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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      April 2020
      October 2020
      ISBN:
      9781108762229
      9781108486729
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108762229
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.66kg, 416 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      Demography, Social Statistics, Political Economy, Politics and International Relations, Sociology
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    Subjects:
    Demography, Social Statistics, Political Economy, Politics and International Relations, Sociology
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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.

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