Federal Statistics
This title is given to the head of the Office of Management and Budget, who is responsible for coordinating activities of the FSS.
What is the Chief Statistician?
The 1969 blaze on this river, located in Ohio, was a main call to action for the environmental movement.
What is the Cuyahoga River?
This term describes an unequal distribution of constituents among electoral districts.
What is malapportionment?
This type of data is taken from surveys for a specific purpose, and is often considered to be unsustainable.
What is Designed Data?
What is the Consumer Price Index?
This is the number of principal statistical agencies that make up our Federal Statistical System.
What is thirteen?
This legislation passed limitations on chemical emissions from industrial and mobile sources.
What is the Clean Air Act of 1970?
This term describes voting districts that are drawn to favor one political party over another.
What is gerrymandering?
Data that comes from sources including transactions, internet searches, EZ Pass scanners, and cell phone numbers.
What is Organic Data?
What is the Bureau of Economic Analysis?
Among federal statistical agencies is this agency, whose focus is measuring labor force participation.
What is the Bureau of Labor Statistics?
The smog that occurred in this city over Thanksgiving weekend was estimated to have killed 168 people, and spurred the founding of the EPA.
What is New York City?
This landmark court case found that legislative apportionment was under the scope of the federal government, and that districts can be reviewed for equal representation by the federal courts.
What is Baker v. Carr?
This term describes a situation where relevant data is overshadowed by misleading observations.
What is a low signal-to-noise ratio?
This information released by the BLS (typically on the first Friday of the month), is used to provide data on labor force participation.
What is the Jobs Report?
This agency, known for collecting data on US economics and the American people, is the only agency mentioned within the Constitution.
What is the Census Bureau?
How often the EPA must review the standards upon which the Clean Air Act was created.
What is every 5 years?
This Republican-led strategy focuses on increasing Republican congressional seats by altering electoral districting boundaries.
What is Project RedMap?
This tracker, promoted by the CDC, was meant to show flu outbreaks in the US -- it also started predicting more flu outbreaks than real incidents that occured.
What is Google Flu?
This survey, which samples businesses to collect data on the current hiring trends, is used to inform labor force participation estimates and track employee salaries.
What is the Establishment Survey?
This study proved that life expectancy was lower in cities with higher fine particulate concentrations.
What is the Harvard Six Cities study?
This citizen initiative launched out of Michigan aimed to combat gerrymandering in Michigan by creating an independent redistricting commision.
What is Voters not Politicians?
This tool can display how certain words used in texts have grown or declined in popularity throughout history.
What is Google NGrams?
This current BLS head was appointed by Biden and confirmed by the Senate before becoming the 16th BLS Commissioner.
Who is Erika McEntarfer?