Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents iii
3. List of figures, tables and boxes vii
4. Notes on contributors ix
5. Foreword xv
6. Preface xix
7. General introduction 1
8. How data are changing
9. Statistical work: the changing occupational landscape 13
10. The creation and use of big administrative data 23
11. Data analytics 35
12. Social media data 47
13. Counting in a globalised world
14. Adult skills surveys and transnational organisations: globalising educational policy 65
15. Using survey data: towards valid estimates of poverty in the South 79
16. Counting the population in need of international protection globally 91
17. Tax justice and the challenges of measuring illicit financial flows 103
18. Statistics and the changing role of the state
19. The control and ‘fitness for purpose’ of UK official statistics 119
20. The statistics of devolution 133
21. Welfare reform: national policies with local impacts 145
22. From ‘welfare’ to ‘workfare’, and back again? Social insecurity and the changing role of the state 157
23. Access to data and NHS privatisation: reducing public accountability 171
24. Economic life
25. The ‘distribution question’: measuring and evaluating trends in inequality 187
26. Labour market statistics 199
27. The financial system: money makes the world go around 213
28. The difficulty of building comprehensive tax avoidance data 225
29. Tax and spend decisions: did austerity improve financial numeracy and literacy? 237
30. Inequalities in health and wellbeing
31. Health divides 251
32. Measuring social wellbeing 265
33. Re-engineering health policy research to measure equity impacts 277
34. The Generation Game: ending the phoney information war between young and old 291
35. Advancing social progress through critical statistical literacy
36. The Radical Statistics Group: using statistics for progressive social change 307
37. Lyme disease politics and evidence-based policy making in the UK 319
38. Counting the uncounted: contestations over casualisation data in Australian universities 327
39. The quantitative crisis in UK sociology 337
40. Critical statistical literacy and interactive data visualisations 349
41. Full Fact 359
42. What a difference a dataset makes? Data journalism and/as data activism 365
43. Epilogue: progressive ways ahead 375
44. Index 381