Data in society : challenging statistics in an age of globalisation / edited by Jeff Evans, Sally Ruane, Humphrey Southall. - Bristol : Policy Press, 2019. - xix, 393 p. : illustrations (black and white) 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical index.

Front cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures, tables and boxes; Notes on contributors; Foreword; Preface; General introduction; Part I: How data are changing; Introduction; 1. Statistical work: the changing occupational landscape; 2. The creation and use of big administrative data; 3.

his book looks at the centrality of data to everyday life, the multiple ways we use and interact with it, as well as its power to shape socio-political discourses

9781447348221 (pbk)

300.15195