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Title: Official Statistics

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Publication Year: 2012

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Abstract: Modern societies produce a large quantity of data that derive from activities (such as the general population census) undertaken by governments in order to improve their knowledge about the societies they govern and normal administrative procedures of public bureaucracies (e.g. demographic statistics based on birth and death certificates, changes of residence, etc.). Such information represents a precious source of social knowledge and may constitute the empirical material for social research. This chapter describes such data, with special emphasis on official statistics in the US and in the UK.

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Authors: Corbetta, Piergiorgio

Editors: Goodwin, John

Pages: 177-197

Volume Title: SAGE Secondary Data Analysis

Publisher: SAGE

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Volume: 1

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Data Collections: IPUMS International

Topics: Population Data Science

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