National statistical systems generate the statistics that underpin policy, economic analysis, and public trust. Yet, despite decades of investment in statistical capacity, two persistent challenges, ...
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Official statistics have become useless
The pandemic has exposed the shortcomings in how we measure everything, from inflation to GDP to jobs, says Helen Thomas Statistics haven’t quite kept pace with the world they’re meant to measure.
Many financial and political analysts are trying to assess the impact of President Donald Trump's decision to fire U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntrfer on Aug. 1, the same day ...
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 ...
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