Federal Data Users

Published in The Lancet last week: 

Data Manipulation Within the US Federal Government

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)01249-8/fulltext

"We found that 114 (49%) of the 232 included datasets were substantially altered. Of these, the vast majority (106 datasets [93%]) had the word gender switched to sex (appendix p 2). Only 15 (13%) of the 114 altered datasets logged or otherwise indicated that the change had occurred. Alterations in 89 (78%) of the datasets were to the classification or categorisation of the data, such as column headers or stratification categories, and alterations in the remaining 25 (22%) were to descriptions of the data such as tags or narrative introductions to the dataset."