This book addresses the question of what it takes to develop social indicators that genuinely influence important public decisions. It looks historically at the processes of creating and using three important social indicators in the United States: unemployment rates, standard budgets, and crime rates. It then develops principles f
Autorentext
Judith Innes is a professor in the city and regional planning department of the University of California, Berkeley.
Inhalt
Chapter I. Measurement and the identification of problems, Chapter II. Traditions of social measurement, Chapter III. Statistical policy: the setting for indicator Development, Chapter IV. The social indicator movement, Chapter V. Method and assumptions of the study, Chapter VI. Sagas of three indicators Chapter VII. Creating a concept, Chapter VIII. Collecting the data, Chapter IX. Structuring the data, Chapter X. Institutionalizing indicators, Chapter XI. Indicators in use, Chapter XII. Politics and indicators, Chapter XIII. Conclusions and policy implications