East African Census Reports, 1931
| Autor: | Frank Melland |
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| Rok vydání: | 1934 |
| Předmět: |
geography
education.field_of_study geography.geographical_feature_category History Population statistics Interpretation (philosophy) media_common.quotation_subject Geography Planning and Development Fell Population Developing country Census Administration (probate law) Surprise Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Anthropology Political economy education Demography media_common |
| Zdroj: | Africa. 7:213-219 |
| ISSN: | 1750-0184 0001-9720 |
| Popis: | If the compilation of statistics is reckoned a science what is the interpretation of them? That is a question not easy to answer especially when as in the present case the interpretation is even more halting than the imperfect statistics themselves. We do not know and so we cannot properly interpret; but as the years go by these Census Reports will supply data which is knowledge. As regards Eastern Africa I am unable to agree entirely with Miss Margery Perham who wrote in connexion with the Nigerian Census that knowledge cannot far outrun good administration administration is therefore compelled to be empirical. I think that administration tends to be more empirical than it was in the past because our problems are developing more rapidly than our equipment for dealing with them. This is due partly to the fact that just when the momentum of development was at its highest the depression fell upon us and services that were not superficially essential and imperative had to be curtailed. It is also partly due to the fact that no one even among those who thought that development would be rapid grasped how rapid it would be. The speed of development has taken the most prescient by surprise. (excerpt) |
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