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"Violence against women: a statistical overview, challenges and gaps in data collection and methodology and approaches for overcoming them"

On 22 December 2003, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted by consensus a resolution entitled “In-depth study on all forms of violence against women” (A/RES/58/185). The resolution ...
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Low- and middle-income countries lack access to big data analysis—here’s how to fill the gap

As statistics continues to play an ever more important role in society, equal access to data resources in developing countries is becoming more essential. Yet the ability to collect good data, the ...
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Innovative Data Collection Methods for International Development

Innovative technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) are transforming and modernizing the way data is generated, collected, and analyzed across different industries and fields of study. 1 ...
Government Executive

Lacking data policy is more than a research problem, it's a government performance problem

Effective democracies require modern data policies that direct the country’s ability to govern and hold legitimacy. Data policies offer information justice by providing formal guidelines and rules for ...
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Methods for Integrating Multiple Data Sources to Improve Crop Estimates

The National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) is the primary statistical data collection agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). NASS conducts hundreds of surveys each year and ...
Smith College

Statistical & Data Sciences

The Statistical & Data Sciences (SDS) Program links faculty and students from across the college interested in learning things from data. At Smith, students learn statistics by doing—class time ...
KVIA

How the US ranks globally in data transparency and openness

Collage illustration with magnifying glass over US map and world map. From the Bureau of Labor Statistics to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the United States has numerous statistical ...
The Conversation

Low‑ and middle‑income countries lack access to big data analysis – here’s how to fill the gap

The ability to collect and learn from large amounts of data has been a major driver of innovation over recent decades. Everything from health care – think patient analytics, wearable devices and the ...