{"title":"Quality of Observational Data","authors":"A. Kamat","doi":"10.21648/ARTHAVIJ/1969/V11/I1/116763","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A R Kamat This paper briefly indicates and discusses some aspects of the accuracy of official data and their improvement. What it stresses is not the futility of collecting observational data but the need for caution and consideration in collection and analysis.","PeriodicalId":53574,"journal":{"name":"Economic and Political Weekly","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1969-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Economic and Political Weekly","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.21648/ARTHAVIJ/1969/V11/I1/116763","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"Social Sciences","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
A R Kamat This paper briefly indicates and discusses some aspects of the accuracy of official data and their improvement. What it stresses is not the futility of collecting observational data but the need for caution and consideration in collection and analysis.
期刊介绍:
The Economic and Political Weekly, published from Mumbai, is an Indian institution which enjoys a global reputation for excellence in independent scholarship and critical inquiry. First published in 1949 as the Economic Weekly and since 1966 as the Economic and Political Weekly, EPW, as the journal is popularly known, occupies a special place in the intellectual history of independent India. For more than five decades EPW has remained a unique forum that week after week has brought together academics, researchers, policy makers, independent thinkers, members of non-governmental organisations and political activists for debates straddling economics, politics, sociology, culture, the environment and numerous other disciplines.