In search of the data revolution: Has the official statistics paradigm shifted?
Author:
- 1 November 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Statistical Journal of the IAOS
- Vol. 36 (4) , 1075-1094
Abstract
What distinguishes revolution from evolution? What events or movements in the world of official statistics have been sufficiently disruptive or transformational to deserve being called revolutionary? Using the definitions of data revolution put forward by the Independent Expert Advisory Group on a Data Revolution for Sustainable Development in their report A World that Counts to identify potential data revolutions and then deriving a framework to evaluate those definitions from Thomas Kuhn’s work The Structure of Scientific Revolutions , this paper investigates, through the lens of official statistics, whether there has been a data revolution or not.Keywords
This publication has 23 references indexed in Scilit:
- Trade and Cross-Border Data Flows2019
- Measuring the Sustainable Development Goals: What does it mean for Ireland?Administration, 2017
- The concept and commodity of official statisticsStatistical Journal of the IAOS, 2017
- The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardshipScientific Data, 2016
- Fallibility, reflexivity, and the human uncertainty principleJournal of Economic Methodology, 2013
- Does evidence-based policy work? Learning from the UK experienceEvidence & Policy, 2008
- Surveillance after September 11Sociological Research Online, 2001
- Global Public Goods1999
- Keynes and Econometrics: On the Interaction between the Macroeconomic Revolutions of the Interwar PeriodEconometrica, 1976
- The Pure Theory of Public ExpenditureReview of Economics and Statistics, 1954