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I recall a time many moons ago when I was doing some research on the way in which my state determined their own employment/economic statistics. It was quite an
by _curious_ 7y ago
I recall a time many moons ago when I was doing some research on the way in which my state determined their own employment/economic statistics.
It was quite an eye opening experience and exploration. State level economists/demographers are using totally obsolete methods, worse was they they didn't want to disclose certain key elements short of a DPA (state equivalent to FOI) which further led to believe that their archaic approach may be intentionally misleading because "look at how great our unemployment rate is" ;)
I can't speak to fed stuff, never dug in to deep. Totally agree with what you are saying and wondering what (trusted) existing KPIs out there would make sense to look at as say a subcategory of unemployment, if it gets any more granular?
- save_ferris 7y agoUltimately, the most hopeful future I see is one where all levels of government, from municipalities all the way up to the federal government report out raw data as close to real-time as possible so that academic institutions, non-profits, etc., can do data science for the public, so to speak.