Statisticians work on crime statistics, census statistics, ecological statistics, medical statistics, statistics on job seekers, cricket statistics. accident statistics, election statistics, tourism statistics etc.

They can work for the business houses. Today business statisticians are in the thick of their company's initiatives to build products that delight customers and to increase market share and profitability.
They can find employment in industry.In industry they are involved in checking the quality of items manufactured, in product development , improvement and marketing. In addition they do testing , they are also involved in deciding the products to manufacture, how much to charge for them and to the products should be marketed. Statisticians are required for teaching, statistical research , consulting, psychological testing , guidance and counselling. Statisticians are also involved in medical research. They assist the doctors and other medical professionals with their work. Their job involves monitoring and surveillance of diseases and health pattern of the sample under study. They are involved in testing of new drugs. The results of testing are carefully reviewed by leading statistical experts prior to approval for marketing. As a sports statistician one is required to collect and analyze sports data like cricket scores, tennis scores etc along with other historical information that commentators refer to while reporting games. Statisticians can find employment in planning commissions, national council for applied economic research, institute of applied manpower research, Indian council for medical research, organizations associated with sociology-economic research etc.The insurance companies offers various opportunities to statistics graduates. One also ash an option to join Indian statistical services after completion of post graduation in statistics and clearing upsc exam