Having been dismissed from her job in 2007 for refusing to bend to government pressure to tweak the consumer price index, Graciela Bevacqua returned to find the CPI “destroyed” by political interference.
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Politics and Statistics Collide in Argentina
In 2007, when the government of Argentina fired the staff of the National Institute of Statistics and Census division responsible for compiling consumer price indices, few organizations and fewer news outlets took notice of the politically motivated move. Here, William Seltzer and Jay Kadane discuss how the ASA became involved and how you can get involved, too.