دانلود کتاب Data in Society: Challenging Statistics in an Age of Globalisation

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Front cover\nTitle Page\nCopyright Page\nTable of Contents\nList of figures, tables and boxes\nNotes on contributors\nForeword\nPreface\nGeneral introduction\nPart I: How data are changing\n Introduction\n 1. Statistical work: the changing occupational landscape\n 2. The creation and use of big administrative data\n 3. Data analytics\n 4. Social media data\nPart II: Counting in a globalised world\n Introduction\n 5. Adult skills surveys and transnational organisations: globalising educational policy\n 6. Using survey data: towards valid estimates of poverty in the South\n 7. Counting the population in need of international protection globally\n 8. Tax justice and the challenges of measuring illicit financial flows\nPart III: Statistics and the changing role of the state\n Introduction\n 9. The control and ‘fitness for purpose’ of UK official statistics\n 10. The statistics of devolution\n 11. Welfare reform: national policies with local impacts\n 12. From ‘welfare’ to ‘workfare’, and back again? Social insecurity and the changing role of the state\n 13. Access to data and NHS privatisation: reducing public accountability\nPart IV: Economic life\n Introduction\n 14. The ‘distribution question’: measuring and evaluating trends in inequality\n 15. Labour market statistics\n 16. The financial system: money makes the world go around\n 17. The difficulty of building comprehensive tax avoidance data\n 18. Tax and spend decisions: did austerity improve financial numeracy and literacy?\nPart V: Inequalities in health and wellbeing\n Introduction\n 19. Health divides\n 20. Measuring social wellbeing\n 21. Re-engineering health policy research to measure equity impacts\n 22. The Generation Game: ending the phoney information war between young and old\nPart VI: Advancing social progress through critical statistical literacy\n Introduction\n 23. The Radical Statistics Group: using statistics for progressive social change\n 24. Lyme disease politics and evidence-based policy making in the UK\n 25. Counting the uncounted: contestations over casualisation data in Australian universities\n 26. The quantitative crisis in UK sociology\n 27. Critical statistical literacy and interactive data visualizations\n 28. Full Fact\n 29. What a difference a dataset makes? Data journalism and/as data activism\nEpilogue: progressive ways ahead\nIndex\nBack cover