The term ‘official statistics’ is not usually a headline-grabber. But, around a year ago, when Nature’s news team began exploring reports of problems with the data that governments routinely collect, ...

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, ...

University of the Free State provides funding as a partner of The Conversation AFRICA. It’s getting tougher to assess how much university students have learnt. In his work as a Mathematical Statistics ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump claimed without evidence that the massive revisions to the latest jobs report constituted a “scam,” accusing one of the top overseers of government statistics of cooking the ...

For the first time, the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics has been fired by the President of the United States for political reasons, launching the $30 trillion economy into uncharted and ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Friday removed the head of the agency that produces the monthly jobs figures after a report showed hiring slowed in July and was much weaker in May and June ...

Statistics professor Johan Ferreira was feeling overwhelmed by the amount of “screen time” involved in online learning in 2021. He imagined students must be feeling the same way, and wondered what he ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Writes about the future of payments. It's easy to forget that beneath the surface of every smart algorithm lies a surprisingly old ...