Statistical Roadblocks

Govt may fund PG degree in statistics to meet staff crunch-Education-Services-News By Industry-News-The Economic Times: "NEW DELHI: The government could soon fund a postgraduate degree in statistics to fill up vacancies in the statistical service, as enough students do not seem to be interested in the profession making economic and social data collation difficult.

Those applying for the statistical service must have studied statistics or applied statistics as their main subject at both the graduate and post-graduate level.

But with not many students pursuing a bachelor’s degree in statistics, and even fewer studying it at the postgraduate level, the government is finding it difficult to attract enough candidates."