Numbers in India's Periphery: The Political Economy of Government Statistics

Ankush Agrawal; Vikas Kumar

doi:10.1017/9781108762229

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The Political Economy of Government Statistics

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Ankush Agrawal, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, Vikas Kumar, Azim Premji University, Bangalore

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: April 2020
Print publication year:: 2020
Online ISBN:: 9781108762229
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108762229

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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The Political Economy of Government Statistics

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

List of Figures
pp vii-viii

List of Timelines
pp ix-ix

List of Maps
pp x-x

List of Tables
pp xi-xii

List of Abbreviations
pp xiii-xiv

Preface
pp xv-xviii

Acknowledgements
pp xix-xxii

Part I - Introduction
pp 1-2

1 - State and Statistics
pp 3-37

2 - Nagaland and Numbers
pp 38-54

Part II - Key Statistics
pp 55-56

3 - Cartographic ‘Mess’
pp 57-122

4 - Demographic Somersault
pp 123-191

5 - Winning Censuses
pp 192-247

6 - Flawed Surveys
pp 248-282

Part III - Policy Implications
pp 283-284

7 - Data, Development and Democracy
pp 285-324

Appendix: Nagaland in Numbers, 1961–2011
pp 325-326

Bibliography
pp 327-371

Index
pp 372-397

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