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Government Statistics and Practice: A Critical Lens with Dr Alex Fenton
This month, Tom Scotto talks to Dr Alex Fenton, a postdoctoral researcher at Humboldt University in Berlin, who takes a critical look at how official government statistics are calculated.
Alex is the author of the recent book: Official Statistics and the Welfare State: Measuring Poverty in Britain and West Germany (1970-2020) published by Transcript Verlag and available from online booksellers.
Join us for this foray into critiquing the idea of "official statistics," comparisons between government statistics produced in Germany and Great Britain, and the ideal that government employed statisticians are at arm's length from politics!
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By University of Glasgow, College of Social SciencesThis month, Tom Scotto talks to Dr Alex Fenton, a postdoctoral researcher at Humboldt University in Berlin, who takes a critical look at how official government statistics are calculated.
Alex is the author of the recent book: Official Statistics and the Welfare State: Measuring Poverty in Britain and West Germany (1970-2020) published by Transcript Verlag and available from online booksellers.
Join us for this foray into critiquing the idea of "official statistics," comparisons between government statistics produced in Germany and Great Britain, and the ideal that government employed statisticians are at arm's length from politics!