Back in June, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced it was cutting back on some of its data collection, specifically, the kind that helps us understand what prices are looking like for consumers.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF), on behalf of the Inter-Agency Group on Economic and Financial Statistics (IAG) and the Financial Stability Board (FSB), has published the Third Progress Report ...

An advocacy group for statisticians urged House lawmakers to strike a provision in a spending bill that would restrict the ...

Statistics Canada skipped Tuesday’s planned publication of international trade data, citing the U.S. government shutdown, ...

(Editor’s note: The federal government has removed several web pages linked to in this brief. Where possible, links to archived versions have been inserted.) Data are the cornerstone of public health ...

A big unknown ahead of the September CPI is how much the government shutdown, which started Oct. 1, impacts the data. Ten days later, statisticians at the Bureau of Labor Statistics were called back ...