The publication of government data has long-enabled transparency and wider societal benefits.
The deficiencies of government data gathering make it hard to be as precise as that.
However, the opening of government data faces multiple political, legal, and technical challenges.
Few statistical agency alumni I've spoken with said they worry about outright manipulation of government data.
Almost to a person, they mentioned concerns about the continued integrity and availability of government data.
The gap between rich and poor more than doubled from 1979 to 2000, an analysis of government data shows.
Haringey is the 11th most deprived local authority in England, according to a 2011 Guardian update of government data.
Mass surveillance is still heinous, even if private company servers are holding the data instead of government data centers".
Whatever the hurdles, nearly every analysis of government data shows that the participation of women in paid employment keeps rising.
Our members see the regular stories of government data going missing or falling into the wrong hands.
Meanwhile, another set of government data showed a surprise decline in domestic crude oil inventories.
