Data: you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone (opens in new tab)

What is the value of high-quality, trustworthy official statistics? Given the number of things that statistical agencies measure, we might expect that they have attempted to put a number on this too. In fact, they have often been rather coy. A UN report, “Promoting, Measuring and Communicating the Value of Official Statistics”, published in 2018, […]