Austerity stats: Making sense of cuts and changes to official statistics under the coalition
Fenton, A.
(2014).
Austerity stats: Making sense of cuts and changes to official statistics under the coalition.
More than four years into the coalition, an interesting picture of “austerity statistics” is emerging. Deciding which statistics might be superfluous involves debates about what official statistics should be measuring and why and for whom they are prepared. This in turn raises question for the role of traditional statistical and social-scientific expertise in government, writes Alex Fenton.
| Item Type | Online resource |
|---|---|
| Copyright holders | © 2014 The Author(s) CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 |
| Departments | LSE |
| Date Deposited | 21 Apr 2017 |
| URI | https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/74200 |