Data in Society

Book Introduction ~ Humphrey Southall, Jeff Evans and Sally Ruane;


1: How Data are Changing;


Introduction ~ Humphrey Southall and Jeff Evans;


Statistical work: the changing occupational landscape ~ Kevin McConway;


The creation and use of big administrative data ~ Harvey Goldstein and Ruth Gilbert


Data Analytics ~ Ifan Shepherd and Gary Hearne;


Social Media Data ~ Adrian Tear and Humphrey Southall;


2: Counting in a Globalised world;


Introduction ~ Sally Ruane and Jeff Evans;


Adult Skills Surveys and Transnational Organisations: Globalising Educational Policy ~ Jeff Evans;


Poverty and health care surveys in the Global South: Towards making valid estimates ~ Roy Carr-Hill;


Counting the Population in Need of International Protection Globally ~ Brad Blitz, Alessio D'Angelo and Eleonore Kofman;


Tax justice and the challenges of measuring illicit financial flows ~ Richard Murphy;


3: The Changing Role of the State;


Introduction ~ Sally Ruane and Humphrey Southall;


The control and 'fitness for purpose' of UK official statistics ~ David Rhind;


The Statistics of Devolution ~ David Byrne;


Welfare reform: national policies with local impacts ~ Christina Beatty and Steve Fothergill;


Social insecurity and the changing role of the (welfare) state: Public perceptions, social attitudes and political action ~ Christopher Deeming and Ron Johnston;


Access to data and NHS privatisation: reducing public accountability ~ Sally Ruane;


4: Economic Life;


Introduction ~ Humphrey Southall, Sally Ruane and Jeff Evans;


The 'distribution question': the role of statistical analysis in measuring and evaluating trends in inequality ~ Stewart Lansley;


Labour market statistics ~ Paul Bivand;


The financial system ~ Rebecca Boden;


The difficulty of building comprehensive tax avoidance data ~ Prem Sikka;


Tax and spend decisions: did austerity improve financial numeracy and literacy? ~ David Walker;


5: Inequalities in Health and Well-being;


Introduction ~ Sally Ruane and Humphrey Southall;


Health Divides ~ Anonymous;


Measuring Social Wellbeing ~ Roy Carr-Hill;


Re-engineering health policy research to measure equity impacts ~ Tim Doran and Richard Cookson;


The Generation Game: Ending the phony information war between young and old ~ Jay Ginn and Neil Duncan-Jordan;


6: Advancing social progress through critical statistical literacy;


Introduction ~ Jeff Evans, Humphrey Southall and Sally Ruane;


The Radical Statistics Group: Using Statistics for Progressive Social Change ~ Jeff Evans and Ludi Simpson;


Lyme disease politics and evidence-based policy-making in the UK ~ Kate Bloor;


Counting the uncounted: contestations over casualisation data in Australian universities ~ Nour Dados, James Goodman and Keiko Yasukawa;


The quantitative crisis in UK Sociology ~ Malcolm Williams, Luke Sloan and Charlotte Brookfield;


Critical Statistical Literacy and Interactive Data Visualisations ~ Jim Ridgway, James Nicholson, Sinclair Sutherland and Spencer Hedger;


Full Fact ~ Amy Sippitt;


What a difference a dataset makes? Data journalism and/as data activism ~ Jonathan Gray and Liliana Bounegru;





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