1 in 5 U.S. statisticians work for feds

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1 in 5 U.S. statisticians work for feds

WASHINGTON, -- The U.S. Census Bureau celebrated World Statistics Day by releasing a lot of statistics Wednesday on the government fascination with numbers.
For example, there were 29,208 statisticians in the United States in 2009, 20 percent of them employed by the federal government. Another 10 percent were working for state or local governments.
The field is a growing one with the number of jobs expected to increase 13 percent between 2008 and 2018. Those statisticians make a decent living, although not a spectacular one, with an average salary of $72,280 in 2009.
U.S. government statisticians are concentrated in the departments of Agriculture, Commerce and Health and Human Services. There are, however, 14 major statistical agencies, including the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Center for Education Statistics and, of course, the U.S. Census Bureau.
 
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