Last year, COVID-19 changed the economy so fast that economists needed a different kind of data to help them understand it. Monthly indicators based on government survey data that take weeks to ...

A knowledge of basic business statistics can help small business owners make and assess their decisions with greater accuracy. Frequency value is a basic business statistics term used to describe a ...

A frequency table tabulates the number of times values from a data set appear within a configured range. As an example, you might have a list of employee scores and want to display the frequency of ...

New surveys using mobile technology or estimation methods are allowing economists to measure poverty more often, and with more detail. The surveys can help policy makers respond more quickly to ...

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