The Nation’s Data at Risk: Meeting America’s Information Needs for the 21st Century—a report by a team of American Statistical Association and George Mason University researchers—concluded federal statistical agencies are struggling with growing challenges that prevent them from innovating enough to meet the information and evidence demands of the 21st century.
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Government Statistics Section News
Looking for data? Data.gov is a one-stop resource for the U.S. government’s open data—federal, state, and local government and university-collected data on topics ranging from agriculture to energy to public safety.
Final FY16 Spending Bill Provides Increases for NIH, Census, Statistical Agencies
Steve Pierson, ASA Director of Science Policy, breaks down the Fiscal Year 2016 omnibus spending bill signed into law in December, which included needed increases for the National Institutes of Health and many federal statistical agencies.
Statistical Science: The Intel Inside© of Science
ASA Director of Science Policy Steve Pierson discusses three compelling reasons to one day have a statistical scientist heading the NSF, reasons that can be easily generalized to other agencies/bodies.