Gott að hafa þessa beingrind efnis frá R Alonso og Starr í huga þegar spáð er í gögn og gagnagrunna stofnanna og fyrirtækja

The Politics of Organizational Structure

1. Central Statistics offices vs statistical branches2. National/local division of labor3. Public/private4. Bureaucratic/academic division of labor

The sociology of the Statistical Process

1. Method of data: Census, Survey, Administrative data. 2. Respondent compliance and disclosure3. The Social Relation of Data Collection4. The Social Relation of Data Procession5. Disclosure and dissemination: Falsification, blackouts, social distribution of public data

The Cognitive Organization of Statistical Systems:

Theories have no official Status

Pólítískar ákvarðanir um að spyja tiltekinna spurninga.

Markmið. Að spyrja eða spyrja ekki,.

Tenging kenninga og gagna.

Classification.

1. Domain definition, Historicaly construted. T.d. starfaflokkun þegar verkaskipting kemst á.

2. Grouping3. Labeling4. Ordering

Measurment and weighting

The Periodicity of Inquiry and Adaptation to Change.

The presentation of Data in Bureaucratic Life.

Uses and Effect. Do Statistics Count?