The Government Statistics Section (GSS) sponsored four popular JSM invited sessions. There were two paper sessions titled, “Producing Official Statistics During a Pandemic: Advances Under Adversity” and “Collecting, Protecting, and Sharing COVID-19 Data and the Stories They Tell.” Additionally, there were two invited panel sessions: “Building the Infrastructure for the Future of Official Statistics” and “The Independence of Federal Statistical Agencies.”

GSS also sponsored seven topic-contributed sessions, including a student paper competition, and a roundtable session on missing data treatments for short-term statistics during a pandemic.