Knowledge and public policy: the search for meaningful indicators
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Transaction Publ.
1990
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| Item Description: | Frühere Ausg. u.d.T.: Innes, Judith E.: Social indicators and public policy |
| Physical Description: | VII, 367 S. |
| ISBN: | 0887388108 |
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| adam_text | Contents
Introduction to the Transaction Edition l
Preface 49
Chapter I. Measurement and the identification of problems 53
Measurement in the definition of problems 54
Problem finding models: the interpretation of statistics 57
The task ahead 59
Chapter II. Traditions of social measurement 63
The empirical tradition 64
Controversy and population statistics 68
Chapter III, Statistical policy: the setting for indicator
development 72
The dilemma of the official statistician: the emergence of labor statistics in
the U.S. 73
Data production and policy 77
Central guidance of statistical agencies 78
Outlines of the policy 80
Data producers 83
Data users 84
New methods and statistics 85
The development of survey sampling 89
A policy for indicators 91
Chapter IV. The social indicator movement 92
Origins of the current movement 94
Economic indicators as a model for social indicators 96
Indicator work a typology 97
Perspective of this book 108
Chapter V. Method and assumptions of the study 109
Capitalizing on experience 111
Models and measures 113
V
Measurement without theory H9 ^
Designing measures for public analysis 120 :¦
Chapter VI. Sagas of three indicators 122
The unemployment rate: a successful indicator 122
The standard budget: a measure without a theory 138
The crime rate: an inadequate indicator 153
Chapter VII. Creating a concept 172
Groping for a concept 172
Models and objectives as guides 174
Open concepts 174
Specification through measurement 178
Proceeding without concepts 179
Concepts are rooted in time and place 181
Indicator concepts and social science research 184
Summary and comments 193
Chapter VIII. Collecting the data 195
Definitions 196
Collection methods 197
Choice of population 2°2
Problems of the instrument 208
Coping with the problems 213
Chapter IX. Structuring the data 214
Criteria for constucting indicators 214
Decisions in structuring data 215
. The importance of prior models 228
Chapter X. Institutionalizing indicators 232
Elements in institutionalization 233
The institutionalization of unemployment rates 234
Consumer price index (CPI) 237
The standard budget 239
The poverty line 240
Crime rates 240
Racial balance 241
Proposals for institutionalizing social indicators: an evaluation 242
Chapter XI. Indicators in use 248
Contexts of use: some definitions 249
Prepolicy uses 250
The unemployment rate: an indicator for policy 250
The standard budget: an administrative indicator 258
Policy uses of indicators instigate improvements 271
Indicators in program design 273
Conclusions 275
VI
; Chapter XII. Politics and indicators 277
r Too much politics 278
Dual purpose indicators: planning and control 280
Detachment in statisticians and statistical agencies 281
Saying it is so makes it so 284
Presentation of indicators 285
If the news is bad, turn it off 288
New systems of indicators: political obstacles 289
How to politicize data 290
Chapter XIII. Conclusions and policy implications 291
Findings 293
Policy implications 295
Riture policy 298
The future of social measurement 298
References 300
Appendix 321
Glossary of abbreviations 348
Subject index 349
Index of Names 361
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