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Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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Category : Jails
Languages : en
Pages : 4

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Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 868

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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 944

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Author: United Nations Social Defence Research Institute
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ISBN: 9789290780069
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 136

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Author: Kenneth Pease
Publisher: Dartmouth Publishing Company
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 452

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This volume comprises of a selection of imaginative and important research based upon published or readily available statistical sources. These include some long neglected classics, ripe for reconsideration and replication. It also contains examples of statistical and graphical abuses – for example a press release from British Telecom on the alleged success of its call-tracing programme. The book makes clear the scope for creative and policy-relevant research using much despised statistics.

Author: Robert Lopresti
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1440843694
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372

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Erroneous government-generated "data" is more problematic than it would appear. This book demonstrates how women's history has consistently been hidden and distorted by 200 years of official government statistics. Much of women's history has been hidden and filtered through unrealistic expectations and assumptions. Because U.S. government data about women's lives and occupations has been significantly inaccurate, these misrepresentations in statistical information have shaped the reality of women's lives. They also affect men and society as a whole: these numbers influence our investments, our property values, our representation in Congress, and even how we see our place in society. This book documents how U.S. federal government statistics have served to reveal and conceal facts about women in the United States. It reaches back to the late 1800s, when the U.S. Census Bureau first listed women's occupations, and forward to the present, when the U.S. government relies on nonprofit groups for statistics on abortion. Objective and accurate, When Women Didn't Count isn't focused on numbers and census results as much as on recognizing problems in data, exposing the hidden facets of government data, and using critical thinking when considering all seemingly authoritative sources. Readers will contemplate how the government decided that a "farmer's wife" could be a farmer, how the ongoing battle over abortion has been reflected in the numbers the government is allowed to keep and publish, the consequences of the Census Bureau "correcting" reports of women in unusual occupations in 1920, and why the official count of women-owned businesses dropped 20 percent in 1997.

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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 704

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A directory of U.S. government statistics publications by issuing agency. Entries include GPO stock number, LC and Dewey classification, OCLC and ISSN numbers, and sometimes a description. Includes geographic index.

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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1094

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Category : Correctional institutions
Languages : en
Pages : 54

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