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020 _a9781447348221 (pbk)
040 _cLibrary of People’s Majlis
082 _a300.15195
245 _aData in society :
_bchallenging statistics in an age of globalisation /
_cedited by Jeff Evans, Sally Ruane, Humphrey Southall.
260 _aBristol :
_bPolicy Press,
_c2019.
300 _axix, 393 p. :
_billustrations (black and white)
_c24 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical index.
505 _aFront 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.
520 _ahis 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
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