Inflation jumped to 3.8 per cent in October, up from 3.6 per cent in September. The largest contributors to annual inflation were housing (+5.9 per cent), food and non-alcoholic beverages (+3.2 per ...

John Hawkins was formerly a senior economist at the Reserve Bank of Australia. A new “complete” monthly consumer price index (CPI) will be released next week, and will become Australia’s primary ...

Data collection is the process of gathering and measuring information used for research. Collecting data is one of the most important steps in the research process, and is part of all disciplines ...

The ADP National Employment Report, a measure of private employment in the U.S., said on Wednesday that payrolls at private employers declined by 32,000 jobs last month, signaling the labor market ...

South Korea agreed to provide the US with monthly data on foreign-exchange interventions and publish the annual currency composition of its reserves, under a new accord aimed at boosting transparency ...

The U.S. Energy Information Administration just delivered a statistical shock: July’s monthly data shows U.S. total liquids output hitting a record 21.218 million barrels per day, nearly 500,000 bpd ...

“Flying blind amidst heavy fog is a dangerous proposition,” one economist said about the risks of a lapse in official statistics. By Ben Casselman The monthly jobs report on Friday is expected to ...

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 ...

If the challenge of scraping enough money to buy a home in the U.S. weren't enough amid painfully high real estate prices, the cost of owning a home is also surging. The inflation-adjusted median ...

The Department of Labor is initiating an investigation into how the Bureau of Labor Statistics collects and reports “closely watched economic data,” according to a letter the department’s Assistant ...