New government crime statistics showed the number of rapes dropped by a third last year, from 141,070 in 1999 to 92,440 in 2000. But many women’s advocates and criminologists don’t trust the numbers ...

The Intercept largely misunderstood statistics in a recent piece, in which it jeers the right-wing media over immigration while not quite understanding the numbers they’re using to do so. Perhaps the ...

We’re told – right across the media – that Texas has had 26,000 rape-related pregnancies since Dobbs. That since the time that a state can ban abortion there have been 64,565 rape-related pregnancies ...

Los Angeles police officials Tuesday announced a series of reforms to improve the accuracy of the city’s crime statistics, saying reporting errors undermine the public’s trust in the department. Crime ...

This paper examines the forecast accuracy of Australian Bureau of Statistics national population projections produced from the 1960s to the early 2000s. As well as total populations, the accuracy of ...