress. The Statistical Performance Indicators (SPI) provide an open-source framework for assessing the performance of ...

The National Statistical Office (NSO) should have a dedicated unit for conducting pilot trials and methodological innovations. I received an anguished email from a senior Indian Statistical Service ...

It is estimated that the statistical systems of Australia and the US spend, on average, $18 and $11 per person per year, respectively, on collecting data. These estimates are from the report of the ...

The statistical system of a country acts as its mirror. It generates the statistics that allow observers to see how well a country is performing on key socioeconomic parameters such as per capita ...

As the country was glued to the television sets to find out the results of the general election on 23 May, the director of the coordination and publication division of the ministry of statistics and ...

A series of economic shocks — including the demonetisation of high denomination currency notes in 2016, the introduction of Goods and Services Tax in 2017 and the COVID-19 lockdown — have exposed the ...