The Labor Department's internal watchdog on Wednesday announced an audit into the challenges faced by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) in collecting data for its inflation and labor market reports ...

To maximise participation and maintain the trust of those whom we serve, it is important to engage with and inform communities about the process and purpose of any upcoming data collection exercise.

Data — a word that packs a punch but can be hard to define. Often, we use the word so loosely and generically that we fail to realize what data we need to collect from our fields. For decades, the ...