Happy World Statistics Day!

by Phil Vu

“On this first World Statistics Day I encourage the international community to work with the United Nations to enable all countries to meet their statistical needs.”

BAN KI-MOON
Secretary-General of the United Nations
Message on World Statistics Day, 20-10-2010

Today marks the first ever internationally observed World Statistics Day. The United Nations General Assembly has set aside October 20th of every year to honor the role of statistics in shaping our societies. To find out more please visit: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/wsd/.


Click here to watch a video of Census Bureau Director Robert M. Groves explains how statistics of both “sexy” and critical to understanding and interpreting the morass of numbers and other inputs around us. As he puts it: “We are inundated with information.”

PolicyMap would like to thank and recognize all our data providers. We couldn’t do it without you!!!


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