The processes used by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) to collect data for the jobs report have been under scrutiny after last week's disappointing jobs report, and one of the agency's former ...
It’s no surprise to anyone who works with data—it’s messy. In every industry and every business, there are data anomalies and issues that can impact the story data tells. If we have any hope of ...
The Bureau of Labor Statistics is reducing or ending the collection of data that is used to calculate the Consumer Price Index. By Ben Casselman Federal Reserve policymakers have stressed that their ...