Is the Government Still Collecting Inflation Data? Well …
Whether IA or social media, for me at least, the routine is quite similar. I’m trying to see if something seems interesting or interested. And if this is the case, I try to reproduce it or verify it with a human brain, that is to say mine. This morning, I saw a tweet saying that the Bureau of Labor Statistics went from the collection of information on the prices which devote to the construction of the canonical government (IPC) inflation numbers to rely on a higher percentage of “imputed” figures, that is to say estimates. The “estimates” are not all bad. A few years ago, he became a fairly intense partisan subject of war with the census. If I remember, the census combined data collection with statistical models to obtain more precise counts for more marginal and transient populations where the sub-declaration is chronic. (As you can imagine, undocumented people are not very eager to fill the government forms.) In any case, was it really true that BLS reduces data collection?
In fact, it’s.
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