Numbers in India's Periphery
The Political Economy of Government Statistics
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- Authors:
- Ankush Agrawal, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
- Vikas Kumar, Azim Premji University, Bangalore
- Date Published: October 2020
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- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108486729
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This book analyses the quality of statistics such as geographic area, census population and sample survey statistics in a developing country. Using field interviews, archival sources, and secondary data covering the last seven decades, it explores the shifting relations between various kinds of statistics over their lifecycles and charts their cradle-to-grave political career. It uncovers a mutually constitutive relationship between data, development, and democracy and offers an exciting account of how government statistics are social artefacts dynamically shaped by political and economic factors. The book also quantifies the impact of data quality on the statistics of interest to policy makers such as household consumption expenditure and federal transfers. Numbers in India's Periphery makes a major contribution to the growing literature on the political economy of statistics in developing countries through a novel analysis of the shifting determinants of the nature of data in North East India.
Read more- Explores the quality of area, census population, and sample survey statistics over seven decades
- Uncovers the dynamic relations between data, development, and democracy in developing countries
- Reveals statistics as social artefacts shaped over their lifecycles by political and economic factors
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- Date Published: October 2020
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108486729
- length: 416 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 158 x 27 mm
- weight: 0.66kg
- availability: In stock
Table of Contents
Abbreviations
List of tables
List of figures
List of maps
List of timelines
List of images
Acknowledgements
1. State and statistics
2. Nagaland and numbers
3. Cartographic 'mess'
4. Demographic somersault
5. Winning censuses
6. Flawed surveys
7. Data, development and democracy
Bibliography
Index.
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