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, ...

The Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT) contributes to a better understanding of important national issues by working to improve the statistical methods and information on which public policy ...

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 ...

Aug 22 (Reuters) - The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics is once again under scrutiny after closely watched job market data due for public release on Wednesday was inexplicably delayed but still found ...

The U.S. moving industry is a highly saturated market, comprising 16,851 enterprises as of 2023. The industry’s market size reached $21.3 billion the same year, down 5% from $22.5 billion in 2022.

As academia becomes more and more competitive, tutoring is also increasing in popularity worldwide. The global private tutoring market was worth $97.11 billion in 2023, and it’s expected to experience ...

Former President Donald Trump said FBI data that show homicides and other violent crimes trending down are “fake numbers.” They’re not. The FBI data for 2023 are preliminary, but crime statistics ...

Katherine Haan, MBA, is a Senior Staff Writer for Forbes Advisor and a former financial advisor turned international bestselling author and business coach. For more than a decade, she’s helped small ...