Data in SocietyPub Date : 2019-08-01DOI: 10.2307/j.ctvmd84wn.41
Amy Sippitt
{"title":"Full Fact","authors":"Amy Sippitt","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvmd84wn.41","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvmd84wn.41","url":null,"abstract":"The UK is a fortunate country with high levels of education, well-developed public and civil society institutions, and some highly trusted media. Nevertheless, there is evidence that the public is substantially misinformed on key issues of public debate, and leading figures have pointed to consistent issues involving the inaccurate use of facts in public debate. Full Fact is the UK’s independent, nonpartisan, factchecking charity. We aim to stop the spread of specific bits of inaccurate information and to secure systemic changes that help make misinformation rarer and less harmful. In this piece we discuss the state of misinformation and disinformation in the UK, the role that we think factchecking has in tackling it, and the research we are eager to learn from to inform our work.","PeriodicalId":103233,"journal":{"name":"Data in Society","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125171382","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Data in SocietyPub Date : 2019-08-01DOI: 10.2307/j.ctvmd84wn.42
J. Gray
{"title":"What a difference a dataset makes?","authors":"J. Gray","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvmd84wn.42","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvmd84wn.42","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":103233,"journal":{"name":"Data in Society","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129453691","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Data in SocietyPub Date : 2019-08-01DOI: 10.1332/POLICYPRESS/9781447348214.003.0023
J. Ginn, Neil Duncan-Jordan
{"title":"The Generation Game: ending the phoney information war between young and old","authors":"J. Ginn, Neil Duncan-Jordan","doi":"10.1332/POLICYPRESS/9781447348214.003.0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/POLICYPRESS/9781447348214.003.0023","url":null,"abstract":"A recurring theme in right wing thinking is that older people are a burden on the young, absorbing an unfair share of national resources, including spending on state pensions, benefits, NHS and social care. This perspective is presented as a zero-sum game, in which generations must compete for scarce resources, their interests being in conflict. In contrast, others say that pensioners have by no means escaped the impact of austerity policies and that life expectancy has flatlined. In this chapter, we examine these views and the statistical evidence used to support them. We conclude that it is essential to distinguish both inter-cohort differences in the lifecourse, as well as intra-cohort inequalities of income, wealth and life chances that are associated with gender, class and ethnicity; that all generations need a secure income in retirement and sufficient health and social care; that older people’s past and current contributions to society are substantial but often invisible; and that intergenerational solidarity through families and social institutions promotes the welfare of all ages.","PeriodicalId":103233,"journal":{"name":"Data in Society","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115532687","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Data in SocietyPub Date : 2019-08-01DOI: 10.1332/POLICYPRESS/9781447348214.003.0006
Jeff Evans
{"title":"Adult skills surveys and transnational organisations: globalising educational policy","authors":"Jeff Evans","doi":"10.1332/POLICYPRESS/9781447348214.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/POLICYPRESS/9781447348214.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"Organisations like OECD, IEA (International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement) and the EU are increasingly involved in the production of transnational data. They function as key agencies for changing education and lifelong learning policy, promoting human capital approaches, and ‘governing by data’. I consider their growing role in assessing the efficiency of education and training systems. Particularly important in their organisational strategies are large-scale international performance surveys for school-age pupils, such as OECD’s PISA and IEA’s TIMSS. PISA for Development is addressing the problem that, in low income countries, not all 15 year olds can be surveyed at school. PIAAC, the Project for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies, has so far reported results in 33 countries, in 2013 and 2016. It focuses on three domains considered basic for adults in industrial and ‘knowledge’ economies: namely, literacy, numeracy, and problem solving in technology-rich environments, and on attitudes to and reported use of such skills. It uses electronic administration as a default, complex sampling designs, and statistical modelling to estimate the adult’s skill levels. I raise methodological issues relevant to the valid interpretation of such surveys and locate them in general policy developments, including globalisation.","PeriodicalId":103233,"journal":{"name":"Data in Society","volume":"10 S10","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120852856","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Data in SocietyPub Date : 2019-08-01DOI: 10.1332/POLICYPRESS/9781447348214.003.0010
D. Rhind
{"title":"The control and ‘fitness for purpose’ of UK official statistics","authors":"D. Rhind","doi":"10.1332/POLICYPRESS/9781447348214.003.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/POLICYPRESS/9781447348214.003.0010","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter describes the evolution of UK Official Statistics over an 80 year period under the influence of personalities, politics and government policies, new user needs and changing technology. These have led to changing institutional structures – such as the Statistics Commission - and periodic oscillations in what statistics are created and the ease of their accessibility by the public. The chapter concludes with the impact of the first major statistical legislation for 60 years, particularly as a consequence of its creation of the UK Statistics Authority. This has included major investment in quality assurance of National and Official Statistics and in professional resourcing. These changes are very welcome, as is the statutory specification of government statistics as a public good by the 2007 Statistics and Registration Service Act. But problems of access to some data sets and the pre-release of key economic statistics to selected groups of users remain. Given the widespread societal consequences of the advent of new technologies, what we collect and how we do it will inevitably continue to change rapidly.","PeriodicalId":103233,"journal":{"name":"Data in Society","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129619484","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Data in SocietyPub Date : 2019-08-01DOI: 10.2307/j.ctvmd84wn.21
C. Beatty, S. Fothergill
{"title":"Welfare reform:","authors":"C. Beatty, S. Fothergill","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvmd84wn.21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvmd84wn.21","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":103233,"journal":{"name":"Data in Society","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124598602","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Data in SocietyPub Date : 2019-08-01DOI: 10.2307/j.ctvmd84wn.44
{"title":"Index","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvmd84wn.44","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvmd84wn.44","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":103233,"journal":{"name":"Data in Society","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115527793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Data in SocietyPub Date : 2019-08-01DOI: 10.2307/j.ctvmd84wn.29
D. Walker
{"title":"Tax and spend decisions:","authors":"D. Walker","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvmd84wn.29","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvmd84wn.29","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":103233,"journal":{"name":"Data in Society","volume":"130 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123395398","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Data in SocietyPub Date : 2019-08-01DOI: 10.1332/POLICYPRESS/9781447348214.003.0021
R. Carr-Hill
{"title":"Measuring social wellbeing","authors":"R. Carr-Hill","doi":"10.1332/POLICYPRESS/9781447348214.003.0021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/POLICYPRESS/9781447348214.003.0021","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter reviews and critiques the various approaches to measuring social well-being. Economists have tried to argue for a single consistent criterion (based on money) but have mostly been ignored. Instead, there have been three main approaches: first, the postulate that there is a minimum set of basic needs, which should be satisfied for everyone; second the investigation into people's quality of life, whether ‘objectively’ measured or self-reported; and third the eclectic compilation of administrative and survey data according to a list of 'concerns'. There are theoretical and practical problems with the first two approaches. For the third approach, the measurement of social well-being should reflect the variety of ways in which people order their lives. Of course, there are some overbearing constraints, such as the threat of poverty or war; but, within those constraints, there are a multitude of modes of living so that the definition and specification of the elements of well-being should accordingly vary. We introduce two distinctive characteristics: first, beyond certain minima, it is not always clear how 'more' consumption adds to welfare; second, we emphasise the monitoring collective well-being both in terms of inequality and human rights and in terms of reducing ecological damage.","PeriodicalId":103233,"journal":{"name":"Data in Society","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126180978","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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