The spatial granularity of poverty statistics can have a significant impact on the efficiency of targeting resources meant to improve the living conditions of the poor. However, achieving granularity typically requires increasing the sample sizes of surveys on household income and expenditure or...

Official statistics serve as an important compass for policymakers due to their quality, impartiality, and transparency. In the current post-pandemic environment of great uncertainty and widespread disinformation, they need to serve this purpose more than ever. The wealth of data produced by the...

We present new statistical indicators of the structure and performance of US banks from 1990 to today, geographically disaggregated at the level of individual counties. The constructed data set (20 indicators for some 3150 counties over 31 years, for a total of about 2 million data points)...

Auch unter den Bedingungen der Corona-Pandemie haben nach wie vor eine Vielzahl von Arbeitskämpfen stattgefunden. Mit rund 342.000 ausgefallenen Arbeitstagen lag das Arbeitskampfvolumen im Jahr 2020 nur knapp unter dem Niveau des Vorjahres. Die Anzahl der an Arbeitskämpfen beteiligten...