Of these people, approximately 30 percent worked for governments (federal, state, or local).
[4] Additionally, there is a substantial number of people who use statistics and data analysis in their work but have job titles other than statistician,[5] such as actuaries, applied mathematicians, economists, data scientists, data analysts (predictive analytics), financial analysts, psychometricians, sociologists, epidemiologists, and quantitative psychologists.
[6] Statisticians are included with the professions in various national and international occupational classifications.
[1] According to one industry professional, "Typical work includes collaborating with scientists, providing mathematical modeling, simulations, designing randomized experiments and randomized sampling plans, analyzing experimental or survey results, and forecasting future events (such as sales of a product).
Businesses will need these workers to analyze the increasing volume of digital and electronic data.