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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
csis.org

Innovative Data Collection Methods for International Development

Innovative technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) are transforming and modernizing the way data is generated, collected, and analyzed across different industries and fields of study. 1 ...
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 ...
The Conversation

Data that taxpayers have paid for and rely on is disappearing – here’s how it’s happening and what you can do about it

People rely on data from federal agencies every day – often without realizing it. Rural residents use groundwater level data from the U.S. geological survey’s National Water Information System to ...
ZAWYA

Zimbabwe strengthens agricultural statistical capacity

While there is existing capacity within institutions, there remains a need for continuously strengthening the capacity in the use of modern statistical tools to further enhance the translation of ...
The Punch on MSN

Nigeria can't build a $1tn economy on outdated data – Abbas

'rendered': 'The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas, on Monday said Nigeria cannot achieve its ambition of becoming a $1tn economy without a modern and credible statistical system ...