The global politics of census taking : quantifying populations, institutional autonomy, innovation / edited by Walter Bartl, Christian Suter and Alberto Veira-Ramos.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bartl, Walter, editor.

Suter, Christian, 1956- editor.

Veira-Ramos, Alberto, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Census.

Census--Methodology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.

Summary:

"This book examines in detail the state of the art on census taking to spark a more vivid debate on what some may see as a rather technical - and hence uncontroversial - field of inquiry. Against the backdrop of controversy between instrumental and performative theoretical stances towards census taking, it analyses the historical trajectories and political implications of seemingly technical decisions made during the quantification process by focusing on the 2020 round of censuses, which have been particularly revealing as activities have been affected by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing containment policies. Through case studies of countries from the Global North and the Global South, the book highlights the consequences of, and innovations and challenges in census taking focussing on 3 particular areas of concern -the politics of the census in terms of identity politics; the institutional autonomy of the census; and significant and transformative methodological innovations. This book will be of key interest to scholars, students and practitioners of quantification studies, and social demography and more broadly to public policy, governance, comparative politics and the broader social sciences"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The global politics of census taking in the 2020 census round / Walter Bartl, Alberto Veira-Ramos, Christian Suter

An avalanche of ethnoracial population data : on the productive politics of official ethnoracial statistics in 21st-century Latin America / Mara Loveman

Census, politics and the construction of identities in India / Ram B. Bhagat

Education censuses and recognition : the politics of collecting and using data on indigenous students in Latin America / Daniel Capistrano, Christyne C. Silva, Rachel Pereira Rabelo

Population census : large-scale project of public statistics in transition / Walter J. Radermacher

Population censuses in crisis : United States, Brazil, and Ecuador in comparative perspective / Byron Villacis

The Latin American observatory of population censuses : increasing statistical literacy through an academia-civil society network / Gabriel Mendes Borges, Nicolas Sacco, Bryon Villacis

The politics of the population census in Nigeria and institutional incentives for political interference / Temitope J. Owolabi

Censuses in Ukraine : not trusted and not needed? / Tetyana Tyshchuk, Ilona Sologoub

Establishing a register-based census in Spain : challenges and implications / Alberto Veira-Ramos, Walter Bartl

Towards a register-based census in Germany : objectives, requirements and challenges / Thomas Korner, Eva Grimm

Techno-political transformation and adaptability in Ghanaian census history / Alena Thiel

Adoption of smartphones for data-collection during the fourth General Population and Housing Census of Cameroon : motivations, opportunities and challenges / Teke Johnson Takwa

The global politics of census taking : conclusions and desiderata for further research / Walter Bartl.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-003-86027-3

1-003-25974-X

9781003259749

OCLC:

1416755180

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access.