📈Business & Finance
Statistician
Collects and analyzes large-scale numerical data
Collects, processes and analyzes statistical data to find patterns in the economy and society.
What they do
- ▹Collects data for population censuses, household surveys and sector statistics
- ▹Builds samples and checks data for errors and gaps
- ▹Calculates averages, indices, shares and trends in indicators
- ▹Prepares official statistical yearbooks and reports for government bodies
Skills you need
- ▹Mathematics and probability theory
- ▹Working with Excel, SPSS or similar data analysis software
- ▹Attention to numbers and detail
- ▹Spotting errors in large spreadsheets
- ▹Explaining what numbers mean in plain language
Focus on these subjects at school
Mathematics
Where they work
- ▹The Statistics Agency under the President of Tajikistan and its regional offices
- ▹Analytics departments of banks and large companies
- ▹International organizations (World Bank, UNDP, UNICEF) collecting country data
- ▹Sociological and market research companies
Pros
- + Stable work in government and international organizations
- + In demand for censuses, social surveys and economic reviews
Challenges
- − A lot of repetitive data checking and cleaning
- − Government statistics salaries are usually lower than in business analytics
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