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.

The Statistical Consulting Centre of the University of Melbourne offers an abundance of statistical resources. Click here to take a look.

The Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education (CAUSE) has a page with helpful resources for members of the undergraduate statistics education community. Click here.

Eurostat - The home of high-quality statistics and data on Europe. Click here.

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

• This is statistics - American Statistical Association

• Statista -Empowering people with data

• Asia-Pacific Stats Café Series
  

  
  

Teaching statistics

• Eurostat's Education Corner
• The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Mathematics Alliance's (ATSIMA's) current professional learning programs supporting schools and education
  
  

Misuse of Statistics:

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

General resources

• 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

• Stats and stories - a podcast about the statistics behind the stories and the stories behind the statistics