Government Statistical Agencies and the Politics of Credibility - 9781108811750

Who decides how official statistics are produced? Do politicians have control or are decisions left to independent statistical agencies? Interviews with statisticians in Australia, Canada, Sweden, the UK and the USA reveal that the power over statistics is distributed differently across countries, and this book explains why.

• | : Cosmo Wyndham Howard (Griffith University, Queensland)
• | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• | Publication Date: Mar 09, 2023
• | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• | Number of Pages: 244 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-10: 1108811752
• | ISBN-13: 9781108811750