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The Politics of the Official Statistic: The UK ‘Measuring National Well-Being’ Programme

  • Jenkins M
Springer International Publishing, (2018), 279-299
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-58394-5_12
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Abstract

This chapter explores the official statistic as a social construction, arguing that the form of the statistic is more important than its content. This is illustrated with the example of the UK UK’s ‘Measuring National Well-being’ programme. It is...

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Jenkins, M. (2018). The Politics of the Official Statistic: The UK ‘Measuring National Well-Being’ Programme. In The Politics of Wellbeing (pp. 279–299). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58394-5_12

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