By Franz Rothenbacher
The goal of this e-book is to provide an image of the complicated fabric that has been released within the box of social and econornic information in Western Europe. even if there are various courses, bibliographies and reference books on designated subject matters of this huge topic, a basic assessment has been lacking. With this ebook i am hoping to fill this hole. The body of reference is a systematic one: allowing and facilitating comparative social learn on Western Europe. In a few admire this booklet enlarges and updates the bibliography written via Peter vegetation, "Quantitative old Sociology", pub lished in "Current Sociology" in 1975. In precept, this advisor is an annotated bibli ography of crucial revealed fabric within the box of legit statistics. The legitimacy of such an technique lies within the incontrovertible fact that even this day revealed information are crucial kind of dissemination of statistical effects, even supposing microcom puters, CD-ROMs and the net have replaced this example. as a minimum, a spe cial part on statistical databases is integrated for each nation, describing the most databases of the statistical places of work. moreover, the net deal with of every foreign or nationwide statistical institute is supplied within the introductory para graph. this permits the reader to get quickly entry to on-line databases and supple mentary on-line details on data through the Internet.
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1 Concepts, definitions and problems of comparability Designing concepts is one important task of official statistics. Statistical definitions and concepts have become rather important in the political arena as weil as in the social sciences. Therefore both societal sectors rely strongly on the quantitative data recorded on the basis of these concepts and definitions. Statistical concepts measuring social schemes, such as the German social insurance schemes, have influenced the social reality by defining these social groups statistically.
The introduction of such a register will require a great deal of input into the infrastructure, but later the possibilities for analysis will be improved. 3 Data collecting, processing, publication and dissemination In this section we will deal with the production of statistical information at the national statistical offices. We will describe the systems of data collection, data processing, data publication and, lastly, of data dissemination. 1 Changes in data collecting The most important method of collecting data used by statistical offices is the questionnaire method.