The Uncounted Cobham Hardback Polity Press 9781509536016

The Uncounted\nby Alex Cobham\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Alex Cobham\nTitle: The Uncounted\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Politics and government\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd\nPublication year: 2019\nISBN-13: 9781509536016\nISBN-10: 1509536019\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nWhat we count matters - and in a world where policies and decisions are underpinned by numbers, statistics and data, if you\u2019re not counted, you don\u2019t count. \n Alex Cobham argues that systematic gaps in economic and demographic data not only lead us to understate a wide range of damaging inequalities, but also to actively exacerbate them. He shows how, in statistics ranging from electoral registers to household surveys and census data, people from disadvantaged groups, such .