Quantifying the World: UN Ideas and Statistics

Index

311 Index abatement measures,  accessibility of statistics: charges for access, ; Comtrade, , n, n; dissemination , ; health-care, ; labor data, ; macroeconomic data, ; social resources,  accountability, ,  accounting. See social accounting matrices (SAM); system of national accounts (SNA) acid rain,  Administrative Coordination Committee SubCommittee on Statistical Activities,  advertising,  advocacy,  Africa (see also specific countries): child labor, ; exchange rates, ; food shortages, ; population statistics, ; poverty, ; subSaharan Africa, ; technical assistance, –, ; training centers,  age issues: child labor, –; consumer price index and, n; economically active population, –; education and, ; gender issues and, ; nutrition and,  agencies of development,  agenda of statistical research (see also specific institutions): data agenda, –; historical background, ; politics, ; poverty and, –; social dimension, ; standardization , –; summarized, –; UN mission , , ; UNSO mission, , –; women’s issues, –n; World Bank,  aggregation process, , ,  agriculture: agrarian reform, –; measuring , –; sampling techniques and, – , ; vertical integration, n; women’s inputs, ; World Program of Action for Agrarian Reform and Rural Development ,  Ahead of the Curve? UN Ideas and Global Challenges , xi air quality, – algorithms, – allocation of funds,  Amazonian basin,  ambiguity,  American Federation of Labor,  American Statistical Association,  analysis of data (see also methodological issues; specific studies): analytical procedures, ; cohort analysis, ; cross-sectional analysis , ; regression analysis, ; sampling and,  Annan, Kofi, xi anonymity, n anthropometric measures,  anti-globalization movement, n Aquinas, Thomas,  Arab Development Fund (ADF),  Argentina, ,  Aristotle,  Arndt, Heinz, n Ashton, T. S., n Asia: child labor, ; data collection in, – ; poverty, ; technical assistance, , ; training centers, ; UNSO emphasis,  Asian Dreams (Myrdal),  Asinof, Eliot, n Atlas (World Bank Atlas), –, n audience of studies, –. See also governance issues authoritarianism,  authority over statistical practices, , , , ,  availability of data, , , , n avoidance costs,  Ayres, Robert,  Bacon, Francis, n “bads,” ,  Balance of Payments Manual, ,  Bartelmus, Peter, , , n Basic Principles of the System of Balances of the National Economy,  basic-needs approach, . See also poverty Bauer, Peter, n benchmark data, , –,  Page numbers in bold indicate full chapters. Page numbers in italic indicate tables, charts, and figures. 312 Index Bentham, Jeremy, , , n, n best-practice approach,  Bible,  “Big Push,”  biodiversity,  birth statistics,  black economy, , – Blades, Derek, n, n bookkeeping,  Booth, Charles,  Botswana,  Boutros-Ghali, Boutros,  Brass, Bill,  Brazil, , , ,  Bretton Woods institutions (see also International Monetary Fund [IMF]; World Bank): Bretton Woods Conference, ; conditionality , n; coordination efforts, –; corporate influence, ; data comparability efforts, ; funding programs, n; institutional histories, n; market ideology , ; national accounts, ; primary role, ; research agenda, ; structural adjustment , ; World Bank Atlas and, – Buddhism, n budgets,  Bulletin of Labour Statistics, ,  Bureau of Statistics, , , ,  bureaucracy,  Burma,  Burns, Arthur,  Caesar Augustus,  caloric intake, –, , –,  Cambridge Growth Project, ,  Campion, Harry,  Canberra Group, ,  capitalism (see also free-market ideology): corporate , , –, n, n; criticisms , ; economic growth and, , ; emphasis on, ; feudal, ; ideological conflicts, ; Keynesian economics and, ; market fundamentalism, –; poverty and, n; price systems and,  carbon dioxide emissions,  carriage, insurance, and freight (CIF),  Carson, Carol,  Cassel, Gustav, , n censuses: agricultural, –; China, –; Domesday Book, ; economically active population, –; education and, ; environmental issues and, ; technical assistance , ; UN procedures, –; women’s issues, , – Central Asia,  Central Bank,  Central Europe, , ,  central planning, , , . See also governance issues Central Statistics Office (CSO), ,  Chadeau, Ann,  chance events, n charity, n Chernikov, Sergei, ,  Chesapeake Bay cleanup, n child labor, –, n Chile,  China: Communist Revolution, ; economic performance, ; exchange rates, ; food shortages, ; GNP estimates, ; population , –, ; poverty, , n; propaganda , ; role of labor, ; statistical background, ; World Bank field missions,  choice, . See also freedom and freewill citizenship,  city groups, , – civil society, , , , ,  Clark, Colin,  class issues, . See also equity issues classification systems: city groups’ work on, ; classification of the functions of government (COFOG), ; creating, –; geology, ; good types, n; ideological influences, ; industrial, , –, ; institutional, –; international, ; labor, –, ; medical, n; modifying , n; mutual exclusion, –; nutrition , ; standardization, –; taxonomies, ; time-use data,  Clemenceau, Georges, n Clermont-Goldschmidt, Luisella,  climate change,  Club of Rome, – Coats, R. H.,  Cochrane, W. G.,  codes of conduct,  coding schemes, . See also classification systems cohabitation,  cohort analysis,  Cold War, –, ,  collection of data. See data collection collectivism,  Colombia, ,  command-and-control mechanisms,  Committee of Statistical Experts, –, –,  Committee on Statistics,  commodities, , , , ,  communal grazing,  communication, cross-disciplinary,  communications technology, , n communism, , , , ,  Index 313 Communist Revolution,  comparability of data: agricultural data, ; Atlas method, –; composite social measures, ; data consistency, , ; food prices, n; International Comparison Program (ICP), –, –, ; standardization and, ; UNSO emphasis on,  competition, , , n. See also free-market ideology compilation of data, , , , –, n complexity, , , , ,  composite indicators, –, . See also Human Development Index (HDI) Comtrade, –, nn, conceptual frameworks, –,  conditionality, , , n Condorcet, Marie Jean,  Conference of European Statisticians (CES),  Conference on the Human Environment,  confidentiality, n conflicts of interest, –n conservation. See environmental dimension consistency of data, , ,  consumer price index (CPI), –, , n consumerism, , , , ,  continuity in data, , ,  control...