The Office of Management and Budget, Congress, and National Academies deem professional independence necessary for an agency to establish trust in its products. Professional independence includes an agency’s autonomy over its budget, information technology, hiring, publications, contracting, and data collection and analysis. To further the understanding of the importance of statistical agency autonomy, we include the autonomy portions of a discussion between Robert Groves and Hermann Habermann, James Lynch, and Charles Rothwell.
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State of the Education Data Infrastructure: What Three Experts Have to Say About the National Center for Education Statistics
For the state of the data infrastructure series, the ASA Count on Stats team spoke with three experts on the National Center for Education Statistics: James L. Woodworth, Jack Buckley, and Felice J. Levine.
Bill Increasing U.S. Census Bureau Autonomy Fizzles
In his column this month, ASA Director of Science Policy Steve Pierson looks back at what happened to the bill that would have strengthened the autonomy of the U.S. Census Bureau.