The census as an information source in public policy-making
| Autor: | Mark Deakin, Alistair S. Duff, Hazel Hall, Lynn Killick |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Economic growth
658 General management Social informatics census public policy HD28 Management. Industrial Management Information science Population Public policy Library and Information Sciences social policy American Community Survey population census evidence-based policy 050602 political science & public administration Regional science UK education education.field_of_study Information society Centre for Social Informatics 05 social sciences Secondary data Census United Kingdom Demographic analysis AI and Technologies 0506 political science Geography Scotland Information source 0509 other social sciences 050904 information & library sciences Information Systems Evidence-based policy |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Information Science. 42:386-395 |
| ISSN: | 1741-6485 0165-5515 |
| Popis: | This paper provides an assessment of the value of national population censuses as information sources with specific reference to UK census data and its use in policy-making. Mixed methods were adopted to collect quantitative and qualitative data from two sources: (a) a content analysis of policy documents; and (b) interviews with policy-makers in Scotland. The findings highlight that, although the general value of the census is recognized, policy-makers are not necessarily closely engaged with the census as a tool for directing the development and implementation of policy. This is evident, for example, in a lack of awareness of proposed changes to the census, and infrequent deployment of available data. The opportunity to change perceptions among policy-makers, and to expand the application of census data in public policy, is identified. With a novel focus on the deployment of censuses as sources of evidence for policy-making that includes the views of policy-makers from both within and beyond government, this work contributes to an established body of global research on international censuses. |
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