Contents

pp iii-vi

List of figures, tables and boxes

pp vii-viii

Notes on contributors

pp ix-xiv

Foreword

pp xv-xviii

Preface

pp xix-xx

General introduction

pp 1-8

Part I - How data are changing

pp 9-12

1 - Statistical work: the changing occupational landscape

pp 13-22

2 - The creation and use of big administrative data

pp 23-34

3 - Data analytics

pp 35-46

4 - Social media data

pp 47-60

Part II - Counting in a globalised world

pp 61-64

5 - Adult skills surveys and transnational organisations: globalising educational policy

pp 65-78

6 - Using survey data: towards valid estimates of poverty in the South

pp 79-90

7 - Counting the population in need of international protection globally

pp 91-102

8 - Tax justice and the challenges of measuring illicit financial flows

pp 103-114

Part III - Statistics and the changing role of the state

pp 115-118

9 - The control and ‘fitness for purpose’ of UK official statistics

pp 119-132

10 - The statistics of devolution

pp 133-144

11 - Welfare reform: national policies with local impacts

pp 145-156

12 - From ‘welfare’ to ‘workfare’, and back again? Social insecurity and the changing role of the state

pp 157-170

13 - Access to data and NHS privatisation: reducing public accountability

pp 171-182

Part IV - Economic life

pp 183-186

14 - The ‘distribution question’: measuring and evaluating trends in inequality

pp 187-198

15 - Labour market statistics

pp 199-212

16 - The financial system: money makes the world go around

pp 213-224

17 - The difficulty of building comprehensive tax avoidance data

pp 225-236

18 - Tax and spend decisions: did austerity improve financial numeracy and literacy?

pp 237-246

Part V - Inequalities in health and wellbeing

pp 247-250