Quantifying the world : UN ideas and statistics / Michael Ward.

By:

Ward, Michael

Material type: Text

TextSeries: United Nations intellectual history projectPublication details: Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, ©2004.Description: 1 online resource (xx, 329 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

025311084X
9780253110848
1282071483
9781282071483

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Quantifying the world.DDC classification:

001.4/06/01 22

LOC classification:

HA36 .W37 2004eb

Other classification:

89.72

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Contents:

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.

Summary: 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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-309) and index.

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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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