TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ward,Michael
TI  - Quantifying the world: UN ideas and statistics 
T2  - United Nations intellectual history project
SN  - 025311084X
AV  - HA36 .W37 2004eb
U1  - 001.4/06/01 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Bloomington, Ind.
PB  - Indiana University Press
KW  - United Nations
KW  - Statistical services
KW  - Nations Unies
KW  - Services statistiques
KW  - fast
KW  - Statistics
KW  - Statistiques
KW  - REFERENCE
KW  - Research
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Verenigde Naties
KW  - gtt
KW  - Statistieken
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - gtlm
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-309) and index; Prologue -- Ideas and statistics : an introduction -- The economic dimension -- The social dimension -- The environmental dimension -- Other statistical dimensions -- Epilogue: Success, missed opportunities, and the continuing agenda in statistics
N2  - Good data, Michael Ward argues, serve to enhance a perception about life as well as to deepen an understanding of reality. This history of the UN's role in fostering international statistics in the post-war period demonstrates how statistics have shaped our understanding of the world. Drawing on well over 40 years of experience working as a statistician and economist in more than two dozen countries around the world, Ward traces the evolution of statistical ideas and how they have responded to the needs of policy while unravelling the question of why certain data were considered important and
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