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# Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology - Homepage

The 2024 FCSM Research and Policy Conference will be held October 22-24, 2024, at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD. Call for Abstracts (now due April 22). The Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology (FCSM) is an interagency committee dedicated to improving the quality of Federal statistics.
                          View our Mission and Charter The FCSM sponsors an annual conference and occasionally hosts seminars or workshops.
                      View our Events The National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS) and FCSM have launched a Webinar Series on AI in Federal Government: Uses, Potential Applications, and Issues. The first webinar is October 31.
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 Data Protection Explores the challenges of providing access to data and aggregated statistics for research, evaluation, and evidence-based policymaking, while protecting the confidentiality of all related individuals and organizations.
 Data Quality Identifies and promotes best practices for assessing and communicating data quality from surveys, administrative records, sensors, and other sources that are used individually and together in statistical estimates.
 Nonresponse Bias Develops guidelines and best practices for nonresponse bias analyses and reporting in federal surveys.
 Measuring Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Sex Characteristics (SOGISC) Explores the best practices of the measurement of SOGISC in the context of federal information collections.
 Equitable Data Toolkit Provides federal agencies with tools that support equity analyses with a focus on historically underserved populations. Supports increasing available data, improving the accuracy of analyses, and ensuring ethical and secure data governance to improve the representation of underserved populations in federal data and analyses.


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