The U.S. government is constantly sweeping up vast amounts of data on the details of the retail sector — buying and selling, getting and spending — just as it tracks census information and data on economic indicators such as GDP, employment and unemployment, and inflation.
How We Learned (Almost) Everything That’s Wrong with U.S. Census Data
The government’s statistical agencies need a top-to-bottom overhaul.
March 11, 2016
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