Mainstream economists and others speak of the Consumer Price Index as the measure of inflation. Yet, the CPI is nothing more ...

Statistics influence nearly everything. That is, the information and context derived from statistical analysis help to shape important decisions that have local, national, and global impacts. For ...

The US government has reopened following its longest-ever shutdown, setting the stage for the eventual release of the gold-standard federal data that is crucial in analyzing the health and trajectory ...

What matters more: actual economic performance or the perception of it? Fundamentals clearly influence public opinion: if the economy is growing rapidly, people tend to notice. Yet perception can both ...

Welcome to the Department of Applied Economics and Statistics at the University of Delaware. We are an interdisciplinary group of faculty, staff, and students dedicated to developing and applying ...

It also may not perfectly capture what happened in the U.S. economy during the shutdown. Because data collection was suspended at the agency, two monthly jobs reports and a release on ...