Excellent comprehensive guides to careers in statistics and jobs involving statistics in Australia and New Zealand are maintained by Gordon Smyth.

For a more comprehensive overview of things statistical see the Statistical Science Web, also maintained by Gordon Smyth. This guide provides information on careers, societies, conferences, statistics departments, mailing lists, courses, data sets, statistical computing, research funding, and a whole lot more.

If you have any information on employment prospects for statisticians that could be added to this page, please email eo@statsoc.org.au.

Articles about careers and job prospects for statisticians:

• Beyond The Classroom: Unveiling 5 Dynamic Career Opportunities In Mathematics (2023)

• Everything you need to know to become a statistician (2023)

• What Can You Do With A Degree In Statistics? (2022)
  

• Highest paying jobs requiring statistics and probability knowledge (2022)

• What do statisticians do? (ASA, 2022)

• "Statistician" rated 8th of the 100 best jobs of 2022 (USA, 2022)

• What You Can Do With a Statistics Degree (USA, 2021)

• How to Become a Statistician in 2021 (USA, 2021)

• 10 Most Promising Careers for Gen Z Workers (USA, 2021)

• What you can do with a Master in Business Analytics (2021)
• Science news for students - Explainer: What is statistics (2021)
• More students earning statistics degrees, but not enough to meet surging demand for statisticians, USA 2016
• Statistician projected as top 10 fastest-growing job (USA, 2016)
• Careers in Statistics Evolve and Expand (USA, 2014)
• Career in Statistics- A World of Opportunity Power Point Presentation (ASA, 2016)
• Hal Varian explains why statistician will be the sexiest job in the next decade (You Tube, 2009)
• Jobs for Statisticians
  
  

What is statistics all about?

• 10 Basic statistical concepts in plain English, 2023
• Which statistics specialisation is right for you? Take this quiz.
• Why you need to study statistics? You Tube, 2015
• The Joy of Stats, Hans Rosling

• Endangered or just rare? Statistics give meaning to the head counts
  
  

Teaching statistics

• Eurostat's Education Corner
  
  

Misuse of Statistics:

• Statistics – A job for professionals, Statistical Successes and Disasters, SSA 2002
  
  

Resources for Journalists:

• Tips for journalists working with math, statistics: A list of key resources
• Resources for Journalists from the Royal Statistical Society
• Using ‘per capita’ to describe data: 4 things journalists need to know
  

Publications

Statistical Journal of the International Association for Official Statistics (IAOS)

Podcasts:

• The Random Sample - an ACEMS Podcast Series
• More or Less - Behind the Stats

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