April 16, 2025 - The advent of new software applications may pose challenges for collections in the course of discovery, in addition to the challenges faced at the identification and preservation ...

The processes used by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) to collect data for the jobs report have been under scrutiny after last week's disappointing jobs report, and one of the agency's former ...

It’s no surprise to anyone who works with data—it’s messy. In every industry and every business, there are data anomalies and issues that can impact the story data tells. If we have any hope 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 ...

Suggested Citation: "2 Current Challenges and Opportunities in Federal Statistics." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2017. Innovations in ...

Data analytics is a discipline focused on extracting insights from data, including the analysis, collection, organization, ...

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 ...

Falling public participation in surveys and trust in government have plagued the U.S. Census Bureau for decades. And some of the agency's current and former workers say there's a new complication to ...