LEADER 04642nam 22007215 450 001 9910640390003321 005 20251009102947.0 010 $a3-031-04624-2 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-04624-7 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7168719 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7168719 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-04624-7 035 $a(PPN)267810644 035 $a(CKB)25945663300041 035 $a(EXLCZ)9925945663300041 100 $a20230103d2022 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aOfficial Statistics?A Plaything of Politics? $eOn the Interaction of Politics, Official Statistics, and Ethical Principles /$fby Reimund Mink 205 $a1st ed. 2022. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2022. 215 $a1 online resource (394 pages) $cillustrations 300 $aTranslation from the German language. 311 08$aPrint version: Mink, Reimund Official Statistics--A Plaything of Politics? Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2023 9783031046230 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aIntroduction -- 1 Power and Morality -- 2 On the History of Statistics and Policy Making -- 3 Ethical Norms for Statistical Work -- 4 Censuses in the Soviet Union and Afterwards -- 5 Population Statistics and the Final Solution under National Socialism -- 6 Greece's Reckoning with an Honourable Statistician -- 7 Digitalisation and a Pandemic -- 8 Globalisation and Official Statistics -- 9 Ireland's Miraculous Economic Growth -- 10 Happiness and Happiness Researchers -- 11 National Egoism or International Cooperation -- 12 World-View Statistics -- Conclusions -- Bibliography. 330 $aThis book describes official statistics as a tool to hold up a mirror to society ? but also as an instrument for those who can manipulate this mirror. It addresses the precarious interaction of politics, official statistics, and ethical principles. Three sets of themes can be derived from this relationship, which are the focus of this book: Political systems and guiding principles, official statistics as a science of the state, and ethical issues arising from them. Ultimately, the determining factor is the political system that exists in each case. The book contains eleven chapters. The first three focus on the key concepts of the book: power and morality, official statistics and policy making, and ethical principles for statistical work. Three further chapters focus on episodes that illustrate, as "drastic" examples, the misuse of official statistics over the past hundred years, covering the situation in the Soviet Union, the Third Reich and Greece. The remaining five chapters take up current topics that pose particular challenges to official statistics. These are the phenomena paraphrased by digitalisation, globalisation, happiness research, overpopulation, migration, the Covid-19 pandemic and climate change. The book is primarily aimed at statisticians working in national and international statistical institutions, but also at readers interested in statistics, national accounts, economic and statistics history, and ethical issues. 606 $aStatistics 606 $aPublic administration 606 $aHistory 606 $aEnvironmental economics 606 $aFinance, Public 606 $aSocial sciences$xStatistical methods 606 $aStatistics in Business, Management, Economics, Finance, Insurance 606 $aPublic Sector Studies 606 $aHistory of Statistics 606 $aEnvironmental Economics 606 $aPublic Finance 606 $aStatistics in Social Sciences, Humanities, Law, Education, Behavorial Sciences, Public Policy 615 0$aStatistics. 615 0$aPublic administration. 615 0$aHistory. 615 0$aEnvironmental economics. 615 0$aFinance, Public. 615 0$aSocial sciences$xStatistical methods. 615 14$aStatistics in Business, Management, Economics, Finance, Insurance. 615 24$aPublic Sector Studies. 615 24$aHistory of Statistics. 615 24$aEnvironmental Economics. 615 24$aPublic Finance. 615 24$aStatistics in Social Sciences, Humanities, Law, Education, Behavorial Sciences, Public Policy. 676 $a634.9285 700 $aMink$b Reimund$01275264 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910640390003321 996 $aOfficial Statistics?A Plaything of Politics$94451452 997 $aUNINA