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"Violence against women: a statistical overview, challenges and gaps in data collection and methodology and approaches for overcoming them"

On 22 December 2003, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted by consensus a resolution entitled “In-depth study on all forms of violence against women” (A/RES/58/185). The resolution ...

How U.S. News Collects Best Colleges Rankings Data

U.S. News & World Report strongly believes in the transparency of the data collection and ranking process. Here's a look at ...
The New York Times

Cuts to Data Collection May Erode Reliability of Economic Statistics

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 ...
Government ExecutiveOpinion

Lacking data policy is more than a research problem, it's a government performance problem

The ongoing erosion of the federal statistical system, marked by broken time series and a workforce crisis, threatens ...
The New York Times

U.S. Is Trimming Back Its Collection of Consumer Price Data

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 ...
CNN

The government is back open. Here’s what that means for economic data

The US government has reopened following its longest-ever shutdown, setting the stage for the eventual release of the gold-standard federal data that is crucial in analyzing the health and trajectory ...
Vanguard

Reps move to replace 2007 Statistics Law with new data framework

The House of Representatives has begun legislative action to repeal the Statistics Act, 2007 and replace it with a new legal ...