Each year, formulas are used to allocate large amounts of federal funds to state and local governments via federal programs designed to meet a wide spectrum of economic and social objectives. These ...

Widely available, trustworthy government statistics are essential for policy makers and program administrators at all levels of government, for private-sector decision makers, for researchers, and for ...

1. The Data Quality Assessment Framework (DQAF) was developed to address the Executive Board's interest in data quality as expressed during the December 1997 discussion of the Progress Report on the ...

Leslie Ain McClure, PhD, MS, professor and chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Drexel University’s Dornsife School of Public Health, has been named to a newly created position ...

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 ...